https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/chronic...

Just like any security control, if it's your only means of security, it will not offer much risk reduction. Just like all security controls, the if you want risk reduction use more security controls together. Like all security controls, there is no way to eliminate risk, just reduce it as much as possible while still being able to effectively achieve your mission.

Because of this I believe security through obscurity to be important component in a healthy and mature risk posture.

It irks me when it's dismissed because obscurity is not security. No single security control is security on its own.

I remember that time I reported someone for reposting my images.

Flickr's response was deleting my profile, all of my photos, and not responding to any of my attempts to contact them.

On the upside, it was a good lesson to not trust service providers.

OpenScreen is more about screen recording, once recorded it turns into a simple-ish NLE that is focused on editing screen-casts.

The detail I failed to understand at the time was just how much money there is in data collection and brokerage.

Many datacenters I'd been to at that point were already DC.

Didn't think this was that new of a trend in 2026, but also acknowledge I did not visit more than a handful of datacenters since 2007.

It just seemed like a undenyably logical thing to do.

They appear to fall into 3 buckets:

1) Worst: Direction of the cursor has move in a circular pattern as if dragging a physical knob with a cursor.

2) Annoying, but least common: You have to move the cursor horizontally to move the knob

3) Most common, but still annoying: You have to move the cursor vertically to move the knob.

I'd say there were 3 distinct abstractions within NextSTEP: - The microkernel / OS (Mach / BSD) (for the hardware) - The Objective C based SDK - The User experience (not just window manager, but largely the window manager)

The SDK is what is still arguably the most highly regarded part of NeXTSTEP even today. That aside, at the time nothing else was so well polished and integrated on almost every level.

That reminds me, I should pull out my NeXT Cube and play with it. That machine is 33mhz of pure power. :-D None the less I still love it.

Meant to say those solutions are in addition to Lets Encrypt. An X509 certificate is an X509 certificate, regardless if its for https, imaps, or smtps. If you're distributing your stuff across multiple hosts or containers, then it makes sense to use some sort of automation, configuration management, or certificate management/distribution system.

If you use HTTP-01 challenge method you require an HTTP server on the host.

If you don't want an HTTP server on your imap/smtp server you need to use the DNS-01 challenge method.

They were able to set up a 7 x 300baud modems in real-time chat system on an Apple ][ . The original marketing called it a CB (Citizens Band) Simulator. They were able to run up to 1200baud, but I never saw one of those functioning.

As if 7 people chatting through a single 6502 wasn't impressive enough, many of them dedicated one or two of their lines to interlinking with other D-dials.

Talk about an esoteric memory.

- https://www.ddial.com/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diversi-Dial

There is one thing I'd like to add:

Learning to be happy while alone takes practice - lots of it. It's not easy, but it does get easier.

Learning to enjoy being along was one of the most important moments in my life, and it changed a lot of how I see the world now. I feel like this is up there with learning self-care that works for you - equally important and yet different.

Also, in my experience, a great way to run K8s in IAAS while minimizing vendor lock-in.

That said for some I can foresee Meta being hard or harder to disconnect from because of their percieved level of personal social needs.

I left facebook and many of my friendships faded away.

Awkward bumping into people conversations would happen such as: "We missed you at my birthday party!", "I didn't know about it, else I would have been there!" "We posted it to facebook..." "I deleted my facebook account 2 years ago."

My personal philosophy was maybe they were not real friends to begin with. After all in the now 5 years since deletion, not one has reached out to ask if I'm even still alive. I've reached out to a couple people, with little to no reply. None the less, it was a hard transition.

For others', that might be an impossible task.