Writing can be structured thinking
Why did I start writing longer posts on this site again?
Balint Szilakszi
We need EU-hosted, centralized social media for the public sphere
With a couple of different threads coming together recently with the forced takeover of US TikTok by far-right authoritarians, media censorship in the US and Gleichschaltung of major media corporations, mask-off moments by Bluesky leadership, and larger trends on social media usage it is now a good time to talk
AI Slop Warning Message
A lot of you know the long-term nuclear warning message. Here is the AI Slop version.
Plausible Deniability and Gaslighting in Fighting Ad Blockers
Google is planning changes in Chrome impacting ad blocker extensions and people are wondering whether those changes are motivated by self-interest or whether there are plausible, benign explanations.
2FA is Still Too Complicated for Most People
What makes second factor authentication still too difficult for personal use? How does 2FA compare in the wider picture? What can we do about it going forward?
openssh
When an OpenSSH MitM Isn't One
What do you do if you know that a server's OpenSSH host keys didn't change, but you see a MITM warning from ssh?
Chrome is a Google Service that happens to include a Browser Engine
Starting with Chrome 69, logging into a Google Site is tied to logging into Chrome.