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  • State of Messaging

    Messaging is in a poor state these days. SMS is unencrypted WhatsApp is proprietary software owned by an advertising company Telegram tried to roll their own crypto Signal is completely centralized and could roll out an update breaking their encryption at any moment Jabber doesn’t seem to support E2E group chats and doesn’t have any…

  • Bedrock Linux

    I’ve played around with Bedrock Linux for the last few hours. It looks like a really cool project. It’s not really a full distro but rather a package manager for other distros. So for example you can run ‘brl fetch debian arch ubuntu’ and it will install Debian, Arch, and Ubuntu on your system. You…

  • Exploration of the Game of Life

    Basic Exploration In-depth Exploration Can you find a pattern that returns to its starting point after more than two time steps? What’s the longest you can see a pattern go without repeating a configuration? To answer these questions I decided to build my own implementation of Conway’s Game of Life in Python to brute force…

  • GDPR Scam

    You know GDPR compliance is going to create a whole new entry point for hackers to impersonate users and send data requests to companies to get people’s info.

  • Introducing the AskSteem Search Engine

    This article was originally published on Steemit.com Over the past month, I’ve been building a new search engine that indexes the steem blockchain. It’s currently live at asksteem.com. The goal of AskSteem is to provide a reliable, powerful, and fast search engine that is optimized for steem. In this post, I’d like to cover some…

  • How to Make Phone Calls on an iPod

    The New iPod Touch from Apple is a great way of getting an iOS 8/9 experience without having to pay the hefty price of the iPhone. However while cheaper than the iPhone it does come with a few drawbacks, one of which is that it cannot be used to make Phone calls or send text…

  • Top 5 Dedicated Hosting Providers

    1. Gigapros Web Hosting While Gigapros do have Shared and VPS hosting, where they really shine is in their Dedicated Servers. They have a very different way of operating that differentiates them for many other web-hosts and puts them as number one on this list. The main one being how they allow you to pick exactly the…

  • Top 8 Best AdSense Alternatives

    So you’re doing good for yourself and making decent earnings off AdSense. But then one day you get that email in your inbox with the subject “AdSense Account Disabled” and everything changes. You suddenly realize that any other respectable Ad Networks either have low CPM or are just pure scams. So here I’ve compiled a…

  • DuckDuckGo VS Google

    If you haven’t been following it then you might be surprised that a young start-up by the name of ‘DuckDuckGo’ is challenging the mighty search giant Google. But on February 19, 2008, the new privacy-focused search engine emerged and was incorporated. The main difference between DuckDuckGo and Google is that DuckDuckGo claims not to track…

  • Understanding Robots.txt

    Almost every site on the web has a robots.txt file located at Example.com/robots.txt which tells web crawlers or bots what they are allowed to visit and what they are not allowed to visit. This can be helpful for blocking off admin areas or backend files that you do not need or want crawled or giving…