I won’t add new contents to this site until AI is properly regulated. I won’t go as far as removing old contents – for now. AI is now fully in the phase that Shoshana Zuboff called the disposession cycle in her “The age of surveillnace capitalism”. I’m not going to feed the AI beast.
Microsoft is being forcing users into the new Microsoft 365 + CoPilot subscription. That means a 40% price increase for the Microsoft 365 Personal subscription, for example (here, from 69€ to 99€). If you have no use for CoPilot, and find it an annoyance only, there is the option to switch to the Classic subscription, […]
Microsoft is going to deploy the “New Outlook” with Windows February security update. Why Microsoft is going to deploy an application with an OS security update? Because the “New Outlook” gives Microsoft full access to your email, whatever email service you are using. “New Outook” is not a full email client. It doesn’t “speak” SMTP, […]
Years ago I wrote about the Logitech’s LVUSBSta.sys driver that corrupted the USB and audio stack when installed. For a long time, I no longer bought Logitech because even if the hardware is mostly good, software was not. For a while I bought Microsoft devices, which usually worked without issues. Now Microsoft got out from […]
In the article VLANs for home networks I wrote about how VLANs and subnets can improve network security by creating different segments, usually associated with a subnet. With multiple subnets, assigning addresses in each subnet via DHCP becomes more complex. DHCP IPv4 uses broadcast packets to ask for an IP address. VLANs create separate broadcast […]
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DNS for home networks
In very simple terms, a Domain Name Service (DNS), is a service that turns specific network names (host names, service names) into IP addresses. It allows to use mnemonic names (mypc.example.com) instead of IP addresses (192.168.121.234) accessing internal network resources. There are several advantages in using DNS names instead of IP addresses directly: One simple […]
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QoS for home networks
QoS stands for Quality of Service and in a computer networks means a set of technologies to improve the perceived quality of network services, by modifying how network packets are managed, prioritizing the delivery of specific ones, as defined by a set of rules. Usually network packets are processed using the simple FIFO (First In, […]
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VLANs for home networks
Home networks are becoming increasingly complex, and security threats as well. Once they were used mostly for personal communications, and entertainment. Now work at home, home automation, and more and more complex tasks performed online at different security levels make simple flat networks inadequate, especially form a security perspective. Does it really make sense that […]
Protecting connections with TLS requires the proper certificate/private key pairs, that need to be issued by a trusted Certificate Authority. You can buy certificates form several public CAs, or obtain free ones form entities like Let’s Encrypt. Sometimes you may need your own private CA and certificates for systems that do not need to be […]
Recent Canon cameras allow for direct uploads from the camera to different Internet services. Some of them are mediated through the image.canon gateway (i.e. Flickr, Adobe, Google), the camera uploads images to the gateway that in turn transfers them to the end service. Since those services APIs can change over time, it’s not a bad […]