A Ten-Minute Facebook Privacy Cleanup That Actually Does Something
A practical walkthrough of the Facebook settings actually worth changing this week — Apps and Websites, the data download, and ad preferences — not another Cambridge Analytica recap.
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My Weekend of Patching Everything I Own
A weekend spent patching a home server, a desktop, and an AWS box against Meltdown and Spectre, including the Windows registry key fiasco nobody warned me about.
iPhone Batterygate: What I'm Actually Doing About My Old 6s
Apple finally copped to throttling old iPhones and cut the battery replacement price to $29. Here's what I'm actually doing about my sluggish 6s before the Genius Bar lines get insane.
The Root Bug Patch Broke My File Sharing
Apple's emergency fix for the macOS root login bug also broke file sharing for some of us. Here's what happened on my machine and how I fixed it.
The KRACK Patch Checklist Nobody Wants to Do
A week after the KRACK WPA2 flaw went public, heres what actually patching your router, phone, and dumb IoT gear looks like in practice.
What I Actually Did About My Router This Week (KRACK Edition)
A practical, un-panicked rundown of what I actually changed on my home network after the KRACK WPA2 flaw went public this week, and why my router vendor is the weak link.
Before You Tap Update: Checking Which Apps iOS 11 Is About to Kill
iOS 11 landed today and quietly drops support for every 32-bit app you own. Heres a two-minute check to see what youre about to lose before you update.
Freezing My Credit Tonight (Thanks, Equifax)
Equifax just disclosed a breach touching roughly 143 million people, so tonight's post is a practical walkthrough of actually freezing your credit at all four bureaus, not just the one in the headline.
Finally Fixing My Backups After the Maersk Mess
A ransomware outbreak that knocked out shipping giant Maersk finally pushed me to fix my embarrassing backup setup. Here's the boring, forty-minute fix I'd been avoiding for years.
Finally Patching My WordPress Install (Thanks, WannaCry)
WannaCry finally guilt-tripped me into patching my neglected WordPress install — here's what I found, what broke, and the monthly habit I'm setting up so it doesn't happen again.
The Backup Routine I Should Have Had Two Years Ago
After watching WannaCry take down hospital systems on ancient Windows machines, I finally built an actual backup routine. Here's the boring, twenty-minute version that works.
Patching Dad's XP Box After WannaCry
A weekend spent patching my dad's forgotten Windows XP box after the WannaCry mess, plus the actual steps worth taking if you've got a similar zombie machine at home.