(This article is in part a copy & paste of the same question I asked in a couple of forums (1, 2), along with the solution and some additional observations.)

Original question

I have a Dell Vostro 15 3000 running (X)Ubuntu 18.04. It's been working well, but yesterday I …

Internet content (be it a news article, a song, a thirty-second clip, etc) is mostly paid for by advertising. While subscription models do indeed exist and there is a gradation to them¹, they are still a minority. Terms like surveillance capitalism should surprise absolutely no one at this point …

The other day, I posted this on a subreddit I frequent and I thought I might as well publish it here. The context is some CRA accounts (the Canadian tax agency) being breached using password stuffing. Password reuse is a bad thing; site A gets breached and then someone has …

I've been working quite a lot with Cassandra lately and for some analysis I have to do I've been trying to find the way to connect to it using R. My searches have pointed me to articles such as this one that work for older versions of Cassandra. However, when …

Just a few notes I might need some day.

(Lightly edited version of an e-mail sent to RISKS and published on Volume 31, Issue 48.)

My landlady send me the other day this news article:

From encrypted passwords to padlocked doors, Canadians will go to extreme lengths to avoid scammers.

Now it may not be safe to pick up …

Privacy comes at a price, but it doesn't have to.

I couldn't find any easier way. I don't think there is any.

People leave work too late, I can see that from here.

On the articles I like and how I share them now