Ciao Google Drive
How do you store your cloud files? I did it on Google Drive. And to be honest, Drive works well. I already had a Google account, it’s easy to use, it comes with 15 Gb of free storage.
But, as always, if you’re not paying, you’re the product. Google can access my personal files and they’re doing it. For example for their AI features.
If you’re like me, you don’t want some random AI to access your data. Even more so since I didn’t ask for it. It’s time to abandon ship and find a better harbor for my files.
Day 24 - Water
Do you want to know what’s crazier than writing 24 articles about making coffee? You’re right, writing 25 of them. Welcome back. Today we’re looking at the influence of the water used to brew coffee on its taste. Coffee is mostly water, so it makes sense to consider it as a variable.
Primer: I hate this idea
Buying water for daily consumption in plastic bottles while perfectly fine water is delivered to your house via a huge system of pipes is an environmental crime in my opinion. (I know, I’m privileged in Europe) It doesn’t help either that many companies selling water have a track record of crimes against humanity that is just staggering.
Why I Don't Use PGP / GPG
I’ve evaluated PGP/GPG for my personal use and I’ve decided to avoid it completely. I’m sharing my reasoning in this blog post.
Best practice
I dove into this subject believing that PGP was best practice. It is prominent in the Codeberg / GitHub interfaces. Every email client supports it. Security focused organisations put their PGP keys close to their email addresses on their websites.
It’s easy to believe that PGP is still a good thing. But, as always with cryptography, things are complicated.
How I Keep My SSH Keys Safe
I’m using SSH on a daily basis. It’s how I authenticate with varios code forges like GitHub or Codeberg. Furthermore, I’m using it to sign my Git commits. This let’s others verify easily that I’m the author of a commit. Everybody should sign their commits.
What is SSH cryptographically?
SSH manages a public / private key pair. You can give your public key to services, servers, people and SSH proves to these entities that the person with the private key, you, made a certain request / statement / signature.
Linux Without Passwords
I hate typing passwords. I think everybody does. I fat-finger one wrong letter nearly every time I enter one. What a colossal waste of time.
And then there’s the security aspect. Passwords are bad and I’m going to great lengths to get rid of them.
Today I’m going to share how I achieved a passwordless experience on my Linux machine.
There are several distinct parts of a Linux session where a password might be needed and could be replaced. I’ll treat them one-by-one. They are usually orthogonal, so each of them can be applied independently of the others.
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