What to do if your server gets attacked: First off, don’t panic. What’s happening cannot harm you or anyone else and is an inconvenience, nothing more. Your server wasn’t the first to be attacked and won’t be the last. Swift decisive action by you and your moderators can clean up a server in mere minutes….
What is FrankerFaceZ? If you’ve ever seen words in all caps when watching a twitch streamer, odds are you are seeing FrankerFaceZ (FFZ) emotes being used (or perhaps Better Twitch TV emotes, covered in a separate manual). FrankerFaceZ is a browser extension available for most major web browsers (chrome, firefox, safari, etc). It’s main feature…
I’ve mentioned in my blog previously about the black magic that is AV1 and how it saves so much disk space at comparable quality levels to more traditional video codecs. Unfortunately we live in an imperfect world and not everything is quite ready for AV1 just yet. I’ve noticed it extensively on our various Amazon…
In one of my previous posts I discussed how useful it would be to have a partition with an ISO of your operating system on it that you could boot to and “Factory Reset” your Linux PC with. As it turns out I was greatly overthinking this process, as there’s something out there that can…
There’s something that’s nostalgic about the early web. Everyone had their own website for bespoke topics with simple colors, bad clipart, and often times those little pixel logos/badges at the bottom of the page. The title “webmaster” really meant something as there weren’t as many toolkits to help you out with writing your pure HTML…
This was an essay I wrote back in 2018. Several of my opinions have changed since then which I will address at the end of the essay. Chromebooks at first glance can seem to be a very niche piece of technology. After all, why would you want to be limited to only what a web…
This mini essay was regarding a news article back around 2022 regarding the government wanting a backdoor into iPhone’s encryption. I wrote this as a response to how disastrous this would be for technology. Unfortunately the link to the original news article is broken (thanks Google News) so we can’t see the exact source… I…
The other day I was thinking about how with chrome dismantling the framework utilized by adblockers the chromebooks i would often recommend to family and those less tech savvy are no longer something I can rely on. (Plus it’s made by google so long term support isn’t reliable on that front either.) So this lead…
One of my more recent and ambitious projects was to convert my media library of Movies, TV Shows, and Twitch VODs from the various formats that they are in and re-encode them into the new and highly efficient AV1 format. For those of you who might not be familiar, AV1 is an open, royalty-free video…
