Decoding the analog Mind in a digital World.
Four years ago I blogged about Little Snitch 5, a software firewall-like product from Austrian company Objective Development, which successfully made the transition to MacOS 11 Big Sur. Now Little Snitch 6 has been released and continues to be an important building block in the security strategy of privacy-conscious users.
This month, OpenAI has released the native ChatGPT-app for macOS alongside GPT-4o. Anyone can install this app yet but your account will still need early access if you already want to use ChatGPT on the Mac-desktop – but there is a workaround!
While Broadcom still does Broadcom-things after acquiring VMware and turning pricing and portals upside down, at least the question what happens with the Desktop-products seems to have been answered.
Sometimes I come across apps that I would never have missed. Apps that come out of nowhere and still find their niche – Tusks by developer Bardi Golriz is one of them, aiming for a new focus when posting on Mastodon.
“Security” and “big tech” are two terms that don't go well together at the moment. After ongoing security issues at Microsoft, Apple seems to have at least one minor problem that has left many users unexpectedly locked out of iCloud and devices belonging to it and forced to perform an unexpected password change. However, depending on Apple's forthcoming response to the case, this minor problem could turn into a serious one.
An Open Source-strategy in German states and municipalities is not that common. While the idea of decoupling those scopes from Big Tech isn’t that new (just remind the city of Munich’s failed „Linux“-project back in 2017!), reality is telling yet another story. Now, the German state of Schleswig-Holstein has recently announced a new workplace strategy based on digital sovereignty.
The use of a second factor to secure online accounts has become a must over time, long before the triumph of passkeys. Although there are already plenty of mobile apps that generate the multi-factor, Bitwarden has decided to create its own – and it has a pretty interesting roadmap!
Years ago, I took my first steps on the internet with Netscape Navigator. Today, browsers serve more than just as a gateway to the World Wide Web. They are essential software for many purposes in our digital world but also a surface for modern attacks.
Using YubiKeys for securing accounts is a premium step to a nearly ultimative security approach besides Passkeys or „simple“ 2FA. Alas, over time, those hardware tokens often fill with more and more accounts – adding them is no big deal, but getting rid of older entries isn’t that intuitive either. talk about in the field of Artificial Intelligence.
After six months of running a small, two user Mastodon-instance, I was astonished to see the media growth over the time so it was way overdue to reflect how to do some spring cleaning in this cozy, self-hosted space.