How IPFire protects your Family on the Internet
Caregivers need Help If you are a caregiver for others then we know first-hand that you need help. The children or senior citizens in your life are a huge challenge…
Pi-Hole on Lightsail with 5 Million Blocked Sites
I decided to take my own advice and deploy Pi-Hole on Amazon LightSail. I made a couple of changes to the deployment that make it easier and more efficient. The…
2-Day Outage
You may have noticed Cognitive Metropolis was offline for 2 Days. Yeah, that was my fault... It was that time of the year and NetworkSolutions wanted to gouge me again…
How to Convert YouTube Videos to MP3 Files
Do you use YouTube for the music? If you want to save your favorite YouTube videos as audio files, certain websites and software can strip out the music tracks and…
Popular censorship circumvention tools face fresh blockade by China
Tools helping China's netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country's quinquennial party congress that will see…
The hidden threats of router malware
You check your computer for viruses every week, update systems and programs promptly, use strong passwords and generally take care online... yet for some reason your internet is slow and…
Amazon ‘cutewashes’ surveillance with its new Ring doorbell TV show
For a “normal” company, having a TV series with your product as the star would be an impossible dream. But Amazon is not a normal company. The latest evidence that…
X-Windows, LILO, and Slackware Upgrade
Upgrading Slackware Recently I made the innocent mistake of updating Slackware (to include Kernel updates) without making any allowances for LILO and the X-Window startup process. That is the third…
How Does a Decentralized VPN (dVPN) Work?
What is a Decentralized VPN? Decentralized VPNs promise to be the upgrade to existing, standard VPN services. They claim to offer better privacy at lower prices than their traditional counterparts,…
NordVPN’s Meshnet Lets Users Create Their Own Private Networks
What is a MeshNet? NordVPN, one of the world’s leading VPN providers with 14 million users worldwide, has unveiled Meshnet –– a brand new feature allowing users to create their…