Personal Data Security

I have had a lot of lost data in my life. Take it from my AV, to my sensitive documents (which were pleasantly available physically), and my darn camera recently. That's right. I had almost every photo I had taken on a single drive. Then, mid a file-transfer, I suddenly saw an IO error. I noticed my drive is not mounted anymore, and to make matters worse, when I took it out and reattached, my computer did not recognize it. ...

May 23, 2025

LLM-free Blog

This is possibly just a small already over-repeated discussion, however, it is important to mention it to both state my stance regarding the matter, and act as a disclaimer and excuse for possibly bad grammar, vocabulary, and etc. Why I do NOT use any AI tools in this blog, not even LanguageTool or Grammarly, only a spell checker! And why am I writing this instead of an actual blog post? To be fair, grammar checkers are good, and my lack of use is mostly because of privacy concerns (I know local versions exist) and difficulty of setup. They also change your use of words, that I do not support for a personal blog; see here (404media) for more details. ...

January 22, 2025