barrycus – Page 9 – Barry Stuart Cable

Macbooks can only be repaired by Apple technicians

Please don’t purchase anything from Apple – New Macbooks and Imacs will brick themselves if they think they’re being repaired by an independent technician

Same article as above but without the crap

Remove ads and clutter from websites

I’ve tried this website out and it works great. This is what they say –

“Outline is a free service that makes websites more readable. We remove the clutter, like ads, related links, and comments—so you can read comfortably.”

If you read a lot of articles from news websites then I recommend you give it a go – https://outline.com

This is how I originally found out about this website – https://mastodon.starrevolution.org/users/UnclearFuture/statuses/100808363870341084

The Pirate Bay doco

TPB AFK – The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard – watch it at Kino.Social.

https://kino.social/tpb-afk-the-pirate-bay-away-from-keyboard-2013/

Against abortion have a vasectomy

I think this is pretty funny.

Original source: https://octodon.social/users/kingu_platypus_gidora/statuses/100851034850191653

Now the police want your passwords

What’s the point of securing your private data with encryption if authorities can force you to hand over your passphrases. This law wouldn’t be open to abuse would it.

Now the police want your passwords – and you could be fined $60,000 or put in prison for five years if you refuse

Secure your phone with a password

I read the following article on Engadget and that’s why I won’t be using face or fingerprint IDs to secure my phone.

FBI forces suspect to unlock iPhone X with Face ID

Tutanota – anonymous and free email

Everyone has the need for an anonymous email account i.e. an email account that can not be traced back to your real world identity.

These email accounts work great when they are the only information required to successfully create an online account. They don’t really work so well if you are required to also provide a name and you use your real world name (doh!).

Tutanota is an anonymous and free email service. It will cost you nothing to create an email account and the only information you need to provide is the email username (don’t use anything that can be linked back to your real world identity) and a long, strong password. The Tutanota website is Tor friendly, meaning that you can use the Tor browser with the Tutanota website and no functionality breaks and you don’t have to solve any annoying captchas. The website does require the use of javascript during the registration process so you can’t use the Tor browser on the safest security settings (no big deal).

Unfortunately Tutanota don’t accept payments via cryptocurrencies e.g. Bitcoin, so you can’t pay them anonymously. This isn’t a show stopper because as I’ve previously mentioned they do provide free accounts.

Tutanota is open source (GNU General Public License v3.0) so if you are so inclined you can read through the source code.