Michael Altfield's Tech Blog

What happens when an AI hallucination leads to bombing an elementary school?

Or how to avoid getting locked-out of another Google Account This guide will describe how to setup a persistent browser (for Evil Corp) that’s isolated in a sandbox (with firejail) and forced to use a SOCKS5 proxy to retain a static IP address (using prox…

I’m super happy that Techlore invited me on their YouTube channel to talk security and privacy Henry was mostly interested in my work with BusKill (an open-source dead man switch), but our conversation ran a gamut of issues regarding security and privacy —

This article will show how to check if a given Onion Service (ie some .onion address) is alive or dead.

Why was I banned from GrapheneOS?

This guide will show you how to generate vector-based topopgraphic maps, for printing very large & high-quality paper wall maps using inkscape.

This article will describe how to download an image from a (docker) container registry.

This article introduces the concept of “3TOFU” — a harm-reduction process when downloading software that cannot be verified cryptographically. ⚠ NOTE: This article is about harm reduction.

This article will describe how lemmy instance admins can purge images from pict-rs (click here if you just want to know how).

This article will show reddit refugees how to easily search-for and subscribe-to to popular lemmy subreddits communities across all lemmy instances. tl;dr use the Lemmy Community Browser https://browse.feddit.de/ Intro Lemmy is a federated reddit alternat…