Every year at Christmas, we strung a garland up our staircase that included tiny white lights. It’s one of my favorite things we do in decorating. That makes me feel like the magical season is upon us. Steve put them on a smart switch so they’d turn off after we went to bed. The other […]
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Security Bits — 25 October 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. More misbehaving AI Agents: 🇮🇳 CERT-In Warns AI Agents Accessed Sensitive Data at Indian Organizations During Testing — thehackernews.com/… OpenAI agents disabled safety monitoring, one lied about it — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (more alignment problems!) Related: […]
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NosillaCastaways to the Rescue: Magnetic Solar Filter Attachment Solution
Hi NosillaCastaways, husband Steve here. You probably recall stories of Allison and my recent trip to Spain to view a total solar eclipse. You may have seen the video I created of our view of the eclipse (Video of Spain Total Solar Eclipse) and you may have heard Allison and me on a Chit Chat […]
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Nobody Asked Me to Run Linux on My NAS, and Yet Here We Are
You know the phrase, “Just because you can do something, that doesn’t mean you should“? I think there needs to be another phrase, something like, “Just because you might be able to do something, you should try.” That’s the way I feel about the nearly two and a half hours I spent over the weekend […]
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TextEdit — the Unsung Hero of macOS
I love to tell you about cool, new apps and then teach you how to use them. But there’s a classic macOS app that never gets any coverage — TextEdit. You may think you need a big-girl word processor like Word, Pages, LibreOffice, or even Google Docs. But after I go through all of the […]
Continue readingSecurity Bits — 11 October 2026
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. OpenAI follow Anthropic with their own plans for ‘watermarking’ the text generated by their AI chat bot — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… OpenAI’s full announcement — 📣 openai.com/… 🇪🇺 OpenAI are only enabling the feature by default […]
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Klack — Make Your Keyboard Sound Like Mechanical Switches (Update)
Sometimes I like to circle back to an app that I’ve told you about before, because it has advanced in functionality or added some fun new features. These might not even be life-changing productivity apps; rather, they’re just apps that make me happy. The perfect example of a non-life-changing app that makes me happy is […]
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Tailscale Exit Nodes for You and Grants for Family Tech Support
Back in 2022, I wrote an article titled Tailscale is Magic. I’d like to talk about it again to explain two things: Exit Nodes and Grants. Grants because I just learned about them and they’re solving a real problem for me, and Exit Nodes because I’ve mentioned the concept many times on the show and […]
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Siri AI Surprises and Delights … Most of the Time
I have to say, I am really digging Siri AI. And I don’t mean Siri “sucks less”, as others are saying. I mean it’s good. It’s really good. It is not perfect, of course; no large language model is. It’s also better at some things than others. I’ll get into what I think Siri AI […]
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Vista – Just Open the Image
I found an app recently that solves a problem of mine, but it isn’t the one-trick pony I thought it was. Every once in a while, when doing a screencast, I need to show a still-shot graphic. This week I wanted to show a PNG of a typical Mac keyboard and point to the function […]
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