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Author: Josh

Tor, what is it good for?

Posted on August 7, 2016September 14, 2018 by Josh

What is it good for? A whistleblower, journalist, or blogger in a hostile environment, a hostage or victim of human trafficking; those dominated, vulnerable, marginalized, propagandized, and all those generally in need of a way to speak out or seek out, to cry out maybe for the sake of their very lives… all of these folks need the same critical thing: a voice. They all…

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Passwords no more: Client Side SSL authentication the easy way

Posted on June 26, 2016September 22, 2016 by Josh

  Passwords, difficult to remember, difficult to remember to change, so much so that companies like Google, Mozilla, and Last Pass are always devising ways to help us keep track of them. Always subject to being hacked due to password weakness, insecure connections, or data breaches, they represent as much a security failure as they…

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Let’s Encrypt The Web: Safeguarding internet privacy with free, trusted SSL

Posted on June 25, 2016September 14, 2018 by Josh

  It’s not uncommon for modern computer users to run a home server, or for hobbyists or enthusiasts to purchase an affordable VPS and run apps for a Personal Cloud. With great apps like the Ampache media server, and platforms like Own Cloud, this is easier than ever, and an ever more attractive an option. If this is…

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Ubuntu Dreams of Electric Sheep…

Posted on March 8, 2016November 2, 2017 by Josh

There is an updated version of this post here In 2012, Ubuntu, a very popular Linux desktop distribution, decided to strike the beautiful Electric Sheep screen saver program from it’s repositories (think app store), apparently because of some licensing issue or other. This decision followed a philosophy of “fat trimming”, striking screen savers and other unnecessary bloat from the default set of…

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Just Sit: Providing an introduction to meditation practice, exploring clinical and recovery applications, and examining the Buddhist roots of the modern mindfulness practice

Posted on November 22, 2015January 12, 2020 by Josh

Mindfulness: the new buzzward in pop psychology. You can’t throw a stone these days without hearing someone mention mindfulness, see a new study on mindfulness, or run into some new guru trying to sell their particular flavor of mindfulness practice. There’s so much information and chatter out there that the regular Jane or Joe might…

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Realizing Dependent Designation: The Buddha’s Middle Way

Posted on November 4, 2015August 8, 2016 by Josh

  “If you perceive the existence of all things In terms of their essence, Then this perception of all things Will be without the perception of causes and conditions.   Effects and causes And agent and action And conditions and arising and ceasing And effects will be rendered impossible.   Whatever is dependently co-arisen That…

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Damn the internet blockades! Run your own Private Proxy server with Seamless Authentication

Posted on October 30, 2015August 8, 2016 by Josh

  Paying attention to the news, and to certain types of legislation that are constantly being passed around, it becomes more and more obvious that we people might want to secure our internet usage form prying eyes. I am a big proponent of privacy and security, and of just people keeping their nose out of other people’s…

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A community resource

Posted on October 23, 2015September 14, 2018 by Josh

Here’s a social work and human services oriented website that I developed as a part of an internship. It never reached full realization, but there are some really usefull resources there, especially if you happen to live in the SE Michigan, Washtenaw County area. Aside from the local resources there are resume building and job interview…

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Fancy 403: Ban them All!

Posted on October 20, 2015September 14, 2018 by Josh

Lot’s of tech savvy computer users these days have figured out how to set up a home server to act as a file server, a streaming media server, a legitimate web-site server, a proxy server, and any number of other case sues. Surely, having access to your home computer, akin to your own personal “cloud”, while…

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SOCKS5 Proxy in Ubuntu 14.04: mystery no more!

Posted on October 17, 2015October 5, 2016 by Josh

Secure Your Internet Traffic on Ubuntu 14.04 with a SOCKS proxy (it’s easier than you think!)     In this day and age, we use our computers for everything from banking and bills to searching for love, trolling our friends on social media sites, and even telling our deepest secrets to our most trusted allies. We trust our…

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