Following the last update to Google Chrome, signing in to any Google service will also sign the user in to the browser. In my last post, I explained why I oppose that change. Many others appear have similar thoughts, and Google announced today that the next Chrome update will return the option to remain signed…
Internet Browsers and User Choice
As a long-time Google Chrome user, I recently started switching back to Firefox. Firefox several years ago was a bit of a memory hog, so I started using Chrome, which eventually became my default browser. For privacy reasons, I recently started looking at other browsers, starting with Brave. Brendan Eich, the creator of JavaScript and…
Containing Your Data
In an effort to improve my online security, I recently started testing Firefox Multi-Account Containers. The concept is fairly simple. The browser can open websites in discrete containers, and sites opened in one container cannot see information in another container. For example, a social-media site opened in one container cannot gain tracking information from a…
Mid-Side Recording and XY Equivalency
While investigating recording techniques recently, I came across an interesting tidbit about stereo recording. I had assumed that the XY and mid-side (MS) stereo recording techniques would produce essentially the same stereo image, if the mid-side levels were adjusted properly. Both are coincident techniques, and they seemed to be interchangeable, aside from the ease of…
ATF May Have Violated Federal Law
A brief filed yesterday by the plaintiff in Hollis v. Holder revealed an approval letter that demonstrates that the ATF allowed the registration of a machine gun manufactured after May 19, 1986, in apparent violation of federal law. The Hughes Amendment, passed in 1986 as part of the Firearm Owners Protection Act and codified into…
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