Jonah is the founder of Privacy Guides,researching and writing with over a decade of technical writing experience. He also runs Triplebit, a non-profit ISP behind many privacy-related tools.
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A VPN — or Virtual Private Network — is a tool that secures your internet connection from attackers on your network. But before I explain how that all works, let’s talk about the internet without them. Your Internet Service Provider (ISP) can see everything you do online. Well, nearly everything: When
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I can honestly say I didn’t see this coming. On August 29th, 2019, Apple announced they would begin not only selling original OEM parts to independent repair businesses, but also provide them with the tools, guides, training, and diagnostics required to complete repairs on out of warranty iPhones. This
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Outline is a suite of open-source software developed for journalists to safely access their network and the internet while traveling in countries where their activities may be monitored or censored. Despite this, the Outline platform is ideal for a wide range of users, especially less technical users, and users in
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If you run servers for public services, like I do with privacyguides.org, you definitely want to monitor them for any successful logins to user accounts (via SSH, et cetera). The way I plan to accomplish this is to set up an automatic notification to the Pushover app on my
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Some people called for me to write a more technically detailed/in-depth guide to setting up Tor with alt-svc after we set it up on privacyguides.org, so while I do it all over again on our Mastodon server, I figured I’d write this post! Plus, it’ll make
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If you want to install Mojave from scratch, or you need to install it regularly or on multiple Macs, using a USB installer is the way to go for an easy installation. This method requires no third-party software, just a Mac that already has macOS installed and some basic Disk
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Now that you have PowerDNS installed on your servers, you may be wondering how you and your users can create zones on your servers. Well, PowerDNS-Admin is a web-based control panel that makes managing PowerDNS a breeze. It has support for multiple accounts with varying privileges, domain-based user access management,
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It seems object storage is an integral part of any cloud-based web technology these days, but sometimes offloading that aspect of your work to a provider like Amazon S3 or Azure Blob Storage just isn’t feasible or possible. Enter Minio, a self-hosted cloud storage application with a simple interface,
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I recently had to setup DNS servers for a project, so I figured that today’s as good a time as any to start documenting what I do. The goal of this guide is to have PowerDNS configured with a MySQL backend, and then use MySQL replication to sync information