Terminal? Shell? CLI? CLI? More like CL-WHY: There are any number of reasons someone would choose to operate a device via Command Line Interface (CLI) instead of a Graphical User Interface (GUI). Commands are precise, providing exact instructions. CLIs often require less resource utilization. Accessibility / Ergonomic reasons. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Shell:...

A Lust-Letter to the 4th amendment… Ya know… Maybe it’s my middle-class-liberal-white-guilt… Maybe it’s watching the US devolve into a store-brand Orwellian nightmare… But it just seems like right now is a great time to start jotting down some of my digital street smarts for others. Defense in Depth: The...

Hey, what’s going on? 15 Years ago Apple moved away from the PowerPC chips they had used since 1994 and joined the rest of the computational world under the x86 umbrella. In 2020, Apple is changing CPU types again, this time from x86 to ARM based CPUs. To summarize the...

“Yeah, but I’ve got nothing to hide!” But you have locks on your doors right? Curtains on your windows? You close the door when you go to the bathroom? You’re not doing anything wrong. But you still have a reasonable right to privacy. While you think you might have nothing...

You must construct additional pylons! Your computer uses electricity to fuel it’s lust for sweet sweet calculations. The larger the calculations, the more time and energy required to complete the instructions. When more energy is required, more heat will be transferred from the CPU. Thankfully, there are a plethora of...