Tag: privacy

All the articles with the tag "privacy".

• Replace Cursor with a Minimal VSCodium AppImage

  25 Oct, 2026

  VSCodium AppImage plus three Open VSX extensions replaces Cursor — git status tags, Vim keys, Mermaid and PlantUML preview — with no editor-side data path.

• Where Does Brave's Leo AI Keep Your Data?

  23 Oct, 2026

  Brave's Leo sidebar keeps every AI conversation in one SQLite file — and on a machine without a keyring, Chromium's public peanuts key opens it.

• Keeping secrets out of Git

  14 Oct, 2026

  A short checklist for keeping secrets out of git — why a committed secret is already compromised, the .gitignore patterns to add, where to state the policy (README, AGENTS.md), and three commands to verify nothing is hiding; with a visual summary infographic

• Encrypting Linux: from a hack 20+ years ago to firewalls, LUKS and Veracrypt

  11 Oct, 2026

  A personal Linux security story — how a break-in 20+ years ago pushed me from detecting tampering (tripwire) to preventing it: firewall first, then LUKS full-disk encryption, Veracrypt USB volumes, the threat model and its honest limits, and a daily rsync backup between two encrypted disks