Author: Doug Simmons

DOS protip time! For those of you who prance around a Windows command prompt, feeling all buff, let me share with you something I wish I knew about

In 2010 a Firefox user submitted a bug to the Mozilla developers requesting that they implement WebP (the most powerful image format in the world) into Firefox. Now

We are vulnerable to the effects of another set of downgrades. It doesn’t seem that unlikely, and our getting scared about it could be used as political leverage

The FBI maintains a national fingerprint and criminal history database. Its uses include helping to find and convict bad guys, helping to free good guys, and helping you

You see that? That right there is one of you, and you know who you are, loading Herg’s recent anti-Google article using Tor, I’m guessing safely using the

Hey! You know how when you click on a link for something you just googled your browser first connects to Google to let Google hack your webcam and

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Greasemonkey scripts, and the de facto repository userscripts.org, are the anarchist’s answer to Firefox plugins and Chrome extensions. They offer oftentimes very helpful tools and tricks, little Javascript/DOM

Ever notice these camera-looking things on the back of police cruisers? I figured they were just radar guns. Actually they are a car-mounted version of an increasingly-ubiquitous Big

Netflix has joined the ranks of marquee heavyhitter names that include Facebook and Wikipedia which, in a bid to save massive amounts of bandwidth and money and to improve