The Digital Estate: Seed Phrases and/or Passwords Could Drive Your Family to Despair
Between 2.3 and 3.7 million Bitcoin are gone forever - not hacked, but because no heir knew the keys. Shamir Secret Sharing fixes that.
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Publishing and/with AI - Poetry, Authorship, and Questions we need to answer
A reflection on publishing poetry before AI changed everything, and the open questions around AI-generated content, media literacy, and authorship.
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The Invisible Memory of Your Photos
Photo may carry hidden metadata. GPS coordinates, camera model, timestamps, author details. What EXIF data reveals, why WebP is affected too, and how to remove it cleanly.
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Why Our Stegofile Tool Failed With Brave
Brave Shields protects against canvas fingerprinting but breaks pixel-accurate canvas operations in the process. How the Stegofile tool was affected and how it was solved by bypassing the canvas API.
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From Pixels to Characters, from Characters to Pixels
Two new browser tools on ascend: the Asciifile-Creator turns images into ASCII art, the QRcode-Generator creates QR codes with no account, no tracking, fully offline.
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FuKyu Beta Is Open
FuKyu, a new browser-based strategy game about conquering space, is in beta. How the game idea came about, what 普及 means, and where to try it now.
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Seed Phrase in Your Head
BIP39 mnemonics you can actually memorize, brute-force last word, and browser tools that recover missing words - and why none of this makes sense online.
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Don't Feed the Kraken
On tracking pixels, passive revenue schemes and why I release everything under GNU GPL v3. A rant about the web, data aggregation and Big Tech.
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Alice and Bob are now lawfully under surveillance by the three-letter agency
Why encryption makes you suspicious, what steganography is, how LSB embedding works, and how Stegofile-Concealer hides AES-GCM-encrypted data inside a PNG.
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Does the Babel Fish speak Klingon?
A follow-up to the first post about AI and me - this time with Douglas Adams, Klingons, and the question of why 45 AI-generated languages are simultaneously impressive and utterly unspectacular.
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A full-stack developer on AI as tool, not threat - on productivity, historical acceleration, and why engaging with new technology is unavoidable.
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