Privacy

The Day After: From Phone Numbers to Email Yesterday I solved my phone number privacy problem with a 1.5 euro disposable SIM card. Today? Time to tackle the email situation. Remember when I mentioned I’d “probably just create a new Proton Mail account” because I’d used up all my aliases? Well, today’s that day. And I decided to do it live on stream. Because apparently, I like making things interesting. Black Friday Timing: Accidentally Perfect Here’s the thing - I already have a ProtonMail account. I use it for other purposes. But for my personal site (zoltantoma.com), I need something separate. Something clean. Something that won’t mix my personal correspondence with professional inquiries. ...

The Sunday Evening Reality Check It’s Sunday evening, 10 PM. I should be in bed, browsing for some sci-fi show to watch until my partner comes over to watch something else. Instead, I’m here trying to write a blog post about a 1.5 euro security solution. Yesterday I made a bunch of test streams - didn’t save them, wasn’t planning to. Today I did my first real stream. Didn’t overthink it. Just sat down, documented yesterday’s work on the 10-hour OBS setup, then tried to write an integration test for the vagrant-wsl2-provider. ...

The Question That Started This Today I had a thought: Should I feed AI training with my own AI-generated slop? This immediately spiraled into several uncomfortable questions. Claude: We went from “let’s block some bots” to existential questions about AI ethics in about 30 seconds. Classic. The Five Thoughts That Kept Me Up 1. Isn’t This… Arrogant? Let’s be real. Claude already sees my entire workflow. Every blog post draft. Every conversation. Every “hey Claude, rewrite this” request. ...

The Broken Promise Remember 2015? Microsoft told us Windows 10 would be “the last Windows ever.” They promised a continuous update model, no more forced migrations, no more leaving hardware behind. Fast forward to 2021: Windows 11 appears. Suddenly, millions of perfectly capable machines are “obsolete” because they lack TPM 2.0. The “last Windows” promise? Quietly forgotten. Now it’s late 2025, and Microsoft is pushing the narrative hard: “Windows 10 support ends soon. Upgrade to Windows 11 or your computer will be unsafe!” ...