They’re powers, not obligations
Cass Sunstein: “Pelosi’s Stance on Impeachment Needs Some Explaining” The Constitution grants to the House of Representatives the “sole ...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Conflicts of interest and personal agendas
Recently I’ve started listening to various YouTube channels that read out stories posted to Reddit. One story was classified as “pro-revenge”....
Blackmail variant – 2019-03-30
Another scam e-mail I received recently, this one being a variation on ones I’ve written about here before: Hello, As you may have noticed, I sent this em...
Well beyond unconstitutional
Recently a New York county decided to ban unvaccinated minors from public places in response to a measles outbreak. And it is so beyond unconstitutional it̵...
Some changes to the radiator box
Back almost three years ago in 2016, I set out to do something rather unique with regard to water cooling: building an external, self-contained radiator box. An...
Hosting a mail server on a home network
Before diving deeper, a preface. This article will not be discussing how to set up a mail server. Mostly. Instead I’m going over some of the complications...
Blackmail variant – 2019-02-14
I recently heard of this scam from Jim Browning. Full disclosure: I do support him on Patreon. So I’ll let him describe how this scam works, since he disc...
False charity because #fuckTrump
Amazing how the Federal “shutdown” appears to be bringing people together, right? Bringing out people who are willing to help the furloughed governm...
At least read the article before sending a solicitation
I’m really starting to ponder the commonality of this practice. The below request is at least mildly understandable. They’re pointing out an article...
MikroTik CRS317 10GbE switch
For the last two years I’ve been using the Quanta LB6M as the backbone of my home network. A 24 port SFP+ switch with four (4) GbE RJ45 ports connecting t...