Blackmail variant – 2023-08-30
This one’s a pretty substantial change to previous variants. But has many of the same hallmarks of previous scam emails. Greetings! Would like to introduc...
Author: Kenneth Ballard
Blackmail variant – 2023-08-27
This is a slight variation on the one I posted here. It also brings back the password statement from this one, in which they make it look like they’ve hac...
More upgrades but… no more NVMe
With the last update, I mentioned upgrading from 990FX to X99 with the intent of eventually adding an NVMe carrier card and additional NVMe drives so I could ha...
Youporn scam
Porn seems to be a common… avenue by which scams play out. All of the links in the below email are inoperable, but I’ve changed the Bitcoin address ...
Using Fullscreen Lightbox with Ghost
Add this code to the default.hbs file in your theme at the bottom before the {{ghost_foot}} helper. Don’t forget as well to include the fslightbox.js file...
Migrating Plex from a VM to Docker
In a previous article, I described migrating Plex from one VM to another. In recently rebuilding my virtualization server, now called Cordelia, I decided agains...
Blackmail variant – 2023-07-06
This is an every so slight variant on the ones from last November and October. Hello there! Unfortunately, there are some bad news for you. Around several month...
Blackmail variant – 2023-07-05
And here I was starting to wonder whether these blackmail scammers had started to avoid sending these to my email knowing I’d just… post it on my bl...
Troubleshooting 2.5Gb power over Ethernet
This quick post is for those with a 2.5Gb PoE device, such as a WiFi 6 access point, that either won’t run at 2.5GbE speeds at all or falls back to 1Gb or...
How employment actually works
Let’s talk about this image: First, it is generally NOT true that workers at a business create value. Most workers, instead, transform existing materials ...