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January 2026

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Privacy

Your Email Address Is a Tracking Device. Here’s How to Break Free

If you’ve read some of my past articles—like this or this—you won’t be surprised to hear I sometimes poke fun at myself by telling folks I’m wearing my tinfoil hat. Twice in the last couple weeks, people did not know what I meant by that term;“tinfoil hat.” That gave me Read more

By Dan, 4 weeksJanuary 25, 2026 ago
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AI

Answer 7 Questions to Cut Through The AI Cacophony

Google’s enabled you to turn on its Gemini AI in every service to search across your ibox, calendar, files, etc. Seems like a good idea to some, but the privacy concerns should not be ignored. Claude is on everyone’s minds and in all the headlines for its incredible Code and Read more

By Dan, 1 monthJanuary 18, 2026 ago
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AI

I Tumbled Down an AI Agent Rabbit Hole, and You Should Too

Halfway through a first draft of a post about the importance of verifying every response you receive from generative AI, I checked my inbox. In a flash, my world flipped upside down. Down the rabbit hole I tumbled. When I came out the other side, I had made and deployed Read more

By Dan, 1 monthJanuary 11, 2026 ago
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Personal technology

Why I Gave, and Got, Zero Tech Gifts This Christmas

While wrapping Christmas presents, around the time Uncle Billy mistakenly dropped $8,000 in cash into Mister Potter’s lap and George Bailey’s Christmas Eve began to unravel, I realized none of the gifts in front of me needed to be charged. Not one of them required firmware updates. No batteries. No Read more

By Dan, 2 monthsJanuary 4, 2026 ago
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