Since Christmas will soon be here, I thought it would be a good time to resurrect the poem that has become a holiday tradition on the NosillaCast. In 2019, we lost our beloved Honda Bob, a long-time NosillaCastaway and contributor to the show and a very dear friend. But his memory and the silliness he […]
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Smart Outlets — by Sandy Foster
I don’t have a home that’s as “smart” as many these days. I don’t, for instance, have smart door locks or window shades. I certainly don’t have any fancy lighting systems. However, I do have three smart outlets from Meross. I’ve used a couple of different brands in the past, but right now my outlets […]
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Everything Tech is Broken
When last we left our heroes, Steve and I had just finished having our house recarpeted. I walked you through the agony just as therapy for me, and then gave you the tech angles to taking a house apart and putting it back together. By the end of the day Saturday, the house was mostly […]
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Producing an Audiobook — by Eddie Tonkoi
Intro Producing an audiobook to be at a professional level is a big undertaking. It involves hours of recording, gigabytes of data, and exacting specifications. I’ve spent a lot of time understanding these and iterating on my process as I went through the full pipeline as narrator, sound engineer, producer, and publisher for my wife, […]
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New Carpet is Like Moving … but Not
We just had our entire house recarpeted this week, and holy cow was that a lot of work. It’s like moving … but not. While it is tempting to give you all the details of things like putting two bookcases’ worth of books and photo albums into our bathtub, instead, I’m going to talk about […]
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Security Bits — 6 December 2025
Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. A good example of why Bart has been going on and on about secret management in recent conversations with Allison: Massive GitLab scan finds 17,000+ valid secrets in public repositories — cyberinsider.com/… A nice […]
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Stream Deck Button to Put Your Mac to Sleep
Do you ever do some repeated operation on your Mac that’s not hard but you find it annoying? If you can’t think of one, I’ll go first. The Problem to be Solved When I’m done working on my Mac at my desk, I like to put my laptop to sleep to save energy. I use […]
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Recording an Audio Book — by Eddie Tonkoi
Introduction My wife, Jern Tonkoi, is writing fiction and we’re publishing it ourselves, using Amazon and Kobo, etc, and being someone who likes listening more than reading, creating audiobooks seems a natural direction to go in. Even if it wasn’t, the potential for more visibility and more sales is always going to be attractive, and […]
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Embracing AI While Retaining My Privacy — by Bart Busschots
Rather like with the smart home, when it comes to AI, I’ve taken the second wave approach — I let the early adopters get well and truly burned, and give the developers a chance to make a meaningful start at fixing the biggest problems, before slowly dipping my toe in. Compared to non-geeks, I’m still […]
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Feedback & Followups Listener and community feedback, developments in recently covered stories, and developments in long-running stories we’re tracking over time. Google backpedals on new Android developer registration rules — www.bleepingcomputer.com/… (Android is not becoming quite as Apple-like after all — better for Linux geeks, worse for regular folks) Deep Dive — that Cloudflare Outage […]
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