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HTTPS is an extension to HTTP. It encrypts your traffic to and from a given website, ensuring that nobody can read your activity in transit. It’s used almost everywhere, from banking to search engines to this very blog.
Read More »Lynne Teaches Tech: How does HTTPS keep you safe online?The popular Mastodon instance berries.space recently shut down, with all of their content being taken offline, most likely permanently. It was a popular home for teenagers migrating away from tumblr. At its peak, it had over 3,000 users.
When an instance on the Fediverse shuts down, its data is gone, unless the administrators make it accessible in some way. While other instances may have locally cached copies of some posts, for the most part, it’s gone.
This was not the case with berries.space.
Read More »Archive Team and the FediverseThis is a revised version of this post.
If you’re buying a computer or laptop or even a phone, there’s a lot of jargon that might confuse you to look out for. It ranges from straightforward statistics to obscure facts to annoying “gotcha”s. This post aims to break them down.
Read More »Lynne Teaches Tech: What do all the components of a computer mean?This question was originally submitted via the survey.
This question, like our last reader-submitted question, is in three parts:
I’ll answer them from top to bottom.
Read More »Lynne Teaches Tech: What are protocols and formats? How do they come to be?This question was originally submitted via the survey.
Our first survey question! The submitted question asked:
If you’ve always wanted to see your own question answered by a Lynne Teaches Tech post, there’s now an easy survey to fill out to submit a question! The survey can be completed here. The only info that’s collected is your response! You can also just send me a message… Read More »Ask your own Lynne Teaches Tech question!
This post contains coarse language. Thank you all for participating in my little survey! It ended about 15 hours ago now, so it’s time to look over the results one last time. This post will mostly be about the feedback I received, so If you want to do see a… Read More »Fediverse Survey Summary 3
Mastodon recently added a cool feature that blurs images when they’re marked as sensitive and while they’re loading. I noticed that it automatically hides this blur when the image loads, but it’s trivial to put it back. Combined with the glitch-soc setting to display full images rather than cropping them, we can use two little CSS rules to change those ugly letterboxes and pillarboxes to a nice-looking blurred background!
Read More »A simple glitch-soc tweak
There are many different system files that Windows needs in order to function. These files are often updated using Windows Update to add new features, fix bugs, patch security issues, and more.
Windows is unable to replace these files while they’re in use. This is for numerous reasons, both technical and practical.
Read More »Lynne Teaches Tech: Why does Windows need to restart to install updates so often?