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Syncthing is a file synchronization program. It allows you to sync files between computers over LAN or the Internet. It is a very simple program that just gets the job done. I use it to synchronize files between two computers and my phone. When synchronizing two computers, I find it... Read more
Not long ago I realized that I could get $50 of credit on Digital Ocean with my GitHub Student account, so I decided to try it. I transferred my website there, and with time I started adding services. It is currently running the following services: My webpage (oscarbenedito.com). Redirections from... Read more
We use cryptographic techniques daily without really knowing how they work, so I'm going to try and explain some basic concepts. Let's start with Wikipedia's current definition: Cryptography or cryptology is the practice and study of techniques for secure communication in the presence of third parties called adversaries. — Wikipedia's... Read more
As I have said before, I was a big user of big tech companies' services. I also used macOS (and Windows before that) and proprietary software for mostly everything. I didn't really know what free1 software was and, if I was running any, it was by coincidence. At college, I... Read more
We tend to have online accounts across different social networks and services. We upload our projects in some sites, we post on different ones and we follow different people on all of them. Our online identities—along with everything we share—are all over the place, but there is a way to... Read more
