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Privacy: How to remove Twitter Interests/Topics?

Introduction If you are on Twitter (or any social media to be honest), there is a lot of personal usage data that could be very interesting that you generate by just using their service. This data is generated based on the tweets you write, retweet, like or share and pretty much anything else you do within their app. Those Interests allow Twitter to generate a more or less precise targeting profile to better serve their advertising and editorial algorithm....

2022-04-22 · 5 min · Metalhearf

Tor: Set up your own (Guard) Middle Relay

Introduction In this article, we will set up a Middle/Guard Relay on the Tor network. We used a Debian 11 (Bullseye) in this example. Before going any further, be sure to understand the implications of this type of relay by reading my dedicated article first! 1. Installing Tor To make this tutorial easier, we’ll install tor from our package manager. apt update && apt install tor 2. Configuring Tor Your Tor service configuration is defined in the file: /etc/tor/torrc....

2021-09-28 · 5 min · Metalhearf

Tor: Types of relays on the Tor network

Introduction During one of my long scrolls through Reddit, I once discovered a post proposing different ways to participate in the open source world. Among the obvious solutions were: participating in the development of open source projects, using your connection to seed Linux ISOs (😉), or even… hosting your own Tor relay. I quickly got interested and started learning more about it (technically, legally, etc.), and since then I’ve been contributing a few nodes to the network myself....

2021-09-21 · 4 min · Metalhearf

Game Boy: your saves are in danger

If you are a still a lucky owner of a Nintendo Game Boy (the original, Color or Advance version), you should give a quick check to your games and saves to ensure they are not vanishing into oblivion. Technical limitations & conception Today’s save systems in games It’s pretty common nowaday that the saves of our games to be stored locally on the device your are playing on: your computer, console or even smartphone....

2019-11-28 · 6 min · Metalhearf

Hello World

Since everything has to start and you have to mark the little things in life with importance… well, let me write this first article for you. It’s short, meaningless, but the important thing is that it will be indexed and kept forever on the Internet as the first draft of this blog. It shouldn’t get any worse!

2019-10-30 · 1 min · Metalhearf