Reminders – Simple Security and Finding Sanity In the Digital Age

This informal blog post mixes personal anecdotes with practical privacy and operational tips: pasting into shells/VMs, avoiding bash history via leading spaces, stripping EXIF metadata and resizing images with exiftool/imagemagick, using SSH -D to create a SOCKS proxy, and recommendations for security products like YubiKey and Apricorn encrypted drives. It emphasizes disconnecting from digital life, cleaning metadata before sharing files, and general good-hygiene tools for protecting data and identities.