Creating a Local LAN with Zerotier

Matthew December 9, 2018 0 Comments

I have been meaning to create a video about this for some time. I am a tech fanatic, and when a better solution than Hamachi crossed my path, I was instantly indulging myself with its vast capabilities. Zerotier is an amazing application. It can be used to create a Local LAN so that gamers can play legacy titles like Warcraft III and the like, but it can also be “privatized” giving you full control over who has access to your network. I have tested it on Windows and Linux, and use several personally created networks to play games with my friends back in Ontario, as well as administer my web servers, and lock down SSH to use only the internal network.…

Rants

Why Social Media and the Internet are our biggest downfall

Matthew November 10, 2018 0 Comments

Yes, its time for another rant. But this one comes with a disclaimer:

Now with that being said, the title is the major topic. The internet, although a solid tool for so many things, also brought the world to our fingertips. Go back to the early 90’s, millennials were in their infancy, the only digital way to socialize was via BBSs (Bulletin Board Systems), and we got our world news in the paper and on TV by major reputable broadcasting corporations. The only exposure we had to other cultures was, in a way, sanitized and cleaned of all the horrific things we had no control over because it was not on our soil and not of our laws…

Now fast forward to today, the millennials are full-grown adults, the internet is now our major news source, and rarely ever from a reputable news agency. …

Fun Technology

The wonderful world of IFTTT (IF This, Then That)

Matthew October 23, 2018 0 Comments

A little while back, I noticed that Instagram stopped supporting its ability to post to Flickr… at least I think it did. I mean a lot of my pics from Instagram can be found on Flickr… But in any case, at this time there is no link between the two. And as I use Instagram whenever I don’t have my real camera at hand (I love the filters), and my website has a Flickr stream, I started to look for a way to connect them.

Now be forewarned, what I am about to present is a tool that can connect all your counts to each other, so be warned that you will have to yet again provide your credentials to a third party site. …