Why I ditched PiHole for AdGuard Home

I’ve been a long time user of PiHole: it’s a fantastic and lightweight tool which, used in conjunction with dnscrypt-proxy, elevates the security of your browsing tenfold. All your DNS queries become encrypted, anonymized and non-traceable. And, of course, your browsing experience is also vastly improved, both in the browsing itself and the security: by … Read more

Porting MDFourier to PowerPC Macs

There’s a recurring question in my life which never seems to find a proper answer: “Why?” Thanks to a certain someone on Twitter, I got the itch to get my hands on a PowerPC Mac and while browsing the various wikis and websites about vintage macs, I already had in mind what I was looking … Read more

Compiling static binaries on macOS

How do you compile static binaries on macOS? You don’t. Thanks for reading.   In other news: on Linux you can easily compile static binaries because, as you might be already aware, most software on Linux is open source. That’s not the case on macOS because there are some system libraries which are, obviously, closed … Read more