Frigate review: local detection for home cameras
Frigate is an open source NVR that records IP cameras at home and spots people and cars on your own hardware. Price, privacy limits, and how to start.
Frigate is an open source NVR that records IP cameras at home and spots people and cars on your own hardware. Price, privacy limits, and how to start.
DAVx⁵ is open-source calendar sync for Android. Learn where contacts and events live, what the app costs, and how to set up the first account.
Improve car privacy with offline maps, a tested key pouch and local dash cam storage. Follow practical steps for setup, permissions and safer rentals.
A connected car account can store trips, contacts and remote controls. See how to skip it, keep navigation on your phone, and clear it before you sell.
A Faraday pouch for car keys blocks the signal a keyless fob sends. Learn how relay theft works, how to test a pouch, and what else to do at home.
Choose a dash cam without cloud storage, compare card and phone access, switch off unwanted recording, and learn to save incident footage privately.
Eufy’s alarm and camera kits cover a whole home with local storage and no mandatory monthly fee: sensors, hub, sirens and cameras in one ecosystem that works without a cloud relationship. Brand-level controversies from 2023, disputed by the company and addressed in updates, belong in your research. As a no-fee system it remains one of […]
addy.io, formerly AnonAddy, generates unlimited email aliases that forward to your real inbox, so every shop, service and newsletter gets a different address you can switch off when it misbehaves. Open source, with a transparent Monero-friendly payment option. Aliases are one-way protection: they hide your address but not your behavior, and reply flows take a […]
Your contacts list is a map of your entire social world, which makes it prime data for apps that hoover address books. EteSync syncs contacts between your devices through end-to-end encryption, so the contents stay between you and your devices. It is plumbing rather than an app, and setup means connecting it to your existing […]
O&O ShutUp10++ is a free German utility that exposes Windows’ roughly hundred telemetry, advertising and tracking settings in one list with plain-language explanations, and applies recommended defaults in one click. A system restore point is created automatically. Major Windows updates can quietly re-enable some settings, so rerun it after upgrades. Free of charge and free […]
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Most people are, and never hear about it. BellCrier checks your email against known data breaches for free, then alerts you when it turns up in a new one, with exactly what leaked and how to fix it.
