Decentralized finance involving cryptocurrencies and tokens is a very interesting software frontier, and not something that governments or bankers want to see succeed. You can learn more about Uniswap on from their Wikipedia page. By Brady Dale Uniswap Labs,…
I had a post yesterday on the hoops you had to jump through to update VMware Workstation now under Broadcom, and I made mention of the VMware subscription money grab change driving customers away, so this story is of interest…
They’ve released VMware Workstation 17.6, and it’s kind of a convoluted process to register. If you follow the register link below, they don’t accept sharable email addresses like gmail, yahoo… They want your corporate email address, even for free personal…
My Yubikeys are older than this version, but most likely suffer the same vulnerability if they used the same library. I doubt anyone is trying to hack the older versions, and this requires equipment and a fair amount of knowledge…
Funny that he can’t use it with Uber, possibly because of insurance. I was surprised that we have five owners here in Cheyenne, with a 60k population. Consequently, we saw one at Sam’s Club, and in person they’re pretty hideous.…
Traveling to Europe will soon require you give up biometric data, your fingerprint and photograph. Hey wait, those are ways we unlock our cellular phones and some computers these days. They’re going to weasel in the digital Panopticon, and most…
Mikrotik is a Latvian company that makes wonderful routers and switches, having gotten their start with wireless ISPs. Their hardware is very capable and affordable, and unlike the other megacorp providers they don’t drown you in fees for extra features.…
I never trusted Telegram, as when I had researched it they open sourced the phone application, but the server code was proprietary. And for end to end encryption they had a custom protocol with their supposed audits being sketchy, along…
My desktop computer is still Windows 10 because of a few games but every other computer in the home is Linux, and even on the Windows machine I do most everything running Linux in VMware Workstation Pro, as it’s just…
Some have suggested the big social security number hack and leak is a precursor for a digital ID system. They’ve been slow walking this as the original group with OCGFC megacorps was labeled ID 2020, though we do have some…
This is still early days, so we wait to see wallets implement it, but it’s a game changer for privacy and payments. Which is not going to go over well with the government who has a whole department for tracking…
They want to include GPS tracking in those digital license plates. They were previously running a voluntary test of the system which was hacked exposing user locations. Consequently, this is something they’re working on with the hopes of bringing it…
