Remove YouTube Shorts
If like me you despise YouTube Shorts and they keep promoting them even though you click the X to make them go away, there is this handy filter below you can add to uBlock Origin to make them stay gone.…
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Your Car Is Tattling on You: Major Automakers Share Driving Data With Insurance Giants
You might investigate a data connected vehicle and figure out how to disable the data connection through they’re kind of hooking you with WiFi in the car for your passengers. You could remove the fuse, though per this report that…
KDE Plasma 6.0.1 Is Here to Improve the Overview Effect and Fix Several Bugs
Update: KDE Developers Are Currently Seeing 150~200 Bug Reports Per Day Arch Linux rolled out KDE Plasma 6.0.1 yesterday, so if you’re running KDE in a Arch based distribution you are getting the new version. It has had some bugs…
5 Reasons Why Desktop Linux Is Finally Growing in Popularity
An interesting look at how GNU/Linux is becoming more popular for more users. I still have my Windows 10 desktop for a few games I like to play, but I’m certainly not moving to Window 11. So when support ends…
The EPA Is Targeting Aftermarket Car Modifications
Left unsaid in the article is this isn’t just about federal legislation, as our legislators have grown lazy and allow these federal agencies to write their own regulations. Consequently, there is a case before the supreme court on the Chevron…
Decades-Old Missing Person Case Solved After Relative Uploads DNA to Genealogy Site
It must be said, NPR is propaganda, but the interesting part of this story is that if your DNA is uploaded somewhere, the government has access to it. By using third parties I’m sure they skirt privacy regulations and are…
Linux Foundation Launches Tazama: A Revolutionary Open Source Solution for Real-Time Fraud Management
It’s an old problem, the OCGFC move in with large donations, demanding board seats to make sure their money is spent wisely, and eventually with some other maneuvering they will own and control the organization. This applies to charities, non-profits,…
As Chevy Camaro Thefts Skyrocket More Than 1000% in L.A., Police Unlock a Secret of Car Thieves
And this is why the move to key fobs away from actual keys was always a stupid idea. The main issue is that these systems may be secure at time of development, but they usually become exploitable over time and…
How the Pentagon Learned to Use Targeted Ads to Find Its Targets—and Vladimir Putin
An extremely interesting read, and pay attention to the guy with the idea for using this data and how he moved around companies with a link to In-Q-Tel, the CIA’s venture capitalist arm. Safe to say he was always working…
HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD
And the megacorps were not having it, though it is worth noting how much effort AMD has been giving to support the open-source software community. By Michael Larabel One of the limitations of AMD’s open-source Linux graphics driver has…