As an experiment because VMware Workstation has issues with some of the latest GNU/Linux distributions, I’ve been running Debian Stable, Debian Testing and Debian Unstable. And running Unstable can be extremely interesting if you try to use full-upgrade or dist-upgrade…
Deep packet analysis has been a thing for a long time even before the AI hype train, and though this article below is implying your ISP is the threat, the truth is the government is the real threat. From long…
Maybe this will push things towards RISC-V and more development there. As Arm was an innovation over X86 and now taking over servers, RISC-V is an open platform without these encumbrances, which looks to be an even better option for…
I also like to point out that over a decade ago I was watching a repossession specialist that had a license plate reader on his tow truck, and he would cruise malls with all the vehicles spotted uploaded to a…
Entertaining comments by Linus, our beloved Linux kernel manager. By Michael Larabel Over the past week Linux creator Linus Torvalds has been active on a Linux kernel mailing list thread around avoiding barrier_nospec() in copy_from_user() due to being “overkill…
Having run my Mikrotik router for over a year, I just wanted to highlight how fabulous this company is at supporting their hardware, software and firmware. Below is a screenshot of their forum which shows just how much they update.…
One of the fun things you can do when you run your GNU/Linux in virtual machines is to copy their directories to make new VMs and experiment without having to do a complete install or risk your source VM. And…
The hardware design flaws that won’t go away. The indirect branch predictor barrier is less of a barrier than hoped Six years after the Spectre transient execution processor design flaws were disclosed, efforts to patch the problem continue to…
Beware the AI voice call scammers. The funny part is this AI nonsense costs a lot of money in processing power and electricity, with people being lured in now that it’s free while trying to sell subscriptions. It’s a lot…
World is worth keeping a eye on, no pun intended, as Sam Altman of AI fame is behind it and this report said they had $100 million invested back then. And his comments about a digital ID system like this…
A fascinating historical look into how receivers were actually transmitting weak signals, giving away what was being listened to. And a fascinating look into past wars and spy craft and how they exploited this receiver radiation leak.
I employ both uBlock Origin and uMatrix by Raymond Hill with my Firefox browsers, so you also have Firefox as an option. They suggest Brave based on Chromium (Chrome’s open sourced parts), but there is also Chromium itself. And there…
