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I’ve never played with these AI systems as you generally had to identify yourself to use them, and that just struck me as wrong making me think a data collection scheme. But I’ve seen examples of their output, and one…

And curiously, they seem to have fixed SDDM which has been broken on my Debian Unstable, which isn’t a big deal as it will use LightDM. But this leaves just Debian Stable on KDE 5 until the next release of…

Trends of malware and what they’re doing on regular people’s PCs. And it’s just not wise to use a Windows PC on the internet, as a great way to protect yourself is to use a LInux virtual machine which you…

This is a promising day for an open router designed to run OpenWrt. I had bought my current router because it would run OpenWrt, but I’ve been so happy with Mikrotik‘s router software and how well they update it along…

Some additional info on the official KDE and GNOME distributions in the works. GNOME isn’t really as it’s a nightly build meant to be run as a VM, and it would seem mainly for developers (GNOME has proven itself to…

I have a previous post on a couple privacy search proxies I run, but I wanted to highlight that you can configure the search engines used with SearXNG. And duckduckgo already uses Bing, so you don’t need that one, but…

I’ve previously wrote articles on SearXNG and Whoogle with how to run them with Docker, and I’ve setup a Docker server with a SearXNG and Whoogle instance with SSL certificate via NgingxProxyManager and Let’s Encrypt (same server as this blog).…

After doing a conservative ‘sudo apt update && sudo apt upgrade” there was one package in red I didn’t pay enough attention to which broke my KDE 5 desktop environment. So using XFCE also installed, I went ahead and did…

Anything casting shade on the Russian government you have to treat with suspicion, but we do have a couple bugs that were fixed. The interesting part is look at the dates of the open source project fixing theirs verses when…