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…
These are names to pay attention to, and remember that Eric Schmidt was brought in to oversee Google for several years as they built the tech platform into what it is today. And Henry Kissinger was always a right hand…
These standards organizations are always suspect because of the megacorps that put their agents on them. Throw in the trans activists getting people banned from projects because they’re not advocating for trans enough, and free and open standards and software…
They’re not doing it yet, but this sure shows intent. And pretty much all the manufacturers have been busted selling user data and making it difficult to opt out. And since they control the software, can you really trust them…
It’s a wonderful scheme for transferring more wealth from taxpayers, with price overruns and necessary upgrades and retooling. Authored by Mike Fredenburg via The Epoch Times, The Pentagon is facing a difficult decision regarding the F-35’s chronic, crippling problems…
This is interesting as the federal government is trying to persuade coders and contractors to move to Rust and other “safe” programming languages. Quality coders using C and C++ who do data validation to avoid memory and code execution issues…
In a wonderful example of controlled opposition, we’ll revisit this graphic on Elon Musk as he’s gaining ground with Neuralink (article on Canadian experimental approval below). And this implantable technology has much scarier connotations when you look at the WEF…
So my Raspberry Pi 5 Raspiblitz Bitcoin/Lightning node finally finished syncing the whole Bitcoin blockchain as well as the Lightning network. And it’s super easy to install what they call apps, but mostly web interfaces. The menu system allows you…
Woke Microsoft is trying to get people to buy new PCs capable of more spying. There was never a good reason to force the hardware requirements of Windows 11 on people, unless they’re just doing so to sell computers on…
Basically, discrimination is towards straight, white, male, conservative, and god fearing; or possessing any of those traits could get you kicked out of the community projects as many are run by extreme leftists who have no tolerance for views other…
This is hilarious. The CIA’s investment firm, In-Q-Tel, invested in the company behind Pokemon Go, and started media hype to get everyone using the app/game to capture Pokemon. But as we learn today, they were manipulating users to go photograph…
