Category Tech

The Case for the Only Cryptocurrency of Value, Bitcoin

I’ve been hearing people on the ham bands ignorantly talking about cryptocurrencies, so I thought I’d offer the case for the one that has real value, Bitcoin. In essence Bitcoin is a cryptocurrency protocol for trustless financial transactions using public/private…

Arm Is The New RISC/Unix, RISC-V Is The New Arm

A history of computer processing in relation to businesses and servers with the interesting trend away from X86 processors to custom Arm architecture by the large cloud providers to lower costs. But the new open source instruction set RISC-V may…

Easy Way to Pull New Docker Images

Keeping your Docker images up to date isn’t quite as easy as using your Linux operating system package manager, but this one command makes it easy to check all your running instances for new images. It will pull a list…

Disabling Ubuntu Telemetry Services

Ubuntu started to enable telemetry in recent versions on an opt out basis, so if you don’t want to send data to Ubuntu here is a script from Github. Instead of running the script you can manually add the domains…