… filling out endless repeating Google Captchas about cross walks… traffic lights… busses… bicycles… on lonely friday nights… just to realize… that https://disqus.com is programmed to never ever allow any tor user to login. so much for uncencored free speech on […]
it’s nice what a little arp scanning reveals… hardware vendors (almost) no user ever heard of: the mac 74:4d:28: belongs to https://routerboard.com aka https://mikrotik.com/product/ as well as house automation hardware by https://www.ta.co.at/ was found.
correct if wrong but… checkout this picture, just uploaded to this self-hosted wordpress instance recently: it “suddenly” and without consent it also exists on this server i2.wp.com, the “cool” wordpress CDN, that is supposed to speed up loading time of […]
“Shutdown of Peertube.co.uk” most noted reason: lack of funding lack of staff increasingly harsher rules and regulations “Since it’s inception in August 2019, Peertube UK has grown to host over 2000 users and over 19000 videos. Sadly, the time has […]
let’s face it: the internet has become a gigantic surveillance machine, with hundreds of private companies, trying to collect as much data on the user as possible in order to “predict the market” while also using with AI to analyze […]
Open Source is about enabling users “Amazon, Microsoft, Google” and the White House, want to help make Open Source more secure… https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-150-millionen-us-dollar-sollen-open-source-absichern-2205-165382.html https://www.golem.de/news/openssf-linux-foundation-will-security-praxis-vereinheitlichen-2008-150036.html src of src: “White House OSS Mobilization Plan” 2022: https://openssf.org/blog/2022/05/11/testimony-to-the-us-house-committee-on-science-and-technology/ 2020: “The OpenSSF is a cross-industry collaboration […]
0) for security: keep all internet connected devices as up to date as possible! “Freifunk updates its router firmware and closes a critical security vulnerability that could allow attackers to install their own firmware on the devices” (src: heise.de) Also […]
the risks of all digital (no cash) payment systems & amok AI: “This happens quite often with customers of the Cashgroup banks (@DeutscheBank / @Postbank / @Commerzbank / @Comdirect) as soon as their algorithms hit your account is directly without […]
will be redone soon
https://joinpeertube.org/ “show me the src“: https://github.com/Chocobozzz/PeerTube Developed with by Framasoft “PeerTube is a free, decentralized and federated video platform developed as an alternative to other platforms that centralize our data and attention, such as YouTube, Dailymotion or Vimeo. ” (src) […]
ZFS is probably THE most controversial filesytem in the known universe: “FOSS means that effort is shared across organizations and lowers maintenance costs significantly” (src: comment by JohnFOSS on itsfoss.com) “Mathematicians have a term for this. When you rearrange the […]
yes, thank you is not enough, public healthcare is massively underfunded, there needs to be a massive pay rise, there is no time to wait for the rise of the AI nursing robots (aka Tesla Bots). “Hospital closures continue in […]
the whole project started, because a lemon tree needed some heating in the winter. getting started is not hard, simply download the wallet app from here it runs on any OS comes with a miner pre installed will automatically generate […]
Old Fusion-joke: “Fusion is always 30 years away” But Update: helionenergy.com wants to end this long wait by 2024 by producing the first fusion reactor that actually produces more energy than it consumes. First of: no fan of cancer. In […]
what is great about books vs blogs? (+) paper books don’t need electricity and hightech to function. energy grid and tcp networks (up to now) have worked pretty reliably, but at any given day, a massive solar flare or a […]
criminals abusing tor for malicous behavior should be blocked, right? “50% of the attacks are leveraging the Tor anonymity service to mask their true origins” https://thehackernews.com/2021/12/new-local-attack-vector-expands-attack.html this could destroy the “honest” part of the network that truly exists, because it […]
update: 2022: ah oh: Pine community in Pain? https://blog.brixit.nl/why-i-left-pine64/ “In February 2021, PINE64 announced the end of the community editions. At this moment, PINE64’s focus shifted from supporting a diverse ecosystem of distributions and software projects around the PinePhone to […]
Motorola, Apple, Samsung, and now even Fairphone 4: NO 3.5mm headphone jack!!! For the audio junkies among us, this is a no go. Was so looking forward to the Fairphone, but will probably use a phone with audio jack as […]
inkscape is a genious vector drawing program it is a bit complex though and takes time getting used to hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 10 (buster) Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-18-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 Inkscape 0.92.4 (5da689c313, 2019-01-14) install the […]
mplayer is still a great program 🙂 that let’s you play streams and files on command line (per default it has no gui) creditz: http://sheet.shiar.nl/mplayer # install it su – root apt update apt install mplayer ffmpeg Ctrl+D # log […]
update: 2022-12 wow 3 and 4nm is very very small “TSMC recently announced that it is upping its U.S. investment in Arizona to US$40 billion (NT$1.23 trillion) and will manufacture 4nm and 3nm chips there. The 4nm chips are expected […]
team, team, team team… In Germany, everyone is his/her own team, there are only one-man, one-woman teams. teams not necessarily help each other the best “help” you can get from another “team” is “it is somewhere in the (incomplete, outdated, […]
the positive vision (always start with something positive) if big data about every keystroke every step we make (the police: every step you make) algorithms determine how mankind will live and thus: technology is “neutral” until it is used for […]
remember that discussion about ever changing non-standard ways of defining network interfaces and ip addresses under /etc/network… well guess what, canonical just came up with a completely new config file format X-D (guess, everything is a yaml.yml now) hostnamectl; # […]
the user has to know, that Mozilla is very much (still) dependant on Google’s money. User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:92.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/92.0 Hello Dear Mozilla / Dear Firefox management & DevTeam, using this rss app to stay up […]
update 2023: Starlink reduced price to 50 bucks per month! 😀 THANKS! ps: it MIGHT have to do with sinkin bandwith, because of bottlenecks. last time checked via https://nperf.com it was ~200Mbit/s via (the otherwise more short than long range) […]
Wifi Modes of an Access point: DLink has painted a nice overview over the possible different modes of an Accesspoint: cybersec: from great wifi modes that allow bridging two wifi networks, it would be GREAT if vendors test their products […]
prologue: (u can skip it) SmartPhones try to spy and collect data, that why SmartPhone games and weather-apps are usually free. Because the user pays with user data. What even fuels the paranoia are stories like these: in 2011 Rothschild […]
“thin provisioning” means “virtually” allocate more harddisk space, than the harddisk (physically) has, then grow the virtual harddisk file according to it’s needs (store more files = size of harddisk.img grows dynamically) # debian 10; # tested via bash terminal: […]
“Basically, rust-gdb is a wrapper that loads external Python pretty-printing scripts into GDB. This is useful (and somewhat necessary) when debugging more complex Rust programs because it significantly improves the display of Rust data types.” (src) what the developer has […]