Category: alternatives

what if – instead of security – Google wants mass surveillance and a direct uplink to the US-Pentagon to blow all “terrorists” (basically anyone who is against Google) to hell? What if? as long as EVIL pays off (incentive) this […]

second take on trying to get a xmpp server (OpenFire, Java) client (Pidgin, C (C#, Perl, Python, Tcl are used for plugins)) up and running. at least this time with partial luck (was able to login via pidgin) but it […]

today installed (1:1 copy with USB2IDE Adapter) Debian 8 32Bit aka ideal linux on Compaq “Evo D500” and: IT JUST WORKS 🙂 works slow but it works (it is a Single Core Celeron, what do users expect?) X-D 512 MB […]

The Great A.I. Awakening: A Conversation with Eric Schmidt Feb 23, 2017 as user might have noticed, the battle Amazon vs Microsoft who will get the $10Billion DoD cloud computing contract is still hot. And maybe the contract is split. […]

https://www.nafiauto.de/NOVA/pages/nafiauto/start.aspx Kostenloser NAFI Auto Versicherungs-Vergleichs Rechner Hausrat Haftpflicht Gebäude Recht und Unfall man muss sehr detaillierte Angaben machen… z.B. die Schuh-Größe der Grossmutter, dafür bekommt man auch den best-möglichen Tarif. Stiftung Warentest verlangt dafür 7.50€ https://www.test.de/kfz-versicherungsvergleich-1575560-0/ echt krasser BigData Kapitalismus. […]

Tor is easier to use than ever just get the tor bundle – it is tor bundled with firefox https://www.torproject.org/download/ Is Tor essentially an NSA honeypot? in other words: is the NSA running a lot of (modified to their tracking […]

git is not only good for crowds of developers having to organize and sync “status quo” of the project over various devices, users also use it for version control of documents and various other files (anything where organized cooperation between […]

UEmacs is the editor/ide that is said to be the work and choice of Linus Torvalds (gnu linux kernel, THANK YOU FOR THE GNU LINUX KERNEL! THANKS!, THANKS MR STALLMAN FOR GCC THANKS! THANKS TO ALL INVOLVED!) UEmacs hostnamectl; # […]

this is why high quality journalism and education are sooooo important: trust is so important & journalism should be about truth and trust context: media outlets that use numbers out of context (do those numbers apply to the US, or […]

1984 mass surveillance: for a better world? as people might have noticed: privacy is survival critical when a state becomes tyranny. WARNING! violent and disturbing! but highly recommend to anyone to watch it – at least once – the “middle […]

https://theintercept.com/2020/04/03/zooms-encryption-is-not-suited-for-secrets-and-has-surprising-links-to-china-researchers-discover/ hm…. let me think where one has seen this before: TELEGRAM! Zoom’s service is “not suited for secrets” “The researchers also found that Zoom protects video and audio content using a home-grown encryption scheme, that there is a vulnerability […]

As with all hot debated topics: Linus Torvald’s “show me the source” in this case, the source of one’s informations (always give the source!) is IMPORTANT for the information’s credibility. It is absolutely vital in science to give all sources […]

this really raises the question: the mobile (complete computer) phone (number) as key to everything? is it a good idea to rely on smart phones (that are essentially a very small laptop and a cellular modem) and phone numbers to […]

either: or: Richard’s hardware: Libre booted (BIOS with Linux overwritten) Thinkpad T400s running Trisquel GNU/Linux OS. (src: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html) LibreBooting the BIOS? Yes! It is possible to overwrite the BIOS of some Lenovo laptops (why only some?) with a minimal version […]

imho: CentOS is a rock solid server operating system. Why is CentOS perfect for servers? a server (usually) is build for a specific purpose and should have as little software installed as possible (more software = more reliability, speed and […]

the tech guy in this video says: his “smart” APC UPS – “battery exploded and leaked all over the place” have two UPS here one from APC and one from EATON. and the EATON 5PX. EATON 5PX 2200 pros and […]

“first Benchmarks of the KX-6780A. China just developed it’s own x86 CPU with the performance of a Intel Core i7 2600 (4C/8T, 1,401 points) from 2011 the eight-core CPU-Z achieves 171 points in single-core and 1,396 points in Multi-Core comparison […]

The above video tutorial will show: how to prepare Debian GNU Linux USB Stick via Windows 7 and how to boot it. (different on every laptop, but F12, DEL and F2 should get one going) Setup of Debian 10 is […]

low and high quality tools: how to tell if a screwdriver is “low quality” (no matter what the label claims where it is from, everybody knows where such tools are produced): test: it can be bend by hand also look […]

what do you think about the CNBC documentary? 2012: Aalto Talk with Linus Torvalds: 1,5 Million Views! contains the famous “Fuck You NVIDIA” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MShbP3OpASA Linus Torvalds writes software since his early childhood ages and just loves programming. Without this love […]

Adding new fonts for all users To install fonts for all users for example the boring company font: https://www.futurafree.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/futura-bold.zip one need to login as root and create a directory under /usr/share/fonts/ # tested on hostnamectl Static hostname: centos.localdomain Chassis: laptop […]

Mozilla Firefox, Firefox Browser, or simply Firefox, is a free and open–source (src: Wikipedia) web browser developed by the Mozilla Foundation and its subsidiary, Mozilla Corporation. even when mozilla is (financially) having a tough time, security should be everyone’s top […]

cognitive disconnectedness between governments and science: the non-sustainability mess Let’s face it… the fossil fuel powered steam engine economy … once started… is very hard to stop or slow down. also or because of: “Scientists working on the issue have […]

“NSO Group had been exploiting a vulnerability in its software that allowed them to compromise a phone simply by targeting it with a voice call that planted malware on the device capable of silently stealing a victim’s messages. Now, in […]

“In the popular series of wireless keyboards Fujitsu LX390 found two dangerous vulnerabilities. According to researchers from the company SySS, exploitation of vulnerabilities allows nearby attackers to “spy” passwords entered on the keyboard, or even to seize control of the […]

what IT can learn from nature: (src) mostly US users affected. Big Business: Big Companies and Big Money can afford Big Staff to maintain and secure their products, but they also provide Big Infrastructure (AWS, Office) and thus a single […]

“Google controls about 62% of mobile browsers, 69% of desktop browsers, and the operating systems on 71% of mobile devices in the world. 92% of internet searches go through Google and 73% of American adults use YouTube. Google runs code […]

Phone in the cloud: “telephone system in the cloud” or “telephne system as software” is the “latest shit”. SipGate Basic (in English: https://www.sipgatebasic.co.uk/ / in German:  https://www.sipgatebasic.de/) gives one a local VoIP land line number. One can have: a virtual […]

RISC-V hardware would definitely recommend to support this project.: if one has little money: https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive1-rev-b ($60) with massive amounts of money… https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed ($1000) + https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expansion-board ($2000) one can even build one’s own risc-v pc: (one can only hope that mass production […]

look at this superb piece of Open Source software: … that is actually USED BY PEOPLE (like this one to write this article). unlike windows it comes with: life-time FREE UPDATES (!!!!!!!!!) a simple no f*****ing tiles design it comes […]