Apple wants to become the new Google: BigBadBoldBigDataMothership as a once proud Apple user… (yes GNU Linux Debian 10 actually runs pretty well on the Intel-Macbook-Pros) yes they are beautiful spies… Pure Beauty & Nostalgia: Apple Macbook Pro 9,2 (A1278) […]
long story… having had various frustrating experiences with the topic: TV + PC (even tried a cheap DreamBox 520 HD from eBay… which are probably good devices, but this one turned out to be faulty/unstable) now… in 2021… finally happy […]
the story goes like this. multiple files were zipped under Windows 7 (Pro German/DE) and unzipped under GNU Linux Debian 10. The problem is: that the special chars of the filenames are all reported as “invalid encoding” (within the MATE […]
I once asked Rupert Murdoch why he was so opposed to the European Union. ‘That’s easy,’ he replied. ‘When I go into Downing Street they do what I say; when I go to Brussels they take no notice.’ https://www.indy100.com/people/this-terrifying-rupert-murdoch-quote-is-possibly-the-best-reason-to-stay-in-the-eu-yet-7291931 src […]
can it run GNU Linux Debian 10 (64Bit)? yes it can! what used to be aWindows XP box is now running very latest FREE version Debian, thus allowing to run latest Firefox and latest Thunderbird 🙂 (to stay up to […]
LED in PKW ab Werk = ALLES OK LED NACHRÜSTUNG = NICHT OK d.h. keinesfalls die LED Lampen für 30€ kaufen! Weil: vom Gesetzgeber nicht zugelassen (d.h. Verlust der Zulassung) Also: d.h. einfach https://www.amazon.de/Osram-ORIGINAL-Sonderlampe-7528-01B-Doppelblister/dp/B002QZZ0V6/ die einfachen für 1,74 € rein […]
computers are no way perfect: the rise of the machines: who is scared of killer robots? who is scared of doctors, judges and police blindly trusting in AI and computer output? “we are driving in (heavy) rain right now with […]
roof dish and fast sat internet for 100 Bucks a month, (500 Bucks for hardware) nice… but will there be phones that can operate with the StarLink satellites? YES! check this out: “A new SpaceX filing outlines plans for Starlink […]
self made Flat Roof mount: 25kg Steel Plate hope it will survive the next storm… (maybe need to place additional weight on it) How to get StarLink Support: only via the iOS and Android App update: now starlink support is […]
one tweet against Google… and the user’s Twitter account could look like… all user’s Google accounts will be blocked which could mean that an Android device (which is basically GNU Linux adapted by Google for mobile 1984 surveillance evilness) could […]
SecurityLab, [22.12.20 10:00] Google has explained the reasons for the massive failure of its services that took place last week. Recall that on December 14 of this year, users around the world for 47 minutes could not access Gmail, YouTube […]
v1.2 v1 especially in those lock down corona pandemic isolation times… users want to share family pictures to stay in touch. but how to share them in a non-privacy intrusive way? probably it would be best (of course) to […]
to recover the data: how to mount luks2 encrypted volume possibility: remove harddisk, attach to sata2usb adapter, then mount on different machine like this: # unlock encrypted harddisk udisksctl unlock -b /dev/sdb5 udisksctl mount -b /dev/mapper/ubuntu–vg-root Mounted /dev/dm-1 at /media/dpm/e8cf82c0-f0a3-41b3-ab28-1f9d23fcfa72 […]
“Better Than Nothing” Starlink-Beta started across the US & Canada Starlink: amazing but and also a bit “crazy” “On 15 October 2019, the United States Federal Communications Commission submitted filings to the International Telecommunication Union on SpaceX’s behalf to […]
Bitcoin’s annual electricity consumption adds up to 45.8 TWh (45.800.000.000 kWh) The corresponding annual carbon emissions range from 22.0 to 22.9 MtCO2 This level sits between the levels produced by the nations of Jordan and Sri Lanka src: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2542435119302557 a […]
mocp –version This is : Music On Console Version : 2.6-alpha3 Built : Nov 27 2016 10:55:04 Compiled with : OSS ALSA JACK DEBUG Network streams resample Running on : Linux 4.9.0-13-amd64 x86_64 Author : Damian Pietras Homepage : http://moc.daper.net/ […]
JavaScript can compromise the user’s network devices! pretty evil are devices/routers with security problems, that can be exploited from javascript. so basically opening a webpage with a browser that has javascript enabled (which most browsers have) might scan the user’s […]
finally summer and climate change have both reached Europe and had several weeks of 30 C straight… without ventilation, anything above 30 is just “too much to think” (so maybe the brain CPU also would need active cooling?) of course […]
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: “be careful what you reveal to your friend” (the internet) https://irlpodcast.org/season4/episode5/ data google tries to collect from users: (it is probably only the tip of the iceberg) what if – instead of security – Google […]
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 was initially written by Linus Torvalds on the idea: how to create source code management system that does not suck. source code management is very useful when the developer team is larger than > 1 developer. it allows fast […]
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 […]
this age of mass surveillance… … who is observing “the observers”? probably THE most important film, that every school kid (of the age of 16) should have seen (highly recommend to cut out the violent scenes) 1984 mass surveillance: for […]
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 […]