Category: free software

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 […]

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 […]

Byte The term byte was coined by Werner Buchholz in June 1956,[4][13][14][b] during the early design phase for the IBM Stretch[15][16][1][13][14][17][18] computer, http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/text/IBM/Stretch/pdfs/Buchholz_102636426.pdf backup mirror: PLANNING A COMPUTER SYSTEM BROJECT STRETCH Buchholz Campbell_102636426.pdf which had addressing to the bit and […]

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 […]

ffmpeg / avconv is pretty nice. it can even do mp4 to gif conversion! 🙂 so what the user can do is: use SimpleScreenRecorder, to record a fixed rectangle of the screen to mp4 and then use ffmpeg / avconv […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

either: or: Richard’s hardware: “if we could not replace a machine’s operating system with a free one, we replaced the machine instead.” (src: https://www.gnu.org/gnu/thegnuproject.html) Libre booted (BIOS with Linux overwritten) Thinkpad T400s running Trisquel GNU/Linux OS. (src: https://stallman.org/stallman-computing.html) LibreBooting the […]

Update: 2020-02 added “geany” is there an ideal IDE for every task? Nope. Of course just as programming languages every IDE has their pros and cons. (build for a specific purpose? might serve other purposes also) There is not a […]

May The (Open) Source Be With You! this never get’s old ???????????  

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Update 2020-08: “Through the past five years of experimentation, I’ve gone from intrigued, to optimistic, to convinced that Rust is an ideal language to build industrial grade, bulletproof bare metal software. Beyond that, I’ve come to realize that even the […]

while not officially supported no drivers here: https://www.wacom.com/en-us/support/bamboo-support works out of the box on CentOS7/Rhel7, Kernel 4.15.9 THIS WORKS ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE 🙂 THANKS ALL INVOLVED! # what os do i have? hostnamectl Operating System: CentOS Linux 7 (Core) CPE OS […]

don’t be evil “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. […]

servers/clients/computers/programs/services/webservers need accurate time… they usually get it from time servers that have an atomic clock attached to their USB port. (just guessing) ping time.google.com PING time.google.com (216.239.35.4) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from time2.google.com (216.239.35.4): icmp_seq=1 ttl=46 time=43.5 […]

ONLY BUY FROM HARDWARE VENDORS THAT SUPPORT FREE & OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE! (release the sources for their drivers and documentation for their hardware) “Currently there are only a few modern wifi chipsets readily available that work with free software systems. […]

update: 2020-05 for whatever reason the following SSHDroid app does not work anymore. please checkout the even easier to use (default port: 2222) and setup: SimpleSSHD (Easy to use SSH server) – https://f-droid.org/app/org.galexander.sshd # start the ssh server app # […]

scroll down for ENGLISH: ) OMG! Da die IT von Baltimore sich einen Ransome-Virus eingefangen hat, können die Bürger ihre Steuern und ihre Blitzer-Tickets nicht zahlen! Wunderbar! 🙂 Mit welchem Aufwand man rechnen muss, wenn man sich von der Digitalisierung […]

google’s security lab “project zero“ has made itself a name. (you can subscribe to their rss feed with thunderbird.) Posted by Ben Hawkes, Project Zero (team lead) (2019-05-15) Project Zero’s team mission is to “make zero-day hard”, i.e. to make […]

update: 2021-01 “the best (most privacy & security & usability) Smart Phone solution” is yet to be found (PinePhone (yet untested) comes close) and it would be like: runs standard unmodified GNU Linux kernel 100% open source drivers comes with […]

RSS-Feeds are files.xml, which are auto-generated by CMS like WordPress. It can be subscribed to with an RSS-Client Software. Thunderbird (the Mail program) for example (tested on version 60.6.4 and above) has a pretty convenient functionality to stay up to […]

CentOS8: ccze author not willing to maintain ccze. no ccze and not even lnav available. how to monitor all logs… https://dwaves.de/2017/06/15/linux-monitor-all-logs-in-real-time-d-follow-all-show-changes-to-log-files-under-varlog/ as i was wondering what combination of less -R with or without ccze would allow me to view log […]

what is epel?: Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux “EPEL (Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux) is a volunteer-based community effort from the Fedora project to create a repository of high-quality add-on packages that complement the Fedora-based Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) […]

in comparison to Y2K: “The issue became when it became 2000 because that would be stored as 00 in the program. This caused many to believe that say, bank software wouldn’t be able to get your money out because it […]

Thanks! thanks to all the contributors of open source soft- and hardware and people that share their knowledge online for free 🙂 i hope/think that better technology could possibly also change humans to the better… freely sharing information surely does […]

Why the EU hates facebook? Captured states – e-Privacy Regulation victim of a “lobby onslaught” The politicians there are afraid that facebook can be used against them – and “Steve Bannon’s bold plan to start a populist revolution in Europe” is […]