Category: Non-Free-Hardware

Let me be frank. Once upon the time, was a Windows user. Then was happy to have to use OSX for a transition to GNU Linux. But once on GNU Linux (Debian) do not miss neither Windows nor OSX at […]

currently wrestling with a LTE modem, that used to work under Ubuntu, but refuses to work under Debian 11. while true; do echo “=== show modem status:”; mmcli -m 1|grep -e model -e primary -e state -e signal; echo -e […]

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 […]

inxi – Command line system information script for console and IRC DESCRIPTION It is also used a debugging tool for forum technical support to quickly ascertain users’ system configurations and hardware. inxi shows system hardware, CPU, drivers, Xorg, Desktop, Kernel, […]

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 […]

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 […]

the specs CPU Allwinner A20,32 Bit Cortex™-A7 2-Core 1G GPU ARM® Mali400MP2 -> get the GPU going SDRAM 1GB DDR3 (shared with GPU) 432Mhz Storage “SD Card up to 64GB (SDXC) 1 SATA up to 2TB “ Network 4x Gigabit […]

in short: humans per default, without an education might just be “better” apes. Some parts of mankind behave very primitive and clearly show no signs of higher intelligence or education. The troubles start, when the tools become more and more […]

Apple wants to become the new Google: BigBadBoldBigDataMothership why more developers should chose GPL to publish programs: 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… […]

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 […]

All SmartPhones are spies! that’s why Merkel keeps the Nokia from 1995 (even if that device is spied on as well, because it can not end2end encrypt sms or phone calls (*FAIL*! X-D)) Putin does not have a mobile phone […]

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 […]

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. […]

the similarity is startling. They could be clones! (they probably are) except: D-Link is from Taiwan (still not China) and TP-Link is from Shenzen China bought recently 3x of the TP-Link 108 and can confirm they are doing a great […]

EDIMAX EW-7612UAn V2 THE ONLY (?) GNU Linux WIFI WLAN Adapter that works OUT OF THE BOX on all GNU Linux systems (ODROID RASPBERRY AND Desktop GNU Linux) different sizes… different standards… every year? why? it is hard to find […]

“The cost to companies from malware and “malicious insider”-related cyberattacks jumped +12 percent in 2018 and accounted for one-third of all cyberattack costs, according to new research published today by Accenture and the Ponemon Institute.” src: helpnetsecurity.com logical consequence: stop […]

https://youtu.be/70Blz9hyAz8 https://devtube.dev-wiki.de/videos/watch/f979469f-5fd1-4c40-a8c4-706c20c001f7 While “backdoors” in hardware sound like a good idea… you don’t know how hackers are using it to sabotage infrastructure or extort bitcoins of another country’s companies… see “backdoor in cisco router“. IT IS F**** DANGEROUS! ESPECIALLY if […]

“Thank you” i feel much safer now, that you know EVERYTHING about me, you, everybody. it is about influencing and directing the masses like a herd of cattle. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Room_641A Room 641A is a telecommunication interception facility in the SBC Communications […]

Solar Panel 100W (12V?) and Battery Charger (12V) https://www.offgridtec.com/en/complete-systems/solar-system-autarkic/offgridtec-solar-bausatz-basic-starter-100-watt-12v.html Solar Panel Module Voltage: (Vmp) 17,6V Victron BlueSolar PWM-Light 12V 24V 10A -> DataSheed Maximum solar voltage: 28V possible alternative: Steca Solsum 8.8F 12Vor better: Steca-LCD-Display-PR-2020 12V -> 5V Car USB […]

  one was running CyanogenMod “Beanstalk” on Samsung Galaxy S3 (i9300) for the last 2-3 years and it worked pretty well, but after a while (and a lot of Apps) it becomes unreliable/unstable. (but that is with all systems that […]

Update: 2024 unfortunately also some ARM CPUs are affected by Spectre v1 and v2. Update: 2020.03 “The newly developed Rowhammer- attack TRRespass can crack the RAM-a security mechanism by many DDR4-DRAM-modules as well as LPDDR4 Chips. Until now, these were […]

what to do to improve online privacy? use a privacy respecting DNS server by https://www.opennic.org/ for example: 195.10.195.195 (not google’s (8.8.8.8)) use Freifunk use a VPN such as: mullvad VPN https://mullvad.net/en/help/pricing-discounts/ https://mullvad.net/en/check/ Mozilla launched it’s own VPN service https://vpn.mozilla.org/ use tor […]

2018-04: RISC-V CPUs not affected by spectre & meltdown “No announced RISC-V silicon is susceptible, and the popular open-source RISC-V Rocket processor is unaffected as it does not perform memory accesses speculatively.” (2018-01-05 src) “If you’re selling an IoT sensor […]

to protect users’s privacy: NEVER GIVE IT YOUR WIFI PASSWORD! pros: integrates well with linux (plug into usb behaves like flashdrive) very power efficient reader cons: like Alexa, it’s a spying machine The kindle’s battery lasts very long up to […]

this script will have to be run as root. it will ask the user, if the user is satisfied with linux running on this hardware, can even give a comment, then it tries to detect the model of one’s motherboard, […]

It is actually a scandal that the world depends on chips and operating systems – that are designed to do mass-surveillance – it seems – in order to build up a world-wide-dictatorship that no-one can escape… by information and money. […]

NO PANIC! as the user might know a kernel-panic is just as bad as a human-panic, yes supply chain attacks are bad… very bad… as can be seen with the SolarWinds(hacked)->product for Network management used by many Top100 companies including […]

XMPP: https://www.vultr.com/docs/how-to-setup-an-openfire-xmpp-server-on-centos-7 https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-install-ejabberd-xmpp-server-on-ubuntu Project Name Platforms Apache Vysper Linux / Windows AstraChat Linux / macOS / Solaris / Windows ejabberd Linux / macOS / Windows IoT Broker Windows Isode M-Link Linux / Windows jackal Linux / macOS Metronome IM Linux […]