Links August 2026Links August 2026
This YouTube video about the Cashier Girl Meme is interesting in the context of AI systems that generate images of people and can communicate with people, hotter than any real[...]
Hacked by ChinafansHacked by Chinafans
What Happened On 2026/08/10 at 2:11 am Australian eastern standard time (2026/08/09 16:11 UTC) someone created a post titled “Hacked by Chinafans” on my documents blog [1]. The person in[...]
AMD Video Drivers, LLMs, and Debian KernelsAMD Video Drivers, LLMs, and Debian Kernels
The AMD GPU Problem For a while I’ve been having issues with AMD GPUs, video locking up periodically. I blogged about this late last year but I first had noticeable[...]
TV Control etcTV Control etc
In 2008 I wrote a blog post “The Problem is Too Many Remote Controls” [1] about the issues of controlling a TV and related things. It recently got some comments[...]
Monitors for WorkMonitors for Work
The Corporate Monitor Issue Some time ago I worked in the IT department of a company that had a corporate standard of two 27″ FUllHD (either 1920*1080 or 1920*1200) monitors[...]
Packet Edit Meme and Debian SE LinuxPacket Edit Meme and Debian SE Linux
There’s yet another Linux kernel exploit based on container functions, here’s the result when run as user_t on a SE Linux system: $ ./packet_edit_meme [*] target /bin/su as uid 1000;[...]
Links July 2026Links July 2026
Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders wrote a disturbing and informative article about the use of AI by the US government [1]. Bruce Schneier wrote an interesting blog post about[...]
Systemd LingerSystemd Linger
Killing Processes One of the features of systemd that is most controversial is the option to kill user processes when the user logs out. That initially killed screen/tmux/nohup processes too.[...]
Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 AgainThinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 Again
My Current Thinkpad In 2018 I reviewed a Thinkpad X1 Carbon Gen6 that was assigned to me for work [1]. In April last year I wrote about the failings of[...]
ECC and DDR5ECC and DDR5
Hamming Codes ECC RAM corrects errors that occur in memory before it gets to the CPU. The most common form of ECC is the Hamming Code [1] which when it[...]