Tower Servers and Resizable BARTower Servers and Resizable BAR
A feature on modern PCIe implementations is “Resizable BAR” AKA “REBAR”. This basically means that instead of allocating 256MB of address space for a PCIe device to have it’s memory[...]
Copy Fail on Debian and SE LinuxCopy Fail on Debian and SE Linux
I have just learned of the Copy Fail kernel vulnerability [1] thanks to alexanderkjall@mastodon.social (who I have just followed on Mastodon and I recommend that you follow too). The question[...]
Links April 2026Links April 2026
Charles Stross wrote an interesting blog post about the apparent desire of super rich people to kill the poor, it seems that the people in power want to make all[...]
More About Ebook Readers in DebianMore About Ebook Readers in Debian
FBReader After my previous blog post about eBook readers in Debian [1] a reader recommended FBReader. I tried it and it’s now my favourite reader. It works nicely on laptop[...]
Home BatteryHome Battery
Prices On the 19th of March I got a home battery system installed. The government has a rebate scheme so it had a list price of about $22k for a[...]
Furilabs FLX1s Finally WorkingFurilabs FLX1s Finally Working
I’ve been using the Furilabs FLX1s phone [1] as my daily driver for 6 weeks, it’s a decent phone, not as good as I hoped but good enough to use[...]
HP Z640 and E5-2696 v4HP Z640 and E5-2696 v4
I recently decided to upgrade the CPU in my workstation, the E5-2696 v3 CPU was OK (passmark 2045 for single thread and 21,380 for multi thread) [1] but I felt[...]
Ebook Readers in DebianEbook Readers in Debian
Laptop For a while I’ve been using Calibre 8.5.0+ds-1+deb13u1 in Debian/Trixie running KDE for reading ebooks on my laptop, it generally works well and has a large font size. The[...]
Communication and Hostile AIsCommunication and Hostile AIs
We seem to be entering an “AI” apocalypse of sorts, they aren’t going to kill us or even take our jobs. What they are doing is destroying the Internet commons[...]
The Death of TwitterThe Death of Twitter
At the end of last year I uninstalled the Twitter app on my phone. In the past Twitter used to be very useful for providing feedback to large organisations. I[...]