Links November 2021Links November 2021
The Guardian has an amusing article by Sophie Elmhirst about Libertarians buying a cruise ship to make a “seasteading” project off the coast of Panama [1]. It turns out that[...]
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Your Device Has Been ImprovedYour Device Has Been Improved
I’ve just started a Samsung tablet downloading a 770MB update, the description says: Overall stability of your device has been improved The security of your device has been improved Technically[...]
Installing NextCloudInstalling NextCloud
NextCloud and OwnCloud History Some time ago I tried OwnCloud, it wasn’t a positive experience for me. Since that time I’ve got a server with a much faster CPU, a[...]
USB MicrophonesUSB Microphones
The Situation I bought myself some USB microphones over ebay, I couldn’t see any with USB type A connectors (the original USB connectors) and bought ones with USB-C connectors. I[...]
Talking to CriminalsTalking to Criminals
I think most people and everyone who reads my blog is familiar with the phone support scams that are common nowadays. There’s the “we are Microsoft support and have found[...]
Links October 2021Links October 2021
Bloomburg has an insightful article about Juniper, the NSA, and the compromise of Netscreen [1]. It was worse than we previously thought and the Chinese government was involved. Haaretz has[...]
Strange Apache Reload IssueStrange Apache Reload Issue
I recently had to renew the SSL certificate for my web server, nothing exciting about that but Certbot created a new directory for the key because I had removed some[...]
Getting Started With KaliGetting Started With Kali
Kali is a Debian based distribution aimed at penetration testing. I haven’t felt a need to use it in the past because Debian has packages for all the scanning tools[...]
Links September 2021Links September 2021
Matthew Garrett wrote an interesting and insightful blog post about the license of software developed or co-developed by machine-learning systems [1]. One of his main points is that people in[...]
Oracle Cloud Free TierOracle Cloud Free Tier
It seems that every cloud service of note has a free tier nowadays and the Oracle Cloud is the latest that I’ve discovered (thanks to r/homelab which I highly recommend[...]