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Links March 2025

Anarcat’s review of Fish is interesting and shows some benefits I hadn’t previously realised, I’ll have to try it out [1].

Longnow has an insightful article about religion and magic mushrooms [2].

Brian Krebs wrote an informative artivle about DOGE and the many security problems that it has caused to the US government [3].

Techdirt […]

Article Recommendations via FOSS

Google tracking everything we read is bad, particularly since Google abandoned the “don’t be evil” plan and are presumably open to being somewhat evil.

The article recommendations on Chrome on Android are useful and I’d like to be able to get the same quality of recommendations without Google knowing about everything I read. Ideally without […]

8k Video Cards

I previously blogged about getting an 8K TV [1]. Now I’m working on getting 8K video out for a computer that talks to it. I borrowed an NVidia RTX A2000 card which according to it’s specs can do 8K [2] with a mini-DisplayPort to HDMI cable rated at 8K but on both Windows and Linux […]

Links February 2025

Oliver Lindburg wrote an interesting article about Designing for Crisis [1].

Bruce Schneier blogged about how to cryptographically identify other humans in advance of AT technology allowing faking people you know [2].

Anarcat has an interesting review of qalc which is a really good calculator, I’ll install it on all my workstations [3]. It even […]

Browser Choice

Browser Choice and Security Support

Google seems to be more into tracking web users and generally becoming hostile to users [1]. So using a browser other than Chrome seems like a good idea. The problem is the lack of browsers with security support. It seems that the only browser engines with the quality of security […]

Links January 2025

Aaron Quigley’s Everything Open lecture about Intelligent Interfaces is one of the most interesting research reports I’ve seen in a long time [1]. This one can be understood and appreciated by people who don’t have a strong background in computer science.

Statites (satellites that don’t orbit the sun but use solar sails to hover in […]

Systemd Hardening and Sending Mail

A feature of systemd is the ability to reduce the access that daemons have to the system. The restrictions include access to certain directories, system calls, capabilities, and more. The systemd.exec(5) man page describes them all [1]. To see an overview of the security of daemons run “systemd-analyze security” and to get details of one […]

Links December 2024

Interesting video about the hack of Andrew Tate’s The Real World site [1].

Informative video about Nick Fuentes covering the racism, anti-semitism, misogyny, and how he is clearly in denial about being gay [2]. It ends with his arrest. Hopefully the first of many arrests. This is what conservatives support.

Insightful article covering the history […]

Hisense 65U80G 65″ Inch 8K ULED Android TV (2021)

The Aim

I just bought a Hisense 65U80G 65″ Inch 8K ULED Android TV (2021 model) for $1,568 including delivery. I got that deal by googling refurbished 8K TVs and finding the cheapest one I could buy. Amazon and eBay didn’t have any good prices on second hand 8K TVs and new ones start at […]

OnePlus 6 Debian

I recently got a OnePlus 6 for the purpose of running Debian, here’s the Debian wiki page about it [1]. It runs Debian nicely and the basic functions all work, but the problem I’m having now is that AldiMobile (Telstra) and KoganMobile (Vodafone) don’t enable VoLTE for that and all the Australian telcos have turned […]