Links March 2025Links 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[...]
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Article Recommendations via FOSSArticle 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[...]
8k Video Cards8k 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[...]
Links February 2025Links 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[...]
Browser ChoiceBrowser 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[...]
Links January 2025Links 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[...]
Systemd Hardening and Sending MailSystemd 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[...]
Links December 2024Links 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[...]
Hisense 65U80G 65″ Inch 8K ULED Android TV (2021)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[...]
OnePlus 6 DebianOnePlus 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,[...]