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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
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[...]
Introduction With various forms of IM becoming so prevalent and a lot of communication that used to be via email happening via IM I’ve been thinking about the differences between[...]