Okay, this will be of interest to a VERY SMALL number of people. But over on LinkedIn, someone with a perverse interest in ancient history (hi Tim) asked if I still had copies of some UI design documents that I did for the now-defunct compositing package Shake. So, see below for … | Continue reading
Just a short post appreciating the usefulness of SSHFS | Continue reading
So if you ever edit the name of your ROM files you might run into some problems in your Miyoo Mini's Activity Tracker App, here's how I fixed it! | Continue reading
A new attack dubbed "TunnelVision" can route traffic outside a VPN's encryption tunnel, allowing attackers to snoop on unencrypted traffic while maintaining the appearance of a secure VPN connection. [...] | Continue reading
Google is adding a new feature to Google Chrome that allows publishers to add video chapters to videos embedded on websites, similar to how chapters work on YouTube. [...] | Continue reading
In today’s installment of things you already know, unless you don’t, did you know you can use the -p option to create multiple levels of subdirectories at once, even if the intermediate directories don’t exist? For example, say you want to make this new tree for a new FreeBSD box … | Continue reading
I had to run curl(1) recently for some automated tests, which needed cookies for authentication. I could export these manually from a logged-in session in Firefox, but I wanted something easier. cookies.txt puts an icon in your toolbar, and gives you the option to export all cook … | Continue reading
Google has rolled back a recent release of its reCaptcha captcha script after a bug caused the service to no longer work on Firefox for Windows. [...] | Continue reading
Poor VMware. I refer to them as the Brussels sprout of enterprise IT; constantly shifted around the plate between new owners, never seeming to land anywhere good. Their current owners Broadcom haven’t exactly endeared themselves to the industry or their customers, as any quick we … | Continue reading
Telegram users are currently experiencing issues worldwide, with users unable to use the website and mobile apps. [...] | Continue reading
In February last year I wrote about running a FreeBSD desktop, and concluded that sometimes you need to give yourself permission to tinker. Well recently I’ve started tinkering with Alpine Linux! It’s been recommended to me for years, so I’m finally getting around to checking it … | Continue reading
I’ve been watching the current debate over memory-safe programming with interest. On the one have you have Rust and Go advocates talking about the need to replace C with its buffer overflows and other security problems, and on the other you have different fingers. And people say … | Continue reading
Sorting is one of those classic Dunning-Kruger topics in information science: you think it’s easy, until you start uni and learn how to implement it. Sorting algorithms vary in complexity, efficiency, and speed, and are optimised for different data sets, structures, and systems. … | Continue reading
Medium is banning AI-generated content from its paid Partner program, notifying users that the new policy goes into effect on May 1, 2024. [...] | Continue reading
We’re well into the wrong decade for these Antipixel-style 80x15 website buttons. But they’re delightful, and I’ve started including them in my blog theme and their own page again. We have a few different ones for the various BSD operating systems, but there wasn’t one for ZFS. S … | Continue reading
Hi! My name is Ruben Schade, and I’m a solution architect for an indie cloud company who mostly runs Linux, but tries to use FreeBSD and NetBSD where he can. This is my story. LAW AND ORDER DUN DUN The post Yesterday I saw the news that Microsoft will be including ads in an upcom … | Continue reading
DuckDuckGo has launched a new paid-for 3-in-1 subscription service called 'Privacy Pro,' which includes a virtual private network (VPN), a personal data removal service, and an identity theft restoration solution. [...] | Continue reading
It’s funny that I field almost as many sysadmin questions about Minecraft than I do BSDs thesedays. Even Minecraft on BSD! This post addresses the most common question after running Minecraft on FreeBSD, and on NetBSD. I’ll assume here that you have a functional server, and know … | Continue reading
For a company that shot to success on the back of an algorithm that made it easy for ordinary people to find what they need online, Google has done an extraordinary job of turning their search engine into hot garbage. And make no mistake - Google utterly dominates search. Sure, w … | Continue reading
Windows 11 24H2 is set to arrive on existing devices this fall with several new features, mostly Copilot-related improvements. [...] | Continue reading
I had a dream a few nights ago in which an ice cream vendor asked me which SAS backplane I needed. Before I had time to answer, he’d already connected the cone to a 2U server somehow, and the ice cream starting shorting things and blowing up circuits, which I then had to explain … | Continue reading
I haven’t seen this many spooked infosec engineers since Spectre. I was on leave when the news broke, but many of the same lessons the industry didn’t take to heart during the OpenSSL debacle have resurfaced. Namely, the security risks posed by: Small, overworked, underpaid, unde … | Continue reading
The last few times Clara and I have been on trips I’ve copied our Minecraft server to one of our laptops, and shared the address with the other machine. It works, but we always run tight on memory. I also need excuses to deploy and tinker with new things like… someone who doesn’t … | Continue reading
If you write or edit for a living, it can be worse than embarrassing when you mess up your sentence structure, repeat words, or misplace your punctation in a paragraph. In this writer's day job as an editor at SlashGear, it's the kind of thing that could probably result in a care … | Continue reading
U.S. users have just a few more days to make the transition from Google Podcasts as the company moves forward with the process of discontinuing the service globally. [...] | Continue reading
I’ve recently joined the video editing team at Trans Academy, and that team has standardized on DaVinci Resolve for all editing. Since I’ve been coming up on the limitations of Final Cut Pro for quite some time I figured I’d finally give it a try, and since I’m working on finishi … | Continue reading
CISA and the FBI urged executives of technology manufacturing companies to prompt formal reviews of their organizations' software and implement mitigations to eliminate SQL injection (SQLi) security vulnerabilities before shipping. [...] | Continue reading
Google's new AI-powered 'Search Generative Experience' algorithms recommend scam sites that redirect visitors to unwanted Chrome extensions, fake iPhone giveaways, browser spam subscriptions, and tech support scams. [...] | Continue reading
Peter Hannam in The Guardian Australia: The CEO and director of the Bureau of Meteorology, Andrew Johnson, revealed to staff the cost of its delayed IT overhaul – one of Australia’s most expensive ever – despite repeatedly telling senators such details must be kept under wraps fo … | Continue reading
A sixth Release Candidate of my other favourite OS was made available on the 12th of March. From the NetBSD blog: RC6 fixes a few issues with the new named/bind imported for RC5 plus several minor issues. If you want to test 10.0 RC6 please check the installation notes for your a … | Continue reading
On the first day of Pwn2Own Vancouver 2024, contestants demoed Windows 11, Tesla, and Ubuntu Linux zero-day vulnerabilities and exploit chains to win $732,500 and a Tesla Model 3 car. [...] | Continue reading
GitHub introduced a new AI-powered feature capable of speeding up vulnerability fixes while coding. This feature is in public beta and automatically enabled on all private repositories for GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS) customers [...] | Continue reading
I started looking at aerc, a new Terminal mail client, in around 2019. At that time it was promising, but ultimately not ready yet for me, so I put it away and went back to neomutt which I have been using (in one form or another) all century. These days, I use neomutt as an IMAP … | Continue reading
There’s something so delightful/silly/pointless about using a wood theme in a browser. The material is making a comeback in so much interior design and architecutre, why not lend a bit of texture to your browser too? The one I’m currently using is HORIZONTAL wood by bloochiz12, w … | Continue reading
Buzzy Explores the Airport is still such a fun game after all these years. You arrive at this virtual airport where you can wander around, see the luggage being sorted, board an aeroplane, and click everything in sight. It even runs on ScummVM on modern hardware. The game is full … | Continue reading
Posts&Notes&Threads&Chats A few people have asked recently why I don’t post any “Notes” on Substack from This Week in Sound, my newsletter. “Notes” are a feature of Substack, the tool I currently use to publish This Week in Sound. I moved my newsletter over from TinyLetter after … | Continue reading
Tuta Mail has announced TutaCrypt, a new post-quantum encryption protocol to secure communications from powerful and anticipated decryption attacks. [...] | Continue reading
I love (abusing) the term Litmus Test as a metaphor for evaluating reactions in other contexts. Though technically my favourite indicator in chemistry was Bromothymol Blue, to the point where I did one of my papers on it, and even nearly named this blog for it in 2004! I still re … | Continue reading
I do this manually at the end of each week: collating (and sometimes lightly editing) most of the recent little comments I’ve made on social media, which I think of as my public scratch pad. Some end up on Disquiet.com earlier, sometimes in expanded form. These days I mostly hang … | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #216. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pelo blog. NYJavaSIG … | Continue reading
There’s a new editor on the block with a familiar name: Zed is a high-performance, multiplayer code editor from the creators of Atom and Tree-sitter. It’s also open source. Zed efficiently leverages every CPU core and your GPU to start instantly, load files in a blink, and respon … | Continue reading
The word exciting is overused thesedays, thanks to unimaginative marketing executives and chatbots. But NetBSD 10.0 is exciting. I remember talking with some of the devs about it at AsiaBSDCon in 2019. I spun up some arm64 and amd64 QEMU builds on my work machine while sitting at … | Continue reading
Report: Linux was on 6.34 percent of computers last month if you count ChromeOS. | Continue reading
Facebook and Instagram users around the world are having trouble getting on these sites right now. [...] | Continue reading
A few years ago I’d come back from a trip with Clara to Hong Kong and Ōsaka, like a gentleman. It was my first trip to both Hong Kong and Japan, and still consider it one of the most special trips we’ve ever taken. But I digress. I tapped my Opal card at the Sydney airport upon o … | Continue reading
Fortunately, on that day, I allowed a strong, simple idea to penetrate my big, beautiful wall of assumptions. The post “Where the people are” appeared first on Zeldman on Web and Interaction Design. | Continue reading
Welcome to the weekend reading list, edition #215. If you want to see your article here, reach out to me on Twitter/X or the blog.Você tem sugestão de artigos em Português? Gostaria de ver seu artigo divulgado aqui no blog? Envie sua sugestão pelo Twitter ou pelo blog. NYJavaSIG … | Continue reading
Citrix and Sophos products have been impacted by leap year flaws, leading to unexpected problems in their products. [...] | Continue reading