Microsoft Is Testing a Built-In Cryptocurrency Wallet For the Edge Browser (source Slashdot).I strongly, strongly suggest everyone to avoid using this functionality because it is proprietary software. Not having the sources you can’t be sure what it really does. It can easily have a backdoor to let some external entities come in and raid (i.e.…
Author: Paolo Redaelli
Ethics, Faith
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Modern C replacements?
These days I was just wondering if anyone has compiled a list of “Modern C replacement” languages when Slashdot almost read my mind: Meet Zig: the Modern Alternative to the C Programming Language – Slashdot
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Replacing C
Do We Need a Replacement for C? I found this old draft that cites Zig programming language… time to undraft it… 🙂 C is a widely used language used to program anything from OS kernels to cryptography libraries. Is it time for a replacement? Erik EngheimNov 25, 2020·5 min read The C programming language is…
Good news
Scientists Discover Enzyme That Turns Air Into Electricity – Slashdot
It seems too good to be true. Let’s hope they will be able to tackle it somehow. Scientists Discover Enzyme That Turns Air Into Electricity – Slashdot Australian scientists have discovered an enzyme that converts air into energy. The finding, published in the journal Nature ….. the researchers extracted the enzyme responsible for using atmospheric…
Hardware, Proprietary hardware
HP Outrages Printer Users With Firmware Update Suddenly Bricking Third-Party Ink – Slashdot
HP Outrages Printer Users With Firmware Update Suddenly Bricking Third-Party Ink – Slashdot Dear HP, I’ve been a loyal customer but when reading such news I doubt I will want to buy another HP device. Let’s keep supporting Linux and other free-as-freedom operative systems and I will keep supporting you
Ethics, Privacy, Proprietary software
Of course, they don’t need it
WhatsApp Would Not Remove End-To-End Encryption For UK Law, Says Chief – wrote Slashdot Of course they would not remove it, they don’t need it! Governments have their own Meta-provided comfortable backdoor to WhatsApp. How can I be sure? I’m not, but being WhatsApp proprietary software it is pratically impossible to ensure there are no…
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Robert Parr
Games, GNU/Linux, Proprietary software, Videogames
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux
How to play Elite Dangerous on Linux Elite Dangerous is a space flight simulator game developed and published by Frontier Developments. In the game, the player takes control of the
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I’ve just read the interesing “Replace PowerDNS by Knot DNS and Knot Resolver+supervisor with DNSSEC, DNS over TLS and domain name spoofing” from ….
I didn’t knew KnotDNS. It may be a wiser choice than MaraDNS