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.…
Category: Software
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…
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
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Miniscule cross-platform eventing, networking & crypto for async applications
Proprietary software, Software Libero, Wordpress
wpOS, how do they cope with GPL?
wpOS – WordPress dashboard replacement that changes everything. From their website it looks like any other proprietary software. But I do know that WordPress is licensed under General Public License, so this wpOS -which is patently a WordPress plugin – must abide to the GPL. I just wonder how they comply.
Proprietary software, Software
How to join a Linux system to an Active Directory domain
Do you need to centrally manage Linux systems and user accounts under an Active Directory domain? Here’s how to do it. Source: How to join a Linux system to an Active Directory domain
Debian, Proprietary software
Firmware – Debian Wiki
The Debian project has taken the decision in 2022-10 to create a new repository component non-free-firmware, and include its content on installation media for the upcoming Debian release bookworm to make things easier for our users. From Firmware – Debian Wiki So people like me that installed Debian several years ago keeping it updated shall…
Software, Software Libero, Web
Browsh and Carbonyl, the return of the terminal browser
I can’t believe I haven’t made a post about Browsh, Someone had to make a similar feat using Chromium, creating carbonyl, Chromium running inside your terminal Carbonyl is a Chromium based browser built to run in a terminal. Read the blog post. It supports pretty much all Web APIs including WebGL, WebGPU, audio and video…
Android, Android, Proprietary software, Smartphones
Ottima notizia
WhatsApp smetterà di funzionare il 31 dicembre 2022 su molti telefoni datati Sono i modelli più vecchi che perdono la compatibilità con l’app di messaggistica a causa della vetustà del sistema operativo non più aggiornato. E questa è un’ottima notizia! Magari qualcuno passerà a Telegram o Signal Tuttavia è un pezzo che non vedo più…