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Sunday November 30, 2025. 04:58 PM
The prizrak.me blog is carrying an introduction to the Landlock security module. Landlock shines when an application has a predictable set of files or directories it needs. For example, a web server could restrict itself to accessing only /var/www/html and /tmp. Unlike...
After a hard day downt pit, gaming, I like nowt better than to slip into the massive Mirai Human Washing Machine. Only paid ¥60 million for it and knew I had to have it the moment I visited the Experience Corner at Yamada's flagship store in Ikebukuro. — Read the rest The p...
Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing coalition government has seen Israel subjected to a horrific terrorist attack, retaliatory genocide in Gaza, recognition by key Western powers of a Palestinian state, and the total collapse of its international standing. A rarely-mentioned...
Just last year, Google lodged an antitrust complaint against Microsoft in the EU. Now, a week into the probe by investigators, Google has had a change of heart and has withdrawn the complaint. The 2024 complaint was filed by Google Cloud, with Microsoft accused of trying to...
Like death and taxes, ads are an inevitability. This is something that applies to the world of technology, but particularly anything even remotely connected to the internet. Proving the above, as well as the old adage that there is no such things as a free lunch, OpenAI is...
If you have suddenly found it more difficult to log into Windows 11, you should know that you are not alone. Microsoft has just confirmed that a recent update had the unwanted side effect of hiding the password sign-in option from the lock screen. This was not something that ...
Only a few weeks ago, the CHRP variants of Mac OS 7.6 and 8 were discovered and uploaded to the internet for posterity, but we’re already seeing the positive results of this event unfold: Mac OS 7.x can now run on the Mac Mini G4 – natively. The very short of it is as...
Double denim? Rookie numbers. On a good day, I can muster septuple denim: jeans, jacket, cap, boots, scarf, gloves and bag. But soon I shall have the unimaginable power of octuple denim at my disposal, thanks to Xiaomi's Poco F8 Ultra Denim smartphone. — Read the rest The po...
A fine example of whiplash in the news this morning: first, a negative-toned segment lamenting the increased prices of everything due to high tariffs. Then, a positive-toned segment exalting Black Friday spending being up 10 percent. The two segments exist in different...
Saturday November 29, 2025. 08:55 PM
Sir Tom Stoppard, the acclaimed playwright who authored Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and the screenwriter of Shakespeare in Love, Empire of the Sun and many other movies, is dead at 88. Born Tomáš Sträussler in Czechoslovakia before his family fled the Nazis and...
PC bits company Silverstone revived the beige plastic PC case in 2024 and is continuing this campaign with these handsome tower cases, out early next year. There's lots of hard-to-dust slit vents to trace gently with one's fingertips; oh my God, one of the models even a key. ...
The release 25.11 wraps up our year of “rigidity, clarity, performance” with a bouquet of vast under-the-hood improvements. Genode’s custom kernel received special tuning of its new CPU scheduler for Sculpt-OS workloads, and became much more scalable with respect to...
Friday November 28, 2025. 11:58 PM
Christie's expects the Winter egg, one of just seven of Peter Carl Fabergé's creations still in private hands, to sell for more than £20 million when it lands on the auction block Tuesday. The 10cm-tall egg is made from finely carved rock crystal, covered in a delicate...
During a Dell earnings call, the company mentioned some staggering numbers regarding the amount of PCs that will not or cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. “We have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven’t been upgraded,” said Dell COO...
My first computer suffered an economy found in early 8-bit machines with limited video memory: if you wanted lots of colors, you got less pixels, and a rational way to do that with the hardware back then was to make pixels twice as wide. — Read the rest The post Tiny pixel...
So my love for the Common Desktop Environment isn’t exactly a secret, so let’s talk about the project’s latest release, CDE 2.5.3, released a few days ago. As the version number suggests, this first new version in two years is a rather minor release, containing only a few...
Moss is a Unix-like, Linux-compatible kernel written in Rust and Aarch64 assembly. It features a modern, asynchronous core, a modular architecture abstraction layer, and binary compatibility with Linux userspace applications (currently capable of running most BusyBox...
I love solid-state drives (SSDs). For a guy who travels a lot, having one in my laptop instead of a spinning hard drive is such a relief. Outside of fireworks and unattended bags, nothing stresses me out faster than lifting a laptop that's slightly off level and hearing its...
Reponding to reports of a small dog tied to a post and abandoned on the roadside in Matlock, England, an officer from Derbyshire Police was surprised to instead find a toy there. This led to the issuance of the only good kind of police press release, the ones full of puns...
Another holiday, another chance to inflict Male Chef on those around me (including you, dear reader!). Never mind all those AI Thanksgiving dinners; this kind of wretchedness could only be crafted by human hands. The now-defunct 'Male Chef' blog was a long-running satirical...
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