https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-buy-the-right-laptop-for-you excerpt: BUYING A LAPTOP is an exercise in confusion. Even if you know what everything means and know exactly what you want, finding it can be difficult. Heck, just navigating the manufacturers’ websites to locate the model you want is frustrating. We hope this guide will help you navigate the morass of modern laptops. Below […]
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A cybersecurity firm has issued another unofficial patch to squash a bug in Windows that Microsoft has yet to fix, with this hole being actively exploited to spread ransomware. Rewind to October 17, and Acros Security released a small binary patch to address a flaw in Microsoft’s Mark-of-the-Web (MotW) feature. This feature is supposed to set a […]
Progress in adapting a small AM/FM radio for Arduino control. The internal MCU communicates with the AKC6951 chip via I2C. Here is documented the wiring of how to tap into this communication channel, and show the communication on an oscilloscope. I will first be using an ATTiny85 because it can do I2C no problem. Down […]
source: https://www.wired.com/story/student-monitoring-software-privacy-in-schools/ The high school teachers see the desktop when they open GoGuardian, a popular software application used to monitor student activity: The interface is familiar, like the gallery view of a large Zoom call. But instead of seeing teenaged faces in each frame, the teacher sees thumbnail images showing the screens of each student’s laptop. […]
And It’s Getting Worse For me, who has to support customers who install Windows 11, this is my daily nightmare, and that just rolls down to the users. Think about it. If I can’t support my users, the solution to every issue is like Apple’s philosophy: BUY A NEW ONE. It’s 18 minutes, and you […]
link: https://wgntv.com/news/google-warns-chrome-users-browser-has-been-hacked/ (NewsNation) — If you use Google Chrome as an internet browser, beware: Your information could be compromised. Google issued an alert warning billions of Chrome users that the browser has been successfully targeted by hackers, and listed 30 security flaws, including seven deemed to have a “High” threat level. The tech company is now […]
Like webp and the other obscure “standards”, you won’t know about rsync if you are just windows or even mac. It’s a linux/unix command from way back, and there isn’t an admin alive that doesn’t know how to use it. To do things on Windows, and even Mac, you need to install something bloated like […]
