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Breaking the paywall - Follow up
Back-in-the-day, roughly three years ago, I wrote a JavaScriptlet for breaking trough a press website's paywall. At the time I promised not to "piss" into their proverbial coffee pot and not publish...
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FTC-case: Cafepress leak
Couple days ago I got an email to a really old address of mine. I happen to own number of domains and most of them are connected to the mail system on my home Linux server. Many many years ago I...
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123RF Leak - Fallout
Your and my data is leaked left and right all the time by organizations who at the time of you entering your precious PII (or Personally Identifiable Information) solemny swear to take really good care...
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Post-passwords life: Biometrics for your PC
Last year I did a few posts about passwords, example. The topic is getting worn out as we have established the fact about passwords being a poor means of authentiaction, how easily passwords leak from...
View ArticleArchLinux - Pacman - GnuPG - Signature trust fail
In ArchLinux, this is what happens too often when you're running simple upgrade with pacman -Syu:error: libcap: signature from "-an-author-" is marginal trust :: File...
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Euro tour 2022 pics
As summer past time, this year I did some travelling in Europe, aka. Euro tour. It would look like this:Pics from London, Paris and Amsterdam:Note to City of Paris authorities: I did post a copyrighted...
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eSIM in iPhone
For vacation / touristing purposes, I did some travel. When leaving the comfort of EU/ETA-region cell phone mobile data changes into something tricky. Most telcos here in Finland offer you 15 GiB of...
View ArticleMacBook Pro - Fedora 36 sleep wake
Few years back I wrote about running Linux on a MacBook Pro. An year ago, the OpenSuse failed to boot on the Mac. Little bit of debugging, I realized the problem isn't in the hardware. That particular...
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Hetzner outgoing mail - SMTP blocked on TCP/25
For ages spammers' tactic has been to use either free trial of a service or payment via "liberated" credit card. As public cloud service providers want to lure in new customers, there is a habit of...
View ArticleState of Ubisoft in 2022
Couple months ago Ubisoft decided to make paying customers hate them. Early July they made an announcement for Decommissioning of online services for older Ubisoft games. The link here is to...
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QNAP Stopping Maintenance of TS-419P II (yet again)
Back in 2018, Qnap announced to stop supporting my NAS on December 2020. They walked that date back multiple times and at the time of writing, the EOL date is on October 2022. I hope they don't mean it...
View ArticleMacBook Pro - Fedora 36 sleep wake - part 2
This topic won't go away. It just keeps bugging me. Back in -19 I wrote about GPE06 and couple months ago I wrote about sleep wake. As there is no real solution in existence and I've been using my Mac...
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ChromeOS Flex test drive
Would you like to run an operating system which ships as-is, no changes allowed after installation? Can you imagine your mobile phone without apps of your own choosing? Your Windows10 PC? Your macOS...
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Databricks CentOS 9 Stream containers
Earlier this year I was tinkering with Databricks and got fed up with Ubuntu 18 and 20 with pretty old Python in it. Easy fix! I just made containers with CentOS so I could have more recent versions of...
View ArticleDavis Vantage Vue battery life
Over three years ago I had to get a new weather station. See my blog post about it.
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Davis Vantage Vue battery life
Over three years ago I had to get a new weather station. See my blog post about it.Yesterday a storm hit and I wanted to see the measured wind and gust speeds. They were zero. As in no wind at all!...
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Monitor Arm installation
This is one of my computing setups at home office:This one has a MacBook Pro 16" at desk and some extra display real estate on top of it. It's a Samsung 4K screen. As there are other computers on this...
View ArticleHappy New Year 2023!
Year 2022 wasn't especially good.Entire globe had been suffering from COVID-19 for way too long. At that point a greedy old man started a war to gain more land area into his ridiculous dictatorship....
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HP Color LaserJet custom X.509 certificate
One of the pieces of hardware I own and opereate is a HP printer. Most of the time it acts as a ... well, paperweight. Then there is an urgent need to have an A4 with information to be delivered...
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RAID1 Disc Drive upgrade
On my home Linux server I ran out of disc space on my 2 TB hard drive. Or, technically speaking there were hundred or so unallocated megs left on my Logical Volume Manager. That translates as I hadn't...
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