As some readers might have noticed, a while ago I tried living on a Mac instead of a Linux PC and at the end of the experiment decided to go back to what I was used to using and ditched the Mac in favour of my Ubuntu machine. But, about a month ago, while working […]
Category: General Tech
E-Mail is dead, long live E-Mail!
Prologue I am not 100% certain, but SMTP is, as far as I know, one of the oldest protocols on the internet, going way back to the 1980s. So E-Mail and SMTP are with us for about 40 years now, so it must be doing something right. At least for me it is still one […]
A tempting fruit
With the recent step by Canonical to remove the native Firefox in Ubuntu and replace it with a snap, something strange happened. My main computer is a beast, it sports an AMD Ryzen 9 3950X, that is a 16 core CPU, hyper threaded (or whatever AMD calls it), 32GB of RAM and a super fast […]
Thoughts on digital life
My first computer, way back, was a stand alone device, not connected to anything but a printer, mouse, keyboart and crt monitor, it had less hdd space than my laptop today has ram and a single core cpu running at some MHz yes M and if I remember correctly that was a two digit number. […]
20,000 leagues under the seas of docker, part 1
They used a whale as their icon, what other headline was I supposed to use? So call me Aronnax and let’s search for that mysterious whale everyone is talking about. Please do not expect this to be a review of docker or anything like that, my intention for these pages is to serve as a […]
Taking on Spotify, amazon music, google play music and apple music
Well, at least one of them was creative when it came to choosing a name… But before we get started, I would like to make one little remark, this blog entry was requested by two people on fosstodon.org. At least I think that is what they meant by: “Please blog about your experience”. So people […]
Getting into penetration-testing
Introduction Recently I came up with a new idea, I usually revert back to my lazy self on weekends, sleeping long and doing pretty much nothing productive at all, which is a lot of wasted time. So I challenged myself to acquire one new skill each weekend in May, see how it goes and maybe […]