Category: Technology
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Umbrel Home
There’s a new contender for the best home server on the market: Umbrel just released their first hardware. Good for everyone who wants control of their data but doesn’t want to deal with Linux or assembling a server.
Available for preorder now.… Continued
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Scaling Lightning
Great new initiative to test and improve how the Lightning Network and its applications will react to shocks in transaction volume, channels, nodes, gossip messages, etc.
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Phone Privacy
Looking for a hardened phone OS where Apple Google don’t know everything you do, including your financial transactions? GrapheneOS and CalyxOS work great on Pixel devices.
Should You Use GrapheneOS or CalyxOS?Though – beware that some banking apps won’t run on these custom firmwares.… Continued
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Storing User Data
A wake-up call for everyone storing user data to make sure they store as little as possible for as little time as possible.
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Password Nihilism
Password nihilism is understanding that sites have shit complexity requirements and shit password storage, and then not giving a shit because you recognize that none of it matters.
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Crypto is not easy
Don’t trust, verify – especially when apps make incredibly claims. This time about encrypted messaging.
Testing a new encrypted messaging app’s extraordinary claims
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Knuth about Chat GPT
Donald Knuth, Computer Science legend, looked into Chat GPT and concluded: I shall devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same
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Hadoop 2013 – Performance, Projects, Platforms, Players
I earmarked this series for writing about it, just wanted to wait for part four to be published… and somehow totally missed it in my feed, until I remembered and decided to check back today… so without further ado, here you go!
Hadoop 2013 – Part One: Performance
Hadoop 2013 – Part Two: Projects