Category: Technology

  • gmail reporting options suck

    The reporting options in gmail are: spam or phishing. There really should be a third option: scam. I think about 80% of the “spam” I get is actually not unsolicited, bulk, commercial email, but rather scams pretending to be spam.

  • The Users of Operating Systems

    If you know a lot of what you want, want to put your own handles on the spoon, and like being spoon fed for major decisions, and occasionally get to choose the spoon color, but sometimes the spoon is flat: Arch  If you are not entirely sure what you want, need the basics to just…

  • Dryer time is detached from reality

    I like how the dryer will read 1 minute remaining for 12-15 minutes. It is in its own reality that is detached from the real world.

  • IPSec Is Garbage!

    We’re in the year 2024 now, and I’m having to set up an IPSec configuration for a site-to-site VPN connection. I have discovered that ipsec is still garbage all these years later. If anything it has only got worse than it was before since we now have over a decade of features and options piled…

  • Linux != x86_64

    Linux is multiplatform! Arm64 (aarch64) is a major architecture that Linux also runs on. Linux is not just an x86_64 (amd64) only kernel. Stop making binary-only Linux releases that are x86_64 only. Fight me!

  • Customizing Windows Sandbox

    Windows 10 introduced a neat features called the Windows Sandbox. It creates a temporary (ephemeral) Windows VM (same version as host) that when closed is destroyed along with the contents. When you open Windows Sandbox it is pretty bare with no extras. However, it is possible to create it with a bit of customizations added.…

  • Gentoo glsa-check

    Quick Primer on using Gentoo’s glsa-check tool. Check for vulnerable packages with ‘-p’ (pretend) flag: Check AND fix vulnerable packages with ‘-f’ (fix) flag: And that’s a wrap!

  • Ducky Roll

    This is the Ducky Script (Bad USB) version of the classic Rick Roll. Windows Enjoy! 😉

  • Serial Consoles Considered Legacy?

    I love how serial consoles are considered legacy by some, yet on dev boards it is the only way to interact with it until you have an OS installed. Ubuntu seems to not only no longer support serial console installs (last mention was 16.04 and even that required modifying the installer a little), but they…

  • I assume if time travel into the past was possible…

    I assume if time travel into the past was possible I would have visited myself by now! Does that seem like a reasonable thought? Because my ADD brain immediately thought of other reasons why I may not have visited myself: legal restrictions (laws against it), impracticality (maybe I can’t be in the same “space” as…