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ReactOS

ReactOS

ReactOS is an operating system, main features are: ReactOS is able to run Windows software ReactOS is able to run Windows drivers ReactOS looks-like Windows ReactOS is free and open source

smokemachine

It’s Innovation!

From The Register: Cloudflare builds an AI to lead AI scraper bots into a horrible maze of junk content Slop-making machine will feed unauthorized scrapers what they so richly deserve, hopefully without poisoning the internet (author: bit worried about the “hopefully”-part). “In reality crawler operators ignore the instructions in robots.txt files, […]

Kiwix

To Tech or not to Tech

Ssso … what am i devving? Not too much, bought this AWOW Mini PC Wi-11 Pro Twin Lake-N N150 at Amazon, it replaces the ol’ roarbox. Already tried Fedora KDE on it but that’s definitely much slower. I’m delighted the concept “MiniPC” didn’t stop with Raspberry Pi and delighted i […]

brokeupwithadobe

How i broke up with Adobe

A rotten story, beautifully presented. This is Art, man and machine in harmony, explaining why *kof* certain people do not stop to experiment, to explore the open source universe, to boldly hack on where most people think they can buy their way out of RTFM. My story with Adobe is […]

the MAXX (1995)

Countermeasures

Really can’t stand the idea of my site being scraped for AI-purposes so put a blocking robot.txt in the root of this site. I know they’re going to ignore it but it’ll get rid of the bulk of them and provide more accurate user stats. Really up in digital arms […]

Radeon RX580

AI revisited (locally)

Just bought an even heavier graphics card, the Radeon RX580. Reason for this is because i’m trying to get a local, so non-cloud, non-internet connected version of Microsoft’s Copilot. “Chat with your files” yeah i want that but in a secure setting, i can still switch to internet version of […]

Creative Soundblaster USB

Linux Sound

Finally repaired sound in Linux, little bit baffled by how easy it was, a € 17,- USB Creative Soundblaster didit. Read about Bluetooth audio driver problems, checked all Alsamixer settings (remember to use right arrow key) but purchasing a bit of native compatible Linux hardware didit. Should have known this, […]