Archives for August, 2024
Pavel Durov: criminal, martyr, or double agent?
The current affair of Telegram’s founder and CEO, Pavel Durov, is stinking big time. This case is absolutely baffling, and I don't trust in the least what the French authorities…
UEFI was already broken, but Microsoft perfected the breakage
I'm fundamentally against UEFI, against Secure Boot, against encrypted partitions and against a number of other modern obsessions. But let's talk a bit about the way Microsoft recently broke GRUB.…
Is it IONOS, is it InnoDB, or is it me?
When I moved my WordPress blog to IONOS end-2022, I was relatively satisfied, despite a bumpy start. The previous hosting was using an older MySQL, the DB was exported as…
Bypass Paywalls will never die
As part of the August 23 edition of the Risky Biz News newsletter, came this news: Bypass Paywalls Clean removed: The News Media Alliance has filed a DMCA takedown notice…
The HARM mobile architecture
The ARM architecture is the future, they say. It's mostly that CISC is inefficient, and RISC lives a new life, especially since Apple’s M1 CPU. Back in the day, at…
Le dernier des grands
C'est la traduction en français du billet que j'ai mis sur Facebook ce matin, en commentaire à l'article du Figaro, Alain Delon, la légende du cinéma, est mort. Les chaînes…
How Webcamoid laid bare the disaster that is the Linux kernel
I noticed this behavior of Webcamoid while I was testing the latest Ubuntu MATE , and I mentioned it here. At the time, I thought that the app was broken.…
Glorifying the uselessness: Oreon
Why are some people so keen to write or to make videos about almost nothing? Much Ado About Oreon. It's summer time. Slow news. Nothing spectacular happens if not for…
The little DLL that broke Windows 7 (on purpose)
People stopped using Windows 7 not because Microsoft ceased offering security updates; they had to do it because more and more programs that they needed suddenly started to require “Windows…
Security is a joke. Networking is a joke. Experts are a joke.
I'm so tired of reading all the time about IT security issues. The tissue of our society, which is networked computing, is a Gruyère cheese; it's Achilles' heel. When it…