sic: remote commands without the SSH quoting hell
If you drive a fleet of machines over SSH — or you are an AI agent that does — you have hit this bug, probably today: ssh host touch 'my file.txt' T...
Kategorie: IT
NVRM: RmInitAdapter failed!
The last couple of days I was having trouble with my GTX 980M NVIDIA (Optimus) integrated graphics card (with neon / ubuntu). The driver nvidia would load, but ...
Webcam, Linux, cheese, vlc, skype…
During the recent home office wave, I wanted to reactivate my webcam (Logitech Quickcam Chat, yes, it only has 176x144px but that’s fine for my use case)....
Pinebook Pro kernel compilation
I am a new, proud owner of a Pinebook Pro. The default OS (Debian stretch) comes with a kernel 4.4.190 (updates to 4.4.196). As there is no IO accounting suppor...
Butterfly Keyboard
How long does it take before the first key on an Apple Buterfly Keyboard (MacBook Air 2018) is stuck? In my case six months and five days (186 days). I really, ...
Ubuntu 18.04 & gnome3
Ubuntu 18.04 desktop (vanilla edition) switched to using gnome3 instead of their own unity desktop. I’m switching to using xubuntu-desktop, since the new ...
Ubuntu & xrdp server black screen on login
I am running a xrdp server for when I need a full desktop on one of my android devices – if I’m using remote login for gui stuff, I’m using x2...
Dark Patterns, The Ratchet · Jacques Mattheij
The cumulative effect of all those little ratchets on your privacy is rather terrible, but there is no denying it: you were along for the ride and you had the o...
Cloudsäuberung
Die neuen Dienstleistungsbedingungen von Microsoft für Services wie Skype, Xbox Live, Bing, Cortana oder Cloud-Angebote untersagen beleidigende Äußerungen. Auch...