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Needing an invite to join, the apps, etc. all gives a certain sense of privacy over on Blueskye. But that’s just show. The API that powers the app is publicly available, no authentication needed. Every post made on Bluesky can be queried publicly by everyone, even without having an invite. Mario Zechner has demonstrated this … Continue reading “All Bluesky content is public”
I’ve been a long-time user of WikidPad for personal note-taking. Unfortunately, development has slowed down over time and it was time for me to look for some alternative. And wow, did I find an alternative, that really ticks most (all) of my boxes: meet Trilium, the most feature-packed outliner / hierarchical note taking app I’ve … Continue reading “Trilium – An Awesome Note-taking App”
Today I want to present to you my unified instant messaging setup, which enables me to communicate from any of my computers and also any of my mobile devices (Android, iPhone, iPad). Goal for me was to provide a setup where I have single client per platform with a centralized history I can search if … Continue reading “A geek’s unified instant messaging setup”
It is a well-known fact, that it is possible to extend the initial grace period for activating your (hopefully legitimate!) copy of Windows from 30 days to 120 days by using slmgr. This is a tool that is intended to allow the preparation of image-based installers for enterprise use by allowing to reset the initial … Continue reading “Remaining Windows Vista/7 “rearm count””
Wow, never expected this: an article of my blog is the top result for a search query (at least at time of writing): If you search for “You have some suspicious patch lines“, you will find my blog post about this Git error message on Windows on top. Pushes the ego once you notice that … Continue reading “My first top Google search result :)”
If you disable the automatic installer detection of User Account Control (UAC), for instance because it interferes with your every-day operations (like in my “Git and Windows Vista” article), you will notice that the Mozilla updaters don’t work as expected. Automatic updates will fail. This is due to the fact that the updater will not … Continue reading “Vista UAC: Firefox (and other Mozilla apps) automatic updates”
At tag2find, we are using phpBB2+ for our forum. This forum unfortunately is continuously being spammed by bots, despite the active CAPTCHA. Even at the strongest setting of the CAPTCHA, SPAM postings were coming through, but the CAPTCHA drove off a lot of potential forum posters which could not get past it. Therefore I wanted … Continue reading “Fighting SPAM in phpBB”
In an earlier article I made a mistake. I told that Microsoft Vista x64 will only work with signed drivers and assumed (wrongly) that this means every driver has to go through the WHQL program for getting a signature of Microsoft’s driver quality program, which would be a quite costly process. I now discovered an … Continue reading “Microsft Vista x64 Mandatory Driver Signing (Update)”
According to this Microsoft page and this Golem-Article (German), Microsoft is going to make driver signatures from Microsoft mandatory for any driver running in kernel space in Windows Vista x64. They claim security reason for this.While (faulty) drivers definitely can lead to serious (security) problems under Windows, they sometimes fulfill cruitial parts, especially in windows … Continue reading “Microsoft: Only signed drivers for Windows Vista x64”