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September, 2020

BP created 'carbon footprint' as a devious, manipulative PR tactic

“This is one of the most successful, deceptive PR campaigns maybe ever.”

Sun Ultra 1 - MCbx / battery rework

Sun Uultra / Sparcstation NVRAM battery replacement

Open Sendmail - Extension to sendmail configuration files

(old) collection of sendmail m4 hacks and features

Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes

Ghetto Voices in Contemporary German Culture: Textscapes, Filmscapes, Soundscapes

Maria Stehle

Series: Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture

Volume: 125

Copyright Date: 2012

Published by: Boydell & Brewer, Camden House

Pages: 224

IzzyOnDroid’s F-Droid Repo mit zusätzlicher Funktionalität - IzzyOnDroid

"IzzyOnDroid’s F-Droid Repo gibt es zwar schon eine ganze Weile – dennoch wurde es noch nicht in einem Artikel hier vorgestellt. Zeit, das endlich einmal nachzuholen und zu zeigen, was es bietet."

Compiling Word for Windows v1.1a — richard lewis

With these instructions, you can take the source code and turn it into Microsoft Word for Windows v1.1a Preview

QAnon is a Nazi Cult, Rebranded

"QAnon’s conspiracy theory is a rebranded version of the Protocols of the Elders of Zion."

Project: THE DEFINITIVE COLLECTION of V.90/V.92 Modem Sounds | Gough's Tech Zone
Using Floppy Disks with Windows Virtual PC - Virtual PC Guy's WebLog - Site Home - MSDN Blogs
Automatic Data Versioning in MariaDB Server 10.3

MariaDB Server now includes a feature named System-Versioned Tables, which is based on the specification in the SQL:2011 standard. It provides automatic versioning of table data.

Pydio | Enterprise File Sharing & Sync Platform

"On Premises File Sharing Done Right"

FairEmail - Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

FairEmail - Open source, privacy friendly email app for Android

GitHub - adrienverge/openfortivpn: Client for PPP+SSL VPN tunnel services

Client for PPP+SSL VPN tunnel services, compatible to Fortinet SSL-VPN

Rolling distribution releases versus periodic releases are a tradeoff

"Neither of these choices of when and how to absorb changes is 'right'; they are a tradeoff. Some people will prefer one side of the tradeoff, and other people will prefer the other. Neither is wrong (or right), because it is a preference, and people can even change their views of what they want over time or in different circumstances."

Is Plastic Recycling A Lie? Oil Companies Touted Recycling To Sell More Plastic : NPR

"[..] the industry launched a number of feel-good projects, telling the public to recycle plastic. It funded sorting machines, recycling centers, nonprofits, even expensive benches outside grocery stores made out of plastic bags.

Few of these projects actually turned much plastic into new things.

NPR tracked down almost a dozen projects the industry publicized starting in 1989. All of them shuttered or failed by the mid-1990s."

Running old versions of Windows on Windows 10 with Hyper-V – TheDigitalLifestyle.com – Connecting your digital lifestyle

Hyper-V vfd images plus configuration for 16bit client OSes

How to properly manage ssh keys for server access

on using signed ssh keys

OpenGEM - Opendawn

OpenGEM is a non-multitasking 16-bit graphical user interface (GUI) for DOS. It is an extended distribution of FreeGEM that includes features of the original Digital Research GEM. OpenGEM is intended to provide a simple to install and use GUI system and windowing framework for the FreeDOS operating system. OpenGEM was developed by Shane Coughlan in collaboration with the FreeGEM Developer team, and is free software released under the […]

Ventoy

Ventoy is an open source tool to create bootable USB drive for ISO files. With ventoy, you don't need to format the disk again and again, you just need to copy the iso file to the USB drive and boot it.

Hacking Ethernet out of Fibre Channel cards

experiments with a userspace driver that transports IP (over SCSI) over FC

Starfish/TinyWeatherForecastGermany - TinyWeatherForecastGermany - Codeberg.org

Android app to display weather info for Germany from open data supplied by Deutscher Wetterdienst

Kubernetes RBAC 101: Overview | A Primer by Kublr
Non-POSIX file systems - weinholt.se

A look at a couple of file system features before POSIX came along

libtorrent Blog - BitTorrent v2

BitTorrent v1 > v2 protocol changes and backwards compatibility

h2c Smuggling: Request Smuggling Via HTTP/2 Cleartext (h2c)