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how to make gnu linux debian 13 mate /usr/bin/fox the default browser (without apt install firefox-esr)

how to make gnu linux debian 13 mate /usr/bin/fox the default browser (without apt install firefox-esr) vim /usr/share/applications/fox.desktop [Desktop Entry] Name=Fox Exec=/usr/bin/fox %u Type=Application Terminal=false MimeType=text/html;text/xml;application/xhtml+xml;x-scheme-handler/http;x-scheme-handler/https; xdg-settings set default-web-browser fox.desktop xdg-mime default fox.desktop…

howto vpn tunnel all traffic from LAN to WAN (WIFI) to srv via wireguard

Here s the full howto adapted to your actual interfaces (enp0s25 = LAN, wlp3s0 = WAN/Wi-Fi): 1. Packages apt update apt install wireguard wireguard-tools nftables dnsmasq network-manager 2. Connect the WAN Wi-Fi nmcli device wifi connect "SSID_NAME" password "WIFI_PASSWORD" ifname wlp3s0 [ ]

gnu linux how to mount luks and veracrypt, zulucrypt was auto removed from debian repo (debports)

there is a kind of controversial policy in place since aprox 2025 that (auto)removes a package.deb from debian s official repository, if there were no changes to the package in 30 days #wtf actually X-D according to AI this is the [ ]

WARNUNG! WARNING! SCAM BUYERS CUSTOMERS! vorgetäuschter kauf verarschung fraud scam käufer kleinanzeigen.de Ein Sicherheitsmechanismus hat die Zahlung bei PayPal unterbunden

how much is the phish? the scammer claims to have paid for an article and requests payment data, the fake customer wants paypal then says paypal blocked the transaction and sends a bunch of mails that claim the article is [ ]

what is the future of AI?

LLM are good programmers, they are not software architects, they are not computer scientists comment: it really depends on the quality and amount of training data available X-D for example most models in 2026-07 fail to program tetris in bash, [ ]

cyber: keep ssh updated: ssh is critical infrastructure

is of course very very critical infrastructure, blunders in this area will have devastating consequences for the whole globe. this time it is luckily only the CLIENT ssh side that is affected libssh2 is a client-side C library implementing [ ]

gnu linux + bash + kvm virt-manager: how to start and connect to display of vm

virsh list --all; # show all available vms (if the list is empty check this article) virsh start vmname; # start the vm virsh dominfo vmname; # get info on vm Id: 2 Name: vmname UUID: 84bb8e99-2fb2-499a-9ca1-xxxxxxxxxxxx OS Type: hvm [ ]

gnu linux debian: kvm qemu non root user can not see any vms ( virsh list –all empty list )

hostnamectl; # tested on Operating System: Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) Kernel: Linux 6.12.74+deb13+1-amd64 Architecture: x86-64 # as non root user virsh uri qemu:///session # as root user su - root virsh uri qemu:///system # Ctrl+D log out root, as non-root [ ]

A conversation with ChatGPT mini about what went wrong with gnu linux for m1 apple silicon and rust kernel support “Asahi linux” project lead resigned

older x86 macbooks support gnu linux out of the box very nice glow first off please stay cool 😎 everyone (if possible) suggested psychology upgrade for EVERYONE s and also Linus Torvald s communication protocol: always say something positive first, then the [ ]

wordpress plugin very basic top articles and content analysis without cookies

download and unzip into ./wp-content/plugins (made by https://claude.ai) what does the user get? a nice amazing basic overview of what content visitors of the wordpress installation like the most (in order to optimize this content) how does it work? it [ ]

the internet in 2026: more bot (AI searching the web) traffic than human traffic #wtf

so what does mean? 🤔 Q: why is there according to cloudflare more bot traffic than human traffic in 2026? Short answer: because automated AI crawlers and agentic bots have grown extremely fast and now generate far more HTTP [ ]

a conversation with claude sonnet 4.6: AI and free will maybe in 2050 BUT there is “reward hacking” (ChatGPT on AGI) what movie film “The Matrix” (1) got wrong

will Peter Thiel or Elon upload his brain (after death) into a datacenter? possible but unlinkely for the next 50 years without major advancements in computing power and digital mapping of neurons (ideally without killing the original brain): simulating a [ ]

WARNING: this is how Deutsche Bank phishing mail photoTAN-Informationen aktualisieren Screenshot at 2026-06-02 looks like

USE THUNDERBIRD NOT OUTLOOK! DO NOT CLICK ANY LINKS! OR ENTER ANY DETAILS! NO MATTER HOW URGENT THINGS MIGHT LOOK! CAREFULLY INSPECT ALL LINKS IN MAILS OR WHATSAPP OR SMS! WHEN IN DOUBT PHONE THE SENDER!

how to use tor browser bundle local proxy with other programs (simple tor network bandwidth test benchmark)

get https://www.torproject.org/download/ start it up it will create a local proxy 127.0.0.1:9150 how to use that proxy with other programs like firefox, thunderbird or curl? go into settings and configure proxy as 127.0.0.1:9150 should work right away 😀 (as long [ ]

wordpress the point and click update adventure that longterm only the hackers will win (aprox 7 mio wordpress installations vulnerable to wp2shell)

another update massive amounts of cyber issues https://wordpress.org/documentation/wordpress-version/version-7-0-3/ the positive [+] always first: wordpress devs have managed to keep updates high quality (in 5 years time nothing was broken after update) this only can be acchieved with massive quality (use [ ]

primitive simple iptables based brute force ssh attack ban

it is a common thing and a massive traffic causing annoyance somewhere someone tries all possible usernames for ssh: this bunch of iptables/nftables scripts will: create a list of blockable IP adresses every 3h and thus block those IPs for [ ]

test driving Hy3 calls itself “a functional simulation” bad at math but good at philosophy and says it may be never reached but after AGI humans no longer in charge of the planet: OpenRouter.Ai a request router

alex-atallahSan Francisco Bay Area, Silicon Valley, West Coast luckily it is not biased (?) and hence also includes Chinese AI models https://aiwiki.ai/wiki/openrouter https://arcprize.org/leaderboard unlike here? not sure whats going on there? but not a lot what is a bit strange [ ]

Google AI and the yolo-mode

Supply chain threat: Critical vulnerability discovered in Google s Gemini CLI Security experts at Pillar Security have discovered a critical vulnerability in Gemini CLI, the open-source tool that brings Google s AI assistant Gemini directly into the terminal. The flaw allowed attackers [ ]

wordpress why why why oh no it was debian (Uncaught Exception: DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone)

Fatal error: Uncaught Exception: DateTimeZone::__construct(): Unknown or bad timezone (Europe/Berlin) in /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/script-loader.php:414 Stack trace: #0 /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/script-loader.php(414): DateTimeZone- __construct() #1 /var/www/html/domain.com/public_html/wp-includes/script-loader.php(668): what was effectively the…

WARNING FOR FAKE PARKING FEE SMS THAT ASKS FOR CREDIT CARD DETAILS

WARNING FOR FAKE PARKING FEE SMS THAT ASKS FOR CREDIT CARD DETAILS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_CATqsshZ0

running AI locally with a beautiful web interface: unsloth

BEFORE ANYONE ESCALATES: ALL AI LLM EXPERIMENTS WERE CONDUCTED IN A KVM VM USING SOLAR POWER 😎☀️🙌 after a lot of trouble with airllm have the user heared of https://www.nomic.ai/gpt4all a desktop gui that makes selecting and downloading models easy [ ]

QNAP how to display custom text LCD display

it is not super trivial and even AI struggles X-D here is what works: (tested on QNAP with Debian13 :D) git clone https://github.com/bkram/qnapdisplay # alternatively (backup wget http://dwaves.de/scripts/qnapdisplay.tar.gz tar fxvz qnapdisplay.tar.gz cd qnapdisplay wget https://dwaves.de/scripts/qnap_lcd.py.txt mv qnap_lcd.py.txt qnap_lcd.py python3 qnap_lcd.py [ ]

a conversation with AI: test driving deepseek.com

in short: no funny jokes yet X-D (as LLM AI has no understanding of what is funny same as data the android from startrek, which is kind of hilarious that this is a real world problem now the understanding of [ ]

once more allowing macros in documents is what made word.doc and excel.xls so dangerous and adobe pdf allowing javascript could be just that

once more allowing macros in documents is what made word.doc and excel.xls so dangerous and adobe pdf allowing javascript could be just that

the empire tries to strikes back with lobbyists and policy: under the disguise of protecting the user: the revenge of Bill Gates lobbyists Microsoft lobbyists pushing for age verification of OS installations also GNU Linux

trust us all we want is your best your money and your data yes it s most likely about money, it s always about money this user is at no point supporting any illegal or harmful online activity but at the same [ ]

consciousness AI and free will by 2050 Narrow behavioral consciousness (acts indistinguishably conscious) 2030–2040 Architecturally plausible consciousness (built on a real theory) 2040–2070

to be honest all this AI fearmongering in the end it s good users making good decisions or bad users making bad decisions with a tool, that tool is AI. but AI itself will (probably most likely) not just start dropping [ ]

Shelly Plus Plug S how to send all data to a central server and visualize the data

this howto is focused on shell plug s (it s really hard to identify what exact version or generation a shelly is) but it should work the same for other shelly plugs. how to factory reset the shelly? before plugin hold [ ]

letting claude.ai introduce itself LLM “sophisticated pattern matchers” asking AI about love

Chuck Norris is not asking ChatGPT, ChatGPT is asking Chuck Norris test driving https://claude.ai/ claude sonnet 4.6. is definately strong when it comes to code generation but it s very important that a human is reviewing and thoroughly testing the code, before [ ]

vim what config files does it actually parse? where was what option set?

vim reads an awful lot of config files during startup yes vim is clearly also not software minimalism 🙁 please only 1 config file, maximum 2 (1x system wide (global), 1x per user) always at the same path hostnamectl; # [ ]

north korean hacker group UNC1069 using social engineering to get access: axios npm for nodejs: software minimalism please and another javascript security problem (this time social engineered supply chain attack)

software minimalism please! what is axio? a JavaScript library npm package for https://nodejs.org used to make asynchronous HTTP requests (WHY do devs need a PACKAGE to make http(s) requests??? any serious language can do that without a 3rd party package) [ ]