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Hacker News This article was shared on Hacker News . It gained significant traction with over 1100 upvotes, 630 comments and 120 000 unique page views. The European Union wants to force tech companies to scan your private messages & images, even in your favorite encrypted apps. Introduction # The 🇪🇺 European Union is advancing legislation that could fundamentally change how we communicate…
Introduction # Let’s address the elephant in the room: you’re probably here because you want to activate Windows or Microsoft Office without paying Microsoft. That’s bad, but who am I to cast the first stone. Maybe you’re a student on a tight budget, a filthy cracker who just wants to “crack Windows, get the job done and move on” without any philosophical debate…
Introduction # You know that feeling when you see a 47 second voice message in your group chat? That little sigh of resignation before you reluctantly tap play, knowing you’re about to invest nearly a minute of your life listening to something that could have been summarized in a single sentence? Voice messages have quietly invaded our digital conversations, transforming from a convenient…
In this guide, we will explain how faillock works and how you can configure it to avoid account lockouts, or reset your account if it’s locked due to too many failed login attempts. Whether you’re troubleshooting or improving the security of your system, this guide will walk you through everything you need to know. What is faillock ? # faillock is a security feature that prevents brute…
Introduction # If you are on X , formerly known as Twitter (or any social media to be honest), there is a lot of personal usage data that could be very interesting that you generate by just using their service. This data is generated based on the tweets you write, retweet, like or share and pretty much anything else you do within their app. Those Interests allow X/Twitter to generate a more or…
Introduction # In this article, we will set up a Middle Relay, that will hopefully quickly be promoted to a Guard on the Tor network. Before going any further, be sure to understand the implications of this type of relay by reading my dedicated article first! Tor Relay Types Explained 2021-09-21 · 4 mins · 109 · Linux Tor Discover the essential types of Tor relays and learn…
Introduction # During one of my long scrolls through Reddit, I once discovered a post proposing different ways to participate in the open source world. Among the obvious solutions were: participating in the development of open source projects, using your connection to seed Linux ISOs (😉), or even… hosting your own Tor relay. I quickly got interested and started learning more about…
If you are a still a lucky owner of a Nintendo Game Boy (the original, Color or Advance version), you should give a quick check to your games and saves to ensure they are not vanishing into oblivion. Technical limitations & conception # Today’s save systems in games # It’s pretty common nowadays that the saves of our games are stored locally on the device you are playing on: your…
Since everything has to start and you have to mark the little things in life with importance… well, let me write this first article for you. It’s short, meaningless, but the important thing is that it will be indexed and kept forever on the Internet as the first draft of this blog. It shouldn’t get any worse!