Getting out from under Facebook’s thumb- not so easy
A lot of people get frustrated with Facebook or more generally its parent company, Meta. The social media behemoth is literally siphoning all of your personal data every time you…
Getting an Innoview display to work with Macbook
I bought an Innoview portable display a few years ago. It is a model INVPM406. My Innoview display: about a half of an inch thick when the cover/stand is folded…
Jensen Huang: cheater and spy-enabler
All of us are human, flawed in many ways and capable of both glorious and cruel acts. Jensen Huang is the CEO of Nvidia and is theoretically as human as…
A page about me: Knowember
I wrote up a little text about myself to participate in the Knowember blogging event this month. I was introduced to the event via a post from Toby over on…
The Republicans take a beating
The midterms in the U.S. give a chance for a vote on the effectiveness of the President and the leading party. Both the House of Congress and the Senate are…
Python: check for new Fedora version
I've been working my way through 100 days of Code Python Pro bootcamp on Udemy. After 40 days of coursework I'm starting to recognize what various code examples are doing,…
Michael (Mikhail) Bennett is AI generated
A video of an America's Got Talent performance is making the rounds. It portrays an aging rocker singing a ballad about his impending demise and the lack of attention he…
Back to the office is bullshit
I know this will be a controversial opinion, but I strongly believe that forcing people to work in an office when the option exists for them to work from home…
PHP2Shell: updating to PHP 8.5.12
To quote Wikipedia: PHP2Shell is a set of two high-impact vulnerabilities in PHP versions 5.4–8.5, known under Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures IDs CVE-2026-109618 and CVE-2026-109619, that allow remote code execution…
Wainwright Base Fire
On Saturday, October 17, a fast moving brush fire overcame a group of 84 soldiers from C Company 3rd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry who were training at the…