2024-12-03 at 04:28PM

I wrote this a little bit later but decided to post this on my website as well. On December 2nd, 2024; I lost my beloved Butterscotch to chronic kidney disease. She will be missed. This article is for her memory.

2024-09-07 at 09:16PM

So you recently exchange someone’s computer, then get asked to transfer their Firefox bookmarks, there is no Sync account setup so they’re on the person’s old computer. What’s your plan of action?

For me, at least for a while, it was to pull the files off of the computer, and fetch them using MozBackup. Well, that was a no go this time around because of obvious reasons.

2024-08-19 at 11:00AM

In recent news, another state joins the odd movement of banning Kei cars, Massachusetts. More in this article on ArsTechnica.com.

2024-07-28 at 12:19PM

One of the things that was big in the news was the CrowdStrike global outage which effected Windows computers which were running CrowdStrike’s Falcon sensor. News article here.

Linux heads, you’re not impervious to issues like this as this article here points out.

2024-06-28 at 11:13AM

Now that I’ve primarly switched over to Linux, I have been working on another Python version of Ticket Auction Manager. This time under my dbob16/tam-py repo. Because Python is more flexible as a programming language, it has one extra feature compared to the Access-based versions prior.

The ability to add new tablesets, i.e different types of tickets and items, on the fly.

2024-06-02 at 11:36PM

In recent news, Microsoft rolls out a new AI feature which will be available and possibly on by default for devices labelled with the “Copilot+” badging, called Recall. Which saves screenshots every few seconds and uses AI-backed optical character recognition as well as AI identification of images to save descriptors of said activities.

The following linked video is by Eric Parker, where he plays around with the current implementation of Recall, and confirmed some findings by security researchers.

2024-05-14 at 09:40AM

Oops, accidentally published this without finishing it, so here goes:

After being somewhat vocal about this one a while ago, I still keep seeing this issue where I work.

I think the reason why is for two reasons: 1. Chromebooks do cost less than normal computers of the same spec level. And 2. The advertising involved isn’t too honest about what they are.