Running darktable on RISC-V
How well does darktable work on RISC-V? Surprisingly well, if the hardware is fast enough…
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Musings on Technology
The state of the USB-C connector in 2019
In episode 2×46 of the Bad Voltage podcast, Stuart Langridge predicts companies will finally embrace the USB-C connector in 2019. Which prompts both Jono Bacon and Jeremy Garcia to ask: “What doesn’t ship with USB-C today”? Turns out a lot of devices still do…
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Updating Micron 1100 Series SSD firmware on Linux
I’ve had quite a number of performance-related issues with Micron 1100 Series M.2 SATA SSDs in various constellations over the last 18 months. Turns out a firmware update to a rather “secret” version fixes that.
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A look a the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware
I recently had the “pleasure” of helping a friend with his GNU/Linux box which was acting up. Turns out he had infected his machine with the Linux/CoinMiner.BC malware, probably by installing an unofficial Kodi plugin.
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Improving data safety on Linux systems using ZFS and BTRFS
Why everybody should you care about data safety, and how ZFS and BTRFS can help protect the data on your Linux systems.
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I went to Fukushima
I’m an engineer and interested in all kinds of technology, especially if it is used to build something big. But I’m also fascinated by what happens when things suddenly change and don’t go as expected, and especially by everything that’s left behind after technological and social revolutions or disasters. In October 2017 I travelled across Japan and decided to visit one of the places where technology had failed in the worst way imaginable: the Fukushima Evacuation Zone.
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Open Source Color Management is broken
Since I am now in the business of photography and image processing (see my travel photography blog here), I thought
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What a GNU C Compiler Bug looks like
Back in December a Linux Mint user sent a strange bug report to the darktable mailing list. Apparently the GNU C Compiler (GCC) on his system exited with an unexpected error message, breaking the build process.
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Forgotten FOSS Games: Boson
In 1999 “Boson, our attempt to make a Real Time Strategy game (RTS) for the KDE project” was announced on the kde-announce mailing list. You don’t remember KDE having a full 3D RTS? Here’s why.
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