3+ hour, 26+ min ago   (420+ words) Are you a normal person and thus sick of all the nonsensical, non-browser stuff browser makers keep adding to your browser, but for whatever reason you don't want to or cannot switch to one of the forks of your browser…...

1+ week, 12+ hour ago   (630+ words) Ever noticed your computer acting sluggish or warning you about low storage? Temporary files could be the sneaky culprit. Windows creates these files while installing apps, loading web pages, or running updates. Left unchecked, they pile up and hog valuable…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (669+ words) CheriBSD is a Capability Enabled, Unix-like Operating System that extends FreeBSD to take advantage of Capability Hardware on Arm's Morello and CHERI-RISC-V platforms. CheriBSD implements memory protection and software compartmentalization features, and is developed by SRI International and the University…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (422+ words) Up until now, it's always remained possible to activate Windows offline, by calling a phone number, going through a lengthy phase of entering digits on your phone dialpad, and carefully listening to and entering a string of numbers on the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (304+ words) It shouldn't be surprising that the HP-UX FAQ eventually grew an entry for "how can I make a 712 run headless. It was possible, and to do it you had to change the firmware "console path. The 712 firmware would not allow…...

1+ mon, 1+ day ago   (577+ words) Alpine Linux maintainer Ariadne Conill has published a very interesting blog post about the shortcomings of both sudo and doas, and offers a potential different way of achieving the same goals as those tools. Systems built around identity-based access control…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago   (854+ words) The FreeBSD team has released FreeBSD 15.0, and with it come several major changes, one of which you will surely want to know more about if you're a FreeBSD user. Since this change will eventually drastically change the way you use…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (661+ words) During a Dell earnings call, the company mentioned some staggering numbers regarding the amount of PCs that will not or cannot be upgraded to Windows 11. "We have about 500 million of them capable of running Windows 11 that haven't been upgraded," said…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (648+ words) So my love for the Common Desktop Environment isn't exactly a secret, so let's talk about the project's latest release, CDE 2.5.3, released a few days ago. As the version number suggests, this first new version in two years is a…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (523+ words) You may have noticed a sharp increase in problems and issues in Windows recently " following the rise of the "AI" hype cycle, entirely coincidentally, I'm sure " and it seems Microsoft is finally starting to acknowledge just how bad Windows has…...