Simplifying Gadgets and Technology, is my passion!
“A new open-source tool called LastSignal has emerged to let users run their own encrypted dead man’s switch on a self-hosted server. The software is designed for scenarios where messages should only be delivered if […]
Funny thing is I’ve always “known” this. For many years I’ve been reading my Kindle every night before I go to sleep. OK that is anecdotal (which is not any evidence) but a Kindle has […]
“Picking a video doorbell that doesn’t rely on the cloud means you can save footage locally and not rely on pricey subscriptions. Pair it with a smart home platform like Home Assistant, and your doorbell […]
“If you’ve ever attempted to run too many containers on the same machine, you may have encountered failed deployments because multiple services tried accessing the same port. Fortunately, DCM sidesteps that issue by checking for […]
If you’ve ever had to try to find a time for an event of meeting that suites a family, colleagues, or other large group of people, you’ll know what a pain that can be. There […]
“Chatbots may be able to pass medical exams, but that doesn’t mean they make good doctors, according to a new, large-scale study of how people get medical advice from large language models. The controlled study […]
“Matrix is currently talking to circa 35 countries about FOSS communications infrastructure. For instance, Hodgson told us the United Nations is on board: it’s using Matrix as the basis of its own in-house air-gapped communications […]
I recently installed free Netdata in a container on my homelab server to see what it would show in terms of resource usage, bottlenecks, etc. When you start out of Netdata you get a 2-week […]
“While I’d love to give this a try myself, it’s only currently open to Google AI Ultra subscribers in the United States. Just in case you weren’t aware, that’s Google’s top-tier plan that costs $250/month. […]
“The FBI went to Microsoft last year with a warrant, asking them to hand over keys to unlock encrypted data stored on three laptops as part of an investigation into potential fraud involving the COVID […]
