Happy Weekend with: Angine de Poitrine – Fabienk

This group is no longer an insider tip, now that a veritable flood of diverse YouTube channels has covered their music and created so-called reaction videos. There is something about this music that allows it to fit so well into—or, rather, stand in contrast to—the current zeitgeist of an information deluge filled with AI-generated content. … Read more

Millenium Challenge 2002: The War game that predicted Iran today

The Setup In the summer of 2002, the U.S. military ran its largest and most expensive war game in history, costing $250 million and involving 13,500 personnel. Known as Millennium Challenge 2002 (MC02), it was explicitly designed to test future military concepts against a fictional Persian Gulf adversary widely understood to represent Iran. Retired Marine … Read more

Install Estonian eID on Debian sid & PikaOS

With some popular Linux distributions recently updating their long-term-support releases eID functionality is broken once again until Estonian authorities catch up to release their drivers. Although Debian sid and PikaOS (being a derivate of it) will probably never be officially supported, setting it up is actually a pretty quick and easy process if you follow … Read more

Estonian eID installation on Debian bullseye

If you are an Estonian ID-card holder or e-resident, wanting to install open-eID on Debian’s latest release bullseye or one of its derivates, this is how you do it! Generally, Estonian RIA-authority is doing a good job supporting ID authentification to the Linux community, yet only Ubuntu is officially supported, which is a pity since … Read more

Setting Up a static recipe website with Pelican and tuxlite_recipes

This guide walks you through building a responsive recipe website from scratch using Pelican — a static site generator written in Python and the tuxlite_recipes theme. No prior knowledge of Pelican is assumed. What You Will Need To verify Python and Git are installed and ready, open a terminal and run: Both commands should print … Read more

Publish pre-defined tweets via script

An unpleasant but unfortunately often necessary task is interacting and posting on social media. Especially for those whose goal is to captivate consumers’ attention for as long as possible, I recently searched for a script that would publish pre-saved posts at a given time. There are already a variety of different scripts available for X … Read more

Hacker interviewed allegedly able to hack any system

A well-known podcast in Germany recently interviewed a hacker. The title is naturally somewhat sensationalist (Hacker: This is how we’ll get you in 5 minutes), but I still hoped to learn something new about common methods and security vulnerabilities. My impression: there’s actually little that’s truly new in this regard. The most common method still … Read more