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20210930   LetsEncrypt Root Certificate   ⇢  

If you're currently using any Ubuntu 16.04 machines, you shouldn't be, but that aside you may not be able to curl a good number of servers around the world due to SSL/TLS failures. This is due to [LetsEncrypt's root certificate having expired](https://com

20210925   Of Ephemera and Nostalgia   ⇢  

When I was a kid, I played outside often. Eventually, this meant that I would ride my bike all over the city. The exceptions were rainy days. On rainy days, I would build little boats out of popsicle sticks and tin foil, and I would "sail" them down the g

20210821   Apple Sucks   ⇢  

Two days ago the UK Home Secretary Priti Patel said this in regards to Apple: "End-to-end encrypted messaging presents a big challenge to public safety, and this is not just

20210808   The Confession of an Older Technologist   ⇢  

I know that every young hot head out there thinks himself/herself a genius. He/she thinks that the older people don't know anything. The older people are out of touch. The older people just don't like change. I know this because I once thought the exact s

20210414   Slackware 15 Beta   ⇢  

Patrick Volkerding announced the following yesterday: _I'm going to go ahead and call this a beta even though there's still no fix for the illegal instruction issue with 32-bit MariaDB. But there should be soon. No build regressions noted with the officia

20210217   Slackware 15 Alpha   ⇢  

Two days ago, alienbob (Eric Hameleers) announced the release of Slackware 15 Alpha after nearly 5 years since Slackware 14.2. It's a big big day. The most recent upgrade was to glibc-2.33 which then required a rebuild of all of the packages to be include

20210115   The First PC   ⇢  

What is a personal computer? When we say that compound word, we all know what we mean. They are multipurpose general computing devices that are generally cheap enough for people to realistically afford to purchase, they are usually pre-assembled by a comp

20201214   CentOS is Dead   ⇢  

In 2004, the CentOS project started. The idea of the distribution was to be binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux. This worked well for quite sometime. The Linux community was able to offer up a stable and useful distribution that rivaled corpor