A set of very useful Firefox addons and Ublock Origin rules to make using the Internet more fun. These are very useful to any Internet user. Stop browser fingerprinting.
Read MoreMy Waterfox Classic installation is becoming increasingly broken because of not updating it in a very long time, and since I’m pretty much forced to upgrade I decided to take some time to analyze what the new version is doing since everything that’s happened with it has made me a…
Read MoreMy Waterfox Classic installation is becoming increasingly broken because of not updating it in a very long time, and since I’m pretty much forced to upgrade I decided to take some time to analyze what the new version is doing since everything that’s happened with it has made me a…
Read MoreThe brave web browser is a very secure alternative to Firefox and Chromium for the Linux platform. To install this browser on Ubuntu 18.04, use snap. 4.4 Wed Sep 25 jason@Yog-Sothoth 0: $ sudo snap install brave Warning: /snap/bin was not found in your $PATH. If you’ve not restarted your…
Read MoreThere is a new web browser out there. Called Brave, this is a secure alternative to Firefox and Chrome. Made by the Made by Mozilla co-founder and ex Mozilla CEO. This is an open-source web browser for Linux and Windows. With built-in HTTPS Everywhere, built-in ad blocker and a built…
Read Morehttp://www.therestartpage.com/#. This is a website that has shutdown dialogs for a host of operating systems. Click restart on one of them and you can watch the restart animation and/or POST for that OS. This is one very cool website. The ability to see what the boot animation for Windows `95…
Read MoreThere is an alternative to the Google Chrome browser if you are worried about the botnet reporting all of your usage statistics to Google. The Chromium browser will provide a good browsing experience with an open source architecture. The website is here: http://www.chromium.org/Home. This browser is available on Linux and…
Read MoreBIOS Setup emulator: http://appro.mit.jyu.fi/tools/biossimu/simu.html#. This is a BIOS Setup simulator. This runs as a HTML page and this is a very interesting diversion as well as a learning tool. The computers BIOS or Basic Input Output System is stored on a CMOS chip with the settings stored with the power…
Read MoreThe Google Chrome browser is reportedly logging all downloads to users computers. Google has added some new security functionality to Chrome. Every time that the user downloads a file, the browser will compare it against a white-list of known-good files and publishers. If the file is not in the white-list,…
Read Morehttp://info.cern.ch/ The WWW turns 20 years old today. The project that started with one web page has grown to countless websites and countless files hosted on web servers all around the world. Nowadays with China sealing themselves off and creating their own separate Internet with their own content to protect…
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