So, Articles 11 and 13 have been approved by MEPs. Very bad news for the internet. Unless member states push back, Google News (among others) will shut down across the EU and all kinds of censorship mechanisms will become widespread. Creators and social media will not benefit. Amazing how time and time again those sociopaths in powerful positions, when they see something that works well, they manage to fuck it all up. GDPR also proved to be a disaster for internet in the EU but this will be even worse. And, as always, apparently the MEP's that voted in favor didn't even know what they are really voting on, because the result will just be the total opposite of what they hoped to achieve; - It will be…

Fun fact; Blockchain technology doesn't require any mining AT ALL, no cracking hashes, no crunching of numbers. Another fun fact: A good reliable functional cryptocurrency does not require mining AT ALL. It's an insane idea brought forward by virtual value backed by nothing (about the same as the one behind the dollar and euro today), implying that one has to do 'something special' in order to create new currency. A so-called 'proof of work' consensus algorithm. Completely unneeded. Mining is a deplorable wasteful mechanism by which only retards think they 'create value'. Mathematical and cryptography advancements have long surpassed any requirement of having to crunch numbers in order to 'create' new virtual currency. Funniest fact: Bitcoin creation ends when a set amount of them has been created by…

Dear people at Microsoft, Last year I rebuilt my desktop PC. Made sure it was all compatible, stable, reliable and tested new hardware. My previous Desktop PC had Win7 x64 and Linux Debain dual-booting. So at first I installed Linux on my new hardware, and ran a lot of Windows apps through wine and virtual options, but they still left a lot to be desired. I love debian for servers, would never do without it, but linux on desktop still does not entirely do it for me, I miss certain tiny tools and software, my USB-audio interface (Lynx Hilo) didn't function to its full extent, and performance differences are still very much apparent in some libraries and drivers (that is to say; Working natively in Windows they perform…

For many computer savy users this is the eternal quest, with no end in sight looking into the (uncertain) future of computing power. It has to be somewhat user-friendly (easy, fast, few clicks to get results), but it also has to be unbreakable, preferably even for the idiots at the NSA, and even when quantum computing power hits mainstream. For my daily use this meant that I went from using TrueCrypt volumes (for a long time) to using VeraCrypt volumes (not so long), to now using ProxyCrypt volumes. ProxyCrypt may not be the most user-friendly of them all (although you could argue that it is, since you can script everything you ever need to do with it, unlike with most other software), but it sure is the fastest…