PoseidonsWake

Mine is Strawberry since it has a ton of options and plays a ton of formats. It’s also (distant) fork of Amarok 1.4 and integrates well with KDE Plasma. I’m curious what other people are using these days. What’s your favorite player?

In this video he discusses the TriangleDB attack chain that allowed hackers to completely compromise iPhones starting with a zero click exploit and ending with a bypass of Apples hardware based memory protection....

The Linux Foundation has released their 2023 Annual Report… and it is an absolute doozy....

A lot can happen in a year when you’re the world’s largest hot or not clone. Here’s everything toxic Meta’s companies did in 2023 (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, Meta Quest, Oculus and WhatsApp).

A lot can happen in a year when you’re the worlds largest bookshop. Here’s everything toxic Jeff Bezos and Amazon did in 2023.

A lot can happen in a year when you’re the worlds largest search engine. Here’s my Google Wrapped 2023 video showing you everything toxic they did in the last 12 months.

In this video I discuss how a recent DOJ letter revealed that Apple and Google were sending peoples push notifications to foreign governments.

THE Google ‘News’ (Gulag Noise [1, 2]) mentions of “Linux” diminish again, partly because sites that used to cover GNU/Linux every day suddenly stopped a few weeks ago (our coverage of it had struck a nerve, attracting about 3,000 readers). No need to shame the publisher or anything (it had done a great job until it...

We (@redford, @mrtick and I) have reverse engineered the PLC code of NEWAG Impuls EMUs. These trains were locking up for arbitrary reasons after being serviced at third-party workshops. The manufacturer argued that this was because of malpractice by these workshops, and that they should be serviced by them instead of third...

Donald Trump has said that he will not become a dictator if he becomes US president again except “on day one”, after warnings from Democrats and some Republicans that the US was in danger of becoming an autocracy if he wins the 2024 election. Fuck, well at least he’s honest on this statement

23andMe just sent out an email trying to trick customers into accepting a TOS change that will prevent you from suing them after they literally lost your genome ro thieves....

Twenty-year-old Hisham Awartani paralyzed from the chest down after a bullet lodged in his spine, his family say...

SHANE MACGOWAN HAS died aged 65....

THE site “It’s FOSS” suggests alternatives to FOSS. At least half of those alternatives are NOT FOSS, so why bother? █

If you, like me, live in the EU, Facebook is now entirely clamping down and forcing free users to make their personal data available for monetization....

Nicco’s explainer on potentially bad European law which is bad globally to - Chat Control: The EU’s CSEM scanner proposal