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Microsoft maintains its own Windows debloat scripts on GitHub
https://www.osnews.com/story/140955/microsoft-maintains-its-own-windows-debloat-scripts-on-github/
Published: October 21, 2024 14:07
It’s no secret that a default Windows installation is… Hefty. In more ways than one, Windows is a bit on the obese side of the spectrum, from taking up a lot of disk space, to requiring hefty system requirements (artificial or not), to coming with a lot of…
Booting Sun SPARC servers
https://www.osnews.com/story/140953/booting-sun-sparc-servers/
Published: October 21, 2024 13:46
In early 2022 I got several Sun SPARC servers for free off of a FreeCycle ad: I was recently called out for not providing any sort of update on those devices… so here we go! ↫ Sidneys1.com Some information on booting old-style SPARC machines, as well as…
Chromium’s influence on Chromium alternatives
https://www.osnews.com/story/140949/chromiums-influence-on-chromium-alternatives/
Published: October 19, 2024 07:53
I don’t think most people realize how Firefox and Safari depend on Google for more than “just” revenue from default search engine deals and prototyping new web platform features. Off the top of my head, Safari and Firefox use the following Chromium…
Google’s ad-blocking crackdown underway
https://www.osnews.com/story/140947/googles-ad-blocking-crackdown-underway/
Published: October 18, 2024 22:46
Google has gotten a bad reputation as of late for being a bit overzealous when it comes to fighting ad blockers. Most recently, it’s been spotted automatically turning off popular ad blocking extension uBlock Origin for some Google Chrome users. To a…
Qualcomm cancels its mini PC with the Snapdragon X Elite processor
Published: October 18, 2024 18:04
Something odd happened to Qualcomm’s Snapdragon Dev Kit, an $899 mini PC powered by Windows 11 and the company’s latest Snapdragon X Elite processor. Qualcomm decided to abruptly discontinue the product, refund all orders (including for those with units on…
Go Plan9 memo, speeding up calculations 450%
https://www.osnews.com/story/140941/go-plan9-memo-speeding-up-calculations-450/
Published: October 18, 2024 17:38
I want to take advantage of Go’s concurrency and parallelism for some of my upcoming projects, allowing for some serious number crunching capabilities. But what if I wanted EVEN MORE POWER?!? Enter SIMD, Same Instruction Muliple Data . Simd instructions…
How to install Windows 11 on supported and unsupported PCs, 24H2 edition
Published: October 17, 2024 22:01
We’ve pulled together all kinds of resources to create a comprehensive guide to installing and upgrading to Windows 11. This includes advice and some step-by-step instructions for turning on officially required features like your TPM and Secure Boot, as…
The costs of the i386 to x86-64 upgrade
https://www.osnews.com/story/140930/the-costs-of-the-i386-to-x86-64-upgrade/
Published: October 17, 2024 21:50
If you read my previous article on DOS memory models, you may have dismissed everything I wrote as “legacy cruft from the 1990s that nobody cares about any longer”. After all, computers have evolved from sporting 8-bit processors to 64-bit processors and,…
Android 15’s security and privacy features are the update’s highlight
Published: October 17, 2024 18:05
Android 15 started rolling out to Pixel devices Tuesday and will arrive, through various third-party efforts, on other Android devices at some point. There is always a bunch of little changes to discover in an Android release, whether by reading, poking…
Huawei’s Android-free ‘HarmonyOS NEXT’ will go live next week
https://www.osnews.com/story/140915/huaweis-android-free-harmonyos-next-will-go-live-next-week/
Published: October 16, 2024 17:37
Earlier this year we talked about Huawei’s HarmonyOS NEXT, which is most likely the only serious competitor to Android and iOS in the world. HarmonyOS started out as a mere Android skin, but over time Huawei invested heavily into the platform to expand it…
Google is preparing to let you run Linux apps on Android, just like Chrome OS
Published: October 16, 2024 17:20
Engineers at Google started work on a new Terminal app for Android a couple of weeks ago. This Terminal app is part of the Android Virtualization Framework (AVF) and contains a WebView that connects to a Linux virtual machine via a local IP address,…
A Google breakup is on the table, say DOJ lawyers
https://www.osnews.com/story/140904/a-google-breakup-is-on-the-table-say-doj-lawyers/
Published: October 13, 2024 19:04
Next up in my backlog of news to cover: the US Department of Justice’s proposed remedies for Google’s monopolistic abuse. Now that Judge Amit Mehta has found Google is a monopolist, lawyers for the Department of Justice have begun proposing solutions to…
Internet Archive hacked and victim of DDoS attacks
https://www.osnews.com/story/140902/internet-archive-hacked-and-victim-of-ddos-attacks/
Published: October 13, 2024 14:44
Internet Archive’s “The Wayback Machine” has suffered a data breach after a threat actor compromised the website and stole a user authentication database containing 31 million unique records. News of the breach began circulating Wednesday afternoon after…
Goodbye Windows 7
https://www.osnews.com/story/140900/goodbye-windows-7/
Published: October 13, 2024 07:40
I finally seem to be recovering from a nasty flu that is now wreaking havoc all across my tiny Arctic town – better now than when we hit -40 I guess – so let’s talk about something that’s not going to recover because it actually just fucking died: Windows…
OS/2 TCPBEUI name resolution
https://www.osnews.com/story/140896/os-2-tcpbeui-name-resolution/
Published: October 10, 2024 17:20
Sometimes I have the following problem to deal with: An OS/2 system uses NetBIOS over TCP/IP (aka TCPBEUI) and should communicate with a SMB server (likewise using TCPBEUI) on a different subnet. This does not work on OS/2 out of the box without a little…
KDE Plasma 6.2 released
https://www.osnews.com/story/140892/kde-plasma-6-2-released/
Published: October 9, 2024 18:13
Entirely coincidentally, the KDE team released Plasma 6.2 yesterday, the latest release in the well-received 6.x series. As the version number implies, it’s not a groundbreaking release, but it does contain a number of improvements that are very welcome to…
Why I use KDE
https://www.osnews.com/story/140538/why-i-use-kde/
Published: October 8, 2024 21:19
Over the decades, my primary operating system of choice has changed a few times. As a wee child of six years old, we got out first PC through one of those employer buy-a-PC programs, where an employer would subsidize its employees buying PCs for use in the…
OpenBSD 7.6 released
https://www.osnews.com/story/140873/openbsd-7-6-released/
Published: October 7, 2024 22:31
OpenBSD 7.6, the release in which every single line of the original code form the first release has been edited or removed, has been released. There’s a lot of changes, new features, bug fixes, and more in 7.6, but for desktop users, the biggest new…