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Review: Delock USB-C volt-/ammeter
A review of the budget Delock USB-C voltmeter/ammeter. It’s used to measure the power flowing through a USB Type-C connector.
Keep a record when sourcing royalty-free stock photos for your works
Maintain a record of where you acquired royalty-free or Creative Commons stock photographs. It can prove to be a very valuable resource in your future.
Postmortem re-review of the Sense sleep monitoring system
The Sense sleep monitoring system from Hello Inc. was discontinued and its cloud services put to sleep. Don’t buy cloud-connected products, kids!
Is remote desktop making a comeback in GNOME on Wayland?
There’s finally some good news with regards to restoring VNC remote desktop capabilities in GNOME Wayland sessions. (It’s not fixed just yet.)
Reduce the max cookie lifetime from decades to days in Firefox
Improve your privacy by reducing how long Firefox retains cookies. Who needs to store them for decades? Firefox can cap it at a custom interval.
SpiderOak ONE: not the best treatment after the trial ended
I let my SpiderOak ONE trial expire and customer service didn’t quite know what to do when I wanted to continue with the service.
SpiderOak ONE review: Okay backup service, clunky software
The SpiderOak ONE backup service is better than their client software. Good security and privacy protections but tough to use.
Recover language packs after locking a UI-override in Windows 10
The Windows Settings app will refuse to download additional language packs if you’ve locked a language in the legacy Control Panel.
Keep an eye on your certificates with SSLPing
SSLPing is a service that keeps an eye on the health of your TLS certificates and server security configuration. It’ll email you before your certificates expire.
How to report a false-positive in Microsoft SmartScreen
Report false-positives in Windows SmartScreen to Microsoft when it thinks your software is malicious. Useful for programs without a security reputation.
Mozilla celebrates 1M new non-Gecko users
Firefox Focus browser, built on WebKit, for Android has been downloaded 1 million times in a month. Whatever happen to Mozilla’s commitment to GeckoView?