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14 Sep 2022 1 minute read 0 comments TheJan
There are many algorithms for crypto mining out there, and sometimes it's difficult to find out which mining software (or even specific version) supports what. One particular algorithm called Neoscrypt is not particularly widely supported. Neoscrypt...
22 Aug 2022 4 minute read 4 comments lingy
The AWK language is a text processing language created for early versions of Unix. You can think of it as the grandfather of RegEx, as you could create simple scripts to search for text on the lines of files you wanted and then filter them. The firs...
13 Aug 2022 3 minute read 0 comments Bala
Yesterday almost the whole day I spent setting up my own virtualization environment with the help of Proxmox. I learned about Proxmox from @rishi556. He mentioned somewhere that he's been using it for managing virtual servers. I did learn some things...
12 Aug 2022 5 minute read 1 comment LateToTheParty
Co-published on Read.cash. In less than 2 weeks, the Steam Deck will have officially reached its half-year milestone. Back in May, I wrote about some of Linux gaming's most significant achievements as well as its shortcomings. At that time, about 2,5...
3 Aug 2022 2 minute read 0 comments GG-Off
History and origins of popular UNIX-like systems Linus Torvalds started Linux (then intended to be named Freax, for freedom, freak, and the X of UNIX – reminiscent from the older phreax of phone freaks, the hackers' grandparents) in the early 90's...
1 Aug 2022 1 minute read 0 comments lingy
First of all, I warn you that this text will be much shorter than the previous one, but in the next one it will be After seeing the previous article on how the print function works, you must have thought that there is no way to simplify it any furth...
6 May 2022 3 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Co-published on Read.cash. In April 2021, I made a blog post on the state of Linux gaming. At that time, the Linux marketshare on Steam still hovered below 1%. While the compatibility layer, Proton, made Linux gaming more palatable than in years' pas...
28 Mar 2022 1 minute read 30 comments I_g_o_r
In this post we consider how to turn your old laptop into a security monitoring device. In the example below an old Asus EEE PC (1st generation) is used. This laptop does not have an internal web camera, therefore an external usb webcam will be...
8 Mar 2022 4 minute read 0 comments LateToTheParty
Co-published on Read.cash. Intro: Valve's Steam Deck Launches to Good-ish Reviews It took a while, but Valve finally began shipping its PC handheld device, the Steam Deck, since February 25. When tech YouTuber channels like Linus Tech Tips, Gamers Ne...
27 Feb 2022 15 minute read 2 comments lingy
Follow me on Odysee I was reading a text that I found on a portal on the Gopher network and I thought "hey, this is interesting, I'll take it to the people at Odysee". So I started translating the texts little by little and making slight modification...
