Computer viruses are types of a computer program that, when executed, replicates itself by modifying other computer programs and inserting their own code. When this replication succeeds, the affected systems are then said to be infected with a computer virus. Computer viruses currently cause billions of dollars’ worth of economic damage each year, due to causing system failure, wasting computer[…]
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Public Domain Day. Works from 1924 are open to all
On January 1, 2020, works from 1924 will enter the US public domain, where they will be free for all to use and build upon, without permission or fee. These works include George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, silent films by Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd, and books such as Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, E. M. Forster’s A Passage to[…]
Read moreHow to install Keybase on openSUSE Linux
Keybase is an innovative platform to secure our online identities, it allows users to link their encryption keys to their social accounts like Facebook, Reddit, and Twitter. Keybase also offers an end-to-end encrypted chat, a cloud storage system and a secure cryptocurrency wallet. In addition to the website, Keybase has client applications for Android phones, iOS platforms, and the most[…]
Read moreHow to install the latest Google Chrome on openSUSE Linux
If you work with your PC, willy-nilly it will happen that time you need to use Google Chrome. Based on the Chromium opensource project, Google Chrome is the browser of reference and the most popular currently. It doesn’t matter if you are using Linux, macOS or Windows, the browser par excellence remains the same: Google Chrome. Installing Google Chrome may[…]
Read moreThe Facebook case. How advertisers track people on the internet
I often hear about this slightly creepy internet experience: you’re looking at a product online, and a day later see an ad for the same boots or whatever that you were looking at. This is called “retargeting”, but how does it actually work exactly in practice? In this post we’ll experiment a bit and see exactly how Facebook can know[…]
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