In 2020 the world of messaging, VoIP calling, and video calling has literally exploded. On a corporate and business level, giants such as Google, Microsoft, and Zoom, have made it the masters with their stocks that have literally exploded on the stock exchange, while Apple and Facebook which, like small children, have been fighting to the sound of user privacy[…]
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Lulu. A fully open-source firewall for macOS
LuLu is the free, shared-source macOS firewall that aims to block unknown outgoing connections unless explicitly approved by the user. Any unknown outgoing connections, until approved by the user, are blocked by default. While it was designed to generically detect malware by flagging unauthorized networking connections, LuLu can also be used to block OS components or 3rd-party applications from transmitting[…]
Read moreHow to Transfer Your Playlists from Spotify to YouTube Music. Easy and free
If you too are fed up with all the inefficiencies of Spotify, those horrible ads shot at high volume, poor codecs, and, above all, those horrible algorithms that recommend music that has nothing to do with your tastes, then the time has come to change and move on to better service. Spotify made us fall in love, we loved it[…]
Read moreThe new Raspberry Pi 400. A Computer in a keyboard
The newest Raspberry Pi 400 is a very smart almost-all-in-one computer and it’s fitting in the size of a small portable keyboard. Onboard, it’s got a Rasp Pi 4 processor of 1.8 GHz, 4 GB of RAM, wireless, Ethernet, dual HDMI outputs, and even a 40-pin Raspberry Standard IDE-cable style header on the back. It’s a computer. Neat. Featuring a[…]
Read moreYoutube-dl is taken down due to DMCA takedown notice by RIAA
The video downloading utility youtube-dl, like other large open-source projects, accepts contributions from all around the globe. It is used practically wherever there’s an Internet connection. It’s especially shocking, therefore, when what looks like a domestic legal spat–involving a take-down demand written by lawyers representing the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), a U.S. industry group, to Github, a U.S.[…]
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