Author: Heather

The Indian Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-in) requires VPN services, data centres, ISPs, hosting providers and other internet infrastructure companies operating in India to collect customer data. This data must then be stored for five or more years.  VPN companies may no longer be able to guarantee the privacy of customers in India. According to […]

Good news, you can now upgrade to Tails 5.1.1! According to the team, there is an important security update for a vulnerability in Tor that affects performance and user anonymity. The developers have also implemented various software updates. Here is a short list of what to expect –  tor 0.4.7.8. Thunderbird 91.10. Linux kernel 5.10.120 […]

As always, I started Spotify on Linux Mint and, for whatever reason, the applicatiob opened in full screen mode. There were no more window frames so I couldn’t shrink or close the application The best solution was to delete the configuration file. In my case and in most other cases, it’s probably in the ~/.config/spotify […]

Some quick news- there are new maintenance releases for Nextcloud. More precisely, Nextcloud 24.0.2, 23.0.6, and 22.2.9 are now available. In the case of small version jumps, the updates are usually problem-free. In any case, I just installed the update and it went through without any problems. Nextcloud 24.0.2 is available Branches 22, 23 and […]

Anyone interested in the upcoming LibreOffice version can now download LibreOffice 7.4 Beta to check out numerous changes and improvements. For example, Calc now supports and uses 16384 columns. In the release notes you can also read about the improved text layout performance. According to the company, this applies to cases such as PDF export, […]

Tor project is incredibly important for whistleblowers and anyone who wants to remain anonymous on the web. Developers make several hundred changes to Tor Browser every year and these updates need to be thoroughly tested to avoid data leaks and other issues.. A few volunteers are already testing the alpha versions for all platforms ( […]

Streaming to Chromecast with Linux has been a real ordeal so far. Mkchromecast is an option but it has caused several issues for users. Luckily, there are several other options available – Mkchromecast connection issues Top tip – If your media stutters or there are dropouts, your network connection may not be fast enough. Ideally, […]

LibreOffice 7.3.4 Community is now available . As you can see from the version number, this is the fourth minor version of LibreOffice 7.3. It’s the Fresh branch, and it’s aimed at technology enthusiasts and power users. For more conservative people is the Still family, which is currently LibreOffice 7.2. However, you should start thinking […]

Great news! You can now download the latest Tor Browser! As the Tor Browser is known to be based on Mozilla’s browser, this new update includes important security updates for Mozilla Firefox. Tor Browser 11.0.14 updates the underlying Firefox to 91.10.0esr. This applies to the major operating systems – Linux, macOS, and Windows. The development […]

At first glance, the Orange Pi 800 actually looks like the Raspberry Pi 400 . However, the Orange Pi 800 is equipped with a Rockchip RX3399 64-bit, which contains six cores. Orange Pi 800  Another difference that is really visible – there is a VGA interface, whereas the Raspberry Pi 400 has two HDMI interfaces. […]