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Updating the UEFI/BIOS of a Lenovo t450s using Fedora
A year ago, my Lenovo X1 Carbon running Fedora was greeting me with firmware updates for the first time, using fwupd, an awesome service for integrated firmware updates on Linux. A service that the Linux community was lacking for way too long and probably due to it’s absence causes millions of Linux setups to be vulnerable to firmware flaws of unpatched hardware running underneath the system.1 The one I installed fixed 3 CVEs from 2018 (CVE-2018-12126, CVE-2018-12127, and CVE-2018-12130) ↩ …
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How to create an LUKS-encrypted external device on Linux
Nowadays you shouldn’t leave any data on a disk unencrypted. Therefore creating an encrypted external hard drive is considered good practice to store your data, system backups and more. …
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Atom plugin "gitlab-integration" leaks your tokens
After waiting 90 days for the developer to answer or fix it, it’s time to inform the public. …
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Shivering-Isles Onion Service
Remember Cloudflare announcing their “Cloudflare Onion Service” a few months ago? This was a huge step for them towards becoming more Tor-friendly and an experiment to reduce the number of CAPTCHAs TorBrowser users have to solve. Besides that, it introduced a quite interesting concept of handling Tor traffic. …
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Using web feeds
In recent months, I reorganized my news flow. As I don’t use those regular news apps like Google News or similar, my main source of News was Twitter and a public media news app. Somehow it wasn’t really organized and I simply missed some news, while getting a lot of unwanted content around. Especially comments on Twitter, that caused me to avoid political news at some point, annoyed me. So I switched to old but working web feeds with standards like RSS. …
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Let's discover OpenPGP keys
I don’t know how familiar you are with OpenPGP as a standard or GnuPG as one of the providers for OpenPGP, but it’s one of the two big standards for email encryption. Besides that it’s also used for signing software packages in almost all Linux distributions, signing ISO files to make sure the initial install is correct, and so on. …
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First impression on /e/
This weekend I did something I planned to do for more than a year already. I got rid of the stock ROM on my smartphone and I highly recommend everyone else to do this as well, and a lot earlier than me. …
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