9+ hour, 44+ min ago  (327+ words) If you've ever connected external storage to your Nextcloud and watched occ files: scan crawl along in slug mode for ages during indexing, you already know who's to blame. Fortunately, Marc Palaus picked up the old files_excludedirs plugin (originally launched by…...

13+ hour, 55+ min ago  (467+ words) Researchers Andre Hall and Miller Engelbrecht from Mozilla's Zero Day Investigative Network (0 DIN) have just demonstrated how to take complete control of a machine using a Git Hub repository that contains no malicious code. You clone the repo, ask Claude…...

2+ day, 8+ hour ago  (349+ words) Most anti-tracking tools lie about everything: fake user-agent, fake screen, fake GPU - except that lying actually makes you more detectable. Yeah, a browser claiming to be 3 different machines at once gets spotted pretty quickly. Each session, it adds a slight…...

4+ day, 12+ hour ago  (365+ words) This scroll, known as PHerc. 1667, has just been deciphered from start to finish. It is the first to be read in its entirety. To understand the achievement, you have to picture the state of these documents: discovered in 1752 in a…...

4+ day, 13+ hour ago  (197+ words) Tinkerer Starlarkus just released his new project, the GB-Link USB V2 - nothing more, nothing less than a small adapter that lets you plug a REAL Game Boy into the internet. It's magic! Under the plastic shell of the device, you'll find…...

5+ day, 10+ hour ago  (278+ words) How would you like to stream all of You Tube Music on your Android smartphone with a fully open-source app? ?? Well, it's possible thanks to the excellent work of Iliano Kokoro, who developed Umihi Music. Behind that quirky name hides…...

5+ day, 6+ hour ago  (276+ words) It's been years and years - I'd say close to 20 - that we, poor Firefox users, have been asking for one simple thing: being able to change the browser's keyboard shortcuts. Well, believe it or not, Mozilla finally gave in, and since…...