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ASRock USB 3.1 (type A+C) PCIe

Speeding up device charging with a new USB 3.1 controller and a Type-C connector

My computer’s mainboard, an , has a USB 3.1 Type-C connector port. However, it’s power delivery capabilities were quite underwhelming. I thought I’d look into the issue with a USB multimeter to…

Pushing redirect destinations with HTTP/2

Accelerate redirects with HTTP/2 server push

You can achieve low-latency responses to redirects with HTTP/2 by pushing the resource at the redirected location along with the response that informs the web browser about the redirect. It’s even easy…

Public Money? Public Code.

FSFE: Publicly funded software has to be Free

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) has published an open letter to EU legislators calling for new legislation that will require code paid for by the people to be made available as…

Automattic slashes Get.blog

Don’t register your domains with Automattic

Automattic rearranged their domain business at the beginning of the month, and they didn’t bother telling their customers about the changes. I was afraid that my domain had been hijacked! This will…

Delock USB-C volt-/ammeter

Review: Delock USB-C volt-/ammeter

I needed a USB Type-C multimeter to test a couple of under-performing USB Type-C ports, and to gather some data for another review I’m working on. I ended up with a cheap…

Camera hanging from person

Keep a record when sourcing royalty free stock photographs for your works

There is a lot of awesome photographs available on royalty-free stock photography repository websites like Pexels, Pixabay, and Unsplash at no cost. But there might be an issue with one of the…

Sense sleep tracker in the dark

Postmortem re-review of the Sense sleep monitoring system

I thought I’d revisit the Sense sleep tracker which I first reviewed back in October 2015. The Internet connected alarm clock has now been discontinued after two years on the market, and…

GNOME Remote Desktop on Wayland

Remote desktop capabilities making a comeback in GNOME on Wayland

Remote desktop under Wayland seems to finally be happening; thanks to work on new APIs and a new GNOME Remote Desktop service undertaken by Jonas Ådahl!

Stacks of cookies

Reduce the max cookie lifetime from decades to days in Firefox

If you visit the Google homepage in any web browser, the search giant will leave behind a cookie that lasts for 20 years. Every website you randomly visit one can do the…

An oak tree in sunset

SpiderOak ONE: not the best treatment after the trial ended

I had signed up for a free 21-day trial account of SpiderOak ONE, and used that to write my SpiderOak ONE review. As a small addendum that didn’t fit in my review,…