Astronomy Picture of the Day

“Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.”

Astronomy Picture of the Day has been around since 1995 and you can see the full archive here (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepixFull.html)

Did you know there is water on Mars ?

The site is updated daily at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html and a lot of the image are high resolution.

Makes for a good Speed Dial in Vivaldi 😉

February 4, 2020February 4, 2020

Old CSS, new CSS

This is a great read https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/

You! Yes, you, young 'un. Read this article about the early days of web development before you write some moaning crap about how hard CSS is. You don't know you're bloody born, so put away that React if you're just making a website. https://t.co/nDtmwg89MR
— Bruce Lawson. European. (@brucel) February 4, 2020

November 9, 2019

Did you know that both Opera & Webkit were created in the same building?

A great read:

https://blogs.opera.com/news/2019/10/world-browser-day-oct-16-oslo-plaque/

November 20, 2018

Some insight on Insight by The Oatmeal

On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars

https://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight

It is a great comic explaining the event and what will be going on.

The event will be live streamed on https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive

@NASAInSight for the mission on Twitter

September 25, 2018September 25, 2018

Softwares loss of efficiency & simplicity

Nikita makes a lot of great points with examples

“I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and the IT in general.”

http://tonsky.me/blog/disenchantment/

September 5, 2018September 5, 2018

Even modems & routers have to be patched

Ars Technica has a post about some recent news regarding over 7,500 unpatched routers:

Unpatched routers being used to build vast proxy army, spy on networks

“According to a report by Netlab 360’s Genshen Ye, more than 7,500 of them are actively being spied on by attackers, who are actively forwarding full captures of their network traffic to a number of remote servers.”

From earlier this year in May 2018:

New VPNFilter malware targets at least 500K networking devices worldwide

You can use localrouter.net to find your local router’s web interface.

Before starting the firmware update on a router or modem (many ISPs control the firmware updates to modems) it is a good idea to back up the configuration settings incase things get reset etc. Firmware updates can also have bug fixes as well as security updates.

August 24, 2018

Reporting phishing and malware can help everyone in the world

Easily Report Phishing and Malware

https://decentsecurity.com/#/malware-web-and-phishing-investigation/

This is how you can strike back at criminals sending phishing spam – by getting their webpages on blacklists. Blocking their sites helps protect other people and helps researchers trying to stop this. Sites can be blocked within 15 minutes of your report, but you may not immediately see it.

August 17, 2018

Someone is streaming a defrag of a hard drive on Twitch

Desktop: https://www.twitch.tv/twitchdefrags

Mobile: https://m.twitch.tv/twitchdefrags

Newer HDDs don’t make that much of a sound, this person might have placed a microphone near the HDD (or it could be an older HDD). A disk defrag can take from around 10 minutes to 3+ hours depending on how much disk fragmentation there is.

June 9, 2018

NASA Audio and Ringtones

“A collection of NASA sounds from historic spaceflights and current missions. We have included both MP3 and M4R (iPhone) sound files to download”

https://www.nasa.gov/connect/sounds/index.html

#a11y is Code for “Love Your Neighbor”

Ars Technica has a post about some recent news regarding over 7,500 unpatched routers:

Easily Report Phishing and Malware