Category: News
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UK and the Online Safety Act
This is an interesting one to say the least … I have children and want them to have some sort of protection when doing stuff online (browsing, gaming, etc) so the act itself in principle or something like it is needed but how it is implemented is the part I have mixed feelings with. If…
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I’m ready to get started with some side-gigs
As the title suggests, I’m in progress of putting together some side-gigs. I figured it was about time to put all my knowledge and experience to work. I have a gazillion ideas, thousands of notes, quite a few projects in progress and the drive and energy to make them happen. One of them is GentOS…
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GentOS – coming soon
A few years back (when I was working for GoDaddy) me and a few of my colleagues were talking about various Linux distributions and how each is special in its own way. One of the names I brought up was Gentoo and to my surprise the majority of my colleagues were not familiar with it…
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Master of Science
It finally happened, I am now a Master of Science … Data Science and Advanced Computing to be more precise 🙂 Two years ago I decided I should explore other branches of IT (not to transition to something else but rather to add more skills to my portfolio) and started looking at a Master’s degree…
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Queen Elizabeth II has died
Well … the title says all … everyone favourite “granny” died after a lifetime of service …. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61585886 The Queen Is Dead, Long Live The King!
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Russia goes to war with Ukraine 🙁
This is the shittiest piece of news I had to deal with in a while (worse than COVID as this is clearly man made) … I can’t believe “war” is still a thing in 2022 … not to mention of all places … in f**king Europe. I am so disappointed in the human race ……
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Bye Bye CentOS
Apparently it is the end of CentOS as we know it. Check this out: https://blog.centos.org/2020/12/future-is-centos-stream/ Obviously many ppl right now are in a state of panic considering they liked not having to worry about that layer of their infrastructure (you know, stable os, no major changes between versions of installed software, security patches, etc etc)…
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Coronavirus update
Unfortunately the Coronavirus situation seems to be ongoingLooking at this site: https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/ you can get the current status around the world and today (April 12, 2020) we have about 1.8 mil people confirmed to have been infected, 113k deaths caused by this virus and about 400k cases of people recovering from COVID19. At the Government’s…
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Coronavirus
Coronaviruses are a type of virus and apparently there are many different kinds some of which cause disease. A newly identified type has caused a recent outbreak of respiratory illness now called COVID-19 that started in China. Recent information indicates COVID-19 may be passed from person to person. Community spread is being seen, also. Community…
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BREXIT deal signed – it is happening for real
Took a few years but eventually UK did it … they actually got this done. I’m not a fan of BREXIT and I feel that this is not a good thing generally speaking (considering the fact that in my opinion we should all unite under one country called “Humanity”). According to https://www.gov.uk/transition after Jan 2020…