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This has been a problem for a while now. That green dot and popup notification persisted on my Mullvad browser makes me feel like using a bloatware than a FOSS. The right way to do this is either follow their upstream Tor browser update model—just force updating seamlessly without any user interaction. Or, like LibreWolf, manual update with the system package manager. This situation might be because of I’m using the portable version of Mullvad browser. If that’s the case, I shouldn’t blame it. ...

Background with Kicksecure Last year, I set up my Monero Wallet with Kicksecure and happy about it. This distro is really lightweight and easy to use. However, it failed completely after a recent upgrade, which was a major version leap from Debian 12 to 13. It lost drivers, desktop environment stopped working and probably much more which I couldn’t discover because I stacked at a login screen loop. After troubleshooting for a couple of hours, it turns out all lightdm related DEs are unusable and Gnome and KDE are working. ...

This post was originally published on February 2025, and I recently updated the IPATool section in the end as a alternative method to prior ones. iPhone Talks There are a many cellphones that make me feel nostalgic. None of them is Android nor iPhone. Some of them are QWERTY, some are flip phones. Phones were much interesting back in the days when Motorola, Nokia, Sony, Sharp, Blackberry and more are still competitive in the market. Today’s smartphones are indifferent and rather being “boredphones”. And all of these boredness are rooted in the “iPhone Moment”. ...

After almost two years later, the hardware of my Openmediavault NAS is going to be upgraded from Vostro to Precision. Which is a big leap, that I don’t have to do any hardware modification to use Xeon CPUs. Thanks for my friend’s donation. This junkstation comes with E3-1245, 16GB and 4 SATA HDD port. What I added is a ASMedia 106x SATA PCIE card for 2 more SATA HDD capacity (6 HDD in total), and a PCIe to NVMe adapter for accommodating a OS drive (128GB SSD). ...

Background Last month, Cisco researchers detected over 1,000 Ollama instances within the first 10 minutes using Shodan scanning on 11434 port. Other services such as vLLM/llama.cpp/LangChain on 8000, LM Studio on 1234, GPT4All on 4891, are also identified. Later, Censys found 10.6K Ollama instances publicly available online, and 1.5K of these instances respond to prompts. That poses not only a great security risk of RCE, injection and poisoning, but also possible to expose private chat memory via unauthorized prompting. ...