• My Social Media Detox, part 3: Twitter account

    Today is Twitter's shift! Let's see how getting him out of your lives! Why should I delete Twitter? Privacy Twitter's privacy policy allow a pervasive user tracking, according this report by EFF: Contrary to the inviting “Sounds good” button to… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #78

    Interesting things in the last week! A stupid Facetime bug causes some privacy problems, Facebook facing a controversy with an iOS app and…apparently someone already knows Game Of Thrones finale! Cybersecurity Disable FaceTime Now! Bug Lets Callers Snoop On You… read more »
  • Early Music on Ukulele: Robert de Visée, "Menuet"

    In my previous post, i've written about ukulele reentrant tuning and campanella technique, and how this technique has been derived from techniques used on ancien instruments. One reader sent me an email that can be summarized with: "So, if the… read more »
  • Abusing Microsoft Exchange for privilege escalation: any user may obtain Domain Admin privileges

    The security expert Dirk-jan Mollema discovered a privilege escalation vulnerability in Microsoft Exchange that could be exploited by a user to become a Domain Admin. In most organisations using Active Directory and Exchange, Exchange servers have such high privileges that… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #77

    Interesting things in the last week: two singing tesla coils, some privacy concerns and…a Missile Attack Warning! Technology Seymour Cray, Father of the Supercomputer The Cray-1 was Seymour’s first design based on integrated circuits, and everything about it, from the… read more »
  • Diatonic Major Scales on Ukulele: a campanella-style pattern

    No transcription this week. Today we are dealing with technique! Likewise my previous post about diatonic scales on ukulele, I've developed a couple of patterns useful to perform major scales in Campanella Style along all fretboard. Campanella style? The campanella… read more »
  • My Social Media Detox, part 2: Instagram account

    Second step of my "social media detox": today we destroy the Instagram account! Main reasons are the same exposed for Facebook account. I'd like to add a brief quote from Richard Stallman: Putting the photo of someone on Facebook (or… read more »
  • My Weekly RoundUp #76

    The subjects of my reads in the last week?Qubits, Collection#1, AS400, Lisp and....Game of Thrones! Sci-Fi HBO revealed Game of Thrones season 8’s premiere date https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wA38GCX4Tb0 As expected, HBO used Sunday Night’s premiere of the third season of True Detective… read more »