Previously, I’ve shared about EUVD, the European Vulnerability Database. Turns out in the wake of the whole CVE debacle, a bunch of other initiatives were also announced! As more alternatives pile up, this paints a good outlook for the future, shall CVE go definitely down the drain.
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2025-04-20
Amazing things are happening with “vibe” coders
The motto of “vibe” coders really is “let the thing do it, don’t check anything ever” because the whole cohort of Cursor users (an IDE with built-in LLMs) really believed a support bot that came up with a fake policy. Shortly afterward, several users publicly announced their subscription cancellations on Reddit, citing the non-existent policy […]
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Headless road to ARM: status
Being currently assigned to the issue about ARM support for Resonite headlesses (GH-2555), time for an update since there hasn’t been one in some time. First off, everything is looking great, current status being: This marks the first ARM-related PR being reviewed and merged into an official repository, being the PR #1 on the Brotli […]
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Interesting links: Open-Source DMR Radio
A friend sent me a link to an interesting blog post talking about making an Open-Source DMR radio using a LimeSDR board and GNU Radio. Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) is a mobile radio standard created by ETSI, which is very popular within the amateur radio community. […]A very basic DMR modem (receiver and transmitter), capable […]
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2025-04-19
Getting Steam game changelogs in your RSS reader
A little known feature of Steam is that it offers RSS feeds for any app/game/whatever shared using it. The URL is also very simple to use: You can then replace $AppID by the application ID of your game. For instance, if we want to monitor Resonite, app ID 2519830, you will need the following URL: […]
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Fixing ffmpeg missing codec issues on Fedora
At some point, I had some issues converting some files with ffmpeg, most particularly videos on my Fedora install. Turns out fixing this is really easy with the help of RPMFusion. If you haven’t enabled it at the system installation, you can do that really easily via a single command which will install the free […]
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2025-04-18
The European vulnerability database
I’ve recently discovered that the EU has their own vulnerability database: EUVD. As noted by the message on top of the page: This website is currently in its beta phase. We appreciate your collaboration in reporting any inaccurate or incomplete information via the link below “Provide feedback”. The site is still in a really early […]
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Configuring DNSSEC on systemd-resolved
Enabling DNSSEC on systemd-resolved is quite easy. First, let’s go in /etc/systemd/resolved.conf.d/main.conf and add/modify the file like so: For good measure, you can also enable DoT (DNS Over TLS) in there, which you can use with something like DNS0. Restart systemd-resolved using systemctl restart systemd-resolved and voilà. Now, if you type something like resolvectl query […]
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Fedora 42 and new RSS reader
A few weeks ago, I finally did the final switched and completely nuked my Windows 11 install from my workstation. The last thing that was keeping me on Windows, VR, is now pretty much painless on Linux. All of this thanks to the guides provided by Linux VR Adventures, and most particularly, the software Envision […]
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2025-04-05
Free spell checking
You probably know about Grammarly and other web browser add-ons that basically act as fancier spell checkers.They’re expensive, a bit opaque, and you can’t really integrate them into whatever you want. Well today, I’ll talk about LanguageTool. Despite offering full-blown plans, what is little known is that you can use it locally and host your […]
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