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This is the seventh in an increasingly infrequent series of Friday Tales From Tech Support. Some stories from the past featuring broken computers and even more broken tech support operatives - mostly me.
London. Summer 2002In the early 2000s I worked as a SAP Technical Consultant which involved teaching courses, advising customers, and doing SAP installations, upgrades and migrations.
This story starts on a typical mid-summer, warm and stuffy day in London. I arrive for the first and only time to a small, second-floor office in a side road, just off Regent Street, in the centre of town. The office was about the size and shape of Sherlock’s flat in the modern hit BBC TV show of the same name, and was clearly...
This is a deeply personal post. Feel free to skip this if you’re only here for the Linux and open-source content. It’s also a touch rambling. As for the title, no, I didn’t “get” ADHD on my birthday; obviously, that’s humourous literary hyperbole. Read on.
LET age = age + 1Like a few billion others, I managed to cling to this precious rock we call home and complete a 52nd orbit of our nearest star. What an achievement!
It’s wild for me to think it’s been that long since I innocently emerged into early 1970s Southern Britain. Back then, the UK wasn’t a member of the European Common Market and was led by a Conservative government that would go on to lose the next election.
Over in the USA, 1972 saw the...
Back in February, I blogged about a series of scam Bitcoin wallet apps that were published in the Canonical Snap store, including one which netted a scammer $490K of some poor rube’s coin.
The snap was eventually removed, and some threads were started over on the Snapcraft forum
Groundhog DayNothing has changed it seems,...
I maintain a few snaps in the Snap Store. This page is generated periodically so I can keep an eye on the updatedness of each one. The script isn’t perfect, and doesn’t monitor them all. It’s a whole thing I need to maintain and update.
The list is sorted by the “OK” column which either has a ✔ or ✖ to give a rough indication if the snap needs updating. This whole page is mostly just for my reference.
2024-03-14T13:46:15Z Snap Stable Edge Upstream OK? Bandwhich v0.22.2.5f5cc7e v0.22.2.23d1879 v0.22.2 ✔ Dog v0.1.0 v0.1.0 v0.1.0 ✔...These charts show the userbase of snaps I publish in the snap store over the last 30 days. They show the usage by country, version, OS (Linux distro) and channel. The first three only show up to 25 entries for each category.
20240319T135826 azimuth Installed base by OS Installed base by Channel Installed base by Version Installed base by Country b2 Installed base by OS
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tl;dr I have had a Mini EV for a little over two years, so I thought it was time for a retrospective. This isn’t so much a review, as I’m not a car journalist. It’s more just my thoughts of owning an electric car for a couple of years.
I briefly talked about the car in episode 24 (out on Tuesday 5th may) of Linux Matters Podcast, if you prefer a shorter, less detailed review in audio format.
Patreon supporters of Linux Matters can get the show a day or so early, and without adverts. 🙏
IntroductionIn August 2020, amid [The Event], and my approaching 50th birthday, I...
Yesterday I blogged about a series of Bitcoin scam apps published in the Canonical Snap store.
Two things!
Firstly, I have edited yesterday’s blog to remove reference to exchangerate-api. I had a few comments about this, and it would have been better not to mention them. They seem like fine upstanding people doing good work, and aren’t involved in all this horribleness. Sincere apologies for mentioning them.
Second, one of the key messages I pushed yesterday was that the dodgy...
tl;dr: A Bitcoin investor was recently scammed out of 9 Bitcoin (worth around $490K) in a fake “Exodus wallet” desktop application for Linux, published in the Canonical Snap Store. This isn’t the first time, and if nothing changes, it likely won’t be the last.
This post turned out longer than I expected. So if you don’t have the time there’s a briefer summary at the bottom under “In summary (the tl;dr)” along with my suggestions on what Canonical should do now.
We talked about this in episode 23 of Linux Matters Podcast, if you prefer a...
