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"Simple Mobile Tools - a suite of applications initially designed because the developers hated how default apps on various devices were privacy-invasive, needed unnecessary permissions and more - is in the process of being bought by ZipoApps.
ZipoApps is a company which makes no original products. They have bought up various apps - including one which's previous developer I quite respected, Powershade - and started bloating them with advertisements and turning them into freemium-apps with subscription models."

Two women in Chicago, that’s where

Tips on protecting computers from lightning, from the SANS Internet Storm Center

"french artist invader uses the rubik's cube like an artist uses paint."

Now, more than ever.

"L4S could fix a problem that even gigabit connections don’t."

Fork of the SimpleMobileTools set of privacy-focused apps, now that the original has been bought by a company known for buying up apps and adding even more tracking, ads, and ridiculously high subscription rates

"On July 11, 2017, at 00:55 UTC, the armored tank of a space probe Juno reached perijove, the closest point in its orbit over the mighty planet Jupiter. Screaming above the cloud tops at over 200,000 kilometers per hour — fast enough to cross the continental Unites States in a minute and a half — it took eleven minutes and 33 seconds to reach the Great Red Spot. Looking down from its height of a mere 9000 km above the clouds, what it saw was ... glorious.  "

"On losing oneself in the geography of fantasy worlds, from Middle Earth to Westeros."