Using Fennec or Mull for Extensible and Secure Browsing on Android

I recently produced (and was the Major-General in) The Pirates of Penzance. The opera was first performed in 1879, and published contemporaneously. Its composer, Arthur Sullivan, died in 1900, and its librettist. W. S. Gilbert, in 1911. So when I uploaded it to YouTube, why was my video tagged as a copyright violation? It wasn’t that kind of...

Since YouTube is the dominant video platform, a lot has already been said about its copyright claims system. Most of that has had to do with questions about what constitutes fair use (in movie reviews, for instance). Google’s AI is mostly trained to recognize the presence or non-presence of content in your video, not whether or not your use is...

I’ve long been interested in practical low-end computing. Dealing with low-end hardware shows us how experiences might be improved on modern systems, and, in any case, tinkering around has always been fun. In the past, I’d messed around with i686 systems. While some of the more popular Linux distros are dropping official support for 32-bit x86,...