Issue #255 / Feb 2022

The sorry state of discourse on the Internet has many causes, and the experts have offered many solutions for the mess. One of the biggest problems is the way that social media platforms reward engagement.

Parrot OS 4.11 and Fedora Workstation 35

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Chronicler Zack Brown reports on the latest news, views, dilemmas, and developments within the Linux kernel community.

Fuzzing is an important method for finding bugs and security vulnerabilities in software. Read on to find out what fuzzing is and which methods are commonly used today.

Parrot OS offers a more secure desktop with practical tools for both newbies and veteran users that encourage better security habits.

PDFs, the preferred format for file sharing, only offer primitive privacy and security measures. With these command-line tools, you can help your PDFs meet modern security requirements.

Instead of websites or newsfeeds, Charly prefers to use getnews.tech at the command line to keep up to date with what's happening around the world quickly and in a targeted way.

We all know that the Fyne framework for Go can be used to create GUIs for the desktop, but you can also write games with it. Mike Schilli takes on a classic from the soccer field.

We explore some machine learning techniques with a simple missing person app.