Wizards of the Coast is changing the rules for the Dungeons and Dragons Open Gaming License, and game designers are Not happy. Long before there was open-source software, there was Dungeons and Dragons (D&D). And, I was there from almost … Continue reading →

Opinion For better or worse, we still need passwords, and to protect and organize them, I recommend the open source Bitwarden password manager. LastPass is perhaps the world’s most popular password manager. It’s also arguably the most broken password…Read More

It’s always something! The Kinsing malware has long been known to Linux administrators, and, now — surprise! — it’s coming after Kubernetes as well. is an old-school Linux/Unix Executable and Link format (ELF) malware program, written in Go. Given a…Read … Continue reading →

While trolling through the dark web this week, I found my Twitter account’s data. A dark web site this month released a data set of 200 million Twitter profiles. That’s where I found my account’s data. I know my data … Continue reading →

The group, Natives in Tech, is calling on the Apache Foundation to change its name. I didn’t see this coming. But, then, I’m a baby boomer white guy, so I was born with blinders on. So, I didn’t see Natives … Continue reading →

Want to really secure a containerized Linux? Don’t include the kernel. Seriously. There are many ways to get serious about securing Linux on a container. Heck, Microsoft has one, Common Base Linux (CBL)-Mariner. Others include Alpine Linux, Flatcar…Read More