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GTK4 Terminal App ‘Black Box’ Gets a Big Ol’ Update

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 When I wrote about the first release on omgubuntu last year I surmised that, in a sea of VTEs, this app is made buoyant by delivering most of the core features one would expect, plus several you might not!The latest release builds out in both areas. Flashier touches gain buffs (e.g., context-aware header bar coloring), while the array of more common and/or utilitarian features (like process completion notifications for unfocused tabs) is expanded. Black Box 0.14.0 changes at-a-glance: New default Adwaita and Adwaita Dark color schemes Style picker in main menu Customize working directory of new tabs Tab/window close confirmations if active process running Option to disable terminal bell Option to use bright colors for bold text See desktop notifications for process completion ‘Open’ and ‘copy link’ options added to the right-click menu Rename tabs (<3) Performance improvements Additionally, the preferences/settings panel is made more orderly by grouping certain configuration to...

Why insurance is a must for cyber security now

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July 01,2023    Attack Types I get around five attempted fraud messages daily across my email, WhatsApp and text messages. That is five attempted attacks of phishing and spoofing, every day. Some examples include PDF files with an acknowledgement of financial transfer, a prospective foreign national reaching out to offer business and an unclaimed voucher attached to my credit card. The digital journey is now an arena of potholes, which one must navigate extremely cautiously. Given the ubiquitousness of the attacks and the increasing sophistication, it is only a matter of time that I step into a puddle. This is exactly what happened with two people I know.  Business News /  Money  /  Personal Finance /  Why insurance is a must for cyber security  Fraud attempts through phishing and spoofing, especially involving digital platforms, are becoming increasingly common and sophisticated, leading to financial losses for individuals. Victims often find lit...

NETWORKING WITH BALLOONS

N/S  Starlink has been making tremendous progress towards providing world-wide access to broadband Internet access, but there are a number of downsides to satellite-based internet such as the cluttering of low-Earth orbit, high expense, and moodiness of CEO. There are some alternatives if standard Internet access isn’t available, and one of the more ambitious is providing Internet access by balloon. Project Loon is perhaps the most famous of these (although now defunct), but it’s also possible to skip the middleman and build your own high-altitude balloon capable of connection speeds of 500 Kbps. [Stephen] has been working on this project for a few months and while it doesn’t support a full Internet connection, the downlink on the high altitude balloon is fast enough to send high-resolution images in near-real-time. This is thanks to a Raspberry Pi Zero on board the balloon that is paired with an STM32 board which handles the radio communication on a RF4463 transceiver module. The ...