🆕 blog! “Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux” For boring and totally not nefarious reasons, I want to read all the data contained in my passport's NFC chip using Linux. After a long and annoying search, I settled on roeften's pypassport. I can now read all the passport information, including biometrics. 👀 Read more:

Reading NFC Passport Chips in Linux – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #CyberSecurity #hacking #linux #nfc #rfid

🆕 blog! “Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI?” For some people, it seems, AI is an amazing machine which - while fallible - represents an incredible leap forward in productivity. For other people, it seems, AI is wrong more often than right and - although occasionally useful - requires constant supervision. Who is right? 👀 Read more:

Why do people have such dramatically different experiences using AI? – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #AI #LLM

🆕 blog! “Your Password Algorithm Sucks” There are two sorts of people in the world; those who know they are stupid and those who think they are clever. Stupid people use a password manager. They know they can't remember a hundred different passwords and so outsource the thinking to something reasonably secure. I'm a stupid person and am very happy to have BitWarden… 👀 Read more:

Your Password Algorithm Sucks – Terence Eden’s Blog

⸻ #CyberSecurity #passwords #security

Hey Linux friends! Can you play this audio using VLC? I can get it to play in Firefox, Totem, and other players. But my version of VLC (3.0.21 from Flathub) doesn't play any sound. If it works for you on VLC for Linux, please let me know the version number! Issue:

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Opus audio - no sound playback 3.0.21 (Linux) (#29186) · Issues · VideoLAN / VLC · GitLab

I've encoded a video with audio using Aviator to create an AV1 video with Opus audio. VLC shows the video but doesn't play the audio. The...

#Linux #VLC #Opus #Flatpak