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Issue 254 (September 2019) - Escape Ransomware

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Escape Ransomware. Your essential guide to outsmarting the hackers, protecting your vital data and systems from attack. With ransomware attacks on the rise we explore the social engineering behind the attacks, how you can neutralise the threat and if you should ever pay the ransom…

PLUS: We Roundup the best text editors, explore open source notes, redesign our homes, compile speedy suckless tools, speed up Minecraft builds with Python, consider future databases, improve Android and loads more!

 Features

Don't pay the ransom

(Jonni Bidwell)
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The future of databases

(Mayank Sharma)
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Answers

Fixing file permissions, read-only USB sticks, dial up modems. (Neil Bothwick)
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Interview: Stax of storage

Robin Schumacher from DataStax (Mayank Sharma)
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 Coverdisc

DVD pages

Mageia 7.1, Q4OS 3.5 (Jonni Bidwell)
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Hotpicks

Foliate, F.U.S.S., CPU-X, Chomper, Timeshift, Jade, Gifcurry, Pentobi, SpeedDreams, Libheif, GoTTY (Alexander Tolstoy)
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 Tutorials

Terminal: tag master

(Shashank Sharma)
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Joplin and standard notes

(Nick Peers)
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Sweet Home 3D

(Neil Mohr)
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Android connections

(Aaron Peters)
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Hashicorp Vault

(Mihalis Tsoukalos)
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Suckless tools

(Mats Tage Axelsson)
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OLED mini display

(Les Pounder)
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LED FET control

(Sean Conway)
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 Coding Academy

Python powered Minecraft building

(Calvin Robinson)
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Low-level kernel assembly coding

(John Schwartzman)
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 Reviews

AMD Ryzen 3000

(Linux Format)
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Panda Latte

(Mike Bedford)
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Whonix 15

(Mayank Sharma)
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Sparky Linux 2019.08

(Mayank Sharma)
Available as a PDF to subscribers.

Dirt 4

(Linux Format)
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Raspbian Buster

(Les Pounder)
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Text editors

Atom, Brackets, Emacs, FocusWriter, nano (Mike Bedford)
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 More

News: News

Blender 2.8, Valve kernel commits, VR desktops and is the floppy dead? (Matt Hanson)
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News: Kernel news

(Jon Masters)
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News: Pi news

Buoys, snazzy Pis and classic plots (Les Pounder)
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