A Thinkpad w500 might be the most powerful laptop on which you can install libreboot and completely disable the Intel Management Engine. It is also a laptop, which, once Librebooted and you replace the wifi card becomes fully open source. While the w500 model is well-supported, Librebooting it is not easy. I will not discuss …
After a bit of research, anyone interested in computer networking will run into a simple but fairly obscure topic: ports. Of course I am not talking about sea ports, but they can be a helpful analogy to understand what a networking port is. While most internet users are familiar with what an IP address is, …
Imagine being able to automate processes on websites like filling in form data, downloading files from pages, and many more. For programmers, being able to successfully perform these processes helps tremendously with larger ambitious projects. Luckily, a powerful technique called Web Scraping is available. Web Scraping allows you to automate large-scale data collection and data …