Michael Larabel

For ChromeOS, FydeOS, and other Chromium-based system users, there's a powerful yet often overlooked way to access system details, troubleshoot issues, and adjust settings—without touching the command line. By entering simple chrome:// commands into your browser, you can view diagnostics, check hardware and software info, and fine-tune performance across ChromeOS, Windows, Linux, and more. In my latest article, I share a practical guide to the most useful commands, along with tips for making them work across different operating systems. These techniques are especially valuable when assisting users who are less comfortable with terminal commands. Read the full piece here: #ChromeOS #TechTips #ITSupport #Productivity

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If you're at #AutoCon4, you'll run into the nice folks at NetBox Labs. Open source NetBox is a popular source of truth for your network, tracking all sorts of information about your devices, IP subnets, VLANs, and great deal more. NetBox Labs not only supports NetBox, but also offers a commercial variant. CEO Kris Beevers briefed me and Andrew Conry-Murray about the latest with NetBox, as there's been lots of activity with features & capabilities added or under development. 1️⃣ NetBox Copilot. Ask NetBox in plain English anything you'd like to know about your network. If you're an engineer, the idea is to speed things up for you--to make you more efficient. And it's available to everyone for free (at least up to a usage limit, because tokens cost $). https://lnkd.in/gjcfUTvD 2️⃣ NetBox MCP server. Make it easier for you or an AI agent to interact with NetBox data. Use the MCP server and an appropriate agent to get a task done without you having to write the code to do it. https://lnkd.in/gtRD7nev 3️⃣ NetBox Discovery. This does what you think it does if you're familiar with network management and observability tools. Rather than you having to populate the NetBox device database by hand, Discovery will do the heavy lifting for you. https://lnkd.in/gvC5SWig 4️⃣ NetBox Observability. If you're looking for a modern alternative to the network management products you've been using for years and years, give this a look. The Observability product is in its early days, so give it a spin (there will be both free and commercial versions) and provide feedback to make it what you want it to be. https://lnkd.in/gW438yik I'll see you at #AutoCon4 this week!

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Interested in codecs? In an article in Radio World's latest ebook, Jacob Daniluck of Tieline explains the benefits of NMOS and Ember+ and how these protocols can be used to manage and monitor codec functions and AES67, ST 2110-30 and ST 2022-7 IP streams. Find it here: https://lnkd.in/ePcXPjhn

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uncannyuse now has schema pages for Reality Composer Pro components—showing the exact USDA block RCP writes, field-by-field with types and sparse-authoring behavior, plus annotated fixture examples. 20 components covered so far. https://lnkd.in/dpsT2A-8

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Avid has released Sibelius 2025.4 across its desktop and mobile platforms. This is a small maintenance release to refine certain workflows related to Dynamic Parts, along with other bug fixes and improvements. https://lnkd.in/eR3Rhmr7

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AI-powered ReWrite of chardet sparks open source license fight Maintainer used Claude Code for clean-room LGPL→MIT rewrite; plagiarism checks: 1.29% max similarity. Mark Pilgrim: Prior exposure kills clean-room claim. Bruce Perens: AI kills copyleft licensing economics.

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Dan Goodin of Ars Technica highlights a major Google privacy flaw that isn't easy to fix. Android users can't fully extricate Gemini accessing their data from their devices -- despite a setting for "Gemini Apps Activity" that has a putative and misleading on/off button -- if you don't want this to happen, you need to uninstall Gemini -- which isn't easy to do either. Double fail for Google! https://lnkd.in/gYGXsEk6

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New, from me: A new Internet-of-Things (IoT) botnet called Kimwolf has spread to more than 2 million devices, forcing infected systems to participate in massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks and to relay other malicious and abusive Internet traffic. Kimwolf’s ability to scan the local networks of compromised systems for other IoT devices to infect makes it a sobering threat to organizations, and new research reveals Kimwolf is surprisingly prevalent in government and corporate networks. https://lnkd.in/e2iecZpe

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Two different hacking groups—LockBit5 and Termite—are claiming responsibility for stealing hundreds of gigabytes of data from Insight Hospital and Medical Center in Chicago. Insight has acknowledged unauthorized access to its network between Aug. 22 and Sept. 11, 2025. Personal, financial and health data was accessed. The hospital didn't say how many people were affected. https://lnkd.in/gq-GjCJj

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We just published our first WordPress plugin on wordpress.org. It's called Osom Multi Theme Switcher. It lets you run different themes on different pages of the same WordPress site. Why did we build it? Because we kept running into the same problem during client projects. Someone needs a landing page that looks completely different from the rest of the site. Or a WooCommerce shop section with its own design. Or a membership area with a separate theme. The usual answers are: build everything into one theme (messy), use a page builder (we don't), or hack together some functions.php workaround (fragile). So we built a plugin that just handles it cleanly. Assign themes to pages, posts, URLs, or categories. No code required. It has fewer than 10 installations right now. We're not pretending it's a big launch. But after 14 years of building WordPress sites for clients, it feels good to give something back to the ecosystem. One more thing. We are a service company. We help our clients with their custom projects. But launching our own project for the public feels like building a new company from scratch. Great feeling! https://lnkd.in/dchT32Gh

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California Law to Require Linux, Windows Implement Age Verification by Jan 1, 2027 A new California Law (AB-1043), signed by Governor Gavin Newsom, requires all Operating Systems (from macOS to FreeBSD) to implement age verification, at the system level, this year. https://lnkd.in/gps6x9wv

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Tomorrow's ProductionESP32 newsletter will show how to get internet access when running in QEMU. I found out this week that the WiFi hardware isn't emulated in QEMU but you can still get an internet connection that all of the other modules (dns, http_client, mqtt) can use. All easy to run and step debug if you need. Link to subscribe in the comments. #esp32 #qemu #embedded #wifi

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A few dozen browser extensions for Chrome have been implicated in an elaborate spyware net. A full list of suspected extensions can be found in the following article: https://lnkd.in/exvTXaJZ

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