Per The Register:

A group of anonymous AI industry workers launched “Poison Fountain,” a project encouraging people to seed the web with subtly corrupted data to sabotage AI training. They argue AI systems are growing too fast and too dangerously, and that poisoning scraped data is one of the few effective ways to slow them down. The effort builds on research showing that even small amounts of malicious data can meaningfully degrade model performance.

Discovered this script on Mastodon via @nixCraft. 

Per @nixCraft:

It removes pre installed apps, disables telemetry, and applies various other changes to improve performance on both Windows 10/11

I'm gonna try it out and post back here. Looking at the comments, it appears legit, but one should use at their own risk. 

Obviously, MAKE A BACK UP prior to running the script. Also, make sure you know how to restore from a backup too. 

Ars Technica has a couple of good articles regarding Windows 11 on old hardware. The first is how to install and maintain Windows 11 on old hardware.

How to install Windows 11 on supported and unsupported PCs, 24H2 edition

And this one, which publishes observations of running Windows 11 on hardware for the past three years.

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Spying

Hardware: Orbic Mobile Hotspot 

GitHub: Repo

Updated September 2025: Podcast
 

When looking into CryptPad found this site. Has a nice listing of open source software. Break the chains and if you can, donate.

https://4d2.org/

Windows did it again and forced a stupid function known as Copilot on us within a Windows update. To remove (disable) follow the the below instructions. Enabling instructions are below as well.

Because things can go awfully wrong when editing the registry, only advanced users should perform the below registry commands. Also, would be an awesome idea to back up your registry and create a restore point prior to executing the below registry commands.

Listening to Security Now brought this Windows flaw to my attention. There appears to be a heuristics flaw in the secure time seeding function in Windows. This flaw may reset the computers clock to hours, days, months or years. This has the the potential of a HUGE support headache never mind a potential security flaw.

The NSA (National Security Agency) recently published a decent guide to secure your home network. Some recommendations may be too technical to implement. Even if people implemented only half of the bullet points contained in the 9 page document, it would a huge step into securing a home network. But I think the majority are doable.

National Security Agency | Cybersecurity Information Sheet

After getting my amateur radio licenses (over a year ago), I switched from Linux to Windows because most software for my radios seem to only target Windows. Prior to the switch, I used Linux as my main computers (laptops and servers) for over 15 years, so this was done under extreme protest. How has it been going?

HORRIBLE!