Rubén is a Spanish mechanical engineer, a system administrator and a fiction writer. He has published two fantasy novels and countless articles for different magazines. When he is not hacking, he can be found playing with horses.
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You might have already figured out that I like privacy respecting frontends, after the publication of my article about 4Get. Therefore, the appearance of an article about a privacy respecting proxy for watching Youtube videos without letting Google analyze your browsing habits should surprise nobody. Enter Ad Busters, an article about Piped, published on Linux Magazine #294.
More …If you are getting started as a system administrator or software developer, you might have noticed that tutorials for basic tasks are easy to find online, but intermediate material is pretty much non-existent. If you are trying to learn a programming language, it is trivial enough to find entry level information (like how to build a Hello, World program), but finding examples and explanations on how to use the essential principles to build something useful is much, much harder.
More …After my article about videogame preservation, I thought I could talk a bit about modern gaming on Linux. Therefore, I am presenting Gaming your Way, an article published on Linux Magazine #293 about Bazzite, a Linux distribution aimed at the modern Linux gamer.
More …My article about 4Get, a privacy respecting search engine frontend, has been published in Linux Magazine #291. As you may already be aware, I frown on modern mainstream search engines and I am always looking for alternatives. The task seems impossible at times, but privacy conscious users don’t have to surrender without a fight.
More …I want to announce that my latest article about videogame preservation has been published in Linux Magazine #289. This article was conceived while I was organizing my videogame collection. I have a respectable amount of videogames from the late 90s and early 2000s and I realized that, despite having good backups of most of the games, running them on a modern Operating System was not guaranteed. This sent me on a quest to check for the best methods to backup a retail videogame release, and then try many different ways of executing those games on modern hardware.
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