Fully agree with the sentiment, but the blog post itself is kinda crap. All it really says is - hey, we’re overcomplicating things, but subscribe to my rss for when I actually start talking about it!

Same as the other commentor. Good read!

I’ve found this more understandable.

I’ve also hacked together a quick thing for spamwaves that were happening last year here.

The purpose of that script is to ban, but there’re auth bits that might help you get a grasp on your task.

Is it all or nothing sort of deal?

You must be delusional. Wayland is not freedom restricting.

Git would be my choice.

MG Premium has won its bizarre lawsuit against pirate site Goodporn.

I guess it’s that

Would be a real shame if my instance’s logrotate was set to, say, only keep a few days of webserver logs. Real shame.

Good luck establishing precedent with that!

Deluge is another client that supports sequential downloads. It’s my personal favourite because it’s also built on a client-server model, so I can have thr client on all my devices connecting to a single server.

As others have mentioned - I’d use it as a hotel room and travel the world. I wonder if becoming a courier could fund the travel costs.

Couple of things.

• There’s some quote about evil winning when good peeps do nothing
• You need a thicker skin. Aim for a world where you don’t, but this one requires it. Besides, it’s the internet - fuck em.

Please don’t. Join another instance, run your own, whatever. We need more canapés!

All I can say is this:

A tiling window manager and tmux. I don’t like window decorations, I think they’re a waste of precious screen real estate. And tmux… Well. It’s like pringles.

I’ve only ever bothered going in one directions - forwards. Nothing crazy 1s/s. I’d say things are getting better and better. People are still people, but they’re fighting shit that’s more and more trivial. I see that as a great sign as it means the previous, bigger, more serious issues have gone away.

I don’t have something specific to read, my statement comes from questioning the declared permissions by apps. Why would, say, facebook - an app that, essentially, downloads and uploads content via http, need access to location, gyro, contacts, texts, call history, making calls, microphone, etc? Also, while I can’t prove it, as someone who works in computing I can guarantee there are undocumented/buggy/testing APIs and just straight up bugs that companies with enough resources can and do find and abuse. Cambridge analytica has only strengthened my view on this.

While fitting, this is, unfortunatelly, a prank.

That’s… Not at all how it works.

Don’t worry, you’re one of today’s lucky 10000!

Launcher on android is just that - an app to launch other apps. Other apps can and do run in the background, without ever being explicitly launched. Think play services, location provider, wifi connection manager, etc. Since google runs its stuff at the highest level - nothing can hide from it. Other apps, like netflix, utilise internal telemetry. Assholes like facebook push the boundaries to the limit and collect literally every input of every sensor to have as much data about your environment as possible.

TL;DR - custom launcher cool, but no cure.

No, that’s normal. Might look strange for a native english speaker, but it definitely normal in othet languages.

It is that deal from 2006(?) or so. Agreeing to not be sued for an exchange of money is dodgy. Add the competition which was not offered the same deal; add in the environment which was drastically different; it was a shit thing to do. Purely a business decision. I understand why the shareholders wanted that, but that doesn’t make it right nor desirable for me.

Granted, nothing came out of it in the end and Linux managed to get itself established in a way where one could argue is close to impossible to get rid of it, but I feel like this deal is similar to getting stabbed - the one being stabbed will always bear a scar and remember, while others will forget over time. People growing up after this deal will never have experienced the mood and environment of that time which only makes it more difficult to understand why it was a big deal.