Offpunk

(technically a console browser – Debian installed size 352 KB)

mpv for the win

but if you really want your ASCII conversion: mpv --vo=caca or mpv --vo=tct

when the last message was “Have taken up farming.”, kinda hard to hold anything against them …

this was me watching some of the cheering when neofetch got archived, people complaining “good, neofetch is too slow” – WTF were you doing with neofetch where speed was a factor?!

• yet another vote for Debian Stable
• second the comment on: if you need a newer kernel for hardware reasons, use backports
• Xfce
• stick to flatpaks when dealing with wanting to try out a new program (if you like it, then make the decision to use apt or not)
• don’t confuse “hasn’t been updated” with “hasn’t needed to be updated”

this is one of the things that struck me about email clients on Linux – CLI and GUI clients have followed two very different evolutionary paths – the CLI clients went for the “doing one job well” path (where you end up assembling a whole system of apps for sending and receiving email) and the GUI clients went for the “everything and the kitchen sink” path (where you end up trying to hide half the options so they don’t get in your way)

(until they get a new lead dev, Ladybird is definitely not any type of “Good”)

“Don’t anthropomorphize computers. They hate that.”

additionally Brodie Robertson did a video about Malibal banning countries back in October: Youtube, PeerTube

with one post, Malibal turned itself into a joke

• but corporate policy is to let IT handle updates
• but Windows doesn’t like being ignored so it bypasses group policy and auto-updates

original generation of COBOL programmers where expecting their programs to be replaced (or at least rewritten) within a decade or so – and then Y2K and we realized how much COBOL was still in the wild – and now a couple decades down the line, they’re still having problems trying to convince fintech to switch from COBOL to the new language of Java …

there’s a whole world of alternative, small, or minimalist non-Chromium non-Firefox browsers out there I would love to try out – but in today’s world, if it doesn’t support at least the full un-crippled version of uBlock Origin, it’s a complete non-starter

(considering general trends, I’m just gonna have to sit down and setup PiHole aren’t I?)

we are talking Gnome devs here after all …

Floorp’s name isn’t doing it any favors

so next we can expect a tirade from Hans Reiser now that ReiserFS was deleted from the kernel?

“There are two types of people: those who back up and those who haven’t lost data … yet.”

Mint is the gateway drug

“Intel inside, don’t divide”

checkbox compliance – companies are required to have something in place that checks the box so they can pass the audit