Wisellama @Wisellama@mastodon.wisellama.rocks

In case you missed it: Privacy Tools has rebranded (or forked, whatever) as Privacy Guides! Be sure to consult their new site for the latest and greatest comprehensive lists of privacy-protecting tools and tricks!

https://privacyguides.org/

Public Reminder: BitTorrent is great for more than just piracy. If your connection is unreliable and you need anything largish downloaded look for a magnet link, the protocol is built for this.

Debian 11 is now cascading to a mirror near you! If you can't wait any longer, the CD images are now available from https://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/current/ #ReleasingDebianBullseye

I love how Drew DeVault is gradually turning into Richard Stallman with these half-satire advocating for digital rights: https://drewdevault.com/2021/08/10/Apple-CSAM-scanning.html

What is the best GNU/Linux distro? This is a often asked newbie question. It is what kept me distro-hoping for so many months when I first started. The answer is the one you feel comfortable using, makes you happy and you feel home on. With experience you will learn this. Take time with each one, find your home.

> Data is not the new gold.
> Data is the new oil.
https://socialcooling.com

Interesting work, tracing the history of UNIX through FreeBSD.

"Unix has evolved for more than five decades, shaping modern operating systems, key software technologies, and development practices. Studying the evolution of this remarkable system from an architectural perspective can provide insights on how to manage the growth of large, complex, and long-lived software systems"

https://www.spinellis.gr/blog/20210618/

#Unix #BSD #FreeBSD #Computers #Software #OperatingSystems #ComputerHistory

The person who started the initiative to fork Audacity has stepped down, due to IRL harassments from 4chan.

https://github.com/tenacityteam/tenacity/issues/99

Fork of Audacity without any telemetry:

https://github.com/cookiengineer/audacity

Can I interest you in anything and everything, all of the time?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1BneeJTDcU

(CW: swearing, vulgarity)

Wow, after 25 years of Unix experience, I learned that you can filter output in #less.

Press ampersand (&) and enter a regex to show only lines matching the regex.

Press ampersand (&) and then exclamation mark (!) to apply an inverse filter.

every so often i remember that time skate god rodney mullen compared linux to street skating

From my POV, the more web engines and web browsers not based on Google code the better.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90611677/flow-ekioh-web-browser-new-engine

SDL moves to Github 😕

> And I grew up during the heyday of the Free Software Foundation, so I *know* this is a trap, but I’m *tired* and don’t have the energy to be a server admin for something that’s held together with scotch tape and prayers when I’m really supposed to be writing OpenGL code.

‌nitter.nixnet.services/icculus…

#SDL

OK that is fucking amazing...
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/