An anonymous author. Strong political bias. Dubious motivation. Canceling an old man with cancer because he makes controversial statements.

Want to be a paid intern for Debian? Everyone is welcome! (Except Straight White Men. And Asians. Debian really doesn't want Asians.)

Teach Al systems to beat CAPTCHAs and pretend to be people, then give them nuclear reactors. What could go wrong!?

Ads are filling the entirety of the Web -- websites, podcasts, YouTube videos, etc. -- at an increasing rate. Prices for those ad placements are plummeting. Consumers are desperate to use ad-blockers to make the web palatable. Google (and others) are desperate to break and block ad-blockers. All of which results in... more ads and lower pay for creators.

It's a fascinatingly annoying cycle. And there's only one viable way out of it.

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Those in power with openSUSE make it clear they will not allow me anywhere near anything related to the openSUSE project. Ever. For any reason.

Well, that settles that, then! Guess I won't be contributing to openSUSE! 🤣

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I know The Register attacked Lunduke, but they have an interesting article about switching customers from Linux to BSD. https://www.theregister.com/2024/10/08/switching_from_linux_to_bsd/

On this week in privacy, let's explore web apps and convenience.

Web apps are cool

Web apps are applications that run inside web browsers. As you probably already know, web apps have been around for years, most notably with in the form of electron apps, and have had varying levels of success. Whole frameworks like React and Vue are designed specifically to turn an ordinary web page into an interactive app that runs offline.

There are advantages and disadvantages of web apps. On the plus side, unless you allow notifications, they turn off when the browser is closed. There's no secret spying. They're also compatible with every operating system with a decent browser. On the negative size, native apps can be more feature rich, and better handle touch controls.

We can install web apps from the Brave menu. This creates a link on the app screen. Alternatively, we can just bookmark the site. Either works.

Logging in every time sucks

One of the biggest advantages of web apps in a secure browser is ...

PSA for the morning: I'm still getting this Ubuntu system set up and went to install Joplin which is an AppImage. Turns out 24.10 (maybe it's a thing in older version too, but I don't know) is missing a dependency for AppImages to work. In case anyone was going to move to Ubuntu 24.10 and run AppImages, install fuse2 first.

apt install libfuse2t64