Man pages are still not great on Linux. Very few examples with common use-cases and explanations. I shouldn’t need to visit the Arch wiki.

OpenBSD man pages are a delight in comparison, and really all you need to learn how to manage the system.

I like the idea of using a notebook and using my phone less. I’ll give it a shot.

I use a calendar and reminders constantly. For everything. Anytime someone says something I need to remember, I whip out my phone and create a calendar event or a reminder right then and there.

Needs more eyeliner.

Ya but I watched a YouTube video on it, so who’s to say what’s true?

To be fair lots of companies contribute time/labor/money to Linux. It’s a pretty commercial FOSS project as far as they go.

Yes, but how many are saved from autism and brain worms?

I thought the art was lovely and laughed out loud (in public) at the joke. Thanks for sharing it!

Polish scrabble’s worst nightmare

At the risk of getting downvoted to oblivion, honest discussion. Obviously capitalism isn’t working in America. But in Russia, starting under Lenin, tons of people still suffered and died, and still do to this day, no? So is Lenin’s ideology really better than the US economic system, when either he failed to implement it, or he did and it still resulted in serious issues?

That’s just it. There is no perfect government. The government is made of humans, and humans are imperfect. Any government, no matter how pure/noble its founding intentions, will eventually become corrupt need to be replaced.

We’re finally feeling that in America after a good 250 year run.

Alexis de Tocqueville, a Frenchman sent to analyze the American government in its early days— specifically studying its checks and balances—called it way back in 1835. There’s nothing to stop tyranny in America. Well worth reading his writings, “Democracy in America.”

K-9 mail is literally Thunderbird. It’s been rebranded and taken over by Mozilla. They’re keeping the k-9 branding as its own (otherwise identical) app as a nostalgia token for the people that have used it for a long time.

Firefox automatically updates to install new privacy-abusing features like this one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40974112. So getting all the settings right once isn’t enough—you need to be constantly vigilant.

Like you said, a fork is a much better option, since they take care of stripping out the user-hostile nonsense for you. I like Librewolf.

I’m switching to Librewolf. I don’t want ads in my browser.

Reminds me of US vs Soviet Russia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice

The US switched sides, but the good guys win again.

Fastmail

I’m not sure of the specific case numbers but searching brings up many sources, e.g. https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/fbi-taps-cell-phone-mic-as-eavesdropping-tool/ (2006)

Matrix and XMPP don’t hide metadata (who you’re talking to, when, and how often). This is OK if your users are all on the same private server that you self-host/trust. But in practice most users will be on the Matrix equivalent of Gmail, and you’ll be sending this metadata to the largest server in plaintext for every conversation involving one of those users.

I also have trouble where iOS “instant” notifications in SimpleX aren’t delivered–hopefully this gets fixed.

Even if your phone is OFF, it can still track you from the towers and transmit your audio (this is documented in court cases bringing down the mob). It’s built into the chips themselves, at a lower level than the operating system. Do not bring your phones to protests.

That’s the old testament god. I believe in Supply-Side Jesus.