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Forget Snap and Flatpak, I use Vivaldi tarballs
The advantages/disadvantages of classic tar packages Back in the old days (long before Snap, Flatpak or AppImage), if a software producer wanted to offer a "universal Linux package" they would offer a tar package…
By ruario
Does Mastodon Have A Future?
On 2024-09-23 I read that another Mastodon instance is calling it quits. StrangeObject.Space will shut down at the end of the year. You can read their post at…
By publicwolf
AI Programming has completely missed the mark
I recently read an article about outages from AI generated code, and I have read similar stories in the past year about failings in quality metrics when AI generated code is used. When I was researching Developer…
By lonm
A comprehensive review of common search engines
Hello and welcome to yet another technology-fuelled rant from yours truly! Today’s topic is search engines, those little websites all browsers use that allow you to find other websites, given a query by the user (that’s…
By willuk
Cards Against Humanity is suing SpaceX for trespassing on its ‘pristine’ property - The Verge [2024-09-20]
Cards Against Humanity sued SpaceX for allegedly trespassing on and damaging its property in Texas. The company behind the card game is asking for $15 million in damages, according to its complaint against SpaceX, filed…
By canadianguy
The Things That Shaped Me
We are all the product of our life's experiences. Everything that touches us changes us. Everything in which we train shape our brain, both literally and figuratively.…
By publicwolf
MS Apps are Garbage for the Command Line
I think the idea of having a system to manage installed packages is very helpful when running your operating system. Linux has different forms of repositories, and different methods like snaps and flatpacks. Runtimes…
By lonm
Starcross Academy Notes 1
As I work on creating this new and exciting world and serial fiction project, I've decided that I'm going to share some of my notes as I go! Why not, right? None of these notes will be designed to 'spoil' the series.…
By Will
User Agents for the Social Web
For the last couple of decades, the social web has been in a stagnant state, restricted to siloed social media systems. As these companies seem to implode on themselves or dry out, more open social web systems seem to…
By lonm
MP3Tag Review - Great Music Metadata Manager
I have an offline music library. I've recently been going through my music library and updating the metadata in the files. A lot of my files were getting sorted by VLC into big 'unknown artist' and 'various artist'…
By lonm
I'm back...
So it's been a while - a good two or three months since I posted anything, and perhaps, Gentle Reader, you've been wondering where this aging hippy has been hiding. Truth to be told, nowhere. I've been getting on with…
By travellinbob
