Classic Blog Posts
- elizabethtai.com Why I Left Apple’s Ecosystem
I acknowledge that Apple products are sleeker, high in quality and they “just work”. But I still left the Apple Ecosystem anyway and have absolutely no regrets.
- ploum.net Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed
Stop Trying to Make Social Networks Succeed écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
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Well Now We Don’t Want A New Stargate Announcement
www.gateworld.net Well Now We Don't Want A New Stargate Announcement » GateWorldOPINION: Let's have a fair deal for members of the striking screen actors and writers guilds. Then we'll talk about #Stargate.
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- selfawarepatterns.com The sorry state of social media
This week, as announced a couple of months ago, the Twitter feed on my blog’s sidebar finally broke. It was removed to put it out of its misery. This came after a fresh week of chaos at Twitt…
- ploum.net Reinventing How We Use Computers
Reinventing How We Use Computers écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
- firediarist.wordpress.com How I am blogging the IndieWeb way
Reddit, Twitter, Facebook, Medium, Substack … if you’re building your content home on any of these, it’s time to wake up to the cold hard reality that they could all disappear on …
- ploum.net Losing Signal
Losing Signal écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
- crnkovic.dev Testing a new encrypted messaging app's extraordinary claims
How I accidentally breached a nonexistent database and found every private key in a 'state-of-the-art' encrypted messenger called Converso.
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That Computer Scientist - Nix is the New Arch!
thatcomputerscientist.com Shifoo - Nix is the New Arch!Remember the days when everyone and their pet iguana was raving about Arch Linux? You couldn't escape the ever-so-subtle "I use Arch BTW" remarks in every Linux forum. Well, move over, Arch, because NixOS is here to steal your thunder! Nowadays, it seems that you can't browse YouTube or read...
- ashcorp.dev Rebuilding my Homelab
So, after a year or two of working on my homelab on and off, I finally had some time to look at what I wanted to do with my Homelab infrastructure. For reference, I’ve been very much using it as a ‘ooh, that looks cool, I should try that’ kind of lab - something that doesn’t quite fit it’s use-case ...
So, after a year or two of working on my homelab on and off, I finally had some time to look at what I wanted to do with my Homelab infrastructure...
- escapebigtech.info VPNs - Oh sweet summer child
Everyone told me to use a VPN to protect myself from tracking online and I know that staying safe online is an ever growing difficulty and I could be exploited by hackers. [REDACTED] allows me to change my IP address, making me harder to track, securing my privacy. The average privacy concious perso...
So, there you were, trotting through the Interweb Forest, feeling pretty good about yourself. You’ve got your Veil of Privacy draped fashionably over your shoulder, and you’ve just left the Temple of [REDACTED] feeling invisible. Oh, the sweet taste of online anonymity!
You’re ready to joust any shady DNS dragons or phishing sirens that dare cross your path. You’re like a knight in shining armor, except your armor is crafted from complicated algorithms and digital code. But then, bam! You bump into a Tracker Cookie, and let’s just say, this cookie doesn’t crumble. Turns out, this little biscuit isn’t fooled by your flashy Veil of Privacy. Tough luck, mate. Who knew browsing incognito could feel so…
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Blogpost: Actually Good Distro Recomendations for Beginners
reggie.re Actually Good Distro Recomendations for BeginnersI grew tired of shitty “Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}” articles. This blogpost tries to be actually helpful and explains what to consider when choosing a distribution if you are a new user.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.fmhy.ml/post/324800
> I grew tired of shitty "Top 10 Linux distros in ${CURRENT_YEAR}" articles so I wrote a blogpost, that I would personally consider helpful when I was starting out, so I can simply link it to people when they ask my opinion on a beginner distro. > > Objective criticism is welcome and encouraged.
- firediarist.wordpress.com The point of my words
People are dying. The world is in chaos. Do our words matter?
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We need more of Richard Stallman's ideas, not less
ploum.net We need more of Richard Stallman, not lessWe need more of Richard Stallman, not less écrit par Ploum, Lionel Dricot, ingénieur, écrivain de science-fiction, développeur de logiciels libres.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366703
> cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1366698 > > > Richard Stallman was right since the very beginning. Every warning, every prophecy realised. And, worst of all, he had the solution since the start. The problem is not Richard Stallman or the Free Software Foundation. The problem is us. The problem is that we didn’t listen.
