nakal

My favs:

• Bossfight - Milky Ways
• Teminite & Panda Eyes - Highscore
• Panda Eyes - Antipixel

I can only use Xmonad as a window manager, so I’d like to avoid Wayland. But what Mozilla enables as default is fortunately not relevant.

Linux distributions compile stuff by themselves. No one uses vendor-provided software if there is a way to compile it.

It looks like Gitea. Is it a fork?

It’s easy not to talk or not to read content from other people. Why is age relevant here? It does as much as sense to me as to have an option to block other genders, religions or even skin colors.

I don’t feel uncomfortable talking to kids. Why should I start to be?

Kids and juveniles can learn a lot from adults. Conversations with adults make them smart.

I don’t believe this is the right way.

Sooner or later everyone will find their way to Debian. It’s boring and it works.

(My opinion) No, you aren’t paranoid. I’m thinking a bit like you, but I also consider probabilities. You need to download the checksums from the official website and the ISO from mirrors. Two different sources would need to be hacked. This is where I say, it’s hard and secondly someone would notice that hack very quickly.

Signing the ISO or the checksums with a well-known signature is still important. I verify it, if a signature available. It’s just a couple of seconds and doesn’t cost anything.

Also to train Microsoft to be more annoying.

Usually, they can, if there are risk of violence appearing. You’re allowed to protest peacefully, but the current situation suggests the protest would be based on anger and maybe provocation.

It’s very obvious to me that GBoard sends data directly to Google circumventing all encryption.

I get confused by non-modal text editors.

Of course, it’s better to use some frameworks for logging, especially because these verbose statements are often needed for assertions while unit testing the code. But it’s still equivalent to printf.

I use debugger sometimes. I actually like to load core dumps to take a look at the stack trace. But I usually don’t really need debugger interactively because when some error appears, I usually already have an idea what happened. And lots of embedded code needs timing in milliseconds, so debuggers won’t help.

Because if you invested a lot of time on carefully choosing the places where printf should be to get all the info you need, you just need to unset NDEBUG and voilà everything that you need is there again.

I don’t like systemd at all, but a boot routine that allows to load the plain kernel instead of an image and maybe choose other init systems than systemd would be nice. This is how most other Unix-like systems work.

I am not a guy who blindly trusts technology. Why go forward when you cannot see what’s in front of you? How can that happen?

AFAIK Google makes a disclaimer about it. A bridge can also be destroyed on the same day, so…

I don’t know what you mean with Adobe. It’s a company not an application. Adobe Reader sucks and I don’t need Adobe Pro, because I am able to use LaTeX.

Why I need a real distribution instead of a naked operating system like Windows is that it comes with ten thousands of preconfigured packages.

Then the system is transparent. I know what it does and can analyze it easily. When something doesn’t work, I am able to find the cause. This is essential for me.

I don’t need any shady antinvirus that hooks into the kernel, making the computer overall insecure. I generally trust the OpenSource community more than I trust Microsoft.

I also don’t like ads on my system, except I subscribed to them. I pay for software and give devs money to keep projects running. But I don’t want to see unrelated ads.

Well,…

1. The swam over to us (that’s why “sea”)
2. They make squeeky sounds (that’s why “pig”)

TIL password managers charge for 2FA.

1. Get a free password manager.
2. Get a free 2FA App. Please don’t mix passwords and 2FA so you don’t reduce it to 1FA.

For 1) I use PasswdSafe, because I can merge databases with Password Gorilla as I like.

For 2) I use Aegis. You can download an icon theme, which is quite cool.

Most of my text files are from Unix/Linux systems, because I don’t work much on Windows. So Wordpad is more important than Notepad for me, because the latter one does not handle end-of-lines correctly.