Mastodawn

R.May 29, 2020

After working from home, in peace and quiet for 2 months, how do you go back to the crazy, hysteric, office environment?

R.May 21, 2020

A month of OpenBSD and it has become so serious, I need to start thinking about backups...

R.May 8, 2020

Just because a company appears to have e2e encryption, doesn't mean buying them will make your own, completely unrealted software magically encrypted.

Sound more like a marketing move.

R.May 7, 2020

Drew DeVault May 7, 2020

Zoom acquired Keybase today.

Keybase helped me to identify a trend in the software industry: using a pretty UI to cover up the disruption of an open ecosystem with a closed, centralized replacement. Keybase seemed cool on the face of it - making encryption easier is a laudible goal, and PGP certainly could use the improvement. But, thanks to Keybase, now I ask different questions upfront.

Beware the Keybase formula:

1. Integrates with an existing, open ecosystem
2. May have open-source clients, but server is closed source and does not federate
3. Pretty UI and good marketing
4. VC funded

R.Apr 26, 2020

Finally installed OpenBSD after postponing it for so long.

Really surprised how clean and simple everything is. True "keep it simple".

Looks like I will be sticking with it on the laptop. Already replicated most of my setup.

R.Mar 17, 2020

Working from home, when your work development environment is Windows based is not a pleasant experience...

Other than GUI everything, shift gets stuck, windows key stuck, sudden random key presses sending windows flying everywhere...

R.Jan 31, 2020

I've had Wallabag (self-hosted read-it-later service) for years, yet I have never read anything later... Just save and forget.

While technically it works great, it seems this model is not for me.

R.Jan 5, 2020

Anyone else have Christmas Eve today?

Merry Christmas!

R.Dec 30, 2019

My phone is barely holding on, and I need a dual-sim anyway, so I am now forced to get a Google Play phone, with no LineageOS support for the foreseeable future... :(

I guess I should try to remove Google Play Services, if at all possible... Samsung has it's own stuff... Maybe my only option is Huawei...?

Unfortunately OnePlus is not available here, otherwise they seem to be the most friendly for custom OS.

R.Dec 11, 2019

It's really heartbreaking when I see people buying huge monitors > 34", yet with low resolutions not corresponding to their size...

What's the gain, other than things appearing larger?