Never heard “JAQing off” before, that’s good

Do you put that in a custom prompt, or save it for times when you really want a good result?

Started running a homeserver recently, trying to get non-techy friends to join, can confirm this is difficult (the main one right now being people using old software on their phones, one friend was running iOS 14 for crying out loud)

Once set up I find it OK as a user

This story marks the loss of another revenue stream for Mozilla. Their business is increasingly reliant on Google’s search deal for money, and if that money stops, they’ll have to face that same reckoning. For example, they won’t be able to afford paying their CEO millions of dollars a year any more.

I think they should start repositioning themselves now as an activist organisation that is fighting corporate interests trying to control the internet. If they can do that, I think a lot of people would pay to use Firefox

Enough internet users are familiar with the adage “if a product is free, you are the product”, through personal experience

I’d be OK with paying for Firefox if it meant that it was stripped of all association with advertisers. And presumably, if Mozilla were freed from that association, they’d be able to make a stronger case for how they’re protecting a free internet

Mozilla should fire their non-technical staff, strongly make the case for how they’re fighting for a free and open internet, and use a subscription model for Firefox to pay the bills

OpenWrt with AdGuard Home is one option. Big fan of the former, haven’t used the latter

Devil’s advocate: would you use the present tense for the original Batman, or the original Star Trek?

I was suggesting using your own binhost as an alternative to distcc.
If someone’s considering distcc, presumably they’ve already decided not to use the public Gentoo binaries, and want to do the compilation themselves

I think that’s more for when you have multiple machines (that would use the same USE flags) and you only want to have to compile once.

One issue with distcc is some of the build operations can’t be delegated. If you want to minimise resource usage as much as possible (e.g. on old hardware) and want to compile yourself, then running your own binhost makes sense.

Or set up your own binhost

Keep a bishop hidden behind the toilet until your opponent forgets about it

I like the idea of automatically fastening zips in places with limited access (like the tent example in the article), but unless the failure rate is very low, you’d always need a backup fastening technique on hand

I haven’t searched about this so I don’t know, but it’d be cool if there were a way to import/export markdown tables into LibreOffice

Huh, I thought it was called the Mandala effect

I use markdown too, except I keep the markdown file in a self-hosted wiki (wiki.js)

It’s versioned and accepts git as a backend

Not sure I could stop using a tiling window manager now

I remember getting a bad feeling in the pit of my stomach when Google removed “Don’t be evil” from their Code of Conduct

I know very little about GIMP or other OS design software, but does this software have a plugin system that designers could use to extend the software so they can use it how they want?
That would be another thing to look into

a platform that enables designers to relatively easily contribute to open source projects without learning git

Reading this made me a bit sad.
On the one hand, I understand how tools like this could be a hurdle for someone who isn’t heavily invested in their use. And on the other, as someone who has tinkered with open source projects, I know that as hurdles go, git is the first of very many hurdles that must be cleared when contributing to a large, mature GUI program like this, and it’s a pretty low one at that.

It would be great if more people could contribute to and help develop open-source versions of tools they themselves use, but I can certainly see how tough it can be starting out

I wanted to play around with a project that uses Nix… it seemed really cool but I couldn’t get it working, I guess I was throwing myself in at the deep end with it

It looks like a fantastic way of sharing a dev environment across a team