For real. Numbers are strings? Yeah, okay.

YAML is better. UCL porn though. 🥵 Things are getting niche when UCL shows up.

That’s what I decided.

It will be more informative, and I have lots of options for hosting.

To run Linux, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, or some other FOSS OS?

I’m running Fedora on a refurbished Thinkpad P1 Gen 4, and I’ve had good luck running Linux and the BSDs on higher end refurbished Dell Optiplex, Latitude, and Precision equipment.

Apple hardware is nice, and MacPorts gives me access to the vast majority of my *nix tools.

Shopping for new hardware I’d look at the list below to get Linux preinstalled.

• Thinkpad X1 Carbon
• Slimbook
• System76
• Tuxedo Computers
• Juno Computers
• Starlabs Systems

Or buy refurbed equipment from Dell or Lenovo.

I happen to like the term FOSS and would like to keep it around. It’s catchy.

Definitely time to kick out the corporatists though.

There was (is?) the yacy project which used a distributed index, and the individual nodes would contribute to the index.

A hybrid of original Yahoo! and Google is probably the best option. Sites submit themselves, they get reviewed, and an algorithm catalogs the contents. So curation and automatic indexing together.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/YaCy

Already found that. Still can’t buy it, still not shipping. 😂

This is interesting. A few questions though.

How hackable is it? Are other distros or OSes devs going to be able to get their system ported to it? Seeing Debian, Gentoo, NetBSD, or OpenBSD on this would be pretty cool.

Armbian lists several BPi boards as supported. Has anyone run Armbian on the BPi stuff?

I can’t seem to find where to buy the OpenWRT One or when it’s going to ship.

I once had a C# dev tell me they couldn’t run JavaScript because they didn’t have Java installed.

The prevalence of FOSS software is amazing.

Linux distros, BSDs, GCC, LLVM, GNU tools… The equivalent stack in the 90s was expensive, proprietary, and rare. I was getting software from magazine CDs, and none of the expensive tool chains were showing up on them.

Free DVCS in Git is also great. No manual versioning schemes anymore. git init for a new repo. There was SVN, but it required a server.

Those Vietnamese Internet sharks are getting to be a real problem. 😆

Do they use the binary blobs? I figured MS, Vivaldi, the random Chromium in the distro repos stripped those out or replaced them with their own secret bins before compilation.

Printing bumper stickers of this now.

It hides user information from companies which aren’t Google. The best is not using anything Chromium based.

Extensions require APIs from the browser to work, and Google is going to nerf the APIs which allow for ad blocking. Extensions don’t have unfettered access to the DOM. FF used to be like that, but Chrome never allowed that.

Which ones? I’m curious since I don’t follow the scene and only know of mainstream stuff.

Awesome, now upstream everything so I can install Debian on the hardware instead of OpenWRT.

Have you forgotten laws don’t stop an activity? They’re just the consequences for poor citizens if they’re caught. 😆

I’m responding to the idea that it’s something employers should offer. The private market isn’t going to fix this. They’re causing the problem and selling the “cure”.

Govs will have access to that data regardless. They don’t need compromised account databases.

Or, you know, the govs make this illegal like they should.

😳 For a second there, I thought they had guns. 😮‍💨 Also, good thing it’s BMW not Toyota.

They’ve had a year to work on the layoffs.