Please don’t post articles from the Daily Mail here. Not only is the paper far-right, but it has incredibly low factual reporting and frequently publishes conspiracy theories and right-wing propaganda.

Furthermore, they literally supported Hitler during WWII.

AI bullshit, too.

We can only hope.

Is it really /s

The Tumblr post I got it from said it was a balloon that got loose…

I’m suggesting the BeOS successor.

Haiku, anyone?

This is generally a bad idea unless you have a very specific threat model, as it makes your house stand out from the ones nearby, and may even then attract more unwanted attention.

See also: Streisand effect

I gave up on notes platforms like this a couple of years ago. I just have a bunch of well-sorted Markdown files that I edit with nano on desktop and Markor on mobile.

Updating my shit in Termux:

# update via apt wrapper
pkg upgrade
# update yt-dlp
yt-dlp -U
# update everything in ~/.src
# (in this case, just ksh93)
gr ~/.src
cd ~/.src/ksh
bin/package make
bin/package install /data/data/com.termux/files/usr

Not yet, but the Guardian is also reporting this: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/aug/25/uk-to-warn-citizens-to-stock-up-on-food-amid-threat-from-climate-crisis-and-hostile-states

My favourite season is Autumn.

Hooray for the Greens and hooray for Hackney!

I miss that brief period of time when dipshits like this would be told “Okay, buddy” and escorted out of the building.

Ah, yes. The OS with an innit system, UKUI (United Kingdom User Interface) or MATE (you wot m8‽), and british (bloody ridiculous interactive terminal input shell).

I have several machines, a few of which I plan to reinstall sooner or later, so:

# System
Distro: Devuan GNU+Linux, Void Linux, NetBSD, Alpine Linux (near future), Guix (near future)
Init System: OpenRC, SysVinit, Shepherd (near future)
Window Manager: cwm, Fluxbox, Xfce, river-classic (near future), *TBD* (near future)
Shell: ksh93
Terminal: Alacritty, Sakura, foot, Xfce Terminal
Terminal Multiplexer: dvtm
Application Launcher: (WM builtin), rofi
Notification: dunst, Xfce Notifier
Compositor: Picom, XCompMgr, wlroots, Xfwm
Panel: Polybar, fbpanel, Xfce Panel, *TBD* (near future)
Audio: PulseAudio, ALSA, OSS

# The Web
Web Browser: Tor Browser, Librewolf
Chat: Discord, Signal
VPN: IVPN

# File Management
File Browser: Midnight Commander, Nemo, PCManFM, Thunar
File Sharing: Syncthing, netcat, (physical disks)
Torrent: KTorrent, Deluge
Git CLI: Game Of Trees, Git

# File Creation/Modification
Text Editor: nano
Code Editor: nano
LaTeX Editor: TeXStudio
Image Editor: GIMP, GraphicsMagick
Video Editor: OpenShot, ffmpeg, blind
Audio Editor: Tenacity, KWave, ffmpeg
Document Editor: OpenOffice, nano

# File Viewing
Music Player: qmmp
Media Player: MPlayer
Image Viewer: imv
Document Viewer: Zathura

# Utility
Screenshotter: scrot, grim
Video Recorder: SSR, wf-recorder
Color Picker: gpick, GIMP, (custom script I keep losing)
Default Apps: XDG
Dotfile Manager: `cp -r ~/.* /path/to/disk`
Network TUI: nano, nmtui, nyx
Bluetooth TUI: bluetoothctl
Volume TUI: pactl, alsamixer, mixerctl
Disk Analyzer: Baobab
Wallpaper: Nitrogen, swaybg
Markdown Renderer: glow

# Gaming
Game Launcher: Steam, PrismLauncher

# Productivity
Flashcard: (physical cards)

I also plan to run Haiku on one of my older machines, but I can’t write down its components (e.g. init system, audio server), as it’s more monolithic than NetBSD or GNU/Linux.

To transfer files using netcat, it’s:

# Replace 1337 with any port number you like
nc -vl 1337 > file   # On recipient
nc -N 192.168.X.X 1337 < file   # On sender

Of course, things like compression and encryption need to be done beforehand; but one would hopefully use other means to transfer such files.

(InfoSec vs. PrivSec, perhaps?)

Wtf is up with Lemmy right now‽ It’s suddenly become rather xenophobic.

Depending on your drivers, you could give Guix a go. It’s not for everyone; but it’s decent, solid, and I used to run it on a 32-bit machine with 3GB of RAM.

If you do require nonfree drivers, there are guides to set it up using Nonguix; but I don’t know how well that works (I am yet to try it).