Xlibe: An Xlib compatibility layer for Haiku, allows X11 programs to run on Haiku without an X server. https://github.com/waddlesplash/xlibe
Wayland tech tip #2: “wev” is a great “xev” clone for Wayland. It’s available on the AUR (wev) or at https://git.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/wev.
Aliasing “startx” to “sl” is an essential part of one’s migration to Wayland.
Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/2147483648.0.4692.71 Safari/537.36
“Merge branch ‘articles-of-confederation’” https://git.sr.ht/~usa/constitution
A watched torrent never completes.
OpenBSD Webzine issue 2 is out: https://webzine.puffy.cafe/issue-2.html
90 fun things to do in an elevator: https://www.math.uni-bielefeld.de/~sillke/Twister/fun/elevator-fun90.html
Why is Startpage “suspending” me at least once a day? Is it my content blocker? I don’t care, I’m switching to Brave Search.
Do you remember?
Check out https://search.marginalia.nu/. It’s a search engine that indexes simple, text-heavy websites.
Moment in time: “A True Pirate At Work Ripping Off MP3s” http://www.musicinit.com/pirate.html
“How I repurposed a Kodak CD Kiosk tool into a bulk optical disc ripper” http://www.davisr.me/projects/cd-ripping/
Let my guard down for just a second reading a blog post and I clicked a link to a Google document by accident. Narrowly avoided loading it.
Tails 4.22 is out. I’m gunning for a 1.0 seed ratio by the end of the day.
By crawling a local copy my website, I found a blog post that still has links in the header to files that haven’t existed for months.
Always exciting to make a new page for the twtxt section of my website. All done by hand, of course.
Current WebBS for mckinley.cc: 0.041; https://www.webbloatscore.com/?url=https://mckinley.cc/
It’s time for infrared-blocking glasses to become commonplace as facial recognition spreads. I only know of one company selling them.
Apple: “Designed in California, Assembled in China, Purchased by You, Owned by Us.” https://edwardsnowden.substack.com/p/all-seeing-i
I use doas btw
This could be our future: https://puri.sm/posts/internet-of-snitches/; Please consider signing https://appleprivacyletter.com/
RIP Terry A. Davis; 1969-2018
Is it just me or is the new beta of Haiku more unstable than the previous one?
Decided it was high time for a sitemap on mckinley.cc, hopefully made it a little easier to find. https://mckinley.cc/sitemap.html
Tech tip: To download a Google spreadsheet directly, replace /edit and anything after in the URL with /export?format=ods or any other format
Fork vacuum: A condition that exists when the maintainers of a popular free software project take action widely disliked by the community
I’m tired of Mozilla’s shenanigans. This was over the line. I made sure to tell them that in their uninstallation survey.
I restart my PC to update my graphics drivers, and I come back to the terrible looking UI of Firefox 89. I switched to ungoogled-chromium.
I just spelled ‘Koenigsegg’ correctly on the first try entering it into a search engine. Feels good.
You can still download videos by passing extracted browser cookies from an account. I’ll bet you’ll need cookies for any video soon.
YouTube has stopped youtube-dl from circumventing age restriction. https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/28578
Yes, I had to look up terms to describe the issue with my watch. You know, there’s a 1500 word Wikipedia article about buckles.
The tongue of my watch’s buckle has gone to the wrong side of the frame, and I don’t know how. A good excuse to finally get a NATO strap.
“Native JavaScript IDE for iOS” are five words that don’t belong in one sentence. https://codesandbox.io/post/codesandbox-acquires-playjs
Audacity PR closed. Author wants tracking, but willing to avoid Google. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835#issuecomment-835880865
A look into the dystopian future: https://www.vice.com/en/article/93yyyd/this-motorcycle-airbag-vest-will-stop-working-if-you-miss-a-payment
On the subject of Mountain Dew, I’m still mad about the discontinuation of Black Label. Black Label was the best flavor, change my mind.
DEW-S-A IS BACK! I need to get my hands on Code Red, White Out, and Voltage to see if DEW-S-A really is a mix of the 3.
The VERY NEXT PR adds a Google telemetry library. Not a coincidence. Watch PRs closely. https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/836
Apparently the PR author is associated with their new parent company, Muse Group. I doubt the opposition will be heard.
Yandex and Google trackers will potentially be added to Audacity: https://github.com/audacity/audacity/pull/835
GoDaddy gave me a refund. I guess I’m not getting mc.cz for $16.
Firefox developers changed the text for some options in the right click menu, making half second actions take thought. Thank you for that.
Almost been 24 hours. I don’t have control of my domain. GoDaddy shows it for sale. $5000 instead of $16. Contacting support in the morning.
Okay, IN MY DEFENSE: It is rare (and becoming more rare) to find a 2+2 letter domain that you don’t have to pay hundreds of dollars for.
Oh, you’ve got to be kidding me. I can get xx.xx (domain withheld) for less than I paid for mck.cx! That’s one character less!
Please stop recommending JavaScript programs to me. They’re bad enough in a browser, let alone as a piece of dedicated software.
I am now the proud owner of the domain ‘mck.cx’. This is only the 2nd domain I’ve bought without a purpose, but I’m still part of the club.