Welcome to the DebugPoint Weekly roundup #22.13, where you can find all the happenings from this week, mainly from the Linux and open-source space.
This week mostly concentrates on the application updates and distro updates see their testing versions for the upcoming releases.
Here's what happened this week.
This week was a bit slow in news and releases, probably due to the Ubuntu Summit 2022 event that took place in Prague, Czech Republic, but we still got a few goodies like new AlmaLinux and Red Hat Enterprise Linux releases, as well as a major DXVK release that should please many Linux gamers out there.
On top of that, the upcoming Ubuntu 23.04 distribution now has a release date and Thunderbird developers share some of the major changes coming to the popular email client next year. Below, you can enjoy these and much more in 9to5Linux’s Linux weekly roundup for November 13th, 2022.
As a Unix-like operating system (OS), Linux was released in 1991. This OS possesses a kernel, system applications, and a collection of libraries.
What is the most popular operating system? Windows, right? Well, if talking about personal computers (and not mobile), then Windows is definitely the most popular OS. But...which version of Windows is the most popular? Windows 11, right? WRONG! And it ain't even close!
In the forty-third episode of the WordPress Briefing, Josepha Haden Chomphosy explores two resources for openly licensed media in the WordPress project– Openverse and Photo Directory– and how they differ from one another!
In this video, I am going to show an overview of XeroLinux 2022.09 and some of the applications pre-installed.
In this podcast, Jim Barton explains some of the fundamentals of modern service meshes, and provides an overview of Istio Ambient Mesh and the benefits it will provide in the future.
OpenSSH is a fantastic tool for remotely managing Linux servers, but with great power comes great responsibility! If a threat actor is able to gain access to OpenSSH on your Linux server, then they have full access to cause all kinds of mischief. In this video, Jay goes over 5 must-have tweaks to strengthen the security of OpenSSH on your server.
Verification badges are trending now, considering the entire endless Twitter ðŸÂ¦ tumble.
Last month, I wrote about a recent merge request for the Flathub portal is bringing the verification badge for individual applications. Today looks like the popular free, and open-source home theatre application - Kodi received a verified badge. Here's how it looks.
Nestbox is an app that allows you to run virtual machines and create containers on your Google Pixel device—created by kdrag0n (a Senior Member of XDA Forum).
It is a slightly modified version of a popular terminal emulator for Android called Termux.
This series highlights best-of-breed utilities. We cover a wide range of utilities including tools that boost your productivity, help you manage your workflow, and lots more besides.
Kooha is billed as a simple GTK-based app to “elegantly record your screen”.
It’s free and open source software written in the Rust programming language.
Recently, most developers prefer to use Linux as their alternative or even primary OS because Linux provides a secure environment, a plethora of customization options, reliability, and a stable environment.
Arguably, Linux is the best open-source operating system which provides a safer and more reliable environment as compared to other operating systems, like Windows.
If you’re a developer and you’re using Linux, you’ll need an IDE (Integrated Development Environment).
Just like any other operating system, Linux has a ton of IDEs for developers. Since the introduction of IDEs, developers can now develop brilliant software with numerous features and tools installed in the various IDEs themselves that help their workflow.
In this article, we’re exploring the best IDEs for Linux (any distro)
Valentina is a software package for creating clothing patterns distributed according to the open-source software model. The main idea of this concept is to combine modern technologies with traditional design methods. The main feature of Valentina, which qualitatively distinguishes it from other solutions for the fashion industry, is the work with parametric patterns. This allows you to create complex pattern shapes using a set of basic parameters.
Some of features of Valentina you will find further exploring the application is a wide range of tools for pattern creation, including automatic drawing tools, freehand drawing tools, and a library of ready-made templates. Thanks to these features, Valentina has become one of the most popular software packages for fashion designers and sewing professionals.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install Valentina on Ubuntu 22.10, 22.04, and 20.04 with cli commands on the command line terminal using the LaunchPAD PPA maintained by Roman, which has the latest stable version on it at all times.
This step by step guide explains what is Chntpw utility and how to reset Windows password using Chntpw with a Linux Live CD.
If you have to manage multiple Linux servers then manually configuring and installing software on each of them is not only a time-consuming but also a labor-intensive task. Thus, Automation or orchestration is used in such environments.
There are already well know applications available to perform orchestration for server systems/data centers such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, and a few others. Well, here we learn about Ansible and how to use it to centrally manage multiple servers for installing various packages; code deployment, network configuration, cloud management, and much more.
Ansible is an open-source project sponsored by RedHat, thus if somebody wants, support and a graphical interface for Ansible they can go for the paid additions Tower’offered by RedHat.
Django is a python framework used for developing dynamic websites and applications.
Odoo (formerly known as OpenERP) is a self-hosted suite of over 10,000 open Odoo is a free and open-source ERP solution for multiple types of businesses.
Absolute and relative path names are two ways to specify the virtual address of a directory or file on Linux. But what's the difference between these two path types, and which one should you use in your commands? Let's find out.
An absolute path always starts from the root directory and ends at the actual directory or file you want to point to. While using absolute path expression, you need to type all the sub-directory names present inside the hierarchy that lead up to the final location.
Zram is a compressed RAM disk on Linux. Lately, it's been put to use for swap space on many distributions. In my previous article, I introduced zram and demonstrated how to use it. In this article, I cover some of the ways you can customize how your system puts zram to use.
VeraCrypt is a free, open-source, cross-platform data encryption tool available for all major operating systems and a popular choice among Linux users. It is an alternative to TrueCrypt, the popular encryption tool discontinued in 2014. VeraCrypt is easy to use and offers a variety of features that make it an excellent choice for encrypting data.
One of the best features of VeraCrypt is that it can be used to encrypt entire partitions or disks, making it ideal for protecting sensitive data. VeraCrypt offers three levels of encryption: standard, hidden, and plausible deniability which allows the user to choose the level of security that best suits their needs and is highly customizable, allowing users to select from various options when encrypting their data.
The following tutorial will teach you how to install VeraCrypt on Ubuntu 22.10, 22.04, and 20.04 Linux using a LaunchPAD APT PPA with the command line terminal using a popular LaunchPAD PPA.
Have you created a certificate key or private key with a passphrase and wish to remove it? In this guide, we will show how to remove a passphrase using the openssl command line tool and from an ssh private key.
A passphrase is a sequence of words used to secure and control access to a private key. It is a key or secret used to encrypt the file that contains the actual encryption key.
Do you occasionally share your Linux desktop machine with family members, friends, or perhaps with colleagues at your workplace, then you have a reason to hide certain private files as well as folders or directories. The question is how can you hide files in linux?
In this tutorial, we will explain an easy and effective way to hide files and directories and view hidden files/directories in Linux from the terminal and GUI.
As we’ll see below, hiding files and directories in Linux is so simple.
UFW (Uncomplicated Firewall) is a simple-to-use firewall utility with plenty of options for all kinds of users.
It is actually an interface for iptables, which is the classic low-level tool (and harder to get comfortable with) to set up rules for your network.
The idea of using a game engine for projects other than creating video games is not new. For decades, game engines have been used to create applications, simulations and more. However, with the ever-increasing visual fidelity of their rendering engines, game engines have grown in popularity for situations that demand high-end visuals. These use cases include architecture visualization, cinema, animation and cutscene rendering.
With the addition of non-real-time video recording, Godot opens itself to these new use cases.
The monthly KDE Frameworks releases continue with version 5.100, which brings more improvements for your KDE Plasma desktop and related apps. New features include the ability to show hidden folders in the dropdown menus for Dolphin’s path navigator bar if you have hidden files visible.
KDE Frameworks 5.100 also brings massive improvements to the appearance of list views and list section headers throughout KDE apps, adds a new option to immediately delete trash items that are bigger than the current trash size, and makes avatar images across KDE apps sharper and better looking on HiDPI screens or when using a scale factor.
KDE today announces the release of KDE Frameworks 5.100.0.
KDE Frameworks are 83 addon libraries to Qt which provide a wide variety of commonly needed functionality in mature, peer reviewed and well tested libraries with friendly licensing terms. For an introduction see the KDE Frameworks release announcement.
This release is part of a series of planned monthly releases making improvements available to developers in a quick and predictable manner.
One of the lovelyest things about open community development is you can do it from home but you also get to travel to fancy places to meet your fellow devs and share ideas. Lockdowns stopped that for two years but with Akademy last month it felt like open tech life could return to a more fun state. Then came the return of a meeting that had last happened a decade ago, the Ubuntu Summit. A bunch of KDE devs were invited, me (who does KDE neon), Ade (who does Calamares installer), Scarlett (who does Snap packages), Aleix (who does Discover app installers), Harald (KDE neon), Luca (OpenRazor and hangs around KDE).
As you may know, icons on Ubuntu desktop is handled by an extension called “Desktop Icons NG”. While GNOME has been moving to GTK4, the extension so far still uses GTK3 toolkit to implement all the functions.
A GTK4 port of this extension now is in development, with all previous functions, bug-fixes, as well new features.
The new version works as another extension as it’s not been merged upstream. It comes with GSconnect integration, and features drag and drop app icons from Ubuntu Dock (Dash-to-Dock) to the desktop.
That is a rolling release, no version Ultimate Edition 7.7. One thing I can see it is lightning fast. As soon as I build the core files it is coming. Repostorm is right behind it to fill in the gaps. I have err Reposorm has cross-platform built software. It is a scary app. I told you that years ago. It runs on both platforms.
CachyOS is a very young Linux distribution still in its infancy, so we should not judge it too harshly. However, I would like to make a few remarks.
The distribution’s appearance, with its electric blue on the dark blue theme, gives some teen-hackerish feel. In addition, the icons are so identical that it is easy to lose track of whatever app you’re in. Or maybe I’m just getting old.
Furthermore, we have three package managers all doing the same thing. So, they have no advantage other than confusing users. At the same time, the lack of an office suite is evident. So, it may be a good idea to consider including one.
Last but not least – is the browser. Probably the essential app for the majority of users. It is difficult for a desktop-centric distro to attract users by not including the well-known Firefox or, at the very least, Chrome/Chromium by default.
Cachy Browser’s preinstalled extensions make things worse. For example, the Dark Reader add-on. It is beyond my understanding why the CachyOS devs decided that all sites should be forced into a dark theme, regardless of the user’s preferences or if the sites are even intended to be used in that mode.
Nevertheless, the amount of work done on distribution is enormous. These performance improvements show the time and effort spent building CachyOS. However, because it is more of a benchmark topic, the actual performance is unlikely to be noticeable to the average Linux user.
In other words, under the hood, everything seems good, and we can only admire the devs’ efforts. However, the presentation part, the one that faces users, remains a feeling of choices based on fan bias and does not work in favor of the distro.
With a bit more attention to detail, CachyOS has the potential to compete with its larger brethren that have earned the honor of being listed among the best Arch-based Linux distros.
Only time will tell if this happens and how this distro will evolve. You can learn more about CachyOS by visiting its website or browsing its Wiki.
Once upon a time, 2002 to be exact, Gregory Kurtzer started a Linux distribution called CentOS, a clone of Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). It became really popular. Businesses that had Linux-savvy administrators used it to run their businesses. Then, in 2014, Red Hat acquired CentOS.
The core of open source is about using, sharing, and collaborating in software creation. With its roots in the free software movement and ensuring the rights of software users, open source has evolved from being solely the work of volunteers and hobbyists to also include the enterprise.
Collaborative software development has taken on a new dimension in the last 5 to 10 years. Today open source makes up 58% of software in the enterprise. In fact, 63% of companies in a 2021 survey indicated wanting to increase their use and engagement with open source.
Open source is everywhere and forms the digital infrastructure we rely on. The US issued a directive mandating more software supply chain security. The European Union is also working on similar legislation and guidelines. To address this challenge, you must understand how open source software is built. The process typically involves an open source project.
In my 40+ years in IT executive search and technical recruiting, I’ve interviewed over 10,000 candidates. I’ve learned about their skills, experience, career goals, frustrations, and priorities. And I’ve used these factors to assess the fit between their aspirations and available opportunities.
I’ve also observed how candidates evaluate job offers and ultimately make “go” or “no-go” decisions. Their evaluation criteria often differ from what they initially told me they were looking for.
Artificial intelligence systems and projects are becoming more commonplace as enterprises harness the power of this emerging technology to automate decision-making and improve efficiency.
While its benefits are clear, AI can also introduce risk. How should you prepare if you are leading a large-scale AI project? Here are three of the most significant risks associated with AI and how to mitigate them.
The 5th update of Sparky 6 – 6.5 is out.
It is a quarterly updated point release of Sparky 6 “Po Tolo” of the stable line. Sparky 6 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 11 “Bullseye”.
Changes: – system upgraded from Debian & Sparky stable repos as of November 13, 2022 – PC: Linux kernel 5.10.149 (6.0.6, 5.15.78-ESR and 4.9.333-ESR49 can be installed from Sparky unstable repos) – ARM: Linux kernel 5.15.76-v7+ – Firefox 102.4.0.0esr (107.0 Mozilla build can be installed from Sparky repos as the ‘firefox-sparky’ package) – Thunderbird 102.4.0 – LibreOffice 7.0.4 – LXQt 0.16.0 – Xfce 4.16 – Openbox 3.6.1 – KDE Plasma 5.20.5 – small improvements
If you’ve been waiting to install and enjoy the Unity7 desktop environment on your Arch Linux machine, the wait is finally over thanks to unity-installer-arch, a new command-line tool developed by Rudra Saraswat that lets you install the latest and greatest version of the Unity7 desktop on Arch Linux.
The unity-installer-arch tool has been uploaded this morning to AUR (Arch User Repository), which needs to be enabled on your Arch Linux machine before attempting to download and install the Unity7 desktop. I highly recommend using one of the popular AUR helpers like Yay, Paru, Pacaur, or Pamac.
BrachioGraph is a DIY pen-plotter built from a Raspberry Pi Zero, a few $2 servomotors, plus household parts such as clothes pegs and bulldog clips… and controlled in Python.
An enjoyable side to the Ubuntu Summit was that unlike some of the more worthy events from the commercial side of the industry, here people were presenting their own personal passion projects. BrachioGraph is one of these, and was presented by its creator, Daniele Procida, whose day-job is director of engineering at Canonical.
ADLINK just unveiled a camera development kit designed to quickly develop proof of concept applications. This AI Camera Dev Kit integrates the Jetson Nano (128 NVIDIA CUDA core + 4x Arm Cortex-A57) along with an 8MP color MIPI Sony IMX179 camera module, a single GbE port and up to 16Gb of eMMC storage.
As stated earlier, ADLINK’s new AI Camera Dev Kit is offered only with the following NVIDIA SoC:
A large number of diseases involve coughing as one of their primary symptoms, but none are quite as concerning as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which causes airflow blockages and other breathing problems in those afflicted by it. Consistently monitoring the frequency and intensity of coughing is vital for tracking how well the disease is being treated, yet current solutions are impractical outside of a hospital setting.
Eivind Holt had the idea to use an Arduino Nano 33 BLE Sense running a custom tinyML model to automatically classify sounds as either a cough or non-cough and report them to a cloud service. Once a total of 647 audio samples had been collected, Eivind trained a Keras neural networking using Edge Impulse that could correctly identify the sound about 99% of the time. The program he wrote for the Nano creates a custom BLE service with a single cough counting characteristic that is incremented for each detection.
NLnet Labs is closely following a legislative proposal by the European Commission affecting almost all hardware and software on the European market. The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) intends to ensure cybersecurity of products with digital elements by laying down requirements and obligations for manufacturers.
NLnet Labs has put up a blog entry warning about the possible effects of the "Cyber Resilience Act" proposal in the European Commission.
Joining and using open source social network Mastodon isn't quite as simple as with mainstream sites, but this step-by-step guide offers all you need to know.
The wild world of Mastodon is open source, completely distributed, and at the mercy (and budgetary restrictions) of individual server administrators. But it's engaging and a lot of fun.
I’m Muthuramalingam, from Tirunelveli – a southern district in Tamil Nadu, currently living in Chennai. I was in the IT industry for around 10 years, from 2007 to 2017. Currently, I’m giving training on technical matters around open source programming languages like Java and Python in Payilagam, Chennai.
At CCC in December 2017, an FSFE volunteer, Michael Kappes (MajestyX) distributed a leaflet with the slogan "FUCK GOOGLE FSFE". We are leaking the full email below.
(Twitter, Gnusocial, Ubuntu, BeLUG).
There is a Twitter hashtag #fuckgooglefsfe
For writing these three words, Michael was subjected to a three month exclusion from the FSFE local group in Berlin.
Michael wrote a blog with his side of the story and it vanished. Censorship.
It looks like many of his online profiles have gone dark. We don't know where he is. There is a close correlation between extreme isolation punishments and suicides. There are too many suicides in free, open source software.
When Germans like Erik Albers behave like this and impose punishments, the world needs to worry.
Volunteers like Michael donate approximately thirty percent of the FSFE budget. Albers is there to serve us. He has no right to give us orders.
The key point to note here is that the volunteer stopped distributing the leaflets at the FSFE booth and distributed them from another location in the CCC. Albers and FSFE have no right to interfere in the work of activists outside their FSFE booth. Following volunteers around the CCC is stalking.
First introduced in 2014 by the Khronos Group€®, SYCL™ is a C++ based heterogeneous parallel programming framework for accelerating high performance computing (HPC), machine learning, embedded computing, and compute-intensive desktop applications on a wide range of processor architectures, including CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, and tensor accelerators. SYCL 2020 launched in February 2021 to bring a new level of expressiveness and simplicity to developers programming heterogeneous parallel processors using modern C++, and further accelerating the deployment of SYCL on multiple platforms, including the use of diverse acceleration API backends in addition to OpenCL™.
CMS.js is a fully Client-side, JavaScript Markdown Site generator in the spirit of Jekyll that uses plain ol' HTML, CSS and JavaScript to generate your website. CMS.js is like a file-based CMS. It takes your content, renders Markdown and delivers a complete website in Single-Page App fashion...without the aid of server-side scripting (no Node.js, PHP, Ruby, etc.).
A simple CLI for streaming media files over a local network to UPnP media renderers.
Designed to work with cheap HDMI/DLNA/UPnP/Miracast Dongles.
NextUI is a React-based user-interface library that allows developers to build fancy beautiful websites and applications.
It comes packed with dozens of beautiful components such as cards, loading/ spinners, nice themes, dark mode and more.
CesiumJS is a JavaScript library for creating 3D globes and 2D maps in a web browser without a plugin. It uses WebGL for hardware-accelerated graphics, and is cross-platform, cross-browser, and tuned for dynamic-data visualization.
If you're looking to develop Qt applications for the Android Automotive operating system, then you are in the right place.
Sometimes good ideas almost fall through the cracks! In September the TPRF suggested the idea of setting up a yearly Rainbow Butterfly Award to be awarded to the person who has done outstanding non-core support for the Raku Community / promotion of the Raku Programming Language (discussed in the Raku Steering Council meeting of 17 September).
Please consider who you would like to receive the Rainbow Butterly Award 2022 by sending your nomination by email to: rainbow@raku.org . And if at all possible, add your reasons as to why the nominated person should receive the award! Nominations will be accepted until the 1st of December, after which the Raku Steering Council will deliberately choose and announce the winner.
"The botnet infects systems via an SSH connection that uses weak login credentials," Akamai researcher Larry W. Cashdollar said. "The malware does not stay persistent on the infected system as a way of evading detection."
Improving cyber-security by purchasing licenses for all proprietary software is expensive, however, a better alternative may be to migrate to open-source software like Ubuntu Linux and LibreOffice.
It's not immediately clear how the WordPress sites are breached, and Sucuri said it did not notice any obvious plugin flaws being exploited to carry out the campaign.
The International Committee of the Red Cross wants some digital equivalent to the iconic red cross, to alert would-be hackers that they are accessing a medical network.
Mr. Rodenhäuser said on Thursday that a digital protection emblem likely wouldn’t have deterred hackers intent on penetrating the Red Cross, but it might have waved off attackers unaware their victim was a healthcare organization.
Entities located in East and Southeast Asia as well as Ukraine have been targeted at least since 2020 by a previously undocumented subgroup of APT41, a prolific Chinese advanced persistent threat (APT).
Security updates have been issued by Debian (dropbear, php7.4, pixman, sysstat, and xorg-server), Fedora (mingw-expat, mingw-libtasn1, and mingw-pixman), Mageia (binutils/gdb, chromium-browser-stable, exiv2, libtiff, nodejs, pcre, pixman, wayland, and webkit2), Red Hat (device-mapper-multipath and libksba), SUSE (autotrace, busybox, libmodbus, php72, python-numpy, rustup, samba, varnish, xen, and xterm), and Ubuntu (thunderbird).
Security officials raise fears over the Egyptian government’s mobile app as POLITICO analysis shows it can listen to private conversations and access encrypted texts.
I don’t know what edition where the the random jewel and art object table in the 5e DMG (p 134) first appeared, but it’s become my second most used page (after “lingering injuries”).
Gems especially.
Have you ever had the problem where the characters find some gems and they don’t have a way to appraise ‘em so they just throw them into a pouch and then three months later when they are in a town and remember those gems and they wanna sell them and they’re like... “we have some gems, what are they worth?” and you have no idea? Especially if you’re like me and you run several different modules mashed together.
Here in Sweden where I live, we have warm bright summers and cold dark winters.
This year for the first time ever, the meteorological institute (SMHI) reports that even though it’s November, there are several regions where it’s still technically, meteorologically, summer. It’s dark and gray and warm.
One of the dumbest takes on climate change is “Maybe it’s good actually, that humans die, that could be great for all the other animals and species, they could get a breather from us, Earth will recover, never mind all our libraries and semantics”. It’s not just humans that are in danger here.
Xanathar's Guide to Everything gave us guidelines and outcome tables for actions that are on the scale of weeks, rather than exploration turns or combat rounds, and sometimes that works great: “I wanna spend three weeks trying to learn archery” but more often than not, actions on that time scale is not very appealing to many players.
Let’s say you’re looking for a seller for a Wand of Yak Shaving you’ve found. Sometimes it’s fine to go “Now that we’re here in Jumlat, while Alice is doing that stint fighting in the arenas and Bob is doing temple service, I spend a week asking around for a seller, and don’t worry, I’ve got money to spend”. That’s fine. But some players are inclined to play things a li’l bit more zoomed in and moment-by-moment. “I look at the other people in the tavern... Do I see any adventurers who might wanna buy a Wand of Yak Shaving?”
Fear is a natural instinct which protects us from dying, indirectly helping the species survive. Most of us dislike various fears we have or have irrational ones, commonly called phobias.
Fear also shows up in anticipation of something happening. You fear a future event. So not only fear helps us not drive off a rock into the Deep Blue, but also it acts as a catalyst for our brain to start thinking about future events. If you're like me, this can go wrong in many ways. The joys of overthinking.
Coming back to the first point, fear helps us not die. Seems simple enough. But in some situations we override it and it can help us or not. For example, if you ignore your fear of heights, you might see a very nice sunset from a tall mountain or you might fall to your death from an airplane. Rational judgment beforehand is the key.
I've heard complaints from certain groups about the wholesomeness of 'drag queens' in such contentious situations as libraries when reading stories to children and (usually) their mums.
Drag acts have always amused me. For my generation, it's Paul O'Grady (Lily Savage) and Steve Coogan (Pauline Calf) who jump to mind. More recently, Rue Paul has brought numerous celebrity drag queens to the fore, one of whom was a contenstant on Celebrity Masterchef (Kitty).
4K is everywhere these days. Except that's 16:9, not 16:10. Not to mention the whole extra feature of touch tacked on.
It's my white whale. Of course a brand new model is readily available for the right bit of coin which would make the Apple tax feel painless. There's even proper SKUs for it after all e.g. https://www.cdw.com/product/barco-coronis-6mp-touch-screen-monitor/6911923. Let's go back to the beginning however.
This is one of the most difficult mind whacks for a new DM. It’s easy to get the impression that it’s a big branching flowchart of scenes, “if the players say yes, the NPC is gonna say this, if the players say no, the NPC is gonna say that instead...”
I've recently been trying to figure out how to assign subdomains to some of my online services. Gopher in particular seems to be giving me trouble: I'd like to make my gopherhole available via either gopher.jsreed5.org:70 or simply jsreed5.org:70, but if I define the subdomain gemini.jsreed5.org:1965 for my Gemini capsule, then gemini.jsreed5.org:70 also resolves to the gopherhole. It seems Gopher requests are not DNS aware, so I can't use a filter on a reverse proxy to route the request correctly. Also, since I self-host my services, I only have one public IP address to associate with a DNS entry, so I can't (or rather don't want to) put my Gopher subdomain on another IP. Any help on this matter would be greatly appreciated!
Jokes aside, I've got some actual Capsule updates going on. The index page is fully revamped, I wanted to enrich my capsule with text, so I did and now there's loads of text everywhere for your eyes to bathe in. Also tidbits of upcoming content on my brain waves page (fancy name for a tinylog, I guess it sounded interesting).
A few folks on here might remember Masqq. That's the pseudonym I wrote under a few months back, I've deleted everything relating to it around the end of July, I felt there needed to be a change but at the same time I wasn't going through my best of times, so I've started from scratch under this pseudonym. I don't attach myself to usernames, but perhaps it wasn't justified and people found value in my writings and I actually liked some of the things I wrote there, so I'm putting them back on my posts page here and on the old URL[1]. Eventually I plan to only keep the old posts under this name only. I definitely want to get back to writing more and I will get back to it. I was going through some trying times and I'm better now.
For those subscribed to Masqq, thank you! I'm migrating everything to Evenfire, my new pseudonym and place on the Geminispace, for more details check out this post[1].
Have you ever wanted your own integer, one that is uniquely yours and can't be taken away?
Oh sure, you could generate a random integer with your device now, but no one will respect that it's yours until you publish it somewhere - somewhere that everyone can agree on.
* Gemini (Primer) links can be opened using Gemini software. It's like the World Wide Web but a lot lighter.