The EFF is quitting X
“Last year, our 1,500 posts earned roughly 13 million impressions for the entire year. To put it bluntly, an X post today receives less than 3% of the views a single tweet delivered seven years […]
Tag: technology
Little Snitch, the macOS network tool, is now available on Linux
“Little Snitch for Linux is written in Rust and uses eBPF for kernel-level traffic interception (this lets sandboxed code run inside the Linux kernel without modifying it). The tool shows processes on your machine making […]
PacHub finally lets you manage pacman and the AUR on Arch without touching the terminal
“PacHub provides a GTK4/libadwaita GUI for pacman and AUR, so you can avoid the terminal. PacHub can install/uninstall packages, perform upgrades, and provide auto-AUR support via yay or paru. It’s not in the Arch repos […]
Turn paper hiking maps into real-time GPS guides with Matchy Maps
“Trails may not be visible on the digital map, but things like roads, rivers, ponds, lakes, and other natural features are. The app allows you to take a photo of a physical map in the […]
Sweden goes back to basics, swapping screens for books in the classroom
So why did Sweden pivot? In an email to Undark, Linda Fälth, a researcher in teacher education at Linnaeus University, wrote that the “decision to reinvest in physical textbooks and reduce the emphasis on digital […]
Proton launches new “Meet” privacy-focused conferencing platform
“Meet provides end-to-end encrypted (E2EE) calls to protect the confidentiality of the conversations and does not require a paid plan or even a Proton account to use. It is free for one-hour meetings of up […]
Dangerzone — an open source app to safely open suspect PDFs, office docs, or images
Dangerzone works like this: You give it a document that you don’t know if you can trust (for example, an email attachment). Inside a sandbox, Dangerzone converts the document to a PDF (if it isn’t […]
Easy way South Africans can find fuel stations with the cheapest diesel
“Unlike petrol prices, retail diesel prices are unregulated in South Africa. Only the wholesale price at which suppliers may sell to stations is fixed by the government.” I thought both diesel and petrol prices were […]
ClipCascade is an open-source lightweight utility that automatically syncs the clipboard across devices
This is a nice private option to sync across all your devices in real-time, and you can self-host you own sync device, rely on peer-to-peer between devices, or use their cloud sync. Traffic is end-to-end […]
I just moved from Manjaro Linux to EndeavourOS
I’ve been on Manjaro Linux for a good ten plus years now and been pretty happy with it. Not only that, but I love the rolling distro type updates as there has been no need […]