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ajvs··on GnuCash Tutorial and Concepts Guide
Unfortunately their mobile app hasn't been meaningfully updated for years.
ajvs··on If you value Tor, please make a donation
This is all true, but then if that's your desire then why are you using an iPhone? The only reason this is an issue is because you can't control what random data an iPhone might send out.
ajvs··on FreeTube – The Private YouTube Client
If you want to prevent tracking use Tor. This is not meant to be used to eliminate all tracking.
ajvs··on Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
Yes. My point is that Mozilla are failing as stewards of Firefox, so I can see these two projects continuing their legacy.
ajvs··on Mozilla's midlife crisis has taken it from pioneer to Google's weird neighbor
I can see Mullvad taking over the "privacy browser" niche in the future thanks to Mullvad Browser and Tor Browser which they contribute to.
ajvs··on Linux interop is maturing fast thanks to a games console
Linux is now more popular than OSX according to those statistics. That's a decent milestone, and it's only going to grow as enshittification forces further downgrades in user experience, freedom and privacy in commercial OSes.
ajvs··on Valve is a wonderful upstream contributor to Linux and the open-source community
Just optimise for the Steam Linux Runtime, it's cross-distro compatible.
ajvs··on An open letter to our community
> I hope the game dev world wont take the web dev world path where code is in oversupply and there are little options to monetise.

Very beneficial for the consumer however. Right now the bar to create a good videogame is rather high, and this leads to the current hellscape where so many videogames are plagued with lootboxes, season passes and other microtransactions to make up for the multiple years in dev time required with many employees.

If the tooling gets better to the point that it takes less time and less devs to create good games that don't require the insane levels of monetisation, then this trend is more likely to be reversed.

ajvs··on Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
Lacks features like mounting a filesystem as read-only to restore though. I find that makes restoring files much simpler. I'll look into bupstash some more perhaps but right now am very happy with Vorta/Borg.
ajvs··on Kopia: Fast and secure open-source backup software
How's that? I've restored lots of files and had no issues.
ajvs··on ISPs should not police online speech no matter how awful it is
Wanting fair trials is a rule that applies to nobody else? It's a pretty fundamental requirement for democracy.
ajvs··on Webrecorder: Capture interactive websites and replay them at a later time
Website owners can request their site be blacklisted for archival, so this doesn't work for all websites.
ajvs··on Linda Yaccarino is the new CEO of Twitter
Because they want to monetise and own the entire thing, even more than the most successful "everything app" (iOS) already does.
ajvs··on Google Authenticator cloud sync: Google can see the secrets, even while stored
> Google know

www.reddit.com/r/degoogle

ajvs··on ChatGPT users can now turn off chat history
Italy already banned ChatGPT, and Germany is considering the same. Whilst the EU itself taking a hard stance I agree will take a while, just the fact that EU member states are banning it is forcing OpenAI to take a privacy-preserving stance to prevent regulation on themselves occurring as quickly.
ajvs··on Apple wins antitrust court battle with Epic Games, appeals court rules
Android is more dominant across the world, and it turns out that it's just open enough that even more open platforms like mobile Linux have not retained comparable developer mindshare.

In the US however as a result of differing strategy behind text and data costs by telecom providers in the 2000s Apple were lucky that it disincentivised using data for messages, so there wasn't the same internet-based messaging app uptake that took place elsewhere globally and basic SMS remained dominant.

Then when iMessage launched in 2011 telecom providers plans had changed enough so that data wasn't as expensive, so it became seamless to keep using the default iPhone messaging app to talk to everyone.

ajvs··on Ubuntu stops shipping Flatpak by default
I'll add to this: one that uses KDE, please. Kubuntu has served me well but I'm tired of Canonical's shit.
ajvs··on Sex worker-led payment platform shuts down after being cut off by processor
"Learn to code" is looking like a lot less popular advice nowadays thanks to AI...
ajvs··on Paving the Road to Vulkan on Asahi Linux
Getting Waydroid to run well on Linux has big issues still unfortunately if you wanted to use it to play Android games. Managed to get it working for a few months on a previous Ubuntu version, now can't get it to work at all.
ajvs··on Chinese banks cause alarm as capital flight measures intensify
The risk is that China becomes a pariah to the West, which much of their economic system depends on.
ajvs··on Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS
Any plans to release this add-on to Firefox?
ajvs··on Konsta UI – Mobile UI Components Built with TailwindCSS
No, the components come with specific JS behaviours, and the documentation has the Tailwind classes you need to add separately (which means it's still modifiable if necessary).
ajvs··on Ask HN: Easiest and cheapest full-stack frameworks that you love?
+1 especially for Supabase, very easy to use and typesafe.
ajvs··on Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (February 2023)
Location: London, UK

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: No

Technologies: JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Express.js, Supabase, AWS, SQL, CI/CD, Agile software development

Résumé/CV: https://linkedin.com/in/aaron-sollesse or I can send PDF via email

Email: aaron@mail.spinningatoms.com

I'm a junior software developer who started contributing code to a popular open-source codebase about 2 years ago, and have just recently finished an intensive full-stack JavaScript bootcamp.

My background is in years of digital marketing and later Linux SysAdmin, and I became a developer because my tech journey feels like it's come full circle going from hiring developers to realising I really enjoyed doing the coding myself.

https://github.com/ajvsol

ajvs··on Show HN: KnifeGeek – Online Database of Pocket Knives
Dropdown menus instead of text input boxes would help, I'm a newbie to this world so I'm not sure what to search for.
ajvs··on Facebook Container Extension
This is redundant now that Firefox has Total Cookie Protection (AKA Dynamic First-Party Isolation) on by default[1].

[1] https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/firefox-rolls-out-total-...

ajvs··on Stable-diffusion-webui now licensed under AGPL 3.0
Other contributors submitting their code to a proprietary codebase are giving up their license to the code in favour of the repo's license. The repo owner can do whatever with the code at that point, including choosing to open it as AGPLv3 if they want to.
ajvs··on Genders.wtf
> Second, what do you consider people with neither or both kinds?

Male/female is determined by chromosomes, either XX or XY.

ajvs··on Genders.wtf
So?
ajvs··on Athens (open-source Roam Research) is no longer being actively maintained
Logseq is a good alternative outliner to migrate to https://github.com/logseq/logseq
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