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“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis
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branon··on Void: Open-source Cursor alternative
Disappointing name! You are colliding with https://voidlinux.org/ among probably many other much more significant pieces of software.
branon··on U.S. appeals court strikes down FCC's net neutrality rules
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience.” — C.S. Lewis
branon··on Blackcandy: Self hosted music streaming server
Finamp is amazing, blows anything else out of the water
branon··on Biggest shell programs
Biggest I know of is https://github.com/sonic2kk/steamtinkerlaunch/blob/master/st...

27k lines/24k loc

branon··on DOJ says Google must sell Chrome to crack open its search monopoly
Who do you sell _Google_ Chrome to? This seems ill-advised. Who could possibly run it? Oracle? Broadcom? Is Elon Musk going to buy it and then we'll have X Browser?

None of these options seem likely to create anything better than what we have now.

On the upshot, Firefox is going to see a resurgence. Hey, maybe Mozilla buys it?

branon··on Manjaro is experimenting with **opt-out telemetry
Void is shockingly good on desktop, miles beyond anything else. Stable and oh so simple.
branon··on Ask HN: Best offline-only eBook reader?
Loving my Kobo Clara 2E!
branon··on Fallout 2 Remake 3D
Fallout 2 is Interplay.

Anyway Bethesda is really good about this type of thing, they give away some of their of old stuff (Arena and Daggerfall) for free-as-in-beer and considering their cooperation with modders for nearly every title they release I don't think I've ever seen them get ornery over a remake.

Sfall has been around a long time too. I wouldn't worry.

branon··on Custom Linux powered smart-TV breaks free from ads and tracking
I thought this was going to be open hardware or at least custom firmware that could replace Tizen or webOS. Imagine my disappointment when I click and it's a laptop strapped to the back of a TV.

Does this do anything that existing solutions (OSMC, LibreELEC, Jellyfin MPV Shim) don't? From reading the source blog post it doesn't look like it. HDMI CEC, navigation without a mouse and keyboard (an airmouse is not a viable solution imo, at least use a Flirc), casting... all can be had better elsewhere with smaller, cheaper, quieter, more discrete hardware with lower power consumption.

branon··on Runs-on: Self hosted, on-premise, GitHub Action runners
on-premises, not on-premise. but if these are hosted in AWS and aren't actually on-premises, maybe use of the term is not correct at all?
branon··on Google's Nonconsensual Explicit Images Problem Is Getting Worse
Whatever the solution, it's not to leave final arbitration of Google's search results up to a censorious Internet gatekeeper's tools and lists. We've been over this already with the Internet Watch Foundation.
branon··on Ask HN: What is your favorite rolling Linux distro?
Void does this "stable rolling" thing which I've liked a lot, definitely a favorite. Haven't tried Chimera yet.
branon··on Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities
You can but you only have 30 days to do it before they delete history outside of the previous year if I'm reading this right
branon··on Slack to destroy >90d history of free communities
Because now you can't pay to see the history, it'll be gone. Previously you could've started paying any time to access the history.
branon··on Windows 11 is now enabling OneDrive folder backup without asking permission
October 2025 is EOL for 22H2, but 1809 LTSC is supported until 2029.
branon··on The Influencer Is a Young Teenage Girl. The Audience Is 92% Adult Men
At the very bottom:

> The mom and daughter have been debating how to proceed. They offer some subscription content on another platform, but the majority of their followers were on Instagram.

This was the most eyebrow-raising out of an entire article of eyebrow-raising, questionable decisions made by that parent. WHICH other platform?

Don't put your kids on the Internet!

branon··on Google has been blocking Invidious with error "This helps protect our community"
This is a false equivocation, blocking ads doesn't mean nobody will be supporting them. Anyway watching ads enriches Google far more than the creators. You can block all ads indiscriminately and send money directly to the creators you care about.
branon··on Microsoft blocks Windows 11 workaround that enabled local accounts
There is nothing inherently special about ThrottleStop and MSI Afterburner, these are merely (proprietary) Windows-specific utilities for changing the behavior of your hardware.

Running these programs on Linux would not make sense because their only purpose is to twist knobs in the Windows OS. Linux has different knobs so their functions do not apply.

Thus your restriction is self-imposed more than anything, you are effectively saying "the only thing stopping me from switching to Linux is that it's not Windows."

Between your BIOS settings and programs like cpufrequtils and CoreCtrl there are equivalents to those programs, but interacting with hardware is platform-specific. You may have to learn different programs because Linux abstracts access to your hardware differently, thus your preferred Windows-specific utilities will not have any use :D

This is in contrast to productivity applications like Adobe which could reasonably work the exact same way across platforms... if only they were cross-platform at all :(

branon··on The Internet Archive is under a DDoS attack
https://archivebox.io/ perhaps?
branon··on Introducing Copilot+ PCs
League runs on Linux easy, all you need is patched Wine: https://github.com/GloriousEggroll/wine-ge-custom/releases/t...

It's easiest to use this via software like Lutris or Bottles.

branon··on FTX says it has billions more than owed to victims
Wait, so SBF was right? Wasn't this a big part of the stuff he wouldn't shut up about? That he could pay it all back?
branon··on FTC says Amazon executives destroyed potential evidence using apps like Signal
Good, this is why E2EE and user-controlled communications need protected at all costs. Citizens need to defend the right to communicate privately and ephemerally from government snoops. Because if they can force (or try to) Amazon to fork over comms records, they can do the same to me or to you.

Destruction of evidence is one thing, let them get nailed for that. But they weren't afraid to communicate privately and neither should we.

And we can't let the government hold these antitrust suits up as an example of "this is why we need to break encryption, so we can protect consumers from the big bad monopolies" either. I bet that'll be the narrative at some point.

branon··on Understanding and avoiding visually ambiguous characters in IDs
cl looks like d in some fonts or with bad kerning
branon··on Moldova has the biggest number of vineyards per capita in the world
If you find out, let me know, that sounds fun
branon··on [dead]
This thread looks to have fallen off front page, fair enough I suppose as it doesn't gratify any sort of intellectual curiosity...

For those who are still here: do any of you pay for news? If so can you share your criteria for how you determine which outlets are appropriate to support directly?

How can I ensure the news I read (or pay for) is not involved in contracting with censorial organizations like GDI?

branon··on YouTube to start blocking third-party apps that don't show ads
How do they plan on doing this exactly? NewPipe only parses the website and yt-dlp pretends to be Android/iOS. They can't break these in a way that wouldn't be fixable. yt-dlp already ignores the "not available on this app" video ID bait-and-switch trick.
branon··on Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
https://github.com/vladiiancu/plex-reshare

Can't stop the signal

branon··on Plex Asks GitHub to Take Down 'Reshare' Repository over Piracy Fears
Plex has been user-hostile for a long time, this isn't surprising. Vote with your feet: Jellyfin is just as good, been running it since it came out, no regrets.
branon··on Surveilling Alone
Why keep any of it? Why waste one second trying to "transfer access" if there's even an iota of doubt?

Was the existing system a big reason why you bought the house?

Rip it all out and install your own stuff!

branon··on Ask HN: Happy 404 Day. Whats your favorite 404 error page?
Moparisthebest's 404 where the web server has an existential crisis: https://www.moparisthebest.com/404

Cleaned up some of the spelling and grammar and took this for my own site :)

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