ddnomad

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steve Ballmer is set to make $1 billion a year for doing nothing | CNN Business⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We apologize, but your web browser is configured in such a way that it is preventing this site from implementing required components that protect your privacy and allow you to view and change your privacy settings. This functionality is required for privacy legislation in your region.

  We recommend you use a different browser or disable the “EasyList Cookie” filter from your “Content Filtering” settings (found under “Settings” -> “Shields” in the Brave Browser

  lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Mullvad is trusted. They are pretty open with their policies, exist for a long time already, not involved in any privacy scandals (to my best knowledge), charge flat and fair fee without 60% sales and other dubious marketing practices. Pretty much every cyber security professional I know uses Mullvad in one way or another, usually as part of a more complex solution. But suffice to say, Mullvad on its own is better than a lot of other VPN providers, not in 5/9 eyes (they are in 14 eyes though), you can buy a subscription with crypto, which (assuming crypto was acquired anonymously too) is a good start for some privacy guarantees.

  But all in all, please bear in mind that VPN is not some magic silver bullet to preserve your privacy and anonymity. With VPNs you basically shift your trust from your ISP to the VPN provider. That trust you put into the provider, it is still a requirement. Not to mention that a good chunk of tracking is happening on a lower level nowadays, so if you use Mullvad on Windows / any Apple device etc. do not expect to become untraceable :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why you shouldn't use Brave Browser⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Use FireFox or Safari, the more people use Chromium-based browsers the faster we get to the situation where Google completely owns the Internet (and they almost do now).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Same, actually! And that happened even after I had my morning coffee too.

  I especially like how “legal issues” are not even in “Risks and challenges” section on Kickstarter.

  What can possibly go wrong?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After Raising $235K, Abode Remains Committed to Taking on Adobe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m highly sceptical of this shipping in a state that can compete with Adobe at the end of it all. The branding itself is asking for trouble, which is just plain stupid if you are serious about long-term and sustainable development of the whole suite, and 180k is not enough to even put together a competent alternative to Illustrator, not to mention Photoshop and InDesign.

  And before people start claiming that you can fund this by outsourcing to Eastern Europe / India etc, please bear in mind that you usually get what you pay for. A competent developer with enough experience to actually make this happen won’t come cheap, and opportunistic juniors with big ambitions won’t deliver.

  I wish this project all the luck it can get, but I’m personally banking on Graphite and Inkscape from the FOSS world and Affinity suite from (as of yet) less corpo commercial offerings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A peaceful protest againt Web Environment Integrity⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Done

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux friendly CAD programs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  github.com/RikudouSage/PhpScad

  Thanks, I’ll take a look <3

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linux friendly CAD programs?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  OpenSCAD does the job for me, though I’m not particularly experienced in CAD things. I’ve tried FreeCAD and Fusion 360 (on Mac) previously and they just look too confusing for my taste.

  With OpenSCAD I can at least approach the modelling in the same way I approach things at my say job: just write some code 👩‍💻

  Example: github.com/ddnomad/printables/blob/…/main.scad

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I mostly organise things digitally nowadays, but I did start using Traveler’s Notebook recently for scratch notes and “mind lists”.

  Taking quick notes is just so much better and faster when you just jot it down, in my opinion.

  And the “mind lists” I keep really help me to commit new concepts to my memory more efficiently. Basically, I keep a list of concepts / fancy words I encounter when reading books, Wikipedia etc, and then periodically revisit them to try and recall what they mean. Makes a world of different for my ability to remember things, as it’s not getting any better with age sadly.

  I guess the point I’m trying to make is that you can do both: keep some things digitally while still have a meaningful and functional use case for fountain pens :)