Kind: Notes

I’m 100% for moving away from centralised silos.

That said, can’t lie, whenever I see a link to a project that looks cool, to find that the link is something like git.mysupercoolsite.net:3000, I click with nervous anticipation and wait with fingers crossed for it to actually load…

I do a bunch of post-install steps every time I do a fresh install of a distro.  (I like to do a fresh install semi-regularly as a kind of low-key disaster recovery run-through…)

It might be package installations, pulling various config files in from a git remote, restoring documents, changing app settings, etc.

Thinking what’s the best way to automate all that?  I guess probably a shell script should get me pretty far.

Listening to an episode of Libre Lounge from a few months back, fascinating to hear about the two recent vectors that compromised projects via npm.

Both supply chain attacks, one a compromised build and the other a kind of social engineering hijacking of a no-longer-maintained repository.

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-2-thanksgiving-npm-and-malware-in-free-software.html

Watching Debian install, hundreds/thousands of packages, it’s pretty awesome to think how much totally free, unfettered software that represents.

Huge respect to all those contributors over the years, what an achievement!

Oh wow, choosing to pull in GNOME has turned this net install into a bit of a marathon.

Dangit, my media endpoint stopped working.

#indieweb

“Free software is a prerequisite for privacy. (It’s not a guarantee, but it’s a prerequisite.)”

Libre Lounge: Episode 15: At Libre Planet with Sean O’Brien

https://librelounge.org/episodes/episode-15-at-libre-planet-with-sean-obrien.html

Debian testing net install iso is 327Mb.

Etcher, an app to burn it to USB, is 107Mb.

Hmmm.

Google, Microsoft, Amazon, actively ramping up the use of fossil fuels with AI and machine learning.

Maddening.

https://gizmodo.com/how-google-microsoft-and-big-tech-are-automating-the-1832790799