I have previously mentioned how I felt that Tor should offer some way for users to pay for bandwidth on its network to incentivize more nodes to join. Well, today I found out about Orchid which is a decentralized VPN that allows users to do just that. It’s basically a marketplace for bandwidth between clients…

Cloudron is fascinating piece of software I found out a few days ago. It makes it super easy to self-host a bunch of applications like Nextcloud, GitLab, Wallabag, etc. They all have one-click installers and SSO with your Cloudron user accounts. Also, it supports encrypted backup to various cloud providers like Amazon S3, DigitalOcean Spaces,…

I must say that I much prefer the Pamac CLI package manager to Pacman. It’s much more intuitive and I’m glad that Manjaro includes it by default.

This is a simple pong game I created for fun for the CICS 290M Makerboard running Arduino software. The board is part of the CS Make course at UMass Amherst. Below is the source code, it’s also available on GitHub.

I’ve decided to set up a monthly donation to the Signal Foundation. I’m not the biggest fan of Signal and I’ve been critical of the fact that it relies on central servers that can be shut off at any time. But none of the peer-to-peer apps I’ve tried (such as Tox) seem competitive in this…

I’ve been using GIMP for the last couple of years, but since I’m on KDE Plasma I decided to give Krita a try. It’s actually very capable and I’m going to try using it in lieu of GIMP for a little while.

There seems to have been lots of talk of an impending stock market crash recently. Some people seem to be absolutely certain of it for reasons such as the inverted yield curve, high PE multiples, and the trade war with China. I’ve even heard people talk about the “2020 recession” as if it has already…

Debian 10 “buster” is released!

I always appreciate Charlie Munger’s bluntness in his interviews. It’s quite the contrast to Warren.