Category: Microblog

Interesting video about how surprisingly common Rogue waves actually are.

For anyone using Aurora store from F-Droid make sure you change to the new v3 package which is a separate listing from the previous v2 one.

It’s interesting that most of todays browsers have heritage going back to KHTML (by KDE). Chromium, WebKit, Safari, Edge, Brave, Opera, etc. all have some link to it. The only browser I can think of that doesn’t currently have KHTML code in it is Firefox.

Water.css is a neat little stylesheet that you can include on your static HTML documents to make them look a bit more modern. It doesn’t have any classes, just the tags.

I think Google’s longest running chat app has probably been the chatroom functionality of Google Docs.

Interesting video about the original UNIX philosophy of combining small programs together to complete more complex tasks.

Personally I wouldn’t touch the Lyft or Uber IPOs with a ten-foot pole. They’re both companies that haven’t made any significant profits and are largely reliant on new investor money coming into the business just to stay afloat.

If they do eventually turn around and become profitable then maybe I’d reconsider but I see no reason to rush into a decision by buying at the IPO price. If something is a good investment today it’ll still be a good investment in 5 years.

StackOverflow has started their April fools joke for this year. They made the site look like something from the early 2000s with gifs and such.

Its interesting that Tor nodes are operating at a loss while VPN companies are raking in the cash.

For all practical purposes the Tor network is basically just a decentralized VPN service. Perhaps Tor could offer a paid fast lane (or introduce some way to automatically donate to nodes as you use them) to incentivize nodes to join.

I also think Tor could gain quite a few more users by marketing to folks who are just trying to access websites blocked on their work/school WiFi.

TIL that GNU Grep is about 30x faster than BSD Grep.