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  • Neither of these are IDEs (nor is VSCode), but it’d be Zed and Neovim for me. Zed is fast and pleasant to use, but also will enshittify eventually. Debug support is in progress but not live. Neovim is fun and it’s nice to be more in control of what is going on, but I haven’t made the necessary progress to be productive in large projects with it yet. I was excited for Lapce but it fell short, had too many issues in a short time.




  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlCrypto
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    1 month ago

    It’s increasingly harder to exchange for fiat anonymously, especially when you consider XMR or other privacy coins. Once the people in charge of money realized they were a bit subverted, you got the huge crackdown.

    I still use it for various things. Buy LTC from a legit licensed exchange. Move it around a bit. Change to XMR through an exchange that doesn’t care. Maybe move it around some more. It’s a giant pain, but I don’t know a better way. This method isn’t perfect, more of a balance of risk, but it’s better than just handing your entire entity over for a simple transaction.




  • I went through and built a license, then read through it.

    I don’t think most of the things contained would be legally enforceable. We barely even have traditional open licensing that works, much less one that tries to enforce an ethical framework. Instead of this, we should work toward wide-reaching law that protects people’s rights, something that has teeth. Asking people to please not enslave someone with your library will never work, they will do it anyway or just not use your library, as they already do with copyleft licenses.







  • Thought I’d throw in some things I’ve been using.

    • yetCalc - it’s a calculator
    • Vector Camera - novelty camera app which can make it look like you’re in the matrix
    • Leon - The URL Cleaner
    • Libera Reader - document viewer
    • K-9 Mail - it’s thunderbird mobile now
    • Imagepipe - image editor / exif cleaner
    • Gauguin - sudoku like puzzle game, configurable difficulty
    • Feeder - rss reader
    • AntennaPod - podcast manager / player
    • Element - flagship matrix client
    • AdAway - host based ad blocking (requires root)
    • Ente Auth - MFA

  • I’ve been using Arch off and on for a long time, since it was horrible to install and updates did often break stuff. This is not the case now 🖖, and the Arch wiki is your friend.

    1. Consider using btrfs with automated snapshots using yabsnap. It includes a configurable pacman hook in case something goes awry. Also just nice to have snapshots in case you accidentally delete a file or something.

    2. Use paru, an AUR helper. Good for random things which may not be officially packaged. Expect to run into failures, and learn to diagnose them. Sometimes it’s just a new dependency the packager missed. For both paru and pacman, clean the cache once in a while or automatically, or things will get out of hand.

    3. Do the “manual” setup, at least the first time, so you have an idea what’s going on. Don’t forget to install essential stuff like iwd (if needed) when you do pacstrap, or else you might have to boot from live again to fix it. Once you’re done, take care to follow the important post install steps, like setting up a user with sudo, a firewall, sshd, etc.

    As for general setup, I’ve recently embraced systemd-networkd and systemd-resolved. Might be worth giving it a shot, since there is no default network manager like application. You can even convert all your wireguard client configs into networkd interfaces.

    Best practice: Keep a personal log of various tweaks and things you’ve configured, and set up automated backups (more of general guidance).

    Have fun!






  • liliumstar@lemmy.dbzer0.comtoPrivacy@lemmy.mlCash into Monero?
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know how safe this is, but what I do:

    1. Make a local XMR wallet, backup, and host your own blockchain
    2. Buy regular crypto, say LTC, from a legit exchange with KYC
    3. Swap that to XMR on an anon swap/exchange, storing in your wallet 3 (optional). Move from your first wallet to another, for extra safety???

    Spend it where you can, not many places. BTCPay server, which can be self-hosted, supports it, so there are options.