Random notes of an Avid Seeker

An avid seeker of knowledge, technological freedom, and privacy. Into real sustainability that is only achieved with Free Software. Start by reading My Linux Journey with some desktips.

Topics Seeking:

• Are we there yet?: Current adoption status of various technologies
  • JPEG XL
  • Software liberation
  • Metadata preservation
• Plaintext: Plain text tools, resources, and integrations
• Offline-first programs
• Opening up random issues

Random Seeking:

• XMPP: Towards a better Libre and decentralized chatting application
• Language flags:
• Better (Libre) m3u Playlists
• Unix Acronyms
• Software bookmarks

Curious Seeking:

• Longest char
• Elegant in conciseness
• Source code trivias
• RFC-6214

Private Seeking:

• Unsolicited connections
• Performance
• Encrypted Client Hello

Arabic support:

• Arabic Linux
• Arabic LaTeX
• Placeholder i18n
• Bidi support
• Single-letter compose sequence (AKA: Lam-Alif problem)

Random suggestions

• Avoid URL trailing slashes
• Avoid global git identity
• Don’t use Discord as your support forum
• ISO 8601 date
• Firefox has a feature close to Vimium’s URL find. Use ' on Firefox to quickly click a link. And space,shift+space for going up or down instead of Ctrl-U, Ctrl-D.

Readings:

• OpenSSF Best Practices
• Licensing wikis
• Trailing commas

Comparison tables

• Browser privacy
• Browser performance
• Browser features
• Desktop Environments
• Messaging apps
• Secure messaging apps
• Android ROMs

Asking questions

• Don’t say hello
• Don’t ask to ask. Just ask.
• XY Problem: Ask about actual problem, not attempted solution
• See also: Better questions, [Smart questions][http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html]

Webrings:

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Contact

• Github: avidseeker
• XMPP: xmpp:avidseeker@dismail.de
• Matrix: @avidseeker:envs.net
• Mastodon: @avidseeker@fosstodon.org