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Cake day: June 24th, 2023

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  • It’s a little longwinded and meandering, but it’s a good piece and a good message. This is why things like Linux and opensource are so important. On the surface it looks like a bunch of nerds making our computers slightly more of a hassle to use and slightly less compatible with everything else, but maintaining full control of what our systems do, what other system’s they talk to, and maintaining a chain of accountability that goes all the way to the hardware is so important. Sadly it’s important in ways that the average person doesn’t care much about, or rather they won’t care about them until it’s too late. Until every computer for sale everywhere is just a surveillance device shaped like a laptop that plays youtube and opens facebook while logging and sending off every click and keystroke.

    Now I’m all fired up. I’m going to go install Linux on an old thinkpad.
















  • I have not had to pirate software since I was a teenager. There are free/FOSS tools that do all of what I need well enough that I haven’t needed to even consider non-free options. Documents I just use Google Docs/Sheets, video editing I use kdenlive, sound recording/editing I use audacity, screen recording and game capture I use OBS, photo/image editing I use GIMP, etc.

    It’s not that I am opposed to software piracy, I just have not had to do it. I would if I needed too but it just hasn’t come up. For games I typically either buy them for a console or Steam and don’t pirate them.

    The only thing I really pirate with any regularity anymore is tv/movies/music, and most of that is just finding things to add to my jellyfin rather than anything that’s new/current.