SearXNG and Brave Web Crawlers
I have a previous post on a couple privacy search proxies I run, but I wanted to highlight that you can configure the search engines used with SearXNG. And duckduckgo already uses Bing, so you don’t need that one, but…
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How to Install Navidrome with Docker: A Step-by-Step Guide
There was a time when we bought CDs, and then with the MP3 format we started to rip our CD’s and just use our computer like a jukebox, eventually just buying the MP3 files online. Of course today we have…
My Favorite Linux Distro for 2024 is Not Ubuntu, Not Mint, It’s This
Nice write up, as Endeavor OS is a great way to run Arch Linux without the tedious installation process. Consequently, I run it on our old Chromebooks that have had the firmware changed to accept Linux installations, and it works…
What Gets You Banned From BlueCry
I mean BlueSky, which I believe was started by the creator of Twitter as an alternative that I thought was supposed to be a more open platform and part of the distributed Fediverse. What’s funny, Elon is pretending to be…
Fish Shell Outlines Their Successes & Challenges Going From C++ To Rust
My favorite shell to switch to when installing any version of Linux, mainly because auto complete and history suggestions are included by default. If you haven’t tried the fish shell, what are you waiting for? All you have to do…
Congress Considers Ban on Chinese-Made Drones Used in U.S.
This is laying out what the drone psyop is about, and it’s discriminating against a Chinese company that is eating everyone’s lunch because they’re doing a superior job and making a superior product. Consequently, this is the same thing going…
World’s First Bitcoin Nation Scales Back Crypto Dream
Interesting that the OCGFC International Monetary Fund is pressuring El Salvador to back off its Bitcoin initiative. It makes sense really, as it would be transformative for the country to use Bitcoin instead of an inflationary fiat currency, and the…
Bill Gates Calls for ‘Anti-Vaxxers’ to Be Censored by AI: Questioning ‘Vaccines’ Is ‘Inciting Violence’
It’s not exactly what Bill Gates said as he mentioned questioning vaccines along with inciting violence. But I share this because Bill Gates has terrible tells when his OCGFC conniving is intertwined with his being deceptive. Just look at him…
Is Bitcoin’s Supply Actually Fixed?
An interesting article on Bitcoin’s supply being fixed (article at bottom). And my article on Bitcoin covers the consensus of people running the software that sets the version. And of the 67,000 nodes, 19,000 active, I run two, a Raspberry…
DoorDash By Drone: Google’s Wing Subsidiary Now Delivers In Dallas-Fort Worth
I’m not one that would use DoorDash or Grubhub with improperly vetted delivery drivers. Once we ordered a pizza from a local business that used to have their own delivery driver, but it came by one of these gig economy…
VMware Workstation Pro 17.6.2 Now Free for All Users
A nice write up on the new version release. I use VMware Workstation on my Win 10 box to run Linux virtual machines where I do all my work in except playing a couple games, and I’ve been using it…
The Automattic vs WP Engine WordPress Wars Are Getting Really Annoying
Interesting opinion piece by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols who I’ve been reading for decades regarding open source. Consequently, this is a WordPress blog run as a Docker container module with a MariaDB module to support it along with NginxProxyManager module to…