Meghan Denny nektro

Don't use VPN services.

No, seriously, don't. You're probably reading this because you've asked what VPN service to use, and this is the answer.

Note: The content in this post does not apply to using VPN for their intended purpose; that is, as a virtual private (internal) network. It only applies to using it as a glorified proxy, which is what every third-party "VPN provider" does.

(A Russian translation of this article can be found here, contributed by Timur Demin.)

Why not?

Think twice before abandoning X11. Wayland breaks everything!

Source: https://x.com/LundukeJournal/status/1940441670098809093

Hence, if you are interested in existing applications to "just work" without the need for adjustments, then you may be better off avoiding Wayland.

Wayland solves no issues I have but breaks almost everything I need. Even the most basic, most simple things (like xkill) - in this case with no obvious replacement. And usually it stays broken, because the Wayland folks mostly seem to care about Automotive, Gnome, maybe KDE - and alienating everyone else (e.g., people using just an X11 window manager or something like GNUstep) in the process.

Zig Type System

Zig aims to be a simple language. It is not easy to define what simple exactly means, but zig is also a low-level programming language that aims for c-compatibility. To reach this goal, it needs good semantics in its type system so that developers have a complete toolbox to manipulate data.

So types in zig are composable, but this can become rapidly overwhelming. See those examples. Are you able to understand them at a glance, as soon as you read them?

*const ?u8
?*const u8
*const [2]u8

	==========================
	How Software Companies Die
	==========================
	- Orson Scott Card

	The environment that nurtures creative programmers kills management and
	marketing types - and vice versa.

	Programming is the Great Game. It consumes you, body and soul. When
	you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into

	#!/bin/bash

	# requires gcloud command line tools
	# go to https://cloud.google.com/sdk/docs/quickstarts to get them OR you can install with Node (npm) "npm install --save -g @google-cloud/cloud-sdk"
	# max 100 service accounts per project
	# run "gcloud init --console-only" first and select a project; run it again to select another project to create more service accounts

	# Location of where service account keys will be created
	KEYS_DIR=keys

	[Unit]
	Description=rclone google drive media mount
	After=network-online.target

	[Service]
	Type=simple
	ExecStart=/usr/bin/rclone --config /root/gdrive/config/rclone.conf mount media-remote-secret: /mnt/gdrive-media --allow-non-empty --allow-other --read-only --dir-cache-time 48h --vfs-read-chunk-size 32M --vfs-read-chunk-size-limit 2G --tpslimit 5 --tpslimit-burst 5
	ExecStop=/bin/fusermount -quz /mnt/gdrive-media
	Restart=on-abort
	RestartSec=5

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	#
	# NixOS Configuration for Framework Laptop
	#

	{ config, lib, pkgs, modulesPath, ... }:

	{

	boot.kernelParams = [ "mem_sleep_default=deep" ];