Technically? Not very much, but I’m handy with NixOS. The hardest part was the configuration of a mail server. I should probably blog about the setup process. But of course the real work is attracting people and keeping them engaged.

Recently I’ve created a private forum and so far I’m very happy with it. It’s nice that our discussions are private, keeping data gobblers, programmatic advertisers, grifters and other schmucks like this out in the cold.

https://tad-lispy.com/club/

To be clear, I’m advertising the idea, not membership.

Is this coming from Wired magazine, aka the press organ of silicon valley? Big wows.

If we are talking about American adults, I guess they might be right.

In the USA there are almost 650 thousands patent applications being filled (of which almost 400 thousands are getting grants) each year. So while technically what you wrote is correct, in practical terms finding an interesting patent is certainly not a trivial task for a journalist.

That’s a serious accusation. Got anything to back it up?

Yes please! Do it Mellon!

There is https://nebula.tv/ which hosts most of my favorite creators without all the YT crap. I am very happy to pay them.

One feature that is missing that I like to use is curly brace expansion to produce multiple arguments. For example,

$ mv *.{jpg,jpeg}

Maybe this will work for expansion: https://github.com/nushell/nu_scripts/blob/main/modules/filesystem/expand.nu

It’s in the “filesystem” section, but I think it works on any string, not only paths. See the ugly duck example. I didn’t try it myself yet.

BTW the nu_scripts goodies are available in Nixpkgs, so since you are using Home Manager, it’s easy to integrate. Take a look at my config for starters: https://gitlab.com/tad-lispy/nixos-configuration/-/blob/bb614ae3639a504912db167f5bd7e6651d28f604/tad.nix#L39-47

After reading the post I don’t see how it gives any indication that Mozilla is trying to censor anyone. Mostly it argues for more transparency. It’s certainly worth reading.

That’s grossly exaggerated. I live in western Europe and never once used WhatsApp. There are very occasional frictions, like people being surprised I don’t have it. Then when I explain that it’s operated by Facebook, they are also surprised and sometimes are willing to quit themselves.

But the polling cited in the post shows that the vast majority of people in UK support secure communication!