I like yash

I’m learning Perl - purely for fun - and yeah… it’s a little funky.

WebKit (e.g. GNOME Web, vimb, surf) is always there, and Servo is coming on leaps and bounds.

Also, for your consideration, there are:

• w3m (text-based, but supports displaying images with sixel, kitty, or framebuffer)
• Links2 (surprisingly usable)
• Dillo (better engine, but less features)
• NetSurf (better again, but you can’t use a custom search engine and the JS engine doesn’t seem to work)
• Chawan (text-based, but actually supports modern HTML and CSS; can display images using sixel or kitty; also supports gemini^[1])
• Ladybird (bad dev, good product)
• Stargate & Duckling (HTTP to Gemini^[1:1] proxies, so you can browse the web with Lagrange)
• Pale Moon & Basilisk (based on a fork of Gecko; still use XUL; may be a bit less secure, but disable JS and you might be alright)

Of course Librewolf, Waterfox, Tor Browser, ans Mullvad Browser are doing their best to resist the bullshit.

It’s proprietary, and therefore most of us don’t trust it.

Guess I’m using Links2 now…

There are a few network tools that don’t yet support Gemini (the network protocol, not the LLM). Maybe I could build something for that…

Zig, then.

• OS:
  • Arch Linux or OpenBSD, depending in how I feel
• Editor:
  • Micro on Linux
  • mg(1) on OpenBSD
• Plug-ins:
  • Micro has support for a few linters, which is all I really need
  • mg(1), meanwhile, doesn’t even have syntax highlighting
• Terminal:
  • Kitty on Linux
  • XTerm on OpenBSD
• Shell:
  • Zsh on Linux
  • ksh on OpenBSD
• Version Control:
  • Git is the only realistic option (though Mercurial and Fossil are nice)
• Code Hosting:
  • Usually Codeberg
  • I also have sourcehut
  • My Formula Student team uses GitLab
  • My university and another society use GitHub 🤮

I usually licence my work under GPL if it’s a large project, or Beerware if it’s something smaller (or if it’s for internal use in one of my societies).

Any coursework I do, however, gets licenced under BSD-3-clause. For this, GPL would be too restrictive and Beerware would be too informal, and BSD-3-clause is a nice middle-ground (as far as I’m concerned).

You watch yer feckin’ language in this house!

https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=dMELl2EVKnc

Black could be handy once in a while.

I would, however, use a "vi"sual editor.

Hey, it’s not like I’m surprised. I suggested that everyone leave for Signal as soon as Facebook bought the damn thing. The trouble was that nobody but my immediate family actually listened or cared.

I’m using it fine without Play Services. The only snag is that the notifications tend to come through several hours late, but I only really use the app for the old (mostly dead) group chat, as well as to get Wordle scores from my grandma.

Bold of you to assume I get spam in my emails or SMS

My family already moved to Signal about a year ago, and I have an online friend who I talk to over Tox; but my friends from high school pretty much only use WhatsApp, Instagram, ans TikTok, and they have never been open to my suggestions of switching to Signal and the Fediverse.

Same

My family moved as soon as I asked last year; but my old friend group is rather stubborn.

Yes, but I didn’t sign up to receive ads in WhatsApp, nor did I agree when creating either account.

Buy and use a burner phone while you’re there, and remember that VPNs are illegal.