If I could pick a theme for this blog, it would most likely be “digital independence”. I may spend some time focusing my efforts on hacking, productivity software, command-line ballyhoo, or general philosophy, but in general I focus my efforts on tools and techniques that make me less reliant on others. Why use Gitea if you can use ssh and git? Why use Google Authenticator if you can use GNU pass? ...
So I’ve mentioned quite a few times that I use a program called newsboat as my primary way to access the internet. I use it to: Subscribe to all the blogs I love to read Subscribe to all the Subreddits that I like to see Subscribe to all the podcasts that I like to listen to (although Castero is good for this too) Subscribe to all the Youtube channels I love to view ...
I had a thought the other day when I was watching the “Unreasonably Effectiveness Of Plain Text” video. In either this video or another, he talks about a SciFi/Fantasy novel that he is writing where futuristic future people are surfing old text files from the internet, because after a thousand years, every other filetype had mutated so much that their formatting was lost to time. This triggered a specific thought for me. ...