Very random things - Part 1 — Linux-fueled Thoughts Unhinged

Very random things – Part 1

April 18, 2022

Here are some things I will post, even if they're reach one sentence.

In a sad attempt to incubate, facilitate, and lower the difficulty of posting on Write Freely, I'll start pushing my “”“crazy”“” and scattershot thoughts into “random posts”, which is set to be countably infinite.

QuaDream (or Quadream?) is now on Wikipedia.
In the last post, Mental Outlaw mentioned system sprawl. It's not a Wikipedia official term, but I get the idea: when a computer system grows too much in a short enough of time to be easily audited for proper security.
In Mental Outlaw's video on node-ipc, Vue.js was mentioned as one of the largest JavaScript/Node.js framework with no corporate backing, if not the largest.
I recently discovered a blog called BlackGNU.
- I had searched for etag stoppa (right before I removed it) and found this hardening guide.
  - But my advice for Linux users: just use LibreWolf. It's already hardened (IIRC, mostly in accordance with Arkenfox.js) and just use your distro's package manager to update LibreWolf that isn't supposed to be perfectly fingerprint resistant clearnet browser that works with JavaScript. You'll thank me later for the amount of time this saves you.
- I discovered it when using DuckDuckGo. However, I couldn't find it again in a reproducible manner when (I believed) I typed in the same search query, but didn't get the same result.
- Due to this, I'll try reduce my usage of DuckDuckGo in the future (and not because I'm in denial about being pro-Russia, unlike Luke Smith and Mental Outlaw). Maybe I can do this on my VPN-only web traffic. However, on Tor Browser, I can't do this because DDG has a proper onion site. Startpage doesn't have an onion site, and sometimes even Mullvad VPN triggers Startpage's bot detection measures.