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1 vote
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Ploopy Classic 2 open source trackball
13 votes -
kalua: an OpenWrt extension for building large mesh-networks
7 votes -
LocalSend: a free, open-source, cross-platform app to share files to nearby devices
61 votes -
bashdb: a gdb-like debugger for Bash
9 votes -
How to write idempotent Bash scripts
7 votes -
Please stop externalizing your costs directly into my face
120 votes -
Introducing two new PebbleOS watches!
57 votes -
Pure Bash bible: a collection of pure Bash alternatives to external processes
13 votes -
Dudelings: Arcade Sportsball postmortem and FOSS announcement
6 votes -
ShellCheck: a static analysis tool for shell scripts
25 votes -
Block AI scrapers with Anubis
27 votes -
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
39 votes -
Shellharden: a tool to semi-automate the rewriting of scripts to ShellCheck conformance
7 votes -
Moonlight: Open source game streaming client
29 votes -
x86 assembler in Bash
15 votes -
FireHOL: an iptables stateful packet filtering firewall for humans
4 votes -
EasyBashGUI: a library of Bash functions to simplify adding GUIs to scripts
17 votes -
Optimizing Brainfuck interpreter in the C preprocessor
4 votes -
Amber: a high-level programming language that compiles to Bash
11 votes -
pass: the standard u̴n̴i̴x̴ Bash password manager
17 votes -
I didn't want to pay for an RSS newsletter email service so I built my own
15 votes -
RMK (Rust keyboard firmware)
19 votes -
xz/liblzma: Bash-stage obfuscation explained
9 votes -
Steam Tinker Launch: a GUI Bash script for configuring custom launch options and companion programs for Steam games
9 votes -
Bash Line Editor: a line editor written in pure Bash with syntax highlighting, auto suggestions, vim modes, etc
11 votes -
Yoda: a compiler that translates Forth code into Bash functions
12 votes -
Godot 4.4 release - A unified experience
20 votes -
Tangled: a Git collaboration platform built on ATProto
4 votes -
Ba-Bash-ka: a native Clojure interpreter for scripting, designed to leverage Clojure in place of Bash
10 votes -
Shorthorn Project - Run modern programs on Windows XP/2003
13 votes -
nb: a command-line and local web note-taking, bookmarking, archiving, and knowledge base application, written in 119,172 lines of Bash
16 votes -
OpenGL bindings for Bash
21 votes -
Bashly: A command-line application (written in Ruby) that declaratively generates feature-rich Bash scripts
20 votes -
Bash++: Bash with classes
13 votes -
Linus Torvalds weighs in on the Rust for Linux controversy
51 votes -
The unbrickable pledge
12 votes -
Resigning as Asahi Linux project lead
38 votes -
TRMNL - Open source e-ink "companion" device
52 votes -
San Francisco unveils marble bust of Aaron Swartz, hero of open-access internet
48 votes -
WikiTok
53 votes -
Global Capslock key
76 votes -
I hate the new internet. I hate the new tech world. I hate it all. I want out, and I can't be the only one.
I think most people would agree that the internet and technology in general have absolutely gone to shit over the past decade or so. There is no corner of the internet nor of the software world...
I think most people would agree that the internet and technology in general have absolutely gone to shit over the past decade or so. There is no corner of the internet nor of the software world that hasn't been affected by enshittification. Everything exists to serve you ads. Everyone wants to extract as much money from you as possible. Every website is in a race for the bottom as they try to find the lowest effort content that makes them the most money. Every piece of software is pushed out half-baked and/or stripped down to the bare minimum with the rest paywalled or with the devs pinky promising to fix it 5 updates down the road.
Every social medium is just bots. The front page of Reddit is easily 35% easily detectable bots at least and who knows what the rest is comprised of. And it's probably the one that's doing the best at the moment, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tiktok, all of them are just bots and propaganda and engagement farming the whole way down. And the worst thing is, they're complicit. Hell, they're actively encouraging it and trying to find ways to make it worse. And I have no doubt Reddit will bend the knee soon enough too (they just banned /r/whitepeopletwitter because Musk made a tweet critical of the sub).
There's probably some element of rose-tinted glasses here, but the old internet was just so much better looking back. Like, early 2000's to maybe 2012, 2013 or so, that was the peak. No colossal data harvesting schemes feeding into algorithms designed to keep you engaged on their site 24/7 for the purpose of shilling you advertisements and selling your data, no mass propaganda, no Dead Internet Theory (which can hardly be considered a theory anymore). Yeah there was shit content, there was tons of it, but I can deal with shit content and petty forum drama and whatnot; what I can't deal with is all the multi-billion dollar corporations trying to shape the entire landscape of the Web into the perfectly minmaxxed cash-generating machine that does as little as possible for as much data and advertising as possible.
Modern software isn't much better. Windows and MacOS are filled with anti-user features, telemetry you just can't turn off, Windows will often just install shit on your computer without telling you. They turn your computer into a walled garden, where you can do what you want as long as you play by their rules, but without giving you any real control over what your computer does. Yeah you can delete system files and brick your laptop if you feel like it, but anyone who's ever tried to permanently disable Windows updates will know that in the end you're not the one calling the shots: Microsoft are. And... Like, that's insane, right? It's running on my fucking computer, it's my CPU doing the work, I want to know what the hell it's doing and not just the parts it lets me see, and if I want it to do something different then I should be able to make it so.
I hate it all. I'm tired. I want out.
These are my problems. Here's what I've done about it so far.
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Obsessive privacy on the web. No Google services. Firefox with as much telemetry turned off as possible. Protonmail and ProtonVPN for everything (and I'm considering getting out of those too with the pro-Trump stances they've been taking recently). As minimal an online footprint as I can get, I make as few accounts as possible and I don't use shared or even slightly related usernames (my username here is an exception as it's my Reddit username, and no, it's not my real name), I delete accounts whenever I can and I GDPR request the services afterward. Virtual cards for online payments as much as possible. Will probably make a Javascript whitelist at some point too. Is all of this overkill? Yes. Why do I bother? Because fuck them.
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As little social media presence as possible. Real life necessitates some amount of social media interaction of course, I have Facebook and Instagram but use them exclusively for messaging. I often see people excluding Reddit from social media but I don't fully agree, even if it's not exactly in the category it still targets a lot of the same psychological weak points in us, encouraging doom scrolling and shaping our opinions through echo chambers and propaganda (it's always important to remember that echo chambers and propaganda you agree with are still echo chambers and propaganda). I still use Reddit admittedly, but I've tried to minimise my usage as much as possible and I'm shopping for alternatives.
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Free and Open Source software as much as possible. I'm all in on GNU these days. Yes, it's a massive pain in the ass. My job unfortunately requires some Windows-only software so I'm running a dual partition but I'm trying to get as much of my computer usage onto Linux as possible (I use Arch btw). Like I said above, it's my computer, if I can't control what it's computing then it stops being my computer, it's at best shared between me and all the developers of the proprietary software I have installed on it.
That's my rant. It's been a long time coming.
There are still things I'm looking to change, especially with how I use the internet. Getting rid of Reddit is the next big step for me, I think. I just can't be bothered with it anymore, but there is still something about it that I love, every time I look through a small niche topic community, or an interesting new hobby sub I've never seen before with years of cool posts for me to go through. And yeah, I do still enjoy browsing through /r/all even when it's 80% shit and objectively bad for my mental health. But at this point the overwhelming mass of utter shit is just not worth digging through anymore. I'm tired.
Tildes is really cool. It reminds me of the old internet, the ideal usage of the Web. I open the site, I see a link to an interesting article, I read it, I give it a like, I read and/or contribute to the discussion in a comments section. I want more of this.
If anyone has any links to cool sites that I should check out I'd greatly appreciate it.
165 votes -
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DeepComputing launches early access program for DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard for Framework Laptop 13
4 votes -
Why and how I use Immich
16 votes -
We're bringing Pebble back!
80 votes -
T1: a RISC-V Vector processor implementation
8 votes -
Jank: a native Clojure dialect hosted on LLVM with C++ interop
6 votes -
SDL 3 official release
18 votes -
Too many people don’t value the time of security researchers
22 votes