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Wubuntu removes some apps that are common to most official #Ubuntu flavors, sometimes replacing them with a more Windows-like alternative, or sometimes several alternatives. It also adds fairly significant additional components. In some places, it goes to considerable lengths to be familiar to folks who only know Windows users; in others, things are unmodified from the standard #KDE or #Kubuntu behavior.
Source: https://guardianproject.info/apps/org.torproject.android/
Orbot is a very useful app for using the #TOR #network on #Android. With all due respect to floss and the achievements of the altruistic developers, I still think it's downright cheeky to lie so blatantly to the user.
The bridge functionality, which can be optionally activated, allows users from the censored Internet, where all TOR servers are blocked, to connect anyway.
Orbot is writing:
It will not drain your battery
This is wrong. There will be more background activity for this connections and this will cost battery power. This is a damn lie!
It will not slow down your internet
This is wrong. There will be connections from others and they will slow down your internet. With a big bandwidth you won't note it but not everyone have high speed internet. This is a damm lie!
#news #fail #Software #gui #Problem #onion #privacy #snowflake #bridge #documentation #user #lie #internet
History of Tcl (tcl.tk)
"The Tcl scripting language grew out of my work on design tools for integrated circuits at the University of California at Berkeley in the early 1980's. My students and I had written several interactive tools for IC design, such as Magic and Crystal. Each tool needed to have a command language (in those days people tended to invoke tools by typing commands; graphical user interfaces weren't yet in widespread use). However, our primary interest was in the tools, not their command languages. Thus we didn't invest much effort in the command languages and the languages ended up being weak and quirky. Furthermore, the language for one tool couldn't be carried over to the next, so each tool ended up with a different bad command language. After a while this became rather embarrassing.
In the fall of 1987, while on sabbatical at DEC's Western Research Laboratory, I got the idea of building an embeddable command language. The idea was to spend extra effort to create a good interpreted language, and furthermore to build it as a library package that could be reused in many different applications. The language interpreter would provide a set of relatively generic facilities, such as variables, control structures, and procedures. Each application that used the language would add its own features into the language as extensions, so that the language could be used to control the application. The name Tcl (Tool Command Language) derived from this intended usage."
I wrote a custom MIDI implementation and #GUI #patch #editor for the #Yamaha YMF825 ( #SD-1) #FM #synthesizer #chip.
Here's a quick demo showing some features of the MIDI driver and the SD-1 chip.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVMLqGQ5HB0
#synth #diy #synthétiseur
#guitar #guitare #gui
Tard
En fait album entirement traité sous Linux ! Ardour et calf studio principalement ! Enregistré en live
A few weeks ago, I realized that I no longer use graphical applications.
That’s right. I don’t do anything with gui apps anymore, except surf the Web. And what’s interesting about that, is that I rarely use cloudy, ajaxy replacements for desktop applications. Just about everything I do, I do exclusively on the command line. And I do what everyone else does: manage email, write things, listen to music, manage my todo list, keep track of my schedule, and chat with people. I also do a few things that most people don’t do: including write software, analyze data, and keep track of students and their grades. But whatever the case, I do all of it on the lowly command line. I literally go for months without opening a single graphical desktop application. In fact, I don’t — strictly speaking — have a desktop on my computer. ...
-- Stephen Ramsay
For my own uses, whilst I heavily use Android tablets, my preference is a full Linux desktop or laptop. On Android the single most useful application I have, and The One Thing Which Does Not Precisely Suck, is Termux, a Linux userland environment with nearly 2,000 installable Free Software packages.
I'd make heavier use of console-based web clients (w3m) if less of the Web wasn't broken using one. I'm ... begining to explore Gemini.
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30389399
#CommandLine #Productivity #UI #UX #Linux #GUI #StephenRamsay
KDE Plasma 5.24 - "Perfect Harmony" has landed. Manage your windows with flair with Overview, become a poweruser thanks to KRunner's help assistant, enjoy the beauty of Plasma and its tweaked accents and themes, and so much more.
#KDE #Linux #GNULinux #BSD #UNIX #Plasma #Desktop #DesktopEnvironment #GUI #Software #FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Computers
