aimed at beginners who confuse “hasn’t been updated for a year” with “hasn’t needed to be updated for a year”

once you have some experience under your belt, these are non-issues:

• deciding to “learn Linux” the hard way by starting with a specialized distro (Slackware, Gentoo, Alpine)
• switching to unstable or testing branches before you’re ready ’cause you want bleeding edge or “stable is too far behind”
• playing around with third-party repositories before understanding them (PPAs in Ubuntu, AUR in Arch)
• bypassing the package manager (especially installing with curl | sudo sh)
• changing apps for no other reason than “it hasn’t been updated for a year”

BSD community seems to like snac2

Shantanu Narayen’s still not giving you a free license

Elon Musk removes blocking feature so he can finally see what his kids post

only for the low! low! price of a PhD in Hegelian philosophy

problem is that there really isn’t much alternative currently:

• you can switch to a Firefox fork like LibreWolf or Mullvad
  • or Tor Browser and live with no cookies, no saved logins, etc.
• you can go through trying to maintain Firefox + arkenfox if you want fine grain control
• you can switch to any of the Chromium forks which puts you back at the starting point
  • and then you have to deal with lack of ad-blocking once Manifest V3 goes mainstream
• there’s a huge pile of smaller, independent, or specialty browsers out there
  • but ad-blocking is hit-or-miss and plugin support is often non-existent
• hold out hope for one of the up-and-comers
  • Servo – just the engine at this point, who knows how long until a full browser is ready
  • Ladybird – if you want to be associated with the “problematic” opinions of the developers …

and phased rollouts …

Why Isn’t Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman

• objects and methods are just structs and procedures
• encapsulation is just modular programming