diff --git a/rss-archived-01.xml b/rss-archived-01.xml index 3d4b028..228ba6c 100644 --- a/rss-archived-01.xml +++ b/rss-archived-01.xml @@ -7,7 +7,7 @@ Stop making GNU/Linux user friendly.. sort of /articles/post01.php - /articles/post01.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post01.php Wed, 09 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 A problem that's getting bigger with each day is that we're making technology easier but it's also getting more and more "evil" with big tech companies collecting and selling our data for monetary gain.

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ NOTE for spDE users /articles/post02.php - /articles/post02.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post02.php Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 This is a notice for spDE users. It now comes with newsboat and this RSS feed built in. There may or may not be a keybind but you can access it from the terminal by running 'newsboat'.

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ Dear soydevs: Stop making desktop applications bloated. /articles/post03.php - /articles/post03.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post03.php Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Today I wanted to talk about something else. I guess it's kinda related to my previous post titled "Stop making GNU/Linux user friendly.. sort of".

@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ What you can expect from Project 081 0.6 /articles/post04.php - /articles/post04.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post04.php Thu, 10 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 This is an update for Project 081 users (if there still are any). As this project has slowly died I would like to finally finish it as I have been

@@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ Happy 20th Birthday Arch Linux! /articles/post05.php - /articles/post05.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post05.php Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 So today, 2022-03-11 depending on your time zone marks 20 years since Arch Linux was released to the public.

@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ It's time to stop using Adblock Plus (seriously stop) /articles/post06.php - /articles/post06.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post06.php Sat, 12 Mar 2022 00:00:00 +0100 One of the most popular types of browser extensions have been ad blockers.

@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ rchat 0.4 is here (Now available on Arch and Gentoo) /articles/post07.php - /articles/post07.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post07.php Sun, 24 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 rchat 0.4 has finally been released. This release doesn't bring much of note except a few commands.

@@ -135,7 +135,7 @@ Half an rchat (rchat 0.5 is out) /articles/post08.php - /articles/post08.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post08.php Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 rchat 0.5 is here. It brings a few more commands such as setting how quickly messages are loaded.

@@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Everything I want to use is Chromium /articles/post09.php - /articles/post09.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post09.php Tue, 26 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Good morning/evening/night gigachads. Today I wanted to speak about a problem. As you've probably read from the title which is 'Everything I want to use is Chromium', everything I want to use is Chromium.

@@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ xinit is bloated. /articles/post10.php - /articles/post10.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post10.php Sat, 30 Apr 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Some GNU/Linux users are very serious about maintaining a minimal system. They use software like dwm as their window manager, written in C with very few dependencies (definitely check it out).

@@ -194,7 +194,7 @@ Smartphones are only smart because you're dumb. /articles/post11.php - /articles/post11.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post11.php Wed, 04 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT As a smartphone user;

@@ -211,7 +211,7 @@ I HATE APPLE!!! /articles/post12.php - /articles/post12.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post12.php Mon, 23 May 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Today I'm starting a new 'series' of blog posts essentially about how certain companies are evil. This one will be about Apple as I'm pretty sure you can tell if you even read the title of the post.

@@ -229,7 +229,7 @@ Open source: Fake freedom. /articles/post13.php - /articles/post13.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post13.php Sun, 5 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Yep, I'm back with yet another rant because we totally don't have enough of those yet. I hope the next few blog posts are going to be.. more positive but I feel like this must be said.

@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ Why I switched license from MIT to GPLv3 /articles/post14.php - /articles/post14.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post14.php Sun, 5 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Like I said last time, I wanted to make some more positive blog posts so here goes, I guess!

@@ -264,7 +264,7 @@ Are GNU/Linux users elitist or are normies too stupid to learn? /articles/post15.php - /articles/post15.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post15.php Mon, 6 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Another day another blog post!

@@ -285,7 +285,7 @@ Return of the rchat (rchat 1.0 is out) /articles/post16.php - /articles/post16.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post16.php Tue, 7 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 It's been a while since I've updated rchat. Earlier today I decided to improve rchat since I noticed it had many flaws that I thought I could improve on.

@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ Website update /articles/post17.php - /articles/post17.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post17.php Wed, 8 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Since yesterday I've been working on a little website overhaul (mostly fixing errors and improving index.php) so this is just a quick blog post telling you about it.

@@ -312,7 +312,7 @@ I HATE ATI!!! /articles/post18.php - /articles/post18.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post18.php Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 It's been a bit since a proper blog post was made so today I'd like to rant about ATI who clearly are not capable of making a graphics card that works under GNU/Linux. Sounds familiar? NVIDIA? Actually, NVIDIA is still better at this because at least their GPUs ACTUALLY WORK under GNU/Linux.

@@ -329,7 +329,7 @@ dwm: dynamic window greatness /articles/post19.php - /articles/post19.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post19.php Sat, 18 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Alright so, how do I even start with this one?

@@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ rchat 1.3 is out! (I AM GREAT AT PUSHING UPDATES!) /articles/post20.php - /articles/post20.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post20.php Wed, 29 Jun 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Alright so, rchat 1.3 has finally been released. Hopefully it does not break any existing patches. If it does then.. well, they should be updated shortly.

@@ -371,7 +371,7 @@ PipeWire Review (RSS REVIEWS!!!) /articles/post21.php - /articles/post21.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post21.php Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100 I should probably start this "review" (calling it that would be stupid) off with a stupid little disclaimer; I am not an audio professional or ALSA expert. I am simply a regular user of a free software operating system.

@@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ OH NO IM BEING CANCELLED ON TWITTER WHAT WILL I DO??? /articles/post22.php - /articles/post22.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post22.php Thu, 14 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100 A fairly new thing in internet culture recently has been "cancelling" people. It's a really cringe meme sort of created and spread around by these stupid Twitter users who don't do anything but tweet for 5 hours a day.

@@ -413,7 +413,7 @@ Why I ban software. /articles/post23.php - /articles/post23.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post23.php Wed, 20 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100 For some reason, people feel the need to ask me why I ban certain software. Why I ban myself from trying new software for seemingly made up reasons. In this blog post I explain the reason why I choose not to use certain software.

@@ -438,7 +438,7 @@ What happened to spDE? (And announcement) /articles/post24.php - /articles/post24.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post24.php Sat, 23 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Today's post is going to be short, and more announcement-y than usual. If you tried using spDE after around April, you may have noticed that it seems to no longer work. No this was not a failure on my end, it was done on purpose.

@@ -452,7 +452,7 @@ I left GitHub and you should too! /articles/post25.php - /articles/post25.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post25.php Tue, 23 Aug 2022 00:00:00 +0100 As we all (hopefully) know, especially the developers who read my blog, GitHub is by far the most popular Git service out there. It is also 100% free as in beer and offers a lot of features, even free hosting (although it does not allow the usage of PHP).

@@ -474,7 +474,7 @@ Vim: You're wasting your life away if you don't use it. /articles/post26.php - /articles/post26.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post26.php Sun, 04 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Just a short blog post to break the silence.

@@ -491,7 +491,7 @@ I AM TOO AWESOME FOR SMARTPHONES! /articles/post27.php - /articles/post27.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post27.php Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100 I may be three days late to this but I have an announcement to make. I AM TOO AWESOME FOR SMARTPHONES! You heard me right, I have decided to abandon my smartphone. But how, HOW are you going to live without a portable tracking device with plenty of spyware to keep you too busy and consooming to care?

@@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ SHILL POSTS ARE BACK! fontctrl (Fonts on GNU/Linux-Improved) /articles/post28.php - /articles/post28.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post28.php Thu, 15 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100 THE SHILL POSTS ARE BACK! Fonts on GNU/Linux absolutely suck so I wrote a script in suckless fashion to fix them. So, what is wrong with GNU/Linux fonts and how does title related fix the problem?

@@ -526,7 +526,7 @@ RIP in peace rchat (and releasing its replacement) /articles/post29.php - /articles/post29.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post29.php Wed, 21 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100 As the title says, I am going to stop developing rchat. I will be accepting pull requests and issues but I am not going to be contributing code to it anymore. It isn't all sad, but the reason for this is because of rautafarmi. rautafarmi recently decided to switch over from the old, crusty messages.txt method to using JSON. This meant rchat would have to be completely rewritten to use this new API, because it was not designed with it in mind.

@@ -546,7 +546,7 @@ I HATE NONFREE SOFTWARE (install gnu icecat) /articles/post30.php - /articles/post30.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post30.php Fri, 23 Sep 2022 00:00:00 +0100 As you've read from the blog post title, I hate nonfree software like anyone with a brain should. Problem is, most people don't have a brain. But to fight back against nonfree software I have decided to move over to the 100% free/libre software web browser, GNU IceCat!

@@ -562,7 +562,7 @@ Please give me suggestions... /articles/post31.php - /articles/post31.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post31.php Mon, 10 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100 This might actually be my last blog post.. sort of. Now that I have your valuable attention, please read the rest of the blog post!

@@ -591,7 +591,7 @@ Forwarder Factory is over. (Please read the blog post) /articles/post32.php - /articles/post32.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post32.php Wed, 26 Oct 2022 00:00:00 +0100 So let's stop wasting time, very important (but not good) blog post today. In short, Forwarder Factory is done, it's over. Now, so I can get this blog post out quickly, I am simply going to repost the huge and last Discord message I sent in the #announcements channel in its entirety. I know I said I wasn't going to make another blog post before the redesign but I need to get this out.

@@ -633,7 +633,7 @@ We're back up better than ever! (feat. OpenBaSeD) /articles/post34.php - /articles/post34.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post34.php Fri, 25 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100 We're back! @@ -667,7 +667,7 @@ speedwm 1.5: It's still speedwm. /articles/post35.php - /articles/post35.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post35.php Mon, 28 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100 I know what you might be thinking but eh, this happens weekly, might as well get it over with.

@@ -688,7 +688,7 @@ I use Chromium based browsers again.. (How to lose your followers in less than 5 minutes) /articles/post36.php - /articles/post36.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post36.php Wed, 30 Nov 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Think before you talk, or you end up looking like an idiot like me. diff --git a/rss.xml b/rss.xml index 803fec0..cdbf680 100644 --- a/rss.xml +++ b/rss.xml @@ -3,15 +3,15 @@ speedie's blog https://speedie.site/blog.php speedie's blog about free software, minimalism and other things I find interesting.> - + How I got into GNU/Linux /articles/post37.php - /articles/post37.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post37.php Tue, 13 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100 I AM FINALLY FREE! Time to unfree myself. -

I am back. I finally got released from prison after Google put me there and forced me to write a blog post..

+

I am back. I finally got released from prison after Google put me there and forced me to write a blog post..

Today I want to talk about getting into GNU/Linux and free software, how I got into it and how you can get into it yourself. But because my "started using GNU/Linux" story is so short, I'm gonna also talk about how I got into certain software like dwm and Gentoo, since normies tend to call this stuff difficult.

My first encounter with GNU/Linux

My first encounter with the GNU/Linux operating system was in 2011 when I found out about this new "fancy" operating system called Ubuntu GNU/Linux. People like myself reading this blog post right now might say "DOnT yOU hATe UbUnTU?!?!?" but back then, it was very different from what it is now.

@@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ I WILL make music great again. (My next project) /articles/post38.php - /articles/post38.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post38.php Tue, 20 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100 Finally something worth your time? @@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ Goodbye 2022.. /articles/post39.php - /articles/post39.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post39.php Sat, 31 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0100 2023 is basically here and that means 2022 is over. Happy new year to everyone who follows my blog. March is going to mark 1 year since the first blog post, but there's still a good while until we reach that milestone.

@@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ Let's talk about Project 081 0.6 /articles/post40.php - /articles/post40.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post40.php Tue, 03 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 So.. because I keep getting questions about Project 081, even though I don't really work on it much anymore, I thought I'd make this blog post as an update on it as well as why it's taking so damn long. Also if this blog post comes across as negative, I'm sorry, it's 5 AM and I'm tired. Suck it up.

@@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ Why YouTube©️™️ doesn't recommend your videos. /articles/post41.php - /articles/post41.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post41.php Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Now, unless you're some big channel that uploads every day or something like that, you've no doubt experienced the absolute pain that is YouTube refusing to promote your videos.

@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ When will I use BSD? /articles/post42.php - /articles/post42.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post42.php Tue, 17 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 So, I am considering installing BSD on my computer, specifically FreeBSD. Or maybe we should call it FreeBaSeD, whatever.

@@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ speedie.site now has a wiki! /articles/post43.php - /articles/post43.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post43.php Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 This is just a brief blog post regarding some new somewhat important news for this website! speedie.site has received a wiki, which anyone may edit. No, this is not some bloated wiki solution, it's done using purely PHP and CSS, and articles are written in Markdown! This is great, because speedwm documentation is already written in Markdown and has been for a while. Not only that, but speedwm has it's own separate wiki, because a lot of information is speedwm related.

@@ -182,7 +182,7 @@ ..and a git repository (CGIT REVIEW!!!) /articles/post44.php - /articles/post44.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post44.php Sat, 28 Jan 2023 00:00:00 +0100 I don't think it needs to be said but I've been doing some changes to this website recently. If you saw yesterday's blog post, I talked about some changes I had made, such as introducing a speedwm and general wiki to the site. I made some changes to the wiki shortly after publishing that blog post, and today I made even more changes so I think it justifies another blog post. Either way, this blog post is practically just an extension to the last one.

@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ speedwm 1.9 release /articles/post45.php - /articles/post45.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post45.php Sun, 05 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100 speedwm 1.9 was released so I thought I’d write this short blog post. Yes, there is a real blog post in the works as well, in fact it’s basically complete, but I think writing this is necessary.

@@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ libvirt is the worst program ever made.. /articles/post46.php - /articles/post46.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post46.php Mon, 06 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Another rant. @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ Ethical software is not ethical and should be abolished. /articles/post47.php - /articles/post47.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post47.php Tue, 07 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Good afternoon good sirs! So I think most of you that follow my blog are free software and privacy supporters. Even if you support the 'open source' movement more than the highly based free software movement, I think we can both agree on the fact that ethical software is not ethical and might actually be less ethical than nonfree software. I want to talk about this because while it is nothing new, I got reminded of it and thought it was an excellent topic for today.

@@ -288,7 +288,7 @@ Software update /articles/post48.php - /articles/post48.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post48.php Sat, 25 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Today I want to just quickly talk about some important (and some lesser important) stuff regarding my software projects. First of all, let's talk about spmenu. In addition to the color support I added a month or two ago, spmenu now has image support. I initially couldn't think of many uses for this, however it's actually really useful. Let's say I want to list out all my wallpapers and set one as my wallpaper. My current wallpaper script actually uses a separate program for that, sxiv. But now that spmenu has image support I can actually just preview the wallpapers in spmenu right away, without an external program. This actually makes it more powerful than a lot of terminal emulators. Pretty cool if you ask me.

@@ -302,7 +302,7 @@ spDE - Now also on Arch based distros /articles/post49.php - /articles/post49.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post49.php Mon, 27 Feb 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Normies are destroying GNU/Linux /articles/post50.php - /articles/post50.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post50.php Thu, 09 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Important site update (and the Matrix) /articles/post51.php - /articles/post51.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post51.php Wed, 15 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Friendship ended with Gentoo, now Arch is my best friend! /articles/post52.php - /articles/post52.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post52.php Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100 I switched back to Microsoft.. here's why! /articles/post53.php - /articles/post53.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post53.php Sat, 01 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 News/important update regarding the site /articles/post54.php - /articles/post54.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post54.php Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 Dear bloggers: Your RSS feeds suck. /articles/post55.php - /articles/post55.php + https://speedie.site/articles/post55.php Wed, 19 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 speedie.site project updates https://speedie.site/project-list.php RSS feed for updates on my projects. - + spmenu 0.3.2 release https://speedie.site/projects/spmenu.php - post1 + post1 Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 +0100 spmenu 0.4 release https://speedie.site/projects/spmenu.php - post2 + post2 Mon, 10 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 spmenu 0.4.1 release https://speedie.site/projects/spmenu.php - post3 - Sun, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 + post3 + Fri, 14 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100 spmenu 0.4.1 was just released. It's a very minor update, but in order to update speedwm-spde and spde packages, I had to get this out. It is mainly a bug fix update, but merges spmenu_desktop with spmenu_run. It also adds a nice file managing feature (-fm) flag to spmenu_run. Note that spmenu_run will no longer pass arguments to spmenu., in order to pass arguments to spmenu you use the '-a' argument. speedwm-spde has been updated to reflect this.

@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ spmenu 1.0 release (+ spmenu wiki) https://speedie.site/projects/spmenu.php - post4 + post4 Thu, 27 Apr 2023 00:00:00 +0100