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WIST Quotations

A quotation from Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

I once inhaled a pretty full dose of ether, with the determination to put on record, at the earliest moment of regaining consciousness, the thought I should find uppermost in my mind. The mighty music of the triumphal march into nothingness reverberated through my brain, and filled me with a sense of infinite possibilities, which made me an archangel for the moment. The veil of eternity was lifted. The one great truth which underlies all human experience, and is the key to all the mysteries that philosophy has sought in vain to solve, flashed upon me in a sudden revelation. Henceforth all was clear: a few words had lifted my intelligence to the level of the knowledge of the cherubim. As my natural condition returned, I remembered my resolution; and, staggering to my desk, I wrote, in ill-shaped straggling letters, the all-embracing truth still glimmering in my consciousness. The words were these (children may smile; the wise will ponder): “A strong smell of turpentine prevails throughout.”

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (1809-1894) American poet, essayist, scholar
Speech (1870-06-29), “Mechanism in Thought and Morals,” Phi Beta Kappa Society, Harvard University

Sourcing, notes: wist.info/holmes-sr-oliver-wen…

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Just… Josh :BlobCatTrashed:

In my "testing" #XFCE has been running very well with no noticeable issues. #Gnome looked good but ran slow and #LXDE had lots of glitches with the DE setup. I installed #JWM (have not tested) and plan to install #KDE to try out if available.

Web browsers are a very meh. #Dillo works okay, but is not great for "modern" websites. #Chromium (from Orange Pi) works okay but is very slow; standard Chromium is not available. #Epiphany was sooooo slow that is was not usable. #Konqueror installed but was missing dependencies to function. #Surf is working okay; good for basic sites but chugs on more demanding sites like Youtube.

Terminal apps all seem to be working fine. Simple apps like #GoodVibes and #Kpat work with out issues.

3D Games were not playable if they even loaded up. #Minetest opened but was like 1 frame per 3 seconds. #TuxCart installed but would not open.

So far on the #OrangePiRV2 the definitive winners are XFCE, Sakura (teminal), GoodVibes, Kpat, and #plank

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Peter Bui

Updating from my #alpinelinux laptop... because typing on the #postmarketos #gnome shell is really challenging/unforgiving both in terms of latency and accuracy.

I was not a fan of #firefox, especially with the bottom address bar, so I used console to install #epiphany via:

$ doas apk add epiphany

Not only does epiphany look better on the phone, but it also allows me to install web apps, which I did for #thelounge, a web-based #irc client.

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Marcus Adams

So out of curiosity, in response to a post I saw from someone the other day, I checked and "#Gnome Web", also called "#Epiphany" has an option for mouse gestures. Just turned it on and tested it and sure enough a two finger swipe on my laptop trackpad goes back and forth between pages, 🙂

#Brave has an option for it and it's enabled but I can't seem to get it to work.

#Firefox has it enabled by default and it works fine.

#WebBrowser
Bec

It's a long weekend in my state of WA, but I work on NSW public holidays, so I have to wait an extra week. Never mind -- I've also booked some days of leave so I'm looking forward to a long, long weekend.

I'm going to meet up with at least one friend, do a heap of weeding and reading and cooking, and also clean the house. I feel as though when I was younger, I would not have been excited to clean the house. Maybe it's a middle-aged thing.

One of the kids' friends was hanging out in our kitchen the other night while I was making tea. He told me how they had a large spare room but that they didn't have anyone over because their house was a mess.

And I said, 'I know what you mean. Then again, our house is also a mess, but somehow people still come over and don't seem to mind that much.' And we laughed together about that (because he was over and doesn't seem to mind that much)!

It was one of those times when words come out of your mouth and you realise it was completely new thought you'd not said aloud before but also was totally true.

I still would like a cleaner, tidier house. I love it when the kitchen bench is empty of stuff and the washing up is all done. But maybe I have moved on from a deep sense of shame at not having coffee-table-magazine-level of home presentation and gained the perspective of 'the people who really matter don't care and will probably even wash up if I asked them to'.

I do love a good and unexpected epiphany (I guess all epiphanies are unexpected, but you know what I mean).

#cleaning#ThingsILove#epiphany
Pirate Praveen

#GNOME Web is truly independent from #Google. Though still dependent on #Apple, they don't have as much power as Google. It is still better than a Google monopoly. And #webkit is developed with proper APIs and meant to be embedded in other applications unlike Google's #blink.

One big feature missing is support for audio / video calls (webrtc). With #BoringSSL switching to Apache 2.0, a big blocker for webrtc support is resolved.

bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugrep

bugs.debian.org#1101132 - epiphany-browser: support webrtc with libwebrtc as boringssl now has a GPL compatible license (Apache2) - Debian Bug report logs
#mozilla#firefox#epiphany
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Peter Bui

Although it lacks vi/vim navigation, #epiphany does have a number of keyboard shortcuts (Control-? brings up a modal with 3 pages worth of them).

Moreover, it supports swiping left and right on the touchpad to go backwards and forwards in history, which I've found really handy.

Honestly, it's been a pretty good experience thus far :}

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Peter Bui

I managed to enable web extension support in #epiphany with the following command:

$ gsettings set org.gnome.Epiphany.web:/org/gnome/epiphany/web/ enable-webextensions true

This allowed me to install ublock origin and redirector... but neither appear to work :{

Still, I'm mostly OK with the experience thus far.

Peter Bui

Given all the mixed messages coming from @mozillaofficial about privacy, I've decided to give #gnome web (aka #epiphany) a shot...

It's pretty minimal, but I kinda like that. Only glaring issue is that it can't play YouTube videos :{

That and the lack of vi/vim navigation :|

I'll continue using it for a few days... maybe it will be good enough.

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Pirate Praveen

@darkbeth @davidrevoy hopefully we have to worry about that only a few years until independent engines become usable. #Verso and #Ladybird are candidates if #mozilla codebase rots. GNOME Web / #epiphany is another browser that has an engine not depending on Google (Apple webkit engine though, but at it it will be a real competition and even though they are bad to their own usets, they are not as powerful on the web like Google).

Fluchtkapsel

Well, with all the news around Firefox lately, I thought about giving #gnome Web (#epiphany) another try. For several years now, it's one of my fallback browsers if I can't or don't want to use Firefox. But now I wanted to replicate my usual tab setup.

It didn't go so well. It already failed at getting the #KeePassXC Browser extension to work. And I don't see myself again switching between the password manager and the browser, copying usernames and passwords.

So, it's either #Zen Browser (based on Firefox) or #Vivaldi, then.

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Root Moose

Mozilla Firefox is officially dead.

My back is officially turned.

What options remain?

For now I'm probably going to be using Gnome Web (i.e. Epiphany) for most straightforward web browsing. It works more than well enough for the stuff I do. Mobile version for Android? Does it exist? iOS?

I'll use Vivaldi for lame "modern" sites that a "simple" browser like Epiphany can't render properly. Mobile?

We'll see how far that goes. This may be less and less of an issue. The big player sites like Google, Meta, etc. are not somewhere I tend to visit.

Banking sites are a mixed bag of necessity.

I'm about to let my Amazon Prime account lapse on its yearly renewal since I won't use them any more.

At least Vivaldi seems to be a decent organization. Technology is based on Chromium though - and this is why I haven't started using it.

I will need to investigate Vivaldi's built-in adblocking since manifest v2 isn't a thing under Chromium.

I used to care about keeping the Mozilla rendering engine alive and relevant but now not so much.

The Firefox forks I've tried have been a mixed bag of whether their new versions follow re-enabling the privacy invasive things that Mozilla upstream does when it sends out a new version.

Time to leave them behind as well I guess.

A lot will depend on how much I miss ublock origin.

If there is a mass exodus from all the Firefox based forks then ublock may cease to exist.

There's a rant in there about pi-holing all browsers but I don't have it in me ATM.

(Posted with Epiphany)

infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/11

Infosec ExchangeTaggart :donor: (@mttaggart@infosec.exchange)Firefox now has Terms of Use! This'll go over like a lead balloon. > You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you **upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information** to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox. https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/legal/terms/firefox/ **Update:** See below in the thread for their clarification.
#Mozilla#Firefox#Gnome
H. Paul Santmire

"What is the cosmic vision given to you and to me from the innermost recesses of the Christian faith? What do we see from within when we contemplate the vast swath of the heavens at night?" my latest on Walking Thoughts, "Epiphany – A Cosmic Vision from Inner Space"

hpaulsantmire.net/epiphany-a-c

H. Paul Santmire · Epiphany – A Cosmic Vision from Inner SpaceWhat is the cosmic vision given to you and to me from the innermost recesses of the Christian faith? What do we see from within when we contemplate the vast swath of the heavens at night?
#Epiphany
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