I came across a blog post by Imran Nazar titled Degoogling TOTP Authenticator Codes (via Hacker News page one). In the post, Mr. Nazar, who explains that he spends most of his computer time “in a terminal window on MacOS or connected to a Linux machine,” sought a solution that would allow him to decrease his dependence on the proprietary Google Authenticator TOTP phone app and access his TOTP codes through the command line using a utility called oathtool. Mr. Nazar describes his new TOTP ...| The New Leaf Journal
In a discussion thread on the MX Linux forum someone made the comment “flatpaks are magically bloated in size.” Kids today! Statements like this require a lengthy response. Despite what Twitter and “news media” have conditioned you to believe, life is not a soundbite. Being a very old geek who started out on Commodore Super PET then moved to PDP-11/70 running RSTS/E . . . having written some geek books that won an award or two, … Flatpaks are Magically Bloated in SizeRead more The ...| Logikal Blog
People don’t like my rants that are supposed to be exactly that, not to mention that a blog, by definition, should mostly consist of rants. In fact, over the last week I’ve read about three dozen Linux or IT-related news that I could have commented, but I decided not to, not even through comments on...| Homo Ludditus
