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  • looks great! the catch for me is that my current host doesn’t have docker support. your dependencies don’t look crazy so in theory i could burst it and install directly to the host environment, but at that point i’m giving myself grocy-level headaches.

    reading about docker-capable hosts, i was surprised to see them starting at 1GB RAM - i couldn’t run pac-man in that. what would be a reasonable expectation for kitchenowl?


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    i haven’t tried the docker route - it seems fairly new. it also doesn’t seem like it would fix the issues i ran into. containerization is great for insulating the app from external dependency hell and environmental variation. but the problems i’ve had involve its own code and logic, and corruption of a sqlite database within its own filesystem; wrapping issues like that in a docker container only makes them harder to solve



  • i agree, but my unpopular opinion is that mozilla has also proven this repeatedly, with nothing and nobody being universally better. privacy people love firefox, but i spend a lot of time with each major version’s release notes figuring out how to undo the new telemetry (increasing integration with pocket, firefox suggest, location that won’t turn off).

    my threat model is ‘they’re all evil, including mozilla’, so there are additional rings around everything





  • appimages just got less easy…

    i don’t know which update did it - i think it must have been os-level (i run pop_os, derived from ubuntu) - but appimages silently stopped working. double-click, nothing. finally i looked in the log out of desparation, which said ‘appimages require fuse’.

    more accurately, appimages require fuse 2 and the os had just upgraded to fuse 3. the fix is to heat-seek libfuse2, and don’t mess with any other fuse-related package as things can start wrecking themselves:

    sudo apt install libfuse2

    originally seen on an omgubuntu post


  • i believe one can’t stop collection, only aggregation, so use different platforms and different emails - and critically, a device that actually meets your needs - and hope for the best. i have a garmin with an email on a domain i own. my phone is android, using a google profile that’s empty of any voluntary info and tied to a gmail address used for nothing else.

    it’s child’s play to aggregate this, but otoh, two companies will work to combine the data only if they have a common goal.







  • on android, i have three.

    • the default browser is an f-droid rarity called ‘privacy browser’. it is configured to allow scripting but reject practically everything else (storage, cookies). this will break lots of things, but i feel safer with this as the initial offer. it’s wired to a searxng instance for search. i have a personal hosted homepage that it uses for home.
    • if i am opening something myself, i use an app shortcut that opens my home page on mull. mull itself doesn’t believe in home pages, so i have to use a shortcut. it uses a searxng instance for search. it’s configured to discard all data on quit. if something breaks on privacy browser, i share it into mull.
    • for sites in which i need a persistent login, i use duckduckgo browser, again with an app shortcut since it doesn’t believe in home pages. i don’t open links in ddg, instead sharing them to one of the other two. i don’t search here since you can only use ddg.

    on desktop (all platforms), i use brave with a lot of stuff turned off, homed normally and pointed to the same search instance. i have cookie autodelete to burn cookies as i browse. i spend a lot of time manually deleting local storage.

    i don’t love this flow. what i really would like is one browser that would:

    • load my home page when i click its icon
    • burn all cookies and local storage on exit, except from domains i designate

    i haven’t found an answer for that yet, would love ideas.

    i have previously used and discarded, for various reasons: vivaldi, firefox, firefox focus, chromium, librewolf. i carry some of these for occasional use, either for ‘let it through’ or ‘fuzz all the things’ threat models.