Desktop software I use June 2025 edition

I currently run Fedora 42 as my main work and private machine.

Desktop software:

Firefox for work because that's the only viable alternative
Firefox nightly because testing releases is important and a very easy way to contribute
Thunderbird, so I can read four email accounts at the same time and get notifications
NewsFlash because I *need* an RSS feed reader.
Hexchat - because I still use IRC (three different networks)
Papers because I like the idea of a Rust based PDF viewer
Google chrome because I need to access teams meetings once in a while
Chromium so I can play TTRPG with foundryvtt

Command line tools:

Podman I'm trying not to use docker to see if it's viable on my new work machine
jq, awk, cat , less and normal unix tools.
lnav for log reading
atuin for shell history management
fish as my default shell

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Firefox OS's story from a mozilla insider not working on the project

I clearly remember, but can't date it. I was working for Mozilla messaging at the time ( momo ), being the QA lead for Thunderbird. It was at the end of one of the Mozilla All-hands, maybe in 2011 or 2012. At one of the ending keynotes, we were introduced to Boot 2 Gecko. A hack that would let US - Mozilla own the platform to run a mobile browser on. At the time, the iPhone was going strong and Google was trying to catch up with Android. MeeGo had been in development at Nokia for a while but was going nowhere even when Intel tried to help. Blackberry was slowly starting to die. In the Silicon Valley everything was about mobile, mobile, mobile and the emerging South Easter Asian market, where people would skip computers and use smartphones to join the internet revolution. We were struggling with Chrome and the massive investment by Google to take market share. Our Firefox port on Android was having loads of issues. We were denied by Apple's policies to be present on iPhones....

Key signing party at fosdem 2024

I'm organizing a GnuPG key signing party in order to bolster our web of trust , since there is no official ksp this year. I have organized a few in the past using tools like biglumber (website is gone, if someone know of a replacement or where the source code of site is, I might end up running one again) and others tools . I've also run once the KSP at FOSDEM and helped running it a few other times. === Details below === When, Where We'll meet in front of the infodesk stand in building K around 12:00 Sunday Feb 4th 2024. I'll have a sing of some sort with KSP and or Key Signing Party . Once enough participants show up we will move outside to proceed with the party. What to Bring Warm cloths as the party will happen outside this year, like in the good old days. I hope it won't rain, but it might. Piece of papers with your fingerprint written on them. Each piece should look like below: $ gpg --fingerprint 34246C61F792FBCC1F23BFF296BD1F38FEA32B4D pub ...

Gandi , je suis énervé, la partie email

En mai dernier j'avais migré le service de messagerie de mon domaine depuis google (offre historique datant de 2006) gratuite vers le service de Gandi. J'avais les contraintes suivantes : un peu d'espace, on passait de 15GB/utilisateurs tentative de reprise de l'historique Neuf utilisateurs calendrier+ carnet d'adresse du webmail pop/imap/smtp avec du TLS dedans Ayant un domaine historique, j'avais droit à cinq boites gratuites. Mais, je devais m'acquitter du service supplémentaire jusqu'à la prochaine échéance de renouvellement du domaine, soit 2025. Avec des boites mail à 3Gb, cela faisait une facture de 400€. Avec les dernières annonces de Gandi, à partir de la fin d'année, il me faudrait débourser en sus 25€/mois pour garder un service équivalent et à partir de 2025 45€/mois. La très mauvaise surprise du mercredi. J'ai donc commencé à chercher des alternatives, sachant qu'à terme, j'aurais au moins deux utilisateurs de plus. Point p...

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