Archived and readable without whitelisting apnews in your script blocker:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250707190710/https://apnews.com/article/lawsuit-vaccines-kennedy-95a1aa23c3f015f7a35a570f5ef8da36

Geany is excellent. It’s a lightweight programmer’s editor with enough features and configurable hooks to provide the important parts of a full-blown IDE. It renders text clearly, never feels laggy, and doesn’t get greedy with your RAM. I recommend it to people who can’t stand the bloat that’s often seen elsewhere these days, but would rather have a GUI than resort to vim.

A couple minor annoyances to me:

• It doesn’t yet support the Language Server Protocol, so any language that it doesn’t understand will be left without syntax and context-sensitive features. (On the other hand, it does support a lot of languages.)
• It inherits Scintilla’s use of Gtk for its GUI, so it’s an alien app on Qt-based desktops.

I use it anyway, because I find it easier / more comfortable to use than Kate.

I suspect zram’s swap device only consumes RAM when it actually contains swapped pages, but I don’t know for sure. Can anyone link an authoritative statement on this?

I use it on a 32 GiB workstation, also with PERCENT=50 and ALGO=zstd in Debian’s /etc/default/zramswap, and vm.swappiness=60. This is its only swap device. I like that it avoids needless SSD wear and painfully slow interactivity during large compile and compression jobs.

Is it worth it on your system, which has only 2 CPU cores? If your memory-intensive workloads compress well, then I would think yes, for the same reasons that I like it. If you find your CPU struggling with it, you could always change to a lighter compression algorithm.

On the other hand, if your memory-intensive tasks don’t compress well, then no, I would not expect it to be a good use of your CPU.

You’ll never know until you try it. I suggest checking the output of zramctl when running tasks that create memory pressure.

The most effective single mitigation against browser fingerprinting is to disable scripts. Unfortunately, many sites these days are needlessly built to be unusable without scripts.

The next best thing is to disable scripts on most sites, use the important others with uBlock Origin, and ask site owners to make script-free functionality a priority in their development plans.

For anyone else curious about the relationship to ICE, here is what I found on Wikipedia, with each → pointing to a parent agency:

US Border Patrol → US Customs and Border Protection → US Department of Homeland Security

US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) → US Department of Homeland Security

Sorry; I shouldn’t have written Cloudflare specifically. Their CAPTCHA page now contains scripts from Google, not Cloudflare. I have corrected my comment.

How do you know this?

Because a couple months ago, archive.is/archive.today started showing me CAPTCHA pages instead of the archived articles when I use Firefox with scripts disabled. The current page contains scripts hosted by Google, which I won’t enable, so I can’t read the archived articles.

What about https://ghostarchive.org/?

I haven’t used that site enough to have a consistent picture of what it’s doing. When I tried it a few minutes ago, it directed me to a CAPTCHA wall when trying to submit an article, but not when searching for an archived article. I’ll try to remember to look at it again periodically, to be able to answer this question in the future.

She told me she’s […] also thinking about a version that doesn’t require JavaScript, which some privacy-minded disable in their browsers.

As someone who is keenly aware of the privacy and security problems that come with allowing web scripts, I hope she prioritizes this soon. It’s really disappointing to find sites that were formerly readable without javascript suddenly inaccessible since adopting Anubis. The more sites that do this, the more people are pushed toward enabling scripts by default, exposing them to a great many trackers and web exploits that would otherwise be blocked.

Unfortunately, archive.is seems to have moved behind a big corporate CAPTCHA service, subjecting readers to having their reading habits (both the articles and the referring communities) tracked at a large scale.

I suggest this archive link instead:

https://web.archive.org/web/20250707135819/https://www.404media.co/the-open-source-software-saving-the-internet-from-ai-bot-scrapers/

Civilization ][ poster

This is the first time I’ve seen a Civ game title stylized as if it were a 1970s Apple computer.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075620/

I look forward to the small new game studios that will surely appear as the big old ones are consolidated and/or dismantled.

It’s disappointing to see things we like fade away, but as the sun sets in one place, it rises in another.

sufficient performance > sufficient beauty > power usage > max beauty > max performance

I set a frame rate limit in most 3D games, to avoid inflating my electricity bill for barely noticeable effects or FPS improvements. Plugging my system into a Kill A Watt was enlightening.