Franz Geffke @franz@pantherx.social

A quick look at the #PantherX Desktop: Here we've got the Menu with global search that can dig into PDF's and other documents, Hub with all online accounts and recent messages and of course System - at the top, right - with clear connection information; supporting all modern standards, including special cases such as OpenVPN with stunnel.

Firefox Nightly (90.0.2) is looking more and more like iOS. I don't think I like all those curves ...

PantherX OS Beta 2 is coming in approx. 7 days. Here's a sneak-preview of what to expect https://community.pantherx.org/t/pantherx-beta-2/44

Depending on the region you look at, anywhere from 20-90% of the population has a vitamin D deficiency. https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca. Either supplement or get some sunshine!

It's hot and Bassdrive is humming. This probably marks my 13th year on this channel. Perfect for programming. https://archives.bassdrivearchive.com - Friday's are especially great, though there's gems every day, at every hour! There's a live-stream too bassdrive.com. If you don't enjoy this immediately, sleep on it ... try it again, and you'll be hooked 🤪

It's arguably one of the worst distractions to have Mastodon notifications on your desktop. Luckily I'm not that popular.

Strategically published on a Monday morning https://www.pantherx.org/news/2021/the-first-beta-release-of-pantherx-os.html 😉 WIP

Email Protection by DuckDuckGo - Sounds good in theory, but do you really want all your emails to go trough another provider? Who's responsible for deliverability? What if they are running out of funds, and that email stops working? What if someone compromises the service? Why not just use (for ex.) Fastmail, and add an alias, and use the built-in SPAM filter?

Sorry, I don't get it.

https://www.spreadprivacy.com/introducing-email-protection-beta/

My new, favorite tool: glances

I'm currently reading a book about Indian tribes in the US around ~ 1800. Returning to programming after two hours, the classes and objects feel like different tribes, shoved into fenced areas, that now have to communicate with one another. What a thought ...

Do we lean towards object oriented programming because we're tribal? (This is not necessarily a valid question).

Anyone using Leaseweb around here? We've been trying to order a new server with them for 3 days and even though they are available "within the hour"... they are not.

I feel like I'm in the wrong movie...

It’s the end of June and all that’s circling my mind is, that if we push off the release by just one more week, it will be 2032 ...
https://www.pantherx.org/news/2021/planning-the-beta-release.html

This gem is from the official Apple website. "Forest Explorer" they call it. Guess where the users come from?

1. USA (148k)
2. Russia (65k)
3. China (50k)
4. Saudi Arabia (38k)

As if this mix was not hilarious enough, there's also virtually 0 users from the rest of the world.

It's almost as thought someone used the wrong data, to show something totally unrelated 📡

What we perceive as big bang was a spark to ignite the random number generator of another civilization - our universe. Humans, specifically human brains are more dense iterations of prior random number sources that emerged randomly.

After using VSCodium as Flatpak for over a year, we finally have it packaged and running on PantherX OS (guix). What a difference!