Igor @bubelov@mastodon.social

WireGuard feels like magic. The more I use it, the more I like it

It doesn't have to be like this. It's pretty easy to keep most Android apps well under 10 MB

Mobile apps have grown enormous in terms of disk space. I used Grab to order food but switched to FoodPanda just because I don't have ~500 MB that Grab needs

I've been playing with Lightning Network lately. It works great when I use it on server, but there are zero native Android apps for node management or even simple payments.

TIL: there is a tool called ssh-import-id and it awesome. It's kind of reversed the way I used to setup passwordless SSH auth

It became fashionable to criticize Bitcoin mining because of its energy consumption, but how much electricity we're ready to spend in order to protect people from censorship? App stores are notoriously hostile to open-source software, donation aggregators such as Petreon can shut down any project at any moment and the fees are unfairly high anyway. We're not wasting energy "for nothing", it's our only chance to protect our freedoms and to get rid of middlemen who also consume a lot of energy.

I have more Raspberry Pi cases than actual RPis now

Just finished watching "Money Explained" on Netflix. It does a great job at highlighting the darkest corners of modern finance and their inhabitants. It's a bit populistic, though.

Some folks wrongly assume that it's slow and that it doesn't support concurrent reads. In fact, it can be faster than the alternatives, because you don't have the network overhead. And more importantly, SQLite databases don't need maintenance and they're dead simple to backup

A lot of people don't take SQLite seriously, but it's actually one of the best options for many backends, especially self-hosted ones

Simple Mobile Tools for Android are pretty cool. They are open source, spyware-free and they also allow deep customization up to a launcher icon appearance.

PinePhone is surprisingly usable