claus @claus@mastodon.social

New blog post: "How to de-Google your Android phone" https://nolanlawson.com/2019/06/13/how-to-de-google-your-android-phone/

That's right; I'm getting back into handy tips and helpful guides. Hopefully this post will steer folks in the right direction!

"The economics of package management" by @ceejbot https://github.com/ceejbot/economics-of-package-management/blob/master/essay.md

One of the best-written and most important things I've read in a long time.

Browser extension so that when someone whinges about the modern web stack it automatically appends what URL they're wasting time at

Jason Scott just dumped the ZIL source code for every infocom game on github. Clone it before Activision's lawyers wake up. And now we see how long it takes for the internet to produce a compiler for a language that's been dead for 30+ years from a cache of production grade source code for said language. We've had compiled z-machine files, but never the original ZIL. https://github.com/historicalsource

Yes, officials plugged in the malware-laden USB seized at Mar-a-Lago https://mashable.com/article/malware-usb-mar-a-lago-plugged-in/

have to admire the simplicity of the hack, although the guy doing it sounds like a piece of work http://gothamist.com/2018/12/13/mister_softee_linknyc_video.php