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Microsoft-Edge-logo png

Google > Chrome >
Software > Web browsers, SVG viewers >

(on Wikipedia)
offline installers
https://github.com/MicrosoftEdge
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/edge?ep=0&form=MA13T3&es=176&ch=1

Yet another Chrome derivative, but Microsoft took it seriously and made improvements.



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(new software template)

Android_robot_2014.png

Projects > Software > Operating Systems >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.android.com/

An operating system most notably on mobile phones, but also found on media boxes.

Fundamentally flawed – It is tethered to Google in as many ways as they’ve made possible. From a time server, to internet traffic compression. From google play requiring an account requiring your verified phone number. From hoops to download and install software from their store. It’s fucking awful.



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startup > Software > Windows >

was mlin.net/StartupCPL.shtml

View/control startup applications.

Small, concise, full-featured and overall incredible. This is an essential part of my toolkit.

Services are not supported.

  • aka StartupCPL
  • Abandoned

    • Not mentioned in his list of programs (though linked-to in the Wayback Machine), and not hosted on the author’s GitHub account.

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Minds logo

Websites >

(on Wikipedia)
https://www.minds.com/ (Android > Developer (recommended)on Google Play))

A social media platform.

Positioned as a “free as in beer and free as in freedom” alternative to platforms like Twitter, minds has significant potential.

  • 2017-05-29 – Does not have proper web compliance and does not work 100% with Pale Moon.

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TODO – tested and working, though my most recent Lubuntu experimentation has problems I’m still troubleshooting.

At best, my computer hangs when prompting for a password. I think this is related to the 4.4.14 kernel but have not confirmed this.

Projects >

dm-crypt
https://gitlab.com/cryptsetup/cryptsetup
https://www.fsl.cs.sunysb.edu/docs/cryptfs/cryptfs.html

These instructions are a lot easier than they seem, and a smart and patient beginner will be able to follow them!

  • These notes were made from instructions from Slackware “current”, as of 2016-11-05, and have been tested on Slackware 14.2, and 14.2 32bit.
  • These notes were made on an everyday system with one hard drive which I completely formatted for this purpose.

    • If you are a new user, it is strongly recommended that you remove all hard drive’s your using and do this on a spare unused/empty drive.
  • This concept and these notes build a full-disk Slackware installation which also uses LVM. You can safely ignore the entire LVM post and just follow this one.

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