Yep, it seems Boost died today. I don’t frequent reddit these days, but my wife is still a mod there and she was using Boost for moderation right up until last night.

On the odd occasion that I do go to my old subs, they’re filled with repost bots and low value comments.

So many to choose from…Linux, Syncthing, Vim, Firefox and Thunderbird/K-9 Mail, Keepass and derivatives, GrapheneOS, Inkscape, VLC/mpv, yt-dlp…there are just too many daily drivers to name them all.

Cloudflare is becoming entrenched in every aspect of hosting. It’s all fine and dandy until they’re bought by the likes of Google, or Meta.

Nice! A big thanks to the dev team that keeps this project going. Can’t wait to see what finds its way into K9 (and the rebrand!).

KeePass, and more specifically the KeePassXC (desktop) and KeePassDX (Android) ports.

My wife and I have shared a single KeePass database for about 15 years now and I couldn’t imagine switching to anything else.

My reasons have remained the same over the years:

• Free and open source
• Offline (but supports cloud sync)
• Lightweight
• Cross platform
• Supports autofill

I would never entrust the management of my credentials to a 3rd party online service. They’re an easy target (it’s only a matter of when, not if they are breached), and they could go out of business at any time.

We don’t use cloud storage for anything these days, but we keep the KP database (and many other things) synced across more than 7 devices using SyncThing, another amazing FOSS project.

Pixel 7 with GrapheneOS. It’s the first and only time I’ve ever felt I was in control of my own smartphone.

If GOS is ever no longer an option, I will likely stop using smartphones altogether until a proper community-based Linux OS with similar features is available.

While it would certainly be nice to see this addressed, I don’t recall Signal ever claiming their desktop app provided encryption at rest. I would also think that anyone worried about that level of privacy would be using disappearing messages and/or regularly wiping their history.

That said, this is just one of the many reasons why whole disk encryption should be the default for all mainstream operating systems today, and why per-app permissions and storage are increasingly important too.

Debian, Fedora, and OpenSUSE all offer excellent alternatives depending on your reasons for staying.

I’ve never had a use for Linux Mint myself, but I’m still happy to see them cut out the middle man and base it directly off of Debian. Hopefully being closer to the source will result in even more upstream contributions.

While I agree that user-generated reddit topics are best left to a dedicated community, I also think that published articles discussing the platform are appropriate for any Technology community; no different than Twitter, Threads, or other social media platform news coverage.