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The lament of an OS nomad


I switched to Ubuntu around about April last year, migrating from Debian (and a little bit of Windows). Too many brain-dead decisions* by Canonical since then mean I am looking for a new OS.
I’ve used a number of different systems while testing Rakudo and while choice is a Good ThingTM it is also making this [...]

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Lament: No NoScript?


Six months after the drama there is still no viable alternative to NoScript.
Back in May, there was commotion after the Firefox Addon NoScript changed AdBlock Plus to display ads on the NoScript website. The code which accomplished this was obfuscated and the user was not warned that this would happen. At the same time people [...]

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