Kevin Boone
Kevin Boone
Musing on computing, math, electronics, de-Googling and the small web, from an old warhorse of the IT industry.
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All posts (334)
If you already own a smartphone, why would you use anything else to play music?
A simple way to control locomotive speed whilst playing realistic "steam engine" sounds.
We can do some pretty clever things with "xargs".
There was a time when a two or three year-old, refurbished flagship smartphone was a good purchase. But times are changing.
Oops -- you ran an aggressive de-bloater on your rooted Android device, and put it into a boot loop. What next?
What should we tell people whose commitment to de-Googling is wavering?
TL;DR: AI slop is bad; human slop is worse
Many file formats are suitable for representing e-books, but most are complex, and many are proprietary. This article puts forward a proposal for a new format, somewhat like EPUB, but hugely simplified.
I compare three privacy-sparing mapping apps which work on a fully-deGoogled Android handset
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