Aaruni's Blog v 3.0

Welcome Welcome to my blog, in its third iteration! This time, everything is nice and static. We use Hugo in the background. With time, I will port over old posts with the right timestamps, and media. I also intend to eventually incorporate some social features like Likes and Comments. As for subscribe, we are RSS ready, and will probably not do email subscriptions anymore. Why hugo, you ask? Have a look at the time it takes for hugo to generate nearly a hundred HTML pages:

Passwhat? Passwords are a thing of the past. Passphrases are are the new thing. But what are passphrases? A passphrase is a long password, typically 15 or more letters, which are just many words which make sense to you, in an arrangement which is memorable to you. There is no need to concoct short strings of gibberish, which are easy to forget, and may not even be that difficult for a computer to crack!

This post is inspired by WhatsApp’s updated Terms of Service on 4th Jaunary 2020 tl;dr Facebook acquired WhatsApp in 2014 claiming that the acquisition is out of ambitions leading to the the improvement of the whole web, and promising that WhatsApp will continue to function independently of Facebook and will never share user data with Facebook. (A lie). In 2017, Acton quit Facebook citing disputes over privacy and monetization of WhatsApp.

Recently, I was able to get my hands on a shiny new Lemur Pro from System76. The unboxing experience was novel. Certainly a breath of fresh air. The insides of the box has a grid, and some fun doodles on it, with some encouragement to flatten it out and take it forward. The packaging used inside the box is really clever. Things are fixed to a cardboard scaffold using some plastic, which are held in place when things are folded the right way, and slide right out when you open up the scaffolding.

Some time in early September, I came across this tweet by a Michael Dominick, on the Jupiter Broadcasting telegram group. Now, I’m not generally into visual design. I live my life in boring old cinnamon with a conky on top. And I haven’t changed this in almost half a decade now. But when the incentive is a Lemur Pro, I can be flexible. After double checking that the offer applied to me in Germany as well, I started poking around in gnome-shell theming.