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Aral Balkan (aral@mastodon.ar.al)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 21:47:25 JST Aral Balkan

Oh, that? That’s just me writing the Windows section of the Kitten installation instructions on Kitten’s¹ upcoming web site.
¹ https://codeberg.org/kitten/app
#Microsoft #Windows #Recall #BigTech #Kitten #SmallWeb #SmallTech #privacy #security #tech #web #dev
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1. Screenshot of browser showing https://localhost/reference Visible contents of page: Heading: Windows Callout: 🙀 Windows is an ad-infested and surveillance-ridden dumpster fire of an operating system and you are putting both yourself and others at risk by using it. If you are not forced to use it for reasons outside your control, please do not use it. The only reason Windows is currently supported is because I used to be on Windows myself for many years (I started with DOS at age 7) and if it hadn’t been for free and open applications supporting Windows I would have had a much harder time eventually migrating off of it to safer platforms (first macOS and then Linux). That said, Microsoft’s latest attempt to create the Torment Nexus, Recall, has me reevaluating this decision. Don’t be surprised if Windows support is dropped in the future. Kitten runs on Windows 10 and 11 under WSL 2. The installation process, however, is not as seamless as it is on Linux and macOS. You must first install WSL 2 and you must manually add Kitten’s local development-time certificate authority to the trust stores of your Windows browsers to avoid certificate errors.
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  A web development kit that’s small, purrs, and loves you.
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  翠星石 (suiseiseki@freesoftwareextremist.com)'s status on Thursday, 06-Jun-2024 22:12:16 JST 翠星石
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  @aral Despite what that article claims, it doesn't appear to actually run on windows - it's rather runs in a systemd/Linux VM.
  
  I would write; `There is no windows port, but Kitten can be run in microsoft's jail systemd+Linux VM, also know as "WSL 2"` myself.
  
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