Notices by nemo (nemo@tatooine.club)

A SaaS product I use now wants me to login once a month to click a button.

It takes extra effort to make software that wastes your users time. Don’t do this.

Our incredible journey at https://electoral.bond has come to a close. The Supreme Court has declared Electoral Bonds as unconstitutional, and our legal money laundering scheme will be shutting down soon.

All customer funds have already been cleared in the last tranche of Electoral Bond sales - it was great while it lasted.

I’ll update the website later, but thanks to all our buyers and sellers, and especially Arun Jaitley for providing legal cover for Black Money for so long.

@nitin It is mainly a research device, so will just root it on the stock firmware.

Graphene is now Pixel-only anyway, but I might switch to Lineage if needed.

After some setbacks in trying to purchase a NFC/Android device, finally settled on a (refurbished) Samsung Galaxy A32.

My pick coz: Cheap/NFC/5G.

And hopefully supports nfcgate for my research.

I wrote about my experience and learnings from building https://blr.vote on the OpenTakshashila Forum: https://opentakshashila.net/posts/show-ot-bangalorevote

Today's open source bughunt story:

1. Lets get rid of gtk2 on my system!
2. gtkspell needs gtk2, pidgin needs gtkspell
3. Lets open a bug on ArchLinux to switch pidgin from gtkspell->gtkspell3
4. The ArchLinux bug tracker has moved to GitLab
5. gtkspell is hard pidgin dependency, lets check upstream.
6. pidgin's bug tracker has moved to Jira
7. pidgin plans the gtkspell3 upgrade for the 3.0 release
8. the pidgin 3.0 release has been under progress for 14 years now.

If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.

The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.