IanTwenty

There’s an unofficial desktop version of Newpipe now it seems:

https://flathub.org/en/apps/net.newpipe.NewPipe

I’ve not tried desktop but I do use it on Android. Taps to the left\right advance video in multiples of 10s. Dragging vertically on left/right adjusts volume and brightness. It’s a pretty decent touch interface I’d say.

Stow cannot do this as far as I know. Chezmoi can though you’ll need to fiddle with templates and ignores to achieve it:

https://www.chezmoi.io/user-guide/manage-machine-to-machine-differences/#handle-different-file-locations-on-different-systems-with-the-same-contents

However as others have said a dotfile manager may not be appropriate for all apps. It assumes a certain kind of behaviour of the app - known config locations, text files etc.

I think your suggestion to backup/clone/restore your ideal Firefox config onto new machines is probably most practical if you do want to use a dotfile manager with it. That way you ensure the dir name is the same across all machines. Then you can use stow to manage parts of the profile going forward.

I would consider FF’s own sync solution also though - I believe you can self-host it too.

One example the ORG used

After former US president Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the court over its arrest warrant for Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, reports emerged that the email account of chief prosecutor Karim Khan was blocked. Microsoft denied cutting off access, but the ICC later confirmed that in October 2025 it had stopped using Microsoft services altogether, switching instead to openDesk, an open source European platform.

Looks like this long-standing issue affecting all flatpaks run under MATE/marco:

https://github.com/mate-desktop/marco/issues/301

Applications launched under Firejail and Flatpak include “(as superuser)” in their window’s title even though they’re not actually being ran as root.

North by Northwest 1959. Feels like the forerunner of Mission Impossible and James Bond. Though it’s superior to both in my opinion for the fact it avoids excessive plot and technology instead favouring situation, circumstance and suspense.

Fedi directory has some entries under culture:

https://fedi.directory/culture-entertainment/

See also

https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-find-accounts-to-follow-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-how-do-i-find-my-friends/

…and look at curators and culture there too.

It turns out however that the developers of virglrenderer also don’t want to have to run a VM to run and test their project and thus added vtest, which uses a unix socket to transport the commands from the mesa Venus driver to virglrenderer.

It also turns out that I’m not the first one who noticed this, and there is some glue code which allows Podman to make use of virgl.

Nice if podman and flatpak both gain from this work in future.

If you have one of these phones be great to hear some personal experiences.

IIRC in Die Hard whilst guarding the lobby he reaches under a shop counter to grab a snack which makes me like him immediately. Apparently it was an improv!

In the UK The Great Escape (1963) has become synonymous with Christmas through a mixture of nostalgia, seasonal hope and just plain repetition in the broadcast schedules:

https://www.eckleburg.org/the-big-x-why-the-great-escape-still-captures-a-particularly-british-christmas/

Newpipe {mob) or Freetube let you watch without sign in?

Why different DEs for laptop/desktop may I ask?

WebDAV only on mobile and via third-party apps

https://sync-in.com/docs/user-guide/mobile_apps

At the moment, Sync-in does not yet offer a dedicated mobile application. We know this is an important point for many users️ and we plan to address it thanks to community contributions and sponsorship.

I did 4dx for Paddington 3, it was a hit with kids, less so with the adults. There is a river scene and the water effect was used to great surprise. You could turn individual effects off.

As an adult I would not want these effects during a ‘proper’ film, they are a novelty only I’d say.

Christmas, Again

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%2C_Again

I have not seen it but it gets good reviews. Love to hear from someone who has.

This might be obvious but it could be caching? Use a tool like dig to check if it’s really updated. Not had a problem with duckdns, works good.

Hedy is an open source programming language that is broken into levels for easy learning. As you progress the language gains more capabilities, so they are never overwhelmed with too much

In contrast to block based languages like scratch its goal is to leave students ready to switch to Python by the end.

Each level has small tasks to complete so you can tackle it piece by piece and get a sense of progression.

https://hedy.org/

That would be Snap!

https://snap.berkeley.edu/

It’s become somewhat of a trend over the last several months for new projects to describe themselves as ‘modern’. Not only is this not a helpful descriptor (What is ‘modern’? Is the design modern? The codebase?), but a good portion of the time it’s simply not true.

I keep seeing ‘blazing/blazingly fast’ everywhere too, with a rocket or such emoji

Self-hosting anything that is deemed “content” openly on the web in 2025 is a battle of attrition between you and forces who are able to buy tens of thousands of proxies to ruin your service for data they can resell.

This is depressing. Profoundly depressing.

Sigh