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Why use Debían when you can use Rocky or Alma?

Just use Podman

q2dgon Program with Paint Brushes, Not Pencils

Why not using Processing?

Yes, of course. I just wanted to say that I think these tools are very suitable for teaching programming to beginners in a very short time and with excellent feedback. There's no need to go to the margins.

q2dgon Teaching Kids Forth

Why not Processing or P5.js?

q2dgon Ah, the Codeberg Drama

Can Gitlab be an alternative?

q2dgon Minecraft: Java Edition now uses SDL3

Luanti is the answer

q2dgon Protect you Linux assets for free

What do you think about Falcó?

q2dgon Show HN: Inamate – Open-source 2D animation tool (alternative to Adobe Animate)

Synfig is a toy?

q2dgon There's only one Woz, but we can all learn from him

For me, anyone who is involved in FOSDEM in any way deserves more respect (regarding revolutionary things we can learn)

q2dgon Web development is fun again

Fun is the way, not the destiny

q2dgon Show HN: Witr – Explain why a process is running on your Linux system

pstree doesn't answer the why?

q2dgon We stopped roadmap work for a week and fixed bugs

Systemd should do this too

q2dgon Board: New game console recognizes physical pieces, with an open SDK

Godot SDK should be the goal

q2dgon Minecraft removing obfuscation in Java Edition

Exactly. Why losing the time with Minecraft when there's Luanti, a free community-driven project?

q2dgon Why teach calculus in the age of AI

Maybe the question isn't "why" but "how"

q2dgon Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

Well, you can block everything using a wildcard blocking rule (for that, go to "Filters → DNS blocklists" and add this custom rule: ||*^ ) and then you can allow the domain (and subdomains, if needed, for instance "everything.ycombinator.com"; for that, go to "Filters → Allowlist" and add this: @@||ycombinator.com^ )

q2dgon Show HN: Sinkzone DNS – Forwarder that blocks everything except your allowlist

AdGuardHome fills the same gap, doesn't it?

q2dgon RPG in a Box

No open source, no fun

q2dgon Self-Hosting like it's 2025

Cockpit-podman can be an interesting Podman-centered alternative to Portainer et al.

q2dgon Urban Dead is shutting down

Why not free code?

q2dgon Certificate Transparency in Firefox: A Big Step for Web Security

Will Mitmproxy stop working?

q2dgon Programming SDF Animations of Rick and Morty

Maybe with Processing would be a bit easier...

q2dgon NsJail: A light-weight process isolation tool for Linux

Guest user account??

q2dgon Httptap: View HTTP/HTTPS requests made by any Linux program

Mitmproxy v11.1 can do a similar thing

q2dgon Hoppscotch: Open source alternative to Postman / Insomnia

Why not Cartero (https://cartero.danirod.es) ?

q2dgon Age is a simple, modern and secure file encryption tool, format, and Go library

Or Minisign (https://jedisct1.github.io/minisign)

q2dgon Freenginx: Core Nginx developer announces fork

Just use Apache

q2dgon How are messages sent through WhatsApp/Telegram web?

Oh, yeah, of course! I didn't realized! Thanks!

I've finally managed to be able to see them in browser's developer tools, but now I see that their payload is shown encrypted. Well...that's another problem, though: I'll keep investigating.

Thanks again!