In a recent tweet on the project’s twitter page, the team behind Antergos recently announced that it would be discontinuing the project. While this came as a big shock to the community, the developers described this is a bit of a long time coming as things in their lives became hectic and the project has become somewhat stagnant, not seeing much in the way of features or major improvements above standard Arch based software packages. The project was founded directly on Arch Linux and thus the Arch specific packages will be updated forever, however, many changes are soon to take place to make this a smooth transition. The Antergos repository will be the first to go, moving many packages over to AUR and making the repository itself obsolete. It is unclear as to whether the project will cease to install for new users, but that is a safe bet. Antergos started as Cinnarch and has always been mainly an Arch installer with many extra bells and whistles, but it appears that this ever evolving distribution will be closing its eyes for good...

Nano Adblocker: A Fork of Ublock . Nano Adblocker is a fork of Ublock Origin, with functions to add custom filters. You have options to BackUp’s your privacy settings, such as blocking the filtration of your ip address via WebRTC. We go to work: The first thing is to add the extension Nano Adblocker When loading it, it will appear in the upper right part of the screen; NanoAdBlocker. Inside a hexagon, right click; options. And the control panel will appear: Configuring the privacy on Vivaldi. First we mark the option: Prevent WebRTC from disclosing the local IP address Then we go to the section Filter List and uncheck the complete options: With a ShortCut, press the buttons CTRL + F. Searching the Key Adguard and mark where Adguard says Excepting the Languages and the Mobile Filters. Now we look for the key: NoCoin and we mark it. NoCoin Protects us from the exploitation of Bitcoin Miners, implemented on vulnerable Websites. Apply changes and update. If you are a privacy fan, you can activate the option My Filters and add your blacklists, for example: https://easylist-downloads.adblockplus.org/abp-filters-anti-cv.txt http://abp.mozilla-hispano.org/nauscopio/filtros.txt Feedback Sources: Hadden89 | GitHub | Vivaldi Forum

I’m looking forward to getting my hands on Vivaldi’s mobile browser and email client. If you haven’t guessed already, I like to have alternatives to tinker with. I like to support Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) like Mozilla’s Firefox and Thunderbird programs. I think it’s important to have access to programs base code, so that people (far more knowledgeable than me about programming) can look through the code and look for security holes and to make sure companies aren’t exploiting user data. The fact that they’re free doesn’t hurt any either. I’m not made of money, after all… It’s nice to know that there are alternatives to mainstream software out there and that people love the projects enough that they’re willing to spend time and effort into making them better. I think it also helps keep proprietary software in check somewhat. If a free alternative can do the same or similar job as an expensive piece of technology, it makes it easier for more users to create and distribute their own work...

Later this year, the UK government will enact a law that requires online providers of pornography to vet the age of their users. Properly. Not just tick a box, but full ID checks. As I see it, this poses some very real problems. What? The UK legislation that comes into effect in July will mean that if you want to view content online deemed to be pornographic, you must either: Upload your passport / driver’s license / identification to an online service provider Or, buy a pass from a licensed newsagent British Passport (image by Annie Spratt on Unsplash) Why is this a bad thing? Censorship & Transparency This is the government ultimately deciding what content should and should not be allowed to be viewed. Unlike content which is objectively bad and easy to categorise (such as videos of beheadings and other right-wing extremism, which currently run rampant on easily accessible sites), pornography is incredibly subjective and hard to define. If implemented badly, you could end up with classical artworks of nudes, critical news on the subject and information sources

Thanks go to Arcolinux for creating an edition of the Bspwm window manager that I was able to approach, after two years of trying other editions of Bspwm to no avail. The idea of focus-follows-mouse is explicitly there in i3wm, but unfortunately mouse-follows-focus is not. This is one of the reasons why I am looking elsewhere. After installing Arcolinux's edition of Bspwm and booting into it, I found that it was surprisingly mouse-friendly for a tiling wm. You can flip two tiles next to each other by mouse-drag. You can also mouse-drag a tile from one monitor to the other. The behaviour of Bspwm can be tested "live" (without having to change configuration) by typing its commands in terminal. The command format is bspc followed by more options. For example open a terminal emulator, type bspc node -t floating and now it is floating...

    “In this way the learner will be prevented from regarding grammar as a piece of dead mechanism or a Chinese puzzle, of which the parts must be fitted together in accordance with certain artificial rules, and will realize that it is a living organism which has a history and a reason of its own. The method of nature and science alike is analytic ; and if we would learn a foreign language properly we must learn it as we did our mother-tongue, by first mastering the expression of a complete thought, and then breaking up this expression into its several elements.” - Professor Sayce   English Language section of        PRACTICAL KNOWLEDGE            FOR ALL...

Hello. I have noticed a lot of other Vivaldi bloggers, who write in languages that I will never understand, are keen to learn better English. I am by no means a teacher, so I can't claim to be able to help you significantly with your goals. However I'm English, and my understanding of English language is poor. I am embarking on reading an old textbook from the nineteen-fifties. And will be copying the English Lessons and posting them on here...

I’m starting to think I should just stick with what works and learn to be happy with it. Solus Linux has been working wonderfully on my laptop, so I decided to install it on my desktop too. It turns out it throws me an error when the machine boots up. So, back to Manjaro on the desktop, maybe the laptop too, I haven’t decided yet. It’s not that I don’t like Manjaro. I really do. I just thought I’d found something that was simpler to maintain, requiring less work...