Firesphere's musings
Simon Erkelens
I'm a professional web developer with extensive knowledge of Silverstripe, secure web development, Laravel and Symfony, as well as security engineer. I also work with Python, and MicroPython, on a pile of Raspberry Pis and Arduinos. Most of my development work is publicly available on GitHub and Codeberg.
September 2026
October 2026
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All posts (76)
With the Firefox AI kill switch added in Firefox 148, it seems a small part of the user base has been heard. But is this addition by Mozilla really as big an improvement as they make it seem? There are dark patterns and somewhat obvious attempts at hiding the real agenda they laid out a few months back. Mozilla is...
There is no best Linux. But there are reasons to switch to a different operating system. Linux is not an alternative operating system, it is a different operating system. And users can do everything with it. Everything that can be done on MacOS or Windows can be done on Linux.
I have been building a GNU/Linux native Kodi remote control. As I could not find one. Using BeeWare Toga, Kodi JSON-RPC API and some experimenting, I built an open source Python application that can control Kodi. This is useful for e.g. windows or Linux tablets.
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