Backport Software to Nix Using Overlays

I know, I know… It’s been almost two years since the last time I wrote here. Well.. I had stuff to do! I am still studying for my masters degree, but I had some major step forwards in many other directions. One of those was picking up NixOs, a great operating system powered by the almighty Nix package manager. There are various reasons behind this choice and I will probably expose them once I installed it as my main system on most of my boxes....

4 January 2022 · 4 min · 709 words · Jacopo Scannella

My Firefox user.js: a compromise between privacy and usability

Today I decided to refresh my Firefox profile, here is a little log. Why Firstly, I decided to refresh the profile since it was a while I didn’t take care of it. Secondly, my last setup depended on about:config, thus all my edits where “ethereal”. This time I configured everything using the sysadmin way: user.js. The goal of this renewal was to minimize big tech tracking while still preserving Firefox usability, which in my case, comes before any tinfoil paranoia....

18 November 2019 · 7 min · 1490 words · Jacopo Scannella