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Cake day: April 19th, 2023

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  • Make your app (flatpak, snap or appimage) be owned by another user.

    Use a .desktop, wrap the command in the graphical equivalent of “sudo -u” for your graphical shell, and it will ask you for that user’s password.

    You can also write a util to decrypt an encrypted .tar.gpg flatpak directory (flatpak lets you specify different installation paths, you can use that to separate it from the main flatpak dir), or decrypt a .appimage.gpg, and execute it. You could even write a wrapper to install a flatpak with a specific password, and it would automatically pick that specific install dir and .tar.gpg it every time.

    Keep in mind that nothing keeps your other users from downloading that software on their own and using another copy of it unless you use parental controls.

    I highly recommend giving them their own account though.


  • We need to study women and spend on women’s research way way more.

    • Did you know women are more likely to die in a car crash because the SRS isn’t designed for their stature, bone density and breasts? Did you know we still almost exclusively use male crash dummies in safety tests?
    • Did you know that women are more likely to die than men of a heart attack in public? Not only are most people trained in first aid not trained on women (the dummies are mostly male), but there is a stigma about men “touching a woman’s breast” when you need to do CPR to save a life.
    • Did you know there is very little research on male contraceptives? This puts the onus of long term contraception almost entirely on women. There is no pill or temporary contraceptive for men besides condoms, not because it is impossible, but because we didn’t put one to market.

    Anyway, it does not surprise me that maternal mortality is “mysteriously” on the rise. No one spends serious money on researching this stuff.