I made a small thing. Just a little automated masto account @archivetoolstracker to track updates to 7-Zip and RAR (WinRAR).
Why!? 🤔 These types of archiving tools are very handy but have been known to have security issues (both had exploits last year). Plus they don't always provide automatic update mechanisms on most platforms. 😉
It should be a very low volume of posts (maybe 5 a year? 🤷). Follow and click 🔔 for an actual notification. Or just follow via RSS. 😉
And yes, for those of you that follow me on @ruario, I did just fork the scripts I use for @browserversiontracker and @vivaldiversiontracker
RSS would be here: https://velocipederider.com/@archivetoolstracker.rss
You did know that every Mastodon has an RSS feed by default, right… right!? 😉
Which reminds me, why don't all software companies have RSS/ATOM feeds for update notifications? Unobtrusive, opt-in and so low effort, especially so if you are not going to integrate automatic updates.
@ruari because 95% of them are two bits of string, a glove puppet and a stick of half-chewed gum masquerading as a competent software company.
Oh for actual release notes 😭
@gadgetoid I write changelogs for @Vivaldi. Sometimes I think they are a bit shit and then I remind myself what others pass off as a changelog, e.g.
@gadgetoid Whenever I look at their changelog (and I do frequently as I maintain the slack package for my chosen distro), I die a little inside. 😭
