Short Bits 2026

Updated on 2026-03-23

Short Bits is my method of sharing information that would be too short for a separate blog post. Following are my short posts for 2026.

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• 01 — Check the Ingredient List When Buying Baked Goods in the Whole Foods Market Bakery (2026-02-06)
• 02 — Discovered a Relatively Unknown Web Browser (2026-03-23)

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01 – Check the Ingredient List When Purchasing Baked Goods in the Whole Foods Market Bakery (2026-02-06)

If you buy baked goods made by Whole Foods Market bakery, you should check the ingredient list. About a year or two ago, I began to notice that Whole Foods Market bakery began using a GMO (genetically modified organism) ingredient in their cupcakes and in one of their pies. I was dumbfounded…Whole Foods Market, who prides themselves for selling organic food, using a GMO ingredient?! A few months ago, I noticed that they are now also using a GMO ingredient in their cookies. As a result, I choose not to purchase the products.

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02 – Discovered a Relatively Unknown Web Browser (2026-03-23)

In March of this year, I decided to check Wikipedia for a list of web browsers to see if there was one I wasn’t currently using under Linux. Note: the list on Wikipedia is not comprehensive; e.g. LibreWolf, Mulvad, and Zen were not listed.

Within the browser list on Wikipedia, I discovered a web browser named Basilisk. Downloads are available for FreeBSD, MacOS, Linux, and Windows. The downloads available for Linux are in the form of tarballs, which once extracted run as a portable or standalone app.

I downloaded the tarball for Linux x86-64 and unpacked the tarball to my local /bin folder. I then created a desktop file and modified the XFCE menu so that I could easily run the browser from my customized version of the XFCE applications menu.

While going through the settings for the Basilisk browser, I noted references to the Pale Moon browser. My initial thought was that Basilisk was based on, or forked from, the Pale Moon browser. However, the Wikipedia page about the browser revealed that Basilisk was originally created by M.C. Straver, the same person who develops the Pale Moon browser. M.C. Straver decided to stop development on Basilisk because it was very similar to Pale Moon, offering the browser for sale. Rights to the browser were purchased and development was later picked up by an individual who went by the name of Basilisk-Dev.

I now use 12 browsers under my Debian installs and 13 under my EndeavourOS installs.

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