Notices by Jesper (graffen@mastodon.social), page 4

I bought a new Yubikey 4C Nano and it's so small that now I can't find it. Now that's real security. #yubikey #security

If a company collecting data goes bust, the data often gets packaged and sold. So the question when you sign up for a hot startup is not just if you’re happy sharing your data with them. But also, if you’re happy sharing the data with the company that buys them? The idea that data is an asset—that sometimes it is the only asset left when a startup goes bankrupt—is something that isn’t widely thought about outside the industry. It also may no longer be legal post-#GDPR. #bigdata #privacy

Good morning mastodon (Europe)! Time for coffee! And marmalade. On toast. Marmalade in coffee sounds gross.

Breakfast: From Middle English brekefast, brekefaste, equivalent to break + fast (literally, "to end the nightly fast").

#coffee #breakfast #etymology #smarterAlready

Unix will give you enough rope to shoot yourself in the foot. If you didn’t think rope would do that, you should have read the man page.

Even if you're not allowed to code, you can still write in machine language.

Freedom of Assembly is a human right.

There's a #stats site that gives a rough idea of how many people use the #Fediverse / #Federation at:

https://the-federation.info/

IMPORTANT NOTE: The site is opt-in, so it only includes figures from servers that have chosen to be part of the stats. Actual user numbers are probably larger.

If you run an instance/node/pod and want to be included in the stats, enter your site's location in the following address:
https://the-federation.info/register/<yournode.tld>

At a conference recently, I went over to a table of guys around a computer.

Asked "Whatcha working on, can I join?"
One of them says "It's very complex stuff," with dismissive body language.
Guy I know says "jay can handle it" and makes room for me to sit down.

Yeah, I facilitated multiple sessions at the conference on this, and just spent weeks implementing a related feature.

One rude person doesn't ruin my day anymore, but this type of thing beats down beginners.

At the same conference, I was talking to a woman who was enthusiastically describing her company's tech. I asked, "are you a founder, developer?" She was a founder.

Always assume people are experts, even if they don't "look like" your conception of an expert.

You'll either be right, or if you're wrong, it'll still be a respectful assumption. And it'll probably be a relief to people constantly needing to justify why they belong in a space.

IRC Turns 30 This Month http://www.oulu.fi/university/node/54247 #retrocomputing.

I've stopped carrying my laptop everywhere, unless I plan to work. Otherwise I just leave it plugged in on my desk.

Instead, I carry a very light bluetooth keyboard and my Moto G5 phone. The laptop exposes SSH and Mailpile over PageKite, and I've got Termux on my phone... it's not quite comfy enough for coding, but when I need to do some quick e-mailing or emergency admining, this is quite adequate.

My laptop has effectively become my personal "cloud server."

Which I think is pretty cool.