Notices by Stephen Michael Kellat (skellat@mastodon.sdf.org)

FCC Issues Warning in Wake of Swarm's Unauthorized Launch
https://www.space.com/40318-fcc-issues-warning-after-unauthorized-launch.html

(submitted by jackfoxy)

Scuttlebutt, a Decentralized Alternative to Facebook
https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/

(submitted by bpierre)

Facebook has effectively turned off its API
https://developers.facebook.com/bugs/185630995395938/

(submitted by krausejj)

If you're willing to feel fairly freaked out, this article on Palantir is... a heck of a thing https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/

Via Motherboard:

"Cloudflare has confirmed to Motherboard that the company terminated service to Switter because of FOSTA, but also said it's 'a very bad law.'"

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/9kgvga/cloudflare-switter-down-fosta-sesta

#FOSTA #switter

Amazon worker’s median pay in 2017: $28,446
https://www.seattletimes.com/business/amazon/amazon-workers-median-pay-in-2017-28446/

(submitted by danso)

I keep forgetting this:
If you're coming across an old *nix box that you haven't used in a while and want to bring up all the users on the system, run this command:

awk -F':' '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd

Almost all *nix systems have awk available and /etc/passwd is the account login file (passwords themselves are usually stored /etc/shadow)

You can also just make yourself a shell script:

#!/bin/sh

awk -F':' '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd

exit
# End script

Show HN: I heard you like RSS Readers, so I built one you might like
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/telescope-news-rss-reader/id1353282977

(submitted by meteor333)

I refuse to put a subject on my emails. That is self censorship and moreover when I leave the subject line blank I get higher engagement. As a lover of free speech I will not add subjects at my emails!

@mwlucas Just in case you hadn't noticed: This may be relevant to the 2ⁿᵈ ed. of ed(1) Mastery, or in lieu of your “Advanced ZFS” an upcoming “Edvanced ed(1)” book.

GNU ed 1.14.1 release notes.
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/info-gnu/2017-01/msg00004.html

Finland is killing its experiment with basic income
http://www.businessinsider.com/finland-to-end-basic-income-experiment-2018-4

(submitted by SirLJ)

You asked for it: https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon-LaTeXclient Here's a mastodon LaTeX client! Screenshots of example output attached!

"Paying for online journalism" and "autoplaying video" are mutually exclusive, people.