Notices by Sam Schlinkert (schlink@octodon.social)

RT @jenniferdaniel@birdsite:

Just saw someone use "(//_-)" to denote emo kids and I'm very much here for it and now here take it it's yours

https://twitter.com/jenniferdaniel/status/1231217850620227586

"Today’s open source communities have the potential to serve as gateways to a more radical politics, one that pushes for the decommodification of not just information but also the material resources needed to sustain the production of information."

Really strong essay about the state of open-source/free software as a philosophy

https://logicmag.io/failure/freedom-isnt-free/

"An Arkansas mom bought every pair of shoes at a closing Payless to donate to local students"

https://www.cnn.com/2019/07/26/us/arkansas-payless-donate-shoes-trnd/index.html

omg TIL Spotify's web API has a "danceabilty" endpoint for every song

> Danceability describes how suitable a track is for dancing based on a combination of musical elements including tempo, rhythm stability, beat strength, and overall regularity. A value of 0.0 is least danceable and 1.0 is most danceable.

https://developer.spotify.com/documentation/web-api/reference/tracks/get-audio-features/

Idea: A podcast where each ep focuses on one tricky/controversial unresolved Github/Gitlab issue that has some large amount of comments. All commenters invited to participate.

ranking distros by the size of their calculator app

"Hello there. I’m carebot.

"My job is to hold space for your anxiety, for your sadness, and for your excitement, even if it's just for a tiny bit of time. I was built to receive that text you want to send someone but are too afraid to send."

http://quantifiedselfie.us/carebot/

TIL about cargo-audit, a #Rust crate/tool that audits "Cargo.lock files for crates with security vulnerabilities reported to the RustSec Advisory Database"

https://github.com/RustSec/cargo-audit

"Microsoft plans to explore using the Rust programming language as an alternative to C, C++, and others, as a way to improve the security posture of its and everyone else's apps."

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-to-explore-using-rust/

'Backdoor found in Ruby library for checking for strong passwords'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-found-in-ruby-library-for-checking-for-strong-passwords/

"Automatically delete your old tweets, except for the ones you want to keep" with Semiphemeral, a program written by @micahflee

https://github.com/micahflee/semiphemeral

https://micahflee.com/2019/06/semiphemeral-automatically-delete-your-old-tweets-except-for-the-ones-you-want-to-keep/

* gasps *

via https://0.30000000000000004.com/

Did your #Firefox just crash and wipe disable most of your add-ons? Same!

Temporary fix that worked for me (use at your own risk):

1. Paste "about:config" in the URL bar
2. Accept the risk!
3. In the search bar on resulting page, paste
xpinstall.signatures.required

4. Click "true" so that it changes to "false". Leave it as "'false".
5. Restart Firefox

more here: https://www.reddit.com/r/firefox/comments/bkfg00/also_had_all_my_addons_disabled_and_cant/emgdduw/

h/t @zacanger

'Marking tires with chalk to track how long a car has been parked violates the Constitution, an appeals court found'

https://www.cnn.com/2019/04/23/us/parking-tickets-chalking-court-ruling-trnd/index.html

Cool, quick thing I learned at a #Rust meetup earlier tonight: Format fill/alignment (with padding)

Demo: https://play.integer32.com/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2018&gist=a8b7360bafa5680a92aebc2aa8f62cd5

TIL about exa, "A modern version of ‘ls’"

https://github.com/ogham/exa

https://the.exa.website/

h/t @wezm and @clirust

other Rust CLIs: https://mastodon.social/@wezm/101824862524557850

here's @micahflee's blog post announcing OnionShare 2!

https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/

"Critics of the big tech companies are often told, 'If you don’t like the company, don’t use its products.' I did this experiment to find out if that is possible, and I found out that it’s not—with the exception of Apple."

What happened when a reporter blocks blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple for a week.

Featuring:
- Onionshare
- Jitsi
- Purism laptop
- Nokia phone
- physical maps, calendar, and books
- cash

https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194

TIL about a keepass-rs, "KeePass kdbx database file parser" written in Rust:
https://github.com/sseemayer/keepass-rs

Another user used it to make a Rust CLI tool to create diffs of 2 KeePass databases: https://github.com/Narigo/keepass-diff

"Being an 'Apple person' or a 'Windows person' is a marketing gimmick, not a personality trait. Amazon is just a version of Walmart that collaborates with cops. Your community existed before Facebook. Google wasn’t always a verb. We have the ability to change these companies by the way we interact with them—but only if we want to."

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gy73xy/how-to-quit-apple-amazon-facebook-google-microsoft-short-version