Notices by Tom (tomk@mastodon.sdf.org), page 2

@ploum @federicomena I don't know sorry - I've only used Signal on a single device

@federicomena You can see the effects of this by the errors/warnings you get on the web client if your phone has poor connectivity or low battery.

@federicomena Last I looked into it, decryption of incoming messages still happens on the phone only and the QR code sets up a separate channel between browser and phone.

Apparently I know a lot of people who really really want a new phone

Very interesting writeup of the Equation Group incident from Kaspersky Labs https://www.kaspersky.com/blog/internal-investigation-preliminary-results/19894/

Uh huh https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/af5wOQ1BUmdRTHT-G34

@maiki At the risk of getting carried away...

alias l="echo -en \"\e[33m\";cat .title;echo -en \"\e[39m\";cat .desc;echo -en \"\e[36m\";stat -c%N *;echo -en \"\e[39m\""

alias s="cd \`readlink -f \"s\"\`; l"

alias n="cd \`readlink -f \"n\"\`; l"

https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/nwaenueik8GJeZ-NEiA

QIKCOM-1 is planned to launch from the ISS this Friday with more packet operations on 145.825 MHz http://www.amsat.org/pipermail/amsat-bb/2017-October/065044.html #amateurradio

A nice discussion of rhetorical "thoughtstoppers" that hinder modern debate http://www.ecosophia.net/field-guide-thoughtstoppers/

@maiki Back around 2010 I was a fire-and-brimstone FS zealot. I still love the philosophy but every time I tried to use it as a lens through which to view the world I was blindsided. So I've toned it down quite a bit.

@maiki I think it's an error common to FS advocates to assume that there is a single spectrum which happens to correspond to FS vs proprietary. IMO things like usability, effectiveness at meeting users' actual desires, security, privacy, free speech, etc. are not actually well correlated with FS vs proprietary. We push away sensible people because they simply don't recognise a single spectrum. Unless you start with FS morality as a basis for the mental model then it doesn't really work.

Skinning roasted garlic is one of my new favourite things

@notptr *shakes fist* dang people on the internet breaking my stuff!

KRACK gets announced and a few hours later my wifi stops working *peers suspiciously at neighbours*

Nice https://mastodon.sdf.org/media/6XmAJQQIkzgumZkzCyI

On round 2 I’ve got my root partition aligned okay but I’ll have to delete and recreate my swap later.