Notices by Coffee & Aspirin (deejoe@mastodon.sdf.org), page 12

Well, now that’s motivating! ♥

Please give nice feedback to your open-source devs! They are human too you know.

http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/chicken-users/2019-05/msg00055.html

Reading the MathML specification on a Sunday. As nerdy as it gets.

The World Health Organization: "recognising that gaming can be an obsession in the same way as certain addictions will make it easier for people who have these issues to receive appropriate treatment"

gamers: "top kek i'm disabled"

@Miredly

so. much. this.

1st Amendment talks about the right of people "peaceably to assemble" right alongside freedoms of speech and of the press. IOW freedom of association.

We all get to choose.

Librem is choosing poorly.

@Are0h @brainblasted

SOMEONE: what text editor do you use?
US [timidly]: ummmmm vim
SOMEONE: should I use vim?
US: hahahahahahahah no! god no. well, only if you really want to. we can show you the ropes if you really want, but consent will need to be explicit and continuous
SOMEONE: why does everyone say that

Adventures in reverse engineering #Broadcom NIC firmware

"...Once this is delivered, it will be possible to use Raptor's #POWER9 systems with purely 100% free, open source firmware...."

https://www.devever.net/~hl/ortega

#reverse-engineering

Reject twitter culture.

@amirrajan how the hell did this pass lotcheck. this is amazing

@dankwraith ... they didn’t connect a keyboard and press “~” 😬

@amirrajan whoa i had no idea you could plug a keyboard into a switch o_o

Update: Ubuntu 18.04 LTS under #OpenBSD VMM “how to”… :flan_hacker:

So, everything you read on the ‘net is, fundamentally, rubbish :flan_laugh:

Just grab the “mini.iso” image, create a dastardly disk and then

vmctl start banana -d mini.iso -d LeDisk.img -n transit -n nottransit -c

Then, once booted, select “command line install”, TAB, edit to change vga=off and, at the end, console=ttyS0,115200u8.

Install in peace. :flan_set_fire:

This week in frog science: Mark Scherz and his team have discovered a new genus of incredibly tiny frogs.

I am not making this up: the genus is Mini, and the three species so far identified are Mini mum, Mini scule, and Mini ature.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0213314

Via Dr. Scherz himself on :birdsite: : https://twitter.com/MarkScherz/status/1110974806042787845

I’m going to #Cuba in a few weeks! Anyone have contacts at #coops there? I’d love to meet some Cuban #cooperativistas!

RT @HarshilShah1910@birdsite.link
As someone who writes software for a living, I cannot exclaim strongly enough just how little I believe in software

https://twitter.com/HarshilShah1910/status/1111651018645737472

@marissaChan well, emails addresses don't get reused as much as phone numbers.

And with all its flaws, I think the SMTP/DNS/TCP/IP stack is more secure than SS7.

Also, it's easier to have multiple emails for different purposes than multiple phone numbers.

@florian @lastfuture @loke @phessler . **Actionable advice:** i.e. what you can do? Go to https://github.com/curl/curl/wiki/DNS-over-HTTPS#publicly-available-servers, choose a server you trust and enter it in the settings (note: no need to mangle with about:config BTW).

Then you get the best security you can get. Encrypted DNS to a server you trust. This is in 99% of the cases better than to your ISP's DNS or whatever is used by default on some routers or so. (hint: often it's Google DNS)

@ericbuijs Thanks, I'll post a few #FOSS adventure updates daily. We're almost done building.

Our big victory of this week was getting 2FA (via FreeIPA) for our apps and desktops to work. Biggest letdown of the week? The 2FA also works whenever you lock your pc - so whenever you come back from a bathroom break you have to generate a OTP on your phone again. Yeah.. that's a week's worth of work out the window.