Notices by der.hans (lufthans@mastodon.social)

Happy System Administrator Day

Today, please remember to thank the professionals who keep your computers and network functioning

https://sysadminday.com/

https://www.sys-admin-day.de/

https://www.LOPSA.org/

#sysadm #LOPSA

SeaGL call for presentations is open until August 11th

Once again #SeaGL is offering office hours to help prospective speakers with their proposals!

Office hours are Wednesdays from noon to 13:00 Pacific time ( today ), join #SeaGL on Freenode to participate

SeaGL is #November 15-16

https://seagl.org/news/2019/07/08/office_hours.html

#FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #cfp #Seattle

Announcing ActivityPub Conf 2019! September 7th & 8th in Prague, immediately following Rebooting Web of Trust. https://dustycloud.org/blog/activitypub-conf-2019/

Space is limited, see post for details. We are also soliciting talks.

Hope to see you there!

#ActivityPub gets its own conference. In Prague!

The two day conference is the 7th ad 8th of September

"present and future of ActivityPub"

"presentations of prepared talks on Saturday followed by a loosely structured unconference on Sunday"

https://dustycloud.org/blog/activitypub-conf-2019/

#FLOSSconf #FLOSSevent #federation #OpenStandards

I've finished writing part 1 of "OcapPub: Towards networks of consent", which is to say the "Conceptual Overview" section https://gitlab.com/spritely/ocappub/blob/master/README.org

There's a lot there already, and we haven't even gotten to Part 2, the "How to Build It" section yet. I'll begin work on that tomorrow.

What's here already is more or less an explanation of *why* OcapPub is taking the particular direction it is taking, and why other approaches run into serious problems.

Top Voting Machine Vendor Admits It Installed Remote-Access Software on Systems Sold to States
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/mb4ezy/top-voting-machine-vendor-admits-it-installed-remote-access-software-on-systems-sold-to-states

Password survey – most people still reuse their passwords for different accounts:

https://www.security.org/resources/online-password-strategies/

– 72% use the same password for different accounts
– 68% tweak a formerly-used password to use it as a "new" one
– only 27% use a password management app

See also our comprehensive article on modern credential management: https://infosec-handbook.eu/blog/modern-credential-management/

#password #security #survey #infosec #authentication

50 years ago today humans stepped onto the first non-earth celestial body

Happy 50th to the Apollo 11 moon landing

today is a great day to visit a science museum

https://www.space.com/relive-apollo-moon-landing-real-time.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_11

#NASA #MoonLanding #ApolloII #ScienceIsReal #ActualMoonWalking

I'll add "Countdown" and "Between Sun and Moon" from #Rush :)

50 moon songs in honor of the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/moon-songs/

#NASA #MoonLanding #ApolloII #ScienceIsReal #ActualMoonWalking

2015 Slack breech was still active

they've reset some passwords today

"we determined that the majority of compromised credentials were from accounts that logged in to Slack during the 2015 security incident"

#majority does NOT imply all

https://slackhq.com/new-information-2015-incident

keybase CTO had a negative experience due to this issue

https://keybase.io/blog/slack-incident

#InfoSec

@freakazoid https://f-droid.org/en/2019/07/16/statement.html

As we're heading towards increasing droughts local #water #resilience becomes more of an issue.

Here is a few very interesting #rainwater #harvesting videos by Brad Lancaster showing how it can be used into multiply yielding integrated systems.

Nice example of how #lowtech and #permaculture can, and do, exist as mutually beneficent approaches.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdvmJ-AFlRA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aQrZtG-LVg