Notices by der.hans (lufthans@mastodon.social), page 6

RT @NASAInterns
The Summer 2019 application deadline is April 1st. Make sure to apply at https://intern.nasa.gov/ . Need some inspiration? Check out this student's experience and advice! Welcome to the #NASAinterns family at NASA's IV&V Program, Kayla!https://astrokayla.wordpress.com/2019/03/10/i-got-a-nasa-internship/?fbclid=IwAR0LkBU45AwELVbrFAto4JgsUlvzDXUZgxO0tH-4ET9AM_tsTzUIaDyeUXU

I work with a really cool co-operative on open data for public good type stuff. We are hiring developers! AMA http://opendataservices.coop/jobs/2019-02-developers-developers-developers.html

Fully remote, with frequent f2f contact if desired. Super supportive team. No hierarchy & we're all paid the same. Strong ethics, much focus on wellbeing, work environment, personal development. I think I got pretty damn lucky with this job, maybe you can too?

#opendata #jobposting

Disassembling "The Sounds of Silence"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmKwDnkmfck

Learn how to run a good meeting over IRC (yes, really!) https://opensource.com/article/19/2/irc-vs-irl-meetings

Maybe there's something to be said for getting a lot of smart people into the room to talk about tech in a fun and accessible and forward-looking way. It helps promote a sense of optimism, that we can pick up these tools and build something grand with them together.

On Mastodon, I think I spend too much time promoting a sense of embattlement, of "aha, here's how to block ads/trackers," or "aha, here's all the awful things <tech company> is doing." I act like we're all under siege.

It's been a while since I've repeat-tooted this, but reading the latest Crypto-Gram triggers this toot:

IoT is short for Insecurity of Things.

Talk and booth at the Chemnitzer Linuxtage in Chemnitz, Germany (2019-03-16 - 2019-03-17) https://chemnitzer.linux-tage.de/2019/ #fsfe #FreeSoftware #events #rssfeed

There is just something comforting about sitting at a terminal using SSH with a shell prompt. It's like the computer is beckoning me for grand adventures.

Next stop: Anywhere.

@cwebber says

> @emacsen @ is already planning a "learning to do an ActivityPub server" series in a more mainstream language.

Yes! 👏

ActivityPub: Hi I'm literally being born because the former primary author of OStatus regretted not having private messages, let's make private messages the default addressing mechanism and public messages a special exception

*Years later, AP is a standard and widely adopted*

Popular meme: "Yeah well ActivityPub is nice and everything but it's too bad its only for public messages"

Me: ;_;

I added a new "Encryption has a shelf life" section to the Caveats section of #Spritely Golem's writeup. It's an important point I hadn't called out previously! https://gitlab.com/spritely/golem/blob/master/README.org

> Encryption has a shelf life. In general, secure ciphers from about 15 years ago aren’t secure today, so it’s possible that chunks that are currently only readable by intended recipients can eventually be read by anyone who gets their hands on them. [...]

GNUnet has a new website - https://gnunet.org/en/

for the unware, quick video of what gnunet is -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2CdHfySAPas

#gnu #gnunet #security #privacy

OnionShare is an open source tool by Micah Lee for securely and anonymously sending and receiving files using Tor onion services.

The newest version adds anonymous dropboxes, supports new Tor addresses, and is translated into a dozen new languages.
https://micahflee.com/2019/02/onionshare-2/

@fredmbarros

I think that the best way would be to incorporate discussions of free software as a social movement into papers/panels/meetups at DH conferences. But as a lowly grad student I'm not sure how much clout I've got to do so. I've also seen panelists ripped to shreds in the Q&A by senior scholars who think things like cc licenses are antithetical to academic research.

Talking with the director of IT for my town. He was talking about how they're moving to service based solutions, and one reason is that finance likes the predictable budgets.

It strikes me that we've never made this argument for OSS. Since you don't pay for versions, and only support in most cases, you'd have even and predictable payments.

Free Software isn't zero cost, but it is consistent and competitive, something finance departments everywhere can understand and love.