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It has occurred to me that to become an expert on something, all you really have to do is live with it.

People at work sometimes ask me how I have so many random tips on tiny edge cases of this or that. It's because I use this stuff every day. I don't go home to Windows or Mac. I live and work on Linux, using open source tools. You get really familiar with these things after 365*N days of use.

#dogfood

"We are teaching these children to be coding slaves for the platform, apps, and all this crap…You could actually create some program that does, on your computer, exactly what you want it to do, but that's not what they're being taught!" — @adam #noagenda 1039

*wanders*

@klaatu

And so I drill the four R's:

Freedom to *run* the software, anybody, anywhere, for anything.

Freedom to *read* the code, to learn what it's doing and how it works. But for any reason, really (as with all the freedoms--needing a reason is not one of the R's!).

Freedom to *repurpose* (or repair, or revise) the code, to change what it does and how it works.

Freedom to *redistribute* the code, to share downstream with anyone else what you got from upstream.

I need some help from the #tech people. We may need a new computer in the not too distant future. My wife would like a #laptop. We're not heavy users, just web browsing, Skype, & watching a few movies. We don't really need a #notebook for taking places, just something smallish in our tiny apartment.

Assuming longevity and problem-free use is paramount, what brands or specs do you recommend? (However, it can't be Apple, and it has to run Windows.)

Thanks.

Russian farmers are ditching the ruble for a new cryptocurrency, thanks in part to a self-described "agro-anarchist" who throws parties honoring Karl Marx.

http://money.cnn.com/2018/06/04/technology/russia-cryptocurrency-farmer-kolion/index.html

My partner is looking for examples of Asian/black/pacifica female game programmers to profile in her video game course. Her students are 10 to 12 years old.

Anybody got names/links/wikipedia ?

But then someone posted a Lost loss meme and my web world was reenchanted again.

For the last two years I've carried a honeypot laptop with me every time I traveled. I checked it in my luggage, left it unattended in my hotel rooms. After each trip, I did forensic analysis on the laptop to detect if it had been tampered with.

I wrote about my experience and methodology here: https://theintercept.com/2018/04/28/computer-malware-tampering/

What are your favorite over-the-ear headphones? I've had a pair of Audio-Technicas for years that just cracked a bit.

Thinking of replacing them with seems to be the current version of them: Audio-Technica ATH-M40x https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00HVLUR54/ref=ox_sc_act_title_1?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 or the M50x

I don't like the Sony MDR-7506s-- they've always felt a bit too fragile to me. What do you like?

This is a bit depressing.

https://www.nerdmeritbadges.com/products/octocat

This underlying problem needs to become a priority. Either pressuring #github to go free software or getting free software to go elsewhere.

Github becoming synonymous with open source just muddies free software waters more.

Free Software needs free tools.

did u know vim: Ctrl-w r rotates the current window downwards (which means if you've got two vsplits, it'll exchange them. if you've got three, it'll make the top one the middle, the middle the lowest one, and the lowest the top one. Etc.)

Ctrl-w R does the opposite

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"Data is like glitter; once it’s out of the bottle it’s everywhere and it’s impossible to control"

https://theoutline.com/post/4103/where-is-your-data-who-knows?zd=1&zi=2bexami5

Oh shit, git!
http://ohshitgit.com/

Git is hard: screwing up is easy, and figuring out how to fix your mistakes is fucking impossible. Git documentation has this chicken and egg problem where you can't search for how to get yourself out of a mess, unless you already know the name of the thing you need to know about in order to fix your problem.

So here are some bad situations I've gotten myself into, and how I eventually got myself out of them in plain english*.

The Corporation behind and the Admins of Twitter can see your “Private Messages”

The Corporation behind and the Admins of Facebook can see your “Private Messages.”

The Admins of Mastodon can see your Direct Messages. They aren’t private.

With Mastodon, you can spin up your own instance and be your own Admin.

Ultimately, don’t use any of these tools for actual private messages. Use Signal, Matrix/Riot or another end to end encrypted messaging tool.

Really, asking "what should replace Facebook" is putting things the wrong way around.

A more interesting way to ask the question is, "what did Facebook replace."

People used to build their own websites. People used to have blogs. People used USENET which was truly distributed and un-censorable.

Facebook and Google took the open internet and open standards and monetized and made everything crappy. Enough of that. Nothing should replace Facebook, it's done, stick a fork in it.

Does anybody have a strong opinion on whether to use AES 256-bit or (the newly available) ChaCha-20 256-bit algorithm to encrypt my KeePassXC databases?

Old-school PC fonts, if you're into that sort of thing: https://int10h.org/oldschool-pc-fonts/fontlist/