cqcallaw @cqcallaw@mastodon.xyz

We're about to deploy our 4.0 release. Don't get scared if the logo changes :)

With all the talk of #Signal and #distributed #IM lately, I thought I'd go a step further: here's a roundup of secure off-the-grid messengers: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10205-roundup-of-secure-messengers-with-off-the-grid-capabilities-distributed-mesh-messengers These all use strong #encryption, provide #privacy, and can be used without any Internet connection at all.

#briar is an interesting hybrid; while it uses #Bluetooth instead of longer-range #LoRa, it doesn't need any extra hardware and can route IMs over #Tor, #Bluetooth, or local #Wifi (even w/o Internet). @briar

RT @davidgasquez@twitter.com

Five things @daedtech@twitter.com learned in 20 years of programming.

https://daedtech.com/5-things-ive-learned-in-20-years-of-programming/

Go's ioutil package to be deprecated in 1.16:

https://www.srcbeat.com/2021/01/golang-ioutil-deprecated/

#golang

Science and Technology links (January 16th 2021): the universe contains fewer stars and galaxies than we thought, we can tell someone’s political view using image recognition technology, dog owners live longer and more at https://lemire.me/blog/2021/01/16/science-and-technology-links-january-16th-2021

Everything is a Remix. ♻️

Awesome small documentary that explores the basic elements of creativity: copying, transforming and combining.

https://youtu.be/nJPERZDfyWc

Welcome to the Fediverse, @caarlos0!

Fediverse, say hello to Carlos! Author of GoReleaser, #golang dev and opensource contributor. Click that "Follow" button, you probably won't regret it 😉

Big Tech's growing monopoly power means that more and more people are looking for secure alternatives to Gmail that won't read their emails or profit off their data. Here's what makes our Swiss-based email service a good candidate for the top spot: https://protonmail.com/blog/gmail-alternative/

There are four lights

oh my god BALSAMIC VINEGAR ON SALAD IS AWESOME

*turn on cold tap in bathroom*

*extremely hot water for two minutes*

summer in Melbourne! the gift that keeps on giving.

All v3 onion addresses offline:

"It appears that somebody has made their own #Tor client implementation and it fetches its dir info in a very rude way. If anybody knows details of it, please do let us know."

https://lists.torproject.org/pipermail/tor-relays/2021-January/019201.html

OMG Y'all HairyLarry turned me onto Yunohost and holy cow! If you have been wanting to run your own server at home this stuff is the real deal. Integrated LetsEncrypt, email, and everything, even dyndns is setup for you if you use their setup. I'm really excited as it also has software I'd never heard of before like Grocy and Firefly III. Really cool project if you want to run stuff at home but you're tired of administering servers by the time you get home and just wanna push a button and go. Anyway, its the first excitement I've had in 2021. Oh they also have peertube and mastodon so I might move to a single user instance over there soon too.

Links
Yunohost
https://yunohost.org/#/

Grocy
https://grocy.info/

Firefly III
https://www.firefly-iii.org/

So over the holidays my daughter asked for a gaming PC, so I asked her to do the work of spec'ing it out, learning about the components, and building it. She ended up buying a case that has no 5.25" drive bays and now I feel so old that this is even possible.