Chris Sansone @sansone@mastodon.technology

I think the best thing with #freesoftware is that you don't care if people steal your code. You want them to steal it. It also removes a lot of costs and obstacles, such as private repositories on github, private docker images on docker hub etc.

FOSS situation, yet again

https://twitter.com/Sydonahi/status/991797172877381632

via @athoune

Remind me that luajit was maintained by only one person and decided to stop one day while a whole industry was relying on it.

Same code running in #python2 and #python3

#Art in #python

So, if you know any companies that need a (remote) junior systems administrator, or a (remote) senior technical support analyst/engineer, let me know!

I am looking for remote work, because my new home is in rural north Georgia and there aren't really many jobs in rural north GA.

That being said, I'm also open to anything within ~50 miles of Gilmer County GA.

I know what I'm doing, I'm good at it, and I get invested in the success of my team.

All services are microservices if you ignore most of their features.
https://xkcd.com/1988/

> Encouraged to write assignment using #LaTeX
> Receives marking and feedback as a word document

As Google and AWS kill domain fronting, users must find a new way to fight censorship

The messaging app Signal used a technique called domain fronting to misdirect censors in certain regions.

https://www.techrepublic.com/article/as-google-and-aws-kill-domain-fronting-users-must-find-a-new-way-to-fight-censorship/

https://toot.zone/media/lw8uC4XzLFC2nC6tBps

Gibson guitar company files for bankruptcy

https://www.mensjournal.com/gear/gibson-guitar-company-files-for-bankruptcy/

Actually, y'know what? I'm moving it to a repo of its own. That way people can submit PRs if they want to suggest changes or submit translations.

https://github.com/joyeusenoelle/GuideToMastodon/

Lmao I sat for like 6 hours today profiling Mastodon memory usage and shaving off what I could https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7301

Mastodon was mentioned on #NPR today!

https://www.npr.org/2018/05/01/607321023/would-we-be-better-off-if-we-didnt-rely-on-1-social-network

What Android app is everyone using for Mastodon and why? #Mastodon #Android

The Python environmental protection agency wants to seal it in a cement chamber, with pictoral messages to future civilizations warning them about the danger of using sudo to install random Python packages.
https://xkcd.com/1987/

So recently I've made some changes to the blog. They're not superficial and they're a step in the right direction. Let me know what you think!

https://linuxliaison.org/recent-changes-to-the-blog/

Hi, Mastodon! I'm a software developer, nerd, and beer enthusiast in the #DC area. Looking forward to kicking the tires on an open network and interacting with some neat folks along the way. 🎉 #introduction #dev

"...a 'rogue Alexa skill' that bypasses Amazon's security checks: it lurks silently and unkillably in the background of your Alexa, listening to all speech in range of it and transcribing it, then exfiltrating the text and audio of your speech..." https://boingboing.net/2018/04/26/user-supplied-listening-device.html

#privacy #security

**Biometric Apps Will Soon Be Pushed Across the Web**

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8xkvb3/webauthn-google-chrome-microsoft-edge-mozilla-firefox

This is a bad idea:

1. You can't "reset" your biometrics like a password.
2. Biometrics aren't hashable. The end result is they're less secure than other forms of authentication. (If you don't understand what this means, you're not qualified to have an opinion on this matter.)
3. You can't control what happens to your biometrics once they're in the hands of a 3rd party.

Please re-Toot.