Fabio Natali @fabionatali@mastodon.social

The #Guix hackers are very happy to announce the first online Guix Day Conference on Sunday November, 22nd. This #conference is open to everyone and will be held entirely online. Want to speak? Submit your proposal!

Talks will be released from the 14 to give everyone a chance to watch them, whatever their timezone.

http://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/online-guix-day-announce-1/

learning Racket from here: https://beautifulracket.com/

Day 1
#inktober

Here's a great website with resources for *everthing* you need to know about mechanical keyboards.

https://keyboard.university

#MechanicalKeyboards

ALTAP

As Little Technology As Possible

How to host a blog using only Scheme.

https://othacehe.org/hosting-a-blog-using-only-scheme.html

#guix #haunt #guile

The 1979 paper "Password security: a case history" by Robert Morris and Ken Thompson is really, really good. It documents the evolution of the UNIX password security implementation, from "store all password in cleartext in the same file" to something that uses a slow algorithm and salting to defend against attacks such as the whole password database leaking, brute force guessing, dictionary attackes, and rainbow attackes.

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/359168.359172

Pre-publication PDF: https://wolfram.schneider.org/bsd/7thEdManVol2/password/password.pdf

hey y'all, I would appreciate boosts for this, there's a petition appealing to the British government for the removal of gender markers from ID (passports, drivers license, etc) and only folks from the UK may sign it but if it reaches 10,000 signatures, it is guaranteed a response from the government and if it reaches 100,000 it may even be debated in parliament

it only takes a few seconds to sign but could make a massive difference https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/327554

I wrote about the new @securedrop Workstation project and how can you help https://kushaldas.in/posts/securedrop-worktstation-and-how-can-you-help.html It uses #Python #Fedora #Debian @torproject #QubesOS

“One aspect of computing and software design that many developers nowadays seem to forget is that over half of the world’s population does not have access to fast Internet and many people, even in developed countries, are limited by bandwidth caps and spotty satellite or mobile Internet access. For these people, IRC can be the much better option compared to other collaboration platforms such as RocketChat, Mattermost, Slack, or Matrix, even if they have to use an IRC bouncer or a screen/tmux session on a remote server to not miss things if their connection is that spotty.”

https://www.paritybit.ca/blog/why-irc-is-still-good

Permacomputing
http://viznut.fi/texts-en/permacomputing.html

Mutt is 25 years old, shout out to my favourite e-mail client http://mutt.org/

"Should the technology grow — or the person using it?" https://ralphammer.com/make-me-think/

Learning readline saves as much time as learning vim saves.

#linux #commandline