Fabio Natali @fabionatali@mastodon.social

Guix has made it into Debian Unstable! This means Debian users can use Guix as a "userspace" package manager now! https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/guix

This is really wonderful! Debian and Guix both care deeply about reproducibility.

This could be a big win for user freedom on both (cotd ...)

tl;dr: Ship every FOSS project with a "guix.scm" file.

These can be used to set up dev environments with
"guix environment -l guix.scm"

Projects built using Guix as a dev environment are free from the "binary-black-box-container-only" plague, healthier for user freedom!

The Guix community is so nice and thoughtful, really an oasis in FOSS... that's not an accident though; thank you to the Guix leadership and team for working hard to make it that way.

I'm just thinking about this blog post I wrote in 2018. Because even when Twitter makes a good decision, the first sentence comes to mind: Why does the entire world have to wait on the CEO of one US company to make a decision?

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2018/03/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility/

#Guix is now in #Debian experimental! 🎉
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/guix-devel/2020-11/msg00254.html

I just straight up don't click on Medium links anymore because it's all behind a login wall anyway

i wish laptops still had this design...

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