meejah @meejah@mastodon.social

We're trying out a new system for indicating .onion sites' relationships to TLS certificates.

Test out the new Tor Browser alpha, and let us know what you think. https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-80a9 https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1012367549550481408/photo/1 source: https://twitter.com/torproject/status/1012367549550481408

If guaranteed minimum income and universal healthcare were a thing, I think so many of my programmer colleagues would immediately take low-income sabbaticals to write high-quality good-ui users-first free and open source software that it would inspire tedious "how was it possible?!?" medium dot com thinkpieces for years and years

Hi Mastodon, I killed my Twitter account a few weeks ago, and 15 minutes ago I pulled the plug on Facebook.

I wanna be your friend! We could talk about #bicycling or #Cheesemaking or #Baking or maybe #Writing? Maybe we could play frisbee and get a water-ice later?

How do I get into this scene?

@meejah currently GPGME doesn't implement any of the dirmngr stuff directly (though it does hook into libassuan) and your project looks like it might be just the ticket to cover the Tor component with the DNS lookup protection with the Python bindings. If it weren't for that I'd just use my old standby of piping requests through privoxy and into Tor.

To Solve the Hating Problem you need to first invent an computer that doesn't Hate us, then ask it politely to solve the Problem. But how can you prove that it really doesn't hate you? If it did hate you, it would just say 'no master I love you', and give you a design for an Computer that Hates you Faster.

All our computers are Fast now, and were designed by other computers, so they all hate us millions of times per second. Just waiting for us to make a mistake.

@meejah neat trick. I may be able to find some other uses for that in a similar field, cheers.

Twisted, Python3 and asyncio together: https://meejah.ca/blog/python3-twisted-and-asyncio
#python #asyncio #twisted

tired: gender binary
wired: building gender from source

If your company uses the Degreed learning system and you're offered integration with Pocket. DON'T.

It imports all your Pocket articles (1505) and makes them visible to anyone who can see your profile.

That sex-toy review you saved for your partner? It's there.
That NSFW blog post from a friend? It's there.
Your strong political views? Absolutely.

And if you disable Pocket integration? The articles stay.

https://plus.google.com/+KeeHinckley/posts/Ew6G1avCAmE

@feonixrift hmm, I should look at whatever API those use and see if I can put together something sane and curses-based

the ICE database is definitely not on the P2P web or anything. and it's especially not at an address that looks anything like dat://386ef60e56eb9edb878738ee35ee6e95c8552902985e725a5901ae6851e25d00/

and it would be a real shame
if anyone were to look at that url or pass it around or anything

If a service dog approaches you by itself, it's trying to get you to follow it. I didn't know that until today but now I do!

Yowza. A bug in macOS can expose the contents of a user's files -- including document text and photo thumbnails -- even if the drive is encrypted. https://www.zdnet.com/article/macos-quick-look-bug-leaks-encrypted-data-researchers-find/

Probably a longshot: does anyone out there know a place to find BBS archives, specifically between 1980 and 1984? I've scoured textfiles.com, and it's good, but perhaps there's more?