stefan @rumpelsepp@mastodon.social

/me is missing in-person conferences

✓ Draft RFC for BARE message encoding submitted to the IETF

Last Sunday the UK/US/CA/AU/NZ/IN/JP govts issued a statement asking tech companies to add backdoors into E2E encryption. This is a big deal: unfortunately *backdoors do not work*. Read about our alternative: combating abuse via decentralised reputation.🔒 https://matrix.org/blog/2020/10/19/combating-abuse-in-matrix-without-backdoors

Post-mortem: git.sr.ht's almost-outage today

https://sourcehut.org/blog/october-almost-outage/

In my experience, people who think shell scripts are not the answer to $problem for a large value of $problem are also generally the people who don't know how to write shell scripts

Vielen Dank an alle, die geboostet haben, dass ich auf der Suche nach einem neuen #Linux Admin Job bin, weil meine jetzige Firma nach MS365 migrieren will.

Ich habe bereits einige Hinweise bekommen, aber ihr könnt natürlich gerne weiterhin boosten und Hinweise senden.

Noch kurz einige Eckdaten:
- 50 Jahre
- 20 Jahre Erfahrung Linux, davon 15 professionell als System und Netzwerk-Admin

- Ort: Düsseldorf, westl. Ruhrgebiet und/oder HomeOffice(bundesweit)

When you install a new app on your smartphone this way, something smells really good.

#megapixels #pinephone #postmarketos

A CLA is basically a formal declaration of fuck you to contributors

tlstunnel - an automatic TLS reverse proxy

https://git.sr.ht/~emersion/tlstunnel

SourceHut's PeerTube bootstrap fund: first batch

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-09-09-peertube-first-batch/

Wrote a blog post about my Python implementation of @sir's BARE message format: https://packetlost.dev/magic-python-objects

Google removed @k9mail from the Play Store without prior notice because they objected to the following text in the app description (that has been the same for more than a year):

(People sometimes call K-9: K9, K9 Mail, K-9 Email, K9 Email, K9 E-Mail, k9mail or k9email.)

@purism And here's the #librem5 connected to a usb-c hub that has a keyboard/mouse connected via usb and driving the external screen via dp-alt-mode. Needs some hacks still but we're getting there:

https://gitlab.gnome.org/bugaevc/mutter/-/commits/wlr-data-control/

https://copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/yalter/mutter-wlr-data-control/

👀

Was macht eigentlich Julian Assange? Er wurde in einem 15- Minuten-Prozess zu 50 Wochen Haft in einem Hochsicherheitsgefängnis verurteilt, weil er gegen Kautionsvereinbarungen verstieß. Nils Melzer ist nicht der einzige, der das unheimlich findet.
https://www.republik.ch/2020/01/31/nils-melzer-about-wikileaks-founder-julian-assange

Wow. Jetzt im Fediversum >2.5k Follower? Vielen Dank!