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@guizzy @lain I'm really pretty tired of this "Pleroma/GNU Social/SomethingElse is Nazi software/space" bullshit.

I had a StatusNet account until Evan killed identi.ca years ago; a shit-ton of great people I talk with here every day have accounts on Pleroma or GNU Social. Some are their developers.

benefited handsomely from there being a large community of dedicated people in Fediverse before Mastodon was a thing. Let's acknowledge that and stop being so condescending.

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time! I'm a hacktivist, free software advocate, strong supporter of free and open internet. Used to be a policy hacker. Co-founded the Warsaw Hackerspace.

Currently trying to make sure journalists at @OCCRP have the tools and training to safely expose corruption and organized crime.

Also, I bake bread, sail, and dance Lindy Hop. So, there's that.

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Important for Mastodon admins - security Show more

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Still using RSA for OpenSSH authentication?

You should read: latacora.singles/2018/08/03/th

tl;dr: OpenSSH uses by default the md5 hash of your password to encrypt the id_rsa private key.

Good news, you can fix it by running this command (with -o it uses the improved key-format):
ssh-keygen -o -p -f ~/.ssh/id_rsa

Or even better, generate a new ed25519 key (they use the improved key-format by default):
ssh-keygen -t ed25519

Thanks @amenthes for pointing me to the article!

#openssh #infosec #linux

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#trans writers, aspiring writers and those with something to say...

Shon Faye has put call out for articles in Broadly from trans people..

Please boost for visibility!

Full text version at the link below:

docs.google.com/document/d/1rx

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How birdsite feels: I need to be more popular so people will care about me :blobsad:

How the fediverse feels: I want to find new friends and share stuff with them, because everyone already cares :blobnom:

Since moving here, my mental attitude has improved drastically. I no longer feel the need to win some arbitrary popularity contest to feel validated.

Thanks for being here, guys. :blobheart:

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At the same conference, I was talking to a woman who was enthusiastically describing her company's tech. I asked, "are you a founder, developer?" She was a founder.

Always assume people are experts, even if they don't "look like" your conception of an expert.

You'll either be right, or if you're wrong, it'll still be a respectful assumption. And it'll probably be a relief to people constantly needing to justify why they belong in a space.

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At a conference recently, I went over to a table of guys around a computer.

Asked "Whatcha working on, can I join?"
One of them says "It's very complex stuff," with dismissive body language.
Guy I know says "jay can handle it" and makes room for me to sit down.

Yeah, I facilitated multiple sessions at the conference on this, and just spent weeks implementing a related feature.

One rude person doesn't ruin my day anymore, but this type of thing beats down beginners.

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p o s i t i v i t y

i love that a broad coalition of leftists can all get along and shit-toot together in harmony on this website

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When emergencies are announced primarily on twizzler, it is potentially dangerous for those of us who don't partake.

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@rysiek happy to help. More details on the pref switch if anyone's intended implementation might needs the use of no addons blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2017/10

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fuuuuuuuuuck yeah!

VFIO GPU passthrough to QEMU

only took me two days (ffs)

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Please stop telling people who don’t know better not to use SMS 2FA. Some other factor is better than no other factor, and not everyone has an adversary that will do SIM cloning or an SS7 attack

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@galaxis @maloki #Firefox Containers have been available for 2 years. The project has matured and now right in core. You do NOT need an addon to use its basic functionality. HOWEVER a design decision was made to allow devs access to its functionality through APIs. Some of the stuff you seek is available in add-ons. Try "Firefox Multi-Account Containers", "Container on the Go", "Context Plus"

2016 launch of test
blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2016/06

2017 project maturity
blog.mozilla.org/tanvi/2017/10

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