zinke owl cabre @zwol@mastodon.social

Hey, my current gig is going to be ending in the next few weeks.

I do web and ops automation, specifically, django, python in general, and saltstack.

Short term is fine.

Boosts appreciated!

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#MicroFiction #tootfic #smallstories

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What if we go back to making smart phones with physical keyboards god dammit

Stop dithering around and help me shade these monochrome pixels

https://twitter.com/lexaloffle/status/1027574598169022468

<< Dithering patterns should have weird names the way that colours do. #pico8>>

I might have an opportunity to drive across the country very soon. If you live between the east and west coasts of the United States of America and you have tips or want to hang or host two weary press freedom advocates next month, uh, lemme know

https://twitter.com/TheProfRog/status/1026775341120081920

<<Introducing a rare example of the architectural movement, Muppet Brutalism >>

a thing that's really stuck with me from my first High Holy Days service was the language that our prayerbook used to talk about people who sin. (Christianity has . . . a take on that word. i'm using it here in a more specifically Jewish sense.) b/c like Yom Kippur is all about atonement, about acknowledging your sins and doing what you can to make them right, so there's a lot in the liturgy about sin and about G-d's treatment of sinners

and the thing that really leapt out at me in that first service was what the liturgy says about sinners. b/c it would be so easy to say "we hope they're destroyed, we hope they amount to nothing and vanish utterly from the Earth". but instead... instead the liturgy in that service said "we hope that they turn back. we hope that they stop working harm in the world and instead work for good, so that we/G-d can welcome them back into our community"

and that idea, that like, there can be atonement, there can be a road back even if it's steep and rocky, that the ideal outcome isn't destruction but return, renewal, the welcoming of those who have strayed back into the fold (not necessarily automatically and unconditionally, but when someone is materially seeking to heal the harm they caused where such healing is possible and also taking active steps to ensure they will never harm someone in that way again) — that idea has been fundamental to my conception of Justice ever since

i can't believe in systems of justice that don't allow for atonement after having sinned. i don't want to build a system that i would not, myself, be judged by. (because all of us have the capacity to hurt each other greatly, and i don't believe that anyone *never* does so)

anyway, just something that's been rattling around in my head a lot recently that i wanted to share. accountability doesn't have to mean perfection or exile; forgiveness is inextricably bound up with Justice. have a good day!

I've packaged and released version 1.0.0 of olipy, a set of art supplies for making text-based art with Python.

https://github.com/leonardr/olipy/
https://pypi.org/project/olipy

I don't think this essay put enough emphasis on the main point. If an attacker can run code on your computer (say, in an installer for some piece of software you got from the internet), and they can grab your OpenSSH private key file, the default password-protected encryption is worse than no password, because "This leaked key provides an oracle: if I guess the password correctly... I know I guessed correctly because I can check against your public key."

https://latacora.singles/2018/08/03/the-default-openssh.html