I'm teaching my daughter #scratch this coming school year. I'm planning on doing small lessonlets with her and then giving her time to play with it and explore. A lot like how I remember learning QBasic. It's not really about the language as much as exploring the constrains of the system and making art using code. I credit my computer teacher in 10th grade with helping me love computers. She learned along with us and encouraged us to explore what was possible within the bounds of the language.
Does anyone know about using shared libraries in #rust? I understand one can build a library and link to it from C but I need to know more about linking to it from other crates. I have passing knowledge about 'extern crate'. My goal is to build a given library once and link to it from other rust-written binaries.
The IETF OpenPGP working group has been reopened and we have a concrete plan to get a crypto-refresh out the door!
Is there reason to believe that we'll succeed this time? I think so. A number of new players (not only Sequoia) have joined the OpenPGP ecosystem over the past few years, and they all seem willing to work together to push the standard forward.
https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/openpgp/CwEZ-Jd_NU2z59zkGrDEYOXVmKc/
We released 'sq', #sequoia #pgp's CLI. Read about it here: https://sequoia-pgp.org/blog/2021/01/26/202101-sq-release/ . You can also get it from crates.io with a simple `cargo install sequoia-sq`.
Best part of a prerecorded session is getting to heckle myself over IRC during the talk!
I’d avoided trying Droidcam because it _sounded_ complicated. But it was super straightforward! I highly recommend anyone who needs to do any sort of video calling on a computer to check it out. Your phone camera is likely far better than a laptop’s. https://www.dev47apps.com/
Wait… did… did GitHub fire a Jew for calling Nazis Nazis? My expectations were low but holy fuck y'all
Link CW: context is recent uspol violence
Titan: Moon over Saturn
Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute
Insurrectionists’ social media presence gives feds an easy way to ID them - https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2021/01/insurrectionists-social-media-presence-gives-feds-an-easy-way-to-id-them/ see? social media *is* good for something...
A real world example of an open source supply chain attack: the Octopus Scanner malware
https://securitylab.github.com/research/octopus-scanner-malware-open-source-supply-chain
There’s a new #Guix #Science channel!
https://hpc.guix.info/blog/2021/01/guix-science/
So far it contains primarily free software with dependencies next to impossible to build from source, mostly JavaScript: #JupyterLab, #RStudio, etc.
How many inputs does an average #guix derivation have? Around 31 is my guesstimate from the Guix Data Service data.
This sort of chart might show some more nuances though, there's probably some reason why 3, 6, 10 and 25 are quite popular...
First release of Guile-zstd—high-level #Guile bindings to the #zstd compression library:
https://notabug.org/guile-zstd/guile-zstd 🎁
Nyxt version 2 pre-release 5 is out!
https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/article/release-2-pre-release-5.org
“A female colleague and [I] had dared to discuss wage transparency and gender pay gap in the office … Unfortunately we miscalculated – our boss Matthias was beyond furious. After that office meeting, he told my colleague ‘there will be consequences.’ … I want to expose the hypocrisy and double standards in FSFE leadership. How the organisation ‘promoting’ transparency, equality and inclusivity treats employees and more specifically women.”
https://write.as/malinagalina/i-took-fsfe-to-court
https://mobile.twitter.com/malinagalina/status/1340627582434291714