Efraim Flashner @efraim@tooot.im

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.

#sequoia #pgp

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/

The Guix community is so nice and thoughtful, really an oasis in FOSS... that's not an accident though; thank you to the Guix leadership and team for working hard to make it that way.

time travel works exactly how it does in the movies because time travelers engineer those movies to make training easier. you can just tell the new guy "okay, this works like Back to the Future" and she gets it right away

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

https://www.theverge.com/2021/1/12/22227487/github-microsoft-fired-jewish-employee-warned-nazis-us-capitol-breach

I have just got GuixSD running on my new Dell Latitude 5310! It wasn't exactly easy, but it was kind of pleasant: I had little trouble telling #Guix exactly what I wanted.

Shoot me a DM if you have any concrete questions about the installation.

I'm extremely excited to actually start configuring my system 😊

Titan: Moon over Saturn

Image Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, Space Science Institute

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210109.html #APoD

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.

Masks are like condoms.

If they say you must wear a mask, you're probably safe--but wear it because they asked you to.

If they say you don't need a mask, you ABSOLUTELY TOTALLY DEFINITELY NEED TO FREAKING WEAR IT.

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

#web #browser #lisp #commonlisp

“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