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  • FreedomBox facilities installation of a end-to-end encryption chat server Matrix which is compatible with Element.

    FreedomBox is Debian FOSS that also supports Let's Encrypt for HTTPS encryption. The goal of FreedomBox is to permit setup via only the webUI which it mostly gets right.

    Chatting via Element this way is nice since you're self-hosting the service and not relying upon a centralized server that could required a backdoor. I highly recommend it.

  • How many arms does a catboy need? Honestly.

  • The Seattle police officer in the video didn't hit the woman with his cruiser. One of the people in his police union did, of which he is vice-president.

  • What's with that si parameter?

  • Excluding communities simply because you feel like theyʼre unclean is so... boring. Like, we as a species have done the whole / “racial purity” / “religious monoculture” thing for thousands of years now. Excluding people for non-violent reasons doesnʼt give you an advantage; you just get left behind as people with new ideas get poached by inclusive tolerant cultures that are intolerant of your intolerance. You can try to raise the switching cost by building walls and making emigration illegal, but sooner or later you get invaded; at best you get ignored and stagnate, dying an early death from silly things like tooth decay because you chased out all the dentists.

  • The lander and rover has until September 4th until it loses sunlight and therefore power (it doesn't have an RTG).

  • Sounds like COVID-19 brain damage.

  • It handles ambiguity too. Want to say something lasts for a period of 1 month without needing to bother checking how many days are in the current and next month? P1M. Done. Want to be more explicit and say 30 days? P30D. Want to say it in hours? Add the T separator: PT720H.

    I used this kind of notation all the time when exporting logged historical data from SCADA systems into a file whose name I wanted to quickly communicate the start of a log and how long it ran:

    20230701T0000-07--P30D..v101_pressure.csv

    (“--” is the ISO-8601 (2004) recommended substitute for “/” in file names)

    If anyone is interested, I made this Bash script to give me uptime but expressed as an ISO 8601 time period.

     
        
    $ bkuptime
    P2DT4H22M4S/2023-08-15T02:01:00+0000, 2 users,  load average: 1.71, 0.87, 0.68
    
      
  • Using T as a delimiter is mental

    You get used to it.

  • Sometimes I think I might have spent too much for my FLOSS System76 Launch keyboard but seeing this kind of monopoly moat-building chicanery makes me feel better.

  • Mixed Martial Arts tournaments are basically Pokémon tournaments?

  • Mark Mazzetti, Ronen Bergman, and Adam Goldman. (2023-07-31). “Who Paid for a Mysterious Spy Tool? The F.B.I., an F.B.I. Inquiry Found.”. New York Times. Accessed 2023-08-02.

    When The New York Times reported in April that a contractor had purchased and deployed a spying tool made by NSO, the contentious Israeli hacking firm, for use by the U.S. government, White House officials said they were unaware of the contract and put the F.B.I. in charge of figuring out who might have been using the technology.

    After an investigation, the F.B.I. uncovered at least part of the answer: It was the F.B.I.

    The deal for the surveillance tool between the contractor, Riva Networks, and NSO was completed in November 2021. Only days before, the Biden administration had put NSO on a Commerce Department blacklist, which effectively banned U.S. firms from doing business with the company. For years, NSO’s spyware had been abused by governments around the world.

    This particular tool, known as Landmark, allowed government officials to track people in Mexico without their knowledge or consent.

    Note: It is improbable that Pegasus is restricted by whether a target phone is in Mexico or not. Therefore, I find it highly probable the FBI contractor or the FBI itself used Pegasus to spy on US citizens.

  • Revelation Space, the only book within which I saw the word “triumvirate” used outside of the “Our jimmies are eternal. None can rustle the Triumvirate.” meme.

    If you want to get a wider feel more quickly of the Revelation Space worldbuilding, try Galactic North which is a short story collection featuring many varied shippets featuring characters from the main series.

    To an ordinary person not interested in sci-fi world building, I would be more inclined to recommend Reynolds's Pushing Ice or Century Rain which are self-contained.

  • I imagine more people would use Tor if they could get paid to provide bandwidth (like Orchid as described on FLOSS Weekly 633).