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Why You Don't Own Your Tech: Companies abuse copyright law to lock you out of your devices, and give themselves a monopoly on repair and customization
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So, I've imported ~25Gb of music from the Free Music Archive on https://open.audio using this method.
It worked beautifully, and it's now available for the whole #Funkwhale federation. Follow this library from your Funkwhale instance and you'll have access to it:
https://open.audio/federation/music/libraries/ce1fb6d4-fae6-464a-a34a-bdd46209ee82
You can also visit https://open.audio/library/ directly to listen to all this new content! (you don't need an account ;)
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How to write good git commit messages
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Goodbye, EdgeHTML - The Mozilla Blog https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/12/06/goodbye-edge/
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Michael W Lucas
To the Tumblr refugees: welcome!
Having been on the Internet for over thirty years, I have one piece of advice for creative folks working online:
Control Your Platform.
Don't build a business around Facebook, Tumbler, G+, Geocities, MySpace, AltaVista, or any of these other third parties that claim to offer quick and easy results.
They all go away. Every one of them.
Build your own site. Use third parties to steer people to your site.
Third parties are the devil--useful devils, but devils.
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It's 2018 and this municipality needs to explain internet users how to browse a website without using Google.
https://twitter.com/SouthDundasLIVE/status/1052585003652182017
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The ticking #PHP timebomb. 62% of all websites still runs PHP 5.X version. "These branches are now EOL, are insanely popular, and are unsupported --the perfect conditions of plentiful targets with bad security that draw in attackers."
https://www.zdnet.com/article/around-62-of-all-internet-sites-will-run-an-unsupported-php-version-in-10-weeks/
#Infosec #Security
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New Firefox Focus comes with search suggestions, revamped visual design and an under-the-hood surprise for Android users https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2018/10/02/new-firefox-focus-comes-with-search-suggestions-revamped-visual-design-and-an-under-the-hood-surprise-for-android-users/
Well, I suppose I should be grateful it took me this long into my career before I had to deal with Visual Basic.
I haven't tried using KDE in 15 years. Thinking about checking in and see how it's holding up.
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Chrome 69 will keep Google Cookies when you tell it to delete all cookies
https://twitter.com/ctavan/status/1044282084020441088?s=21
(submitted by jwildeboer)
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Why I’m done with Chrome https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/
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The Verge: How NOT to Build a Computer https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jciJ39djxC4
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Ah, there's an English version.
tl;dr: Swiss tax app stores all data (including plaintext passwords) in public AWS bucket, dismisses researcher and national CERT as a hoax. WTF??
https://www.secu.ninja/2018/09/19/swiss-tax-app-stores-all-data-publicly-in-the-cloud/
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NPM & left-pad: Have We Forgotten How To Program? https://www.davidhaney.io/npm-left-pad-have-we-forgotten-how-to-program/
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Like a lot of things, there is almost certainly some variation in aptitude and inclination, even more so in opportunity. Then there's using the term "incompetence" to describe something one hasn't acquired skill to do: It might be denotively strictly true, but has way too much of a perjorative connotation.
But, yes, programming is work. Learning to program is work. There's dignity in it to be recognized and respected.
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VORACLE - Stealing data from encrypted VPN tunnels:
https://speakerdeck.com/skepticfx/voracle-compression-oracle-attacks-on-vpn-tunnels
"You're not a ninja. You can't use the beans."
Joined Mar 2018
