Raspberry Pi 400
It arrived!! Now to figure out what to do with it...
Musings about Technology, free software and computers
Qubes DST fix
If your #Qubes machine didn't automatically handle the DST switchover properly, you can run sudo qvm-sync-clock in dom0 to fix it.
What we know about video conferencing with BigBlueButton
If you work remotely on the web, you're probably getting comfortable with multiple video chat tools. At Freedom of the Press Foundation, we've published a high-level comparison of some common video chat applications, and many others maintain detailed comparison spreadsheets to help you compare dozens of tools. We also wanted…
Happy 27th birthday Debian!
Happy 27th birthday #Debian! Proud to contribute to and run the free software, universal operating system that's just slightly older than me!https://bits.debian.org/2020/08/debian-turns-27.html
Client-side Rust
It still feels a little magical, having #Rust run client-side. But I love it.
Learning Rust, week 5
I'm skipped writing a post for week 4 and then didn't do any Rust related things for a week, so this is my week 5 update. The main (published) Rust I've written since my last post is a port of my w.wiki statistics Toolforge tool. It reads through compressed plaintext…
Learning Rust, week 3
I'm a little behind with this update as it took me a little longer to prepare and launch my project: diff-libraries. I'm planning to write a more detailed post on that later, but it's my most involved Rust project so far. The webserver is powered by Rocket and it uses…
Learning Rust, week 2
I think I'm starting to understand why people like Rust so much. The tooling, especially rustup and cargo are pretty fantastic. The fact that rustfmt (code auto-formatter), clippy (linter) and a test runner are all integrated through cargo is super convenient. I feel like Python used to have that with…
Learning Rust, week 1
I'm trying to learn Rust this summer. I've found I learn languages the best by just trying to do something in it, figuring out the building blocks as I go along. So I plan on writing/porting different projects to Rust. This week I set up rustup, installed the stable and…
Useless GitHub security notifications
Things that are inevitable in life: taxes, death, and useless GitHub security notifications.
Zoom troubleshooting
We had an extended family Zoom call yesterday. My uncle had difficulties joining with audio, so my cousin (in a different location) started facetiming with him on her phone and held it up to the computer screen so he could see us and talk. It was cute but also really…
Acing cybersecurity in Jeopardy!
My accomplishment for this week is acing the Cybersecurity category, including the two triple stumpers that none of the #JeopardyGOAT s got right!http://www.j-archive.com/showgame.php?game_id=6522
Mostly set up Qubes
I mostly set up Qubes last night, but Thunderbird did not migrate well at all, so I'm not checking my email right now.Specifically, all of the mail filters on my POP accounts broke. :/
Perfect time to run an ArchiveTeam Warrior
If you haven't already, it's the perfect time to start running an ArchiveTeam Warrior to help backup the Internet. Current efforts are focused on saving Google+.https://www.archiveteam.org/index.php?title=ArchiveTeam_Warrior#archiveteam #googleminus
Comments on "User freedom: A love story"
SFScon18 - Molly de Blanc - User freedom: A love story. This is one of the most relatable software freedom talks I've watched recently. As a college student trying to make friends, let alone find romantic partners, using non-free software is incredibly difficult to avoid. Aside from online dating, which…