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
Musings about Technology, free software and computers
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…
Responding to a critical apt vulnerability
Do you ever have those days where you have a plan of what you want to do but it gets thrown away because of a critical apt vulnerability and then you have to remember all the Debian systems you're responsible for, plus all the docker images that you use?Anyways, here's…
My new Purism laptop
My new Purism laptop arrived yesterday. My old MacBook that I was planning to replace with it got jealous and died this morning, and fsck'ing hasn't helped. Now in recovery mode running cp -R / onto an external drive.
Kiwix in Debian, 2018 update
It's been a relatively productive year for the packaging of Kiwix, an offline Wikipedia reader, in Debian. My minimum expectations for the Buster release scheduled in mid-2019 are that all necessary C/C++ libraries to build the latest versions of Kiwix are in Debian. libzim is at v4.0.4, and basically ready…
Thank you Thunderbird
Thank you #Thunderbird.
Trying pytest
I finally had the opportunity to give pytest a real try (I'm porting tests from ruby to Python), and it's amazing! Waaay better than unittest/nosetests. I especially liked the parametrization feature, which I think PHPUnit could probably benefit from. Specifically, I like how I could specify two parameters separately, and…
Value in using Linux packages
What's the value in using Linux packages for your software vs installing from git? https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2018/06/msg00097.html explained it really well. The explanation I tell people for MediaWiki is that if you want a wiki that just works and would like to forget about administering it - use the Debian package. If…
git.legoktm.com registration now open
git.legoktm.com is now open for hosting free software projects, providing git hosting, issue trackers, and basic wiki functionality. It runs the free software Gogs: "a painless self-hosted Git service". You're welcome to host any freely licensed projects on git.legoktm.com. I've been running git.legoktm.com for two years now, mainly using it…
Diversity in IRC channels
Your IRC channel can only be considered diverse once you have members whose nicks start with every letter of the alphabet.
Age requirements for chatting
So now matrix.org requires you to confirm that you're over 16 before you can use it. I hope this doesn't become the new reality - I got started on IRC a few years before I turned 16. :|I couldn't find any age requirement for freenode (https://freenode.net/policies).Oh, and Slack also requires…
Parsing PHP in Python
Today I found a legitimate use for https://github.com/danielquinn/python-phpPython's default ConfigParser requires each ini file to have a [section]. PHP doesn't, so to read a PHP-formatted INI file in Python requires some kind of custom parser (maybe it would be possible to extend ConfigParser?), where the python-php project came in handy.…
Thoughts on SQLAlchemy
I've recently been using SQLAlchemy's ORM for a Python web app I'm developing. I really like the idea of declaring tables using a class, which provides you with an object class too.For querying, I'm still a bit undecided. I like .filter_by(), .first(), and .all(), but I'm worried that losing visibility…