Ben Cohen @ben@ischool.social

semi-regular reminder: the #Firefox and Chrome add-on Bypass Paywalls lets you easily get past the article-hiding nag screens on numerous major media websites, even WSJ

both mozilla and google rudely delisted it from their add-on sites so you have to get it from the author's github:

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-firefox

https://github.com/iamadamdev/bypass-paywalls-chrome

I just submitted the first release of Contrast to Flathub! It's a beautifully designed app to check the contrast ratio between two colors made with GTK & Rust by the GNOME Design Tooling team.🎉🥳

RT @nathenharvey@twitter.com
I facilitated a #TalkPayIRL discussion at @DevOpsDaysDC@twitter.com. The lowest paid developer in the room just accepted a position wherein their salary is 65% higher. Thank you to the amazing #DevOps community for the support and @jpaulreed@twitter.com for the process. https://medium.com/@jpaulreed/talking-pay-in-the-public-square-70e588f54c8 1/2

RT @martinezmau@twitter.com

Artists installed seesaws at the border wall so that kids in the U.S. and Mexico could play together. It was designed by architect Ronald Rael. ⁣
⁣
Beautiful reminder that we are connected: what happens on one side impacts the other.
🇲🇽 ❤️ 🇺🇸

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/martinezmau/status/1156045826810159104

La nouvelle interface de Roundcube est pas mal du tout.

it really was surreal to peruse scottish witch trial records and find inquisitors dutifully notating how they coerced confessions, how they interpreted healers and political agitators and neuroatypical folx alike as satanists in order to have everyone they knew captured and killed. we downplay it today, somehow, but the witch trials were a pan-european political genocide without which the modern nation-state and all its crimes, perhaps even whiteness itself, would not be possible.

PREORDERS LIVE! #pinebookpro Find the link here :) pine64.org

I finally get to talk about what I’ve been helping build since I started at Betterment! Introducing Betterment Everyday: https://www.betterment.com/checking-savings/

“Do not wait: the time will never be 'just right'. Start where you stand, and work whatever tools you may have at your command and better tools will be found as you go along.”
― Napoleon Hill

I'm looking for a fairly rugged, dependable laptop running under #linux with decent hardware support.

My instinct is to go with a ThinkPad. Anyone think I'm wrong about that?

If not, which ThinkPad?

if anyone here needs Ethernet cable hit me up. I'll cut a cable up to 10 feet for you and ship it anywhere in the US

boosts welcome

In my quest to build an #ActivityPub based simple, no-frills bulletin board / forum system, I've gone ahead and pushed up my work-in-progress #golang ActivityPub single server framework: apcore. It has no README (yet) and still has a lot left TODO.

https://github.com/go-fed/apcore

I hope to use it in the future to launch multiple small ActivityPub applications leveraging common serving, storing, and moderation features. But new #ActivityStreams vocabulary can be readily innovated upon.

@mdszy I'm already testing Fedilab, I have never used the 4 apps in the poll.

Alpine Linux has completed their migration to SourceHut for their mailing lists 🎉

They're running their own instance here:

https://lists.alpinelinux.org/lists/~alpine

I'm actively recruiting volunteer devs for a native Signal / Signal-like client in Gtk, in the hopes that we can bring it to the @Purism Librem 5 phone. Please contact sean.obrien@puri.sm if interested.

PGP/GPG: FA9D 40F1 5FE1 D8AB 8312 4AAA 77E3 1447 CD1F C3F6

Applications secretly running web servers on localhost is such a security antipattern. Basically turns your desktop into just another ioshit zombie.

'Backdoor found in Ruby library for checking for strong passwords'

https://www.zdnet.com/article/backdoor-found-in-ruby-library-for-checking-for-strong-passwords/

it's alive now. shows up at localhost:3000

try to login but get an error:

"No connection to backend server"

oh i knew this would be fun, why do i use Google Photos? ah this is why.

There's something beautiful about code analysers analysing themselves

Found a new RSS feed to follow:
Cryptography Dispatches - https://buttondown.email/cryptography-dispatches

First article is interesting. OpenPGP is Broken