Ben Cohen @ben@ischool.social

If you don't understand an argument for something, but still use it anyway, you are probably wrong. This is called cargo culting.

Inspired by some dude telling me git's code is bad because it uses goto a lot.

Mitigating a DDoS on Pleroma

https://coffee-and-dreams.uk/security/2019/10/20/mitigating-a-ddos.html

becoming more leftist each year because the promised improvements or fixes to capitalism never actually materialize and because things get worse instead while capitalists insist it's Good Actually

elementary OS 5.1 Hera is here with a brand new first-run experience, Flatpak support, accessibility and System Settings improvements, app updates, and the latest hardware support. Existing users of Juno, run your updates to get it. Read all about it: https://blog.elementary.io/introducing-elementary-os-5-1-hera/

Somewhat improved

For what it's worth, JMAP, which no one uses yet, is coming to meli as well.

This will raise the count of mail storages of #meli to five: maildir, mbox, imap, notmuch and jmap

#email #rust #tui

Did you know, you can narrow down the suggestions from the firefox address bar using the following characters :

^ to search for matches in your browsing history.
* to search for matches in your bookmarks.
+ to search for matches in pages you’ve tagged.
% to search for matches in your currently open tabs.
# to search for matches in page titles.
$ to search for matches in web addresses (URLs).
? to search for matches in suggestions.

Ubuntu 19.10: It’s fast, like “make old hardware feel new” fast https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/11/ubuntu-19-10-quite-simply-the-best-ubuntu-canonical-has-ever-released/

A week ago Unbox Therapy featured the Librem 13 v4 on their channel https://youtu.be/hVcJgCvFuWo We had no idea they were going to do the review and were so happy that both Lewis and Willy found it "Simple, Clean. The most secure experience you can have." If you haven't had a chance to watch the video yet, which is nearly on 2.4m views, we've got a summary of highlights for you https://puri.sm/posts/the-librem-13-reviewed-by-unbox-therapy/ #Purism #Librem #Librem13 #PureOS #Linux #linuxLaptop

We are delighted to share that early yesterday we shipped the first #Librem5 Birch devices to backers https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-birch-shipping-announcement/

@purism says #Librem5Birch has shipped as of yesterday. Wondering if anyone has one yet (supposedly a lot of the US domestic ones were one-day shipping).

#Librem5 #Purism

@bjoern
You need to wait that pixelfed.social runs 0.10.7
Currently, their mobile support is disabled.

Small Technology Foundation Personal Web Prototype-01: a mobile personal web server

https://ar.al/2019/11/11/small-technology-foundation-personal-web-prototype-01-a-mobile-portable-personal-web-server/

#SmallTechnologyFoundation #PersonalWeb #Prototype #SiteJS #RaspberryPi

My talk today at HTW Berlin for World Usability Day 2019 just finished, and the people seemed to like it.

Slides here: https://naii.io/wud2019 (German)

The Ethical Design Manifesto by @indie / @aral and @laura was an essential part of it since this is my contribution to spreading the word and raising awareness :)

And one attendee literally said it was the highlight of his day.

Super grateful to have experienced that, and yes I was on a little high afterwards *yippieeee*

New version of Site.js with live reload, build in progress… ;)

Did you know the Site.js binaries for Linux (x64), macOS, Windows 10 and ARM (armv6l & armv7l – read: Raspberry Pi and more – are all built on a Raspberry Pi 3B+?

https://sitejs.org

#SiteJS #SmallTech

I wrote an article about best practices (including travel tips) for PureBoot, @purism 's #FOSS tamper-evident boot firmware that allows the user to control all of the keys and secrets used for the signing process. Check it out here: https://puri.sm/posts/pureboot-best-practices/

Reminder that Blade Runner happens next month

Side-by-side:

Librem 5 Dev Kit & Librem 5 "Aspen" batch.

In that case, you won't mind if I identify you as a fascist and a sexual predator, then.