Notices by Aaron Toponce ⚛️:debian: (atoponce@fosstodon.org), page 4

Got me in the first half. Not gonna lie.

#crypto #cryptocurrency

Too bad the United States doesn't worship the 4th Amendment like they do the 2nd.

U.S. Supreme Court Declines to Hear Wikimedia Foundation’s Challenge to NSA Mass Surveillance

#privacy

https://diff.wikimedia.org/2023/02/21/u-s-supreme-court-declines-to-hear-wikimedia-foundations-challenge-to-nsa-mass-surveillance/

#Windows desktop operating system market share slowly eroding away, at a pace of about 1% annually.

2023 will be the year of the #Linux desktop. But not Arch, BTW. ?

@j_opdenakker bash.org and qdb.us were daily reads for me back during my IRC days.

I do not like #Electron but I'm also not a fan of #Emacs. However, I appreciate the self-deprecating humor.

How it started: How it's going:

What is your least favorite packing tool for #Linux, and why is it Snap?

#ubuntu

My employer just received a marketing call asking for me by name, claiming "we're connected on LinkedIn".

1. I don't know who you are.
2. I have a good idea why you're calling, and I'm not interested.
3. We're not connected on LinkedIn. Lying isn't your best first impression.

@fullstackthaumaturge But what about Chinese social media like TikTok or WeChat?

GNOME 43 released.

https://release.gnome.org/43/

Testing if this acronym passphrase generator is something I want to add to my project.

I asked it to generate a 128-bit passphrase, and I got:

- acronym: "motherfucker"
- passphrase: "medley-okra-tasked-hypo-eila-RAGE-fates-unleashes-coasts-kanzi-elthree-ruble"

Haha

Purchased a French press for my daughter, as she's started getting into #coffee and wanted an easy brew method.

We found some tips:

1. Grind medium rather than course.
2. Steep for ~10 minutes.
3. Empty used grinds (with water) in a sieve for easier cleaning.

If you (or your grandparents) are going to keep passwords in a notebook, *which is perfectly okay*, you might as well have a password generator with it.

Print these tables, paste them in your notebook, get some dice, and roll for security.

https://gist.github.com/atoponce/f463fa33a7ddec34cc462ad207e138e7

Inspired by Diceware, but using 4-sided, 8-sided, and 10-sided dice tables in addition to 6-sided.

Also, the characters are in ASCII order, because OCD.

https://theworld.com/~reinhold/dicewarefaq.html

This complements my spreadsheet password generator:

https://fosstodon.org/@atoponce/108992424914786217

Honest question: if there is never more than a 20% chance of rain at any given hour during the day, and in some cases 10% or less, how can there be a 30% chance of rain overall?

Every time I try "new Reddit", I'm reminded why it sucks, and go back to "old Reddit".

Case in point: you can create multireddits in "new Reddit" but you cannot delete them. That is, unless you use "old Reddit".

Jason Donenfeld gives a talk about the #Linux RNG and the changes he's made:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkOdMwZRpYY&t=10090s

Slides here (PDF):

https://www.zx2c4.com/projects/linux-rng-5.17-5.18/inside-linux-kernel-rng-presentation-sept-13-2022.pdf

Password and passphrase generators in MS Excel or LibreOffice Calc.
Why?

Because if you're going to use a spreadsheet to manage your passwords, *and many do*, then you should have a password generator also.

It's true.

#debian #ubuntu #linux