León Castillejos @L1Cafe@social.privacytools.io

ok, all you new people who arrived in the Fediverse this week... and there do appear to be a LOT of N00bs(in the best sense).... Let's do a Follow Friday!

#FF

@djsundog is possibly the best all around netizen on the Fedi.

@maxeddy Tech journalist, and nice and approachable too... I even assume he likes hugs.

@ella_kane our community organizer in this corner of the fediverse, and mastermind on #WeareNameless, a monthly movie viewing session... a LOT of fun!

@lilithsaintcrow and @mwlucas Both authors who have inspired discussions often, that lift the lid on the publishing industry.

@Mainebot He's like... to the north of me... but kinda smart.... and smart-alecky....actually a very solid source of quality thoughts on a wide range of topics.

@viciousviscosity qUEEN OF gIFS

@tek, admin of Freeradical.zone, also a name to watch for infosec.

@jerry Admin of infosec.exchange

@JohnsNotHere Host of the Purple Squad Security podcast

@drwho @remotenemesis @GeoffWozniak @ryen @m4iler

on and on...

Sooo many other great netizens... The instant I post this I will regret many I didn't list.

My gf's learning html. Nobody told her that vim's a strange tool for genius programmers, so I just told her it was a normal tool, showed her insert and escape, then let her get on with it.

Half an hour later, I showed her another vim command.

Someone with almost zero education, who can't type properly, is programming in vim because nobody told her it was difficult. I know people who can program in Haskell who aren't sure if they can do vim.

there were some things i ddn't knew about raspberry pis:

"Linux runs on that ARM CPU, we know that, but we might be surprised to learn that Linux on this device is only a second class citizen. The GPU cores run a real time operating system called ThreadX. This operating system is closed source and rules the system without the open source Linux Kernel being aware of it."

https://ownyourbits.com/2019/02/02/whats-wrong-with-the-raspberry-pi/

and guess who bought the ThreadX operating system last april?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ThreadX

Verifpal – tool to verify the security of cryptographic protocols:

https://verifpal.com/

– paper: https://eprint.iacr.org/2019/971.pdf (PDF file)
– user manual: https://verifpal.com/res/pdf/manual.pdf (PDF file)
– Verifpal is still highly experimental software
– available for Windows, Linux and macOS

#verifpal #crypto #cryptography #verification #security #cybersecurity #infosec

Hard at work implementing categories in my #mac client app for the #nextcloud notes app!

"When C is your hammer, everything looks like a thumb"

Banned C standard library functions in Git source code:

https://github.com/git/git/blob/master/banned.h

Another privacy win from Apple as they take a firm no-exceptions policy to all tracking practices in Safari.

Their newly-announced policy states that "tracking users 'without' consent... will [get you] kicked off the platform, treated like malware." https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2019/08/15/apple-slams-advertisers-secretly-tracking-its-users-with-new-no-exceptions-policy/#719b4b0f173f

The _solution_ for all cyber issues!
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@L1Cafe Russian nuclear power plant barge. Very interesting read.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov

Keybase and SSH:
https://keybase.io/blog/keybase-ssh-ca