Freddy @freddyym@social.privacytools.io

@piggo @karen apple patented slide to unlock but I found a precedent.

You shouldn't be able to just add "on a computer" to create a new patent.

ah yes, the six clause bsd license

Startpage wrote on their own blog about being relisted on @privacytools

https://www.startpage.com/blog/startpage-articles/startpage-relisted-on-privacytools

#Privacy

📖 Read “Why I Decided to Run a Tor Relay” by PrivacyTools blog guest contributor @syntax live at https://blog.privacytools.io/why-i-decided-to-run-a-tor-relay/

Happy Star Wars Day everyone!

Some universities are imposing #MicrosoftTeams in the drive toward online schooling. This despicable move forces students to patronize #Microsoft, support #surveillancecapitalism, & it excludes #linux users.

Starting a new service and considering #ipv6? It's a good practice to go IPv6 for a number of reasons:1) IPv4 is exhausted, 2) IPv6 offers much better privacy thanks to the client address rotation, 3) IPv6 greatly simplifies P2P, 4) slightly better performance & latency

@sir ...and may I suggest a second most important: "If debugging is the process of removing software bugs, then programming must be the process of putting them in." (Edsger Dijkstra)

Free and Open-Source vs Proprietary Software

https://www.invidio.us/watch?v=Je0NucWKsGg

Nice to see NixNet's Searx instance up and running! Thanks @amolith 😄

https://searx.nixnet.services

Donate to help keep their services online: https://nixnet.services/support/?project=1

#Privacy

Just updated my little vpn script that adds a more elegant command-line interface to AzireVPN’s WireGuard service on Linux.

https://source.small-tech.org/aral/vpn

Enjoy! :)

@sir "here's the spoonful of salt you ordered with that RCE, sir"

"now please swallow it happily, this is the best solution, right?"

Remember this article I wrote two weeks ago?

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2020-04-20-prioritizing-simplitity/

People asked me why I don't use Docker, k8s, salt, and all of these other rube goldberg machines, mouths agape that I would dare to provision machines manually.

Well, it seems I have been quickly validated:

https://threatpost.com/salt-bugs-full-rce-root-cloud-servers/155383/

Hackers breach LineageOS servers via unpatched vulnerability

LineageOS source code, OS builds, and signing keys were unaffected, developers said.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/hackers-breach-lineageos-servers-via-unpatched-vulnerability/ #lineageos #security #breach

"There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies."

This is the most important thing you need to learn as a programmer.

The ONLY way to make reliable, working software is to make it simple.

I don't care how special and cool and hip your company thinks it is, it's NEVER okay to opt users into a marketing spam list.