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🎉 Time to update: Tor Browser 9.5 is out now.
This Tor Browser release is focused on helping you understand and use onion services.
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When ISPs or governments block access to Tor, our users rely on bridges to connect. With BridgeDB, we tackle the problem of how to get bridges to censored users while making it difficult for censors to get all bridges.
BridgeDB version 0.10.1 is out now: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-bridgedb-010-1
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Trump's Executive Order will force hosts of our online speech to toe the government line. This is an assault on free expression: https://www.nydailynews.com/opinion/ny-oped-the-president-vs-internet-freedom-20200528-sh4m5legjjf4xivdztfvdl2xwq-story.html
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Every time I see people complaining about GitHub being down and they not being able to get work done or deploy I feel like giving a talk (and putting it on YT) - without any irony or sarcasm - „this is how diff - email - patch“ works.
Most people are using a DECENTRALISED version control system but never had to use or understand the first word. We are missing out on a powerful feature because we centralised on a platform :(
When chmodding /dev/ nodes using readlink always remember to use -n!
Zoom buys Keybase. I guess that's one less thing to trust :/
Today I spent way too much time learning that if your #golang project contains multiple packages, and you want good coverage reports, you need to do this:
go test -v -race -covermode=atomic -coverprofile=coverage.txt -coverpkg=$(go list ./... | tr "\n" ",") ./...
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For those who might be interested:
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In case you missed it: the best possible thing to watch while you're stuck inside! Watch many, many hours of entertaining and educational talks from #LibrePlanet2020 on our Mediagoblin page -- made and shared entirely with free software: https://u.fsf.org/31p
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Whoever came up with the term „social distancing“ should be ashamed. The correct term is physical distancing IMHO. We should collectively stop using the „social distancing“ term from now on.
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Ok - registrations on infosec.exchange are now closed. All members should have the ability to send an invitation to people who might like to join. The intention is not to close off the site to anyone who legitimately wants to use the site - even if just to lurk. But, no spammers, please.
Updated my SDL2 Go #life program, it can now load Life 1.05 pattern files.
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The EARN IT Act would give the government broad powers to interfere with online platforms’ editorial activities and turn them into government actors. The Constitution prohibits both. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-act-violates-constitution
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