Aaaand now a shiny new parted release - https://savannah.gnu.org/forum/forum.php?forum_id=9924
Finally got around to writing a little bit about my https://weathertldr.com experiment - https://www.brianlane.com/software/weathertldr/
Duct-taped some code together this morning: https://www.brianlane.com/post/doorbell/
Very cool #hackaday prize winner - https://hackaday.com/2020/11/07/the-byte-is-the-grand-prize-winner-of-the-2020-hackaday-prize/
Whoa, it looks like Linux Journal is back (again again):
Our Director of Community Operations is leaving us to be the Interim General Manager at the Open Source Initiative. We'll miss her, but wish her luck in the new role! https://sfconservancy.org/news/2020/aug/20/debleaving/
Writers! Artists! Creative sorts!
I write books to pay the mortgage. You can do the same with your art.
Here's the book on how I do it.
162,000 residents and visitors of South Korea have used its quarantine app, which is required by law—and had a security vulnerability allowing the theft of people's names and real-time locations. https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/21/technology/korea-coronavirus-app-security.html
The total donations from #OpenBSD community has reached Platinum for the OpenBSD Foundations 2020 Fundraising Campaign!
John Carmack also made a Silver contribution!
So far only $44,000 has been raised of the $300,000 goal.
https://github.com/bob-beck/foundation-web/commit/6ba5c9856998eac1cf6ffafeac50453ba0715610
During this pandemic it is more important than ever to be able to speak out and share information online, but Egypt's government is retaliating against journalists who report on COVID, and arresting others for seeking information about prison conditions https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/06/egypts-crackdown-free-expression-will-cost-lives
A dragonfly - https://www.brianlane.com/post/dragonflies/
Starting with Chrome 80, its sync functionality will encrypt your data properly - as long as you set a passphrase. This still isn't the default however.
Firefox Sync design has been better from the start. No progress here unfortunately. #crypto #appsec
https://palant.info/2018/03/13/can-chrome-sync-or-firefox-sync-be-trusted-with-sensitive-data/
Oh my, this is rather bad. Now I'm busy figuring out whether I use GnuTLS anywere...
Telegram has some nice client software and services, but I wouldn't use it if I were you.
"The default messages and media use client-server encryption during transit. This data is also encrypted at rest, but can be accessed by Telegram developers, who hold the encryption keys."
🎉 Time to update: Tor Browser 9.5 is out now.
This Tor Browser release is focused on helping you understand and use onion services.