Notices by rixx (rixx@chaos.social), page 2

Do you use a self-hosted newsletter service like Mailtrain, Maily Herald, Mautic, or Postal? Any recommendations?

Has anybody here used Zulip? It looks like group chat software I might actually enjoy, what with having conversations threaded by topic(!!) and what not. https://zulipchat.com/

Aweigh looks like so much fun to play around with. Also: literally solarpunk. https://www.aweigh.io/

The Escher Cloud: Confusing, mind-bending, can't exist in real space, screws with your head.

The results of the final vote: 348 in favor, 274 against. No amendments were considered. #Article13 #SaveYourInternet

The Tragedy of Systemd is a wonderful talk by Benno Rice, which I highly recommend to anybody with opinions on systemd: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_AIw9bGogo

He talks about attitude regarding change, and contempt culture, and the ideas that made systemd happen. It's a very informed calm discussion of both systemd features and community development. It's once again confirmed my positive impression of the BSD communities. #systemd

Nach offenen Gesetzen jetzt offene Register: Handelsregisterdaten in frei durchsuchbar, herunterladbar, verwendbar, integrierbar!

https://offeneregister.de/

Einfach mal mit SQL gegen Einträge suchen können ist schon sehr luxuriös: https://db.offeneregister.de/openregister-ef9e802?sql=select+*+from+company+where+name+like+%27%25Chaos+Computer%25%27%3B

Wow, if you have access to a running ubuntu laptop, and you put it in suspend mode, and then remove the hardware, you can just log on to the running system afterwards (no password needed) and look at every still open/cached application, extract passwords kept in RAM (full disk encryption, anybody?), etc.
It's been wontfixed for a couple of months: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/unity/+bug/1777415

If you're missing somebody on that list, I'm always interested in recommendations, so let me know!
If you like what you see, you might want to follow my scifi/reading account @rixx

Thank you, @Cheatha, for asking the question in the first place, and @tofuwabohu for not letting me procrastinate the blog post forever.

I was asked for book recommendations from non-(white, male) authors. Even with Fediverse character limits I had to write a thread, so I put them into a blog post.

SFF Perspectives – 14 recommended authors: https://rixx.de/blog/sff-perspectives/

GitHub now offers unlimited private repositories on its unpaid, regular accounts: https://blog.github.com/changelog/, https://github.com/pricing

This is nice, sure, but: If at all possible, please consider using other services – your local hackerspace might have a git server, or people around here might open theirs to you if you ask – or you could host it yourself, if you have the capability and resources. #git #github

Look what awaited me in Leipzig! #35c3

If you ever encounter people who want to get into web development, or you want to get started yourself: Refer to the Mozilla Developer Network (MDN). Their guides and tutorials are extensive and helpful. Take for example this guide on "Applying color to HTML elements with CSS". Goes from simple+foundations to stuff like color theory.

Also, I've finally migrated away from tinytinyrss (which has a not-too-nice UI and a HORRIBLE developer base/community) to FreshRSS, which looks nice, was easy to install, and increases my happiness. #fürwenigernervimleben

Look, I made a thing! After I saw the awesome blog post on city street orientations, I generated some charts for European and German cities (and refactored Geoff's IPython notebook into a script on the way). If you want to see a map of your favourite city in this style, tell me about it and I'll see what I can do.

https://rixx.de/blog/street-orientantions/

This photography based article about queer black couples is absolutely lovely. Look at these pictures for something positive in your life today. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/us/queer-love-in-color.html #queer #pride #poc

A well-phrased short talk by @mako on free tools for free software: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_nK6nP_RCY

A part of their information strategy is that they recommended to stop using #GPG/#PGP over stopping the mail client from rendering HTML (or loading external sources in HTML). That's disturbing.
(Also that they let themselves be roped into a publicity campaign.)

So my major lesson learned from the #gpg/#pgp thing today is not to trust warnings by EFF in the future – while parts of their warning were factually correct, they were baiting for attention in annoying and unhelpful ways.

This culture of publishing exploits and issues in a publicicty focused way is disturbing. I had hoped the EFF was beyond this needless hyping of vulns. Apparently not.

Have you heard of StreetComplete? It's an Android app that shows you open questions/issues with OpenStreetMap in your area, and asks you to answer them.

It's made for people with no experience with #OpenStreetMap, so it shows only very simple questions that can be answered very clearly. ("What is printed on this street sign?", "What's the number on this house?")

It's available on @fdroidorg, of course! #mapping #android #apps #recommendation