Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one
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Technical author, FOSS advocate, public speaker, Linux security & infrastructure geek, author of The Best of Hack and /: Linux Admin Crash Course, Linux Hardening in Hostile Networks and many other books, ex-Linux Journal columnist.
Joined Apr 2019
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This sounds cool. I tried setting it up, but I can't reach the git repo (might be my corporate firewall having a good time with me). Has anybody else done this and what did you think? Thanks for the article @kyle!
"What Really IRCs Me: Mastodon | Linux Journal"
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-really-ircs-me-mastodon
@mike @ndegruchy@fosstodon.org I think of social media like a giant, busy IRC channel I moderate where I can +v any particular person I want to talk to (by following them).
@survivor303@mastodon.social @linuxjournal If your IRC client supports that then yes, I imagine it would be possible. I'm using irssi here.
@survivor303@mastodon.social @linuxjournal It posts a full URL to the media, hosted on the mastodon server, for you to open in a web browser.
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What Really IRCs Me: Mastodon
By @kyle
Learn how to use the Mastodon social network platform from the comfort of your regular #IRC client. https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/what-really-ircs-me-mastodon
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Human Contact Is Now a Luxury Good - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/23/sunday-review/human-contact-luxury-screens.html @cybette good read
@jameshjacksonjr @cybette Good read indeed. Certainly true for more affluent urban/suburban areas, but not sure how true it is in rural areas where community, family and human contact were already the top priority.
@pkimpton Thanks for checking in. I'm up North so we are on the clear.
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Lessons in Vendor Lock-in: Google and Huawei
by @kyle
What happens when you're locked in to a vendor that's too big to fail, but is on the opposite end of a trade war?
https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/lessons-vendor-lock-google-and-huawei
@thibaultamartin I'm sorry, I don't know of any helper libs but maybe other in the community do.
There's nothing like a road trip to show just how much we overpay for gasoline in California.
Our new Librem Keys are Made in USA! I wrote a brief post on why having an even more secure supply chain is so important. Watching these come off the line is even more mesmerizing than watching my 3D printer. https://puri.sm/posts/made-in-usa-librem-key/
Today's office is brought to you by a lake outside of Lansing. #vanlife
@fribbledom Maybe another useful follow-up is to ask how much *time* people have donated to free software projects in the past year.
In my opinion code/docs/wiki/community contributions are the real currency in the free software world.
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I've been reading @kyle Rankin's Hardening Linux book, and the client chapter confirmed what I suspected, since I've started using Linux, that Linux has security issues as a client OS. The Qubes setup was interesting, but sounds very resource intensive. It also reminds me of how the Unix workstation model was setup, when I was lucky enough to work under it.
I think apps were sandboxed better under OS/2, but I'd have to revisit The Design of OS/2 to be sure.
I recommend the Hardening Linux book
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Joined Apr 2019
