Kyle Rankin @kyle@librem.one

@Hyolobrika @yaelwrites I think the insensitive name (and scenario behind the competition) is one of the reasons why the contest was discontinued.

@yaelwrites Also, I used to watch the "Gringo Warrior" competition at DEF CON which was all about picking locks as fast as possible. EVERY contestant, even the amazingly skilled ones, raked furiously and only dropped to single-pin picking once that didn't work.

@yaelwrites Oh you mean they say that to you after you are pleased with picking a lock you just raked? That sucks. I'm sorry. Find a different crew if you can, those folks have a bad community.

@yaelwrites I imagine it's a case of advice coming from a good place, given badly. Any of those people in a speed competition would rake first.

The longer, and nicer form of the advice would be:

"Raking only works on low security locks and is a less important skill to master than single-pin picking. Even if it does work on a low-security lock, it would be better to practice single-pin picking on that lock instead so when you get to a lock raking doesn't work on, you have the skills you need."

@yaelwrites Actual geniuses would know the use and limits of raking, it's the folks with a medium level in any skill I find to be the most insufferable to compensate for lack of confidence.

A rake isn't cheating if it works, it just means that the lock doesn't have security pins. You'll see Lockpicking Lawyer rake a cheap lock to demonstrate its lack of security pins. I often rake before single-pin picking.

Obviously to pick locks with security pins you want to master single-pin picking too.

@yaelwrites @th A letter sealed with your signet is the only way to know it's authentic and not tampered with!

@yarmo It's pretty great!

Whiskey and #weaving: it's a winning combination.

Last night I discovered I misinterpreted the pattern for a tartan I'm #weaving because it wasn't clear how the pattern repeats. There are 4 additional blue threads including in the warp. The end result will be fine, I doubt anyone will notice, but I'll always know it's wrong.

I put a piece of masking tape on my loom and wrote down the Forbes Tartan thread count so I could keep track. This project will require three complete passes.

@amerika Thank you! It's slow going but I'm really enjoying it all the same.

Whoever associated plaid with "ludicrous speed" wasn't a weaver.

Ownership isn't about possession, it's about control. When hackers "own" a computer, they don't physically have it, instead they compromised it so thoroughly that they have full remote control. If you physically have a computer, but someone else has control, they own it.

@jameshjacksonjr @purism Until we do, if I had to buy a car today, it would probably be a used one from before this kind of tracking was built in.

Warp status: weave gone to plaid. #weaving

Omicron? Isn't that the a mobile-friendly fork of anacron that also wakes up the phone for scheduled cron jobs when suspended?

Fringe group. #weaving

@aral I wrote a couple of Linux Journal articles back in the day about wmctrl that you might find useful:

https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-automate-your-desktop-wmctrl

https://www.linuxjournal.com/magazine/hack-and-lightning-hacks