Notices by Drew DeVault (sir@cmpwn.com@cmpwn.com)

A word of advice to all the new sysops out there:

Never

Ever

Under any circumstances

NEVER

Use a hardware RAID card.

ALWAYS do it in software.

Today Sourcehut celebrates the 1 year anniversary of it's public alpha beginning ? ? ?

https://sourcehut.org/blog/2019-11-15-sourcehut-1-year-alpha/

@johnfocker

AnkiDroid is indispensible. Helps you fill the little moments with studying. Start by learning to read hiragana and katakana, should only take a couple of weeks. Then learn a few hundred kanji, in RTK order, then start studying vocabulary instead of abstract kanji (or keep studying abstract kanji if it interests you, but start vocab too). Use Tae Kim's grammar guide to start getting a grip on the grammar. It may be helpful to use Anki to study vocab specifically for Tae Kim. Once you start feeling like you can hold basic conversations, get a 1:1 tutor on Italki and work on improving your conversational skills. Then seek out IRL native speakers and befriend them (tip: they'll want to practice english with you, too, my friends and I have been known to use an egg timer and switch languages every 5 minutes).

Break down your studies into each constituent part and adjust your approach as you go to cater to what's working for you and what's not. You should have a separate study plan for developing your kanji, vocab, grammar, reading, writing, and conversation skills.

Best of luck!

Another example:

Google Fuchsia's kernel is 199,570 lines of C, C++, and assembly, not including a suitable C/C++ toolchain (it uses GNU extensions, so we'll assume GCC is necessary - about a million lines of code). It supports two architectures, x86 and arm64. It takes about 22 minutes to build on server-grade hardware. It also doesn't work and is far from complete.

The entire self-hosting plan 9 system, including its compiler and entire userspace, desktop windowing system, text editors, POSIX compatibility layer, games, media players, and so on - is 268,001 lines of code. It supports seven architectures and takes less than 10 minutes to build the entire operating system on a raspberry pi.

@deltaidea @patrick how will adding a "nazis can't use this" clause to your software protect people's "physical safety?" Nazis are going to use your software even if you tell them not to. And if you think an anti-nazi clause is going to be defendable in court, I have some bad news for you. So if you fail to alienate nazis with an anti-nazi clause, and you succeed in alienating free software enthusiasts (because your software isn't), then what have you really accomplished other than a moral platitude?

Note I'm not extending this to the Tusky discussion, but specifically refuting your points about dropping/changing free software licenses because they don't exclude nazis

Let me just be more explicit: if your software cannot be used by nazis then your software is not free software.

This is not the correct place to fight hate speech. Block the instances. Report hate speech to the authorities. Settle it using the existing legal frameworks to do so, and if they are insufficient, then write to your lawmakers.

But if you support free software, it is not the place to address this issue, by definition.

http://bezdomni.net/talks/sans-js/

by @ihabunek

@JordiGH a VPN provider is a serious choice to make. You're going to be sending them ALL of your traffic and have to take their word for it that they won't log it or alter it. What if PIA runs on hard times and has to choose between selling your data and feeding their kids? What if they get served a secret sopeana? These are questions you HAVE to ask yourself when choosing a VPN provider. Having that decision make for you by Purism is highly questionable.

Plus, it shows favoritism to a specific commercial service provider, which I don't like. If they had shipped with built-in OpenVPN or Wireguard support with an option to select a VPN provider from a bunch of them, that'd be much much better.

Sway: Putting together an internationalization team

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3986

Call for volunteers

Look at this cool thing I made

https://qlock.drewdevault.com/

@dankwraith software which uses this license is not open source software

I recommend throwing this garbage in the trash instead

Holy shit, Facebook is paying teenagers to install a root certificate on their phones so they can snoop on all of their internet traffic

Not a joke, this is actually a thing which is happening right now

https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/29/facebook-project-atlas/

Rust is what C++ programmers made to replace C

Go is what C programmers made to replace C

sr.ht, the hacker's forge, now open for public alpha

https://drewdevault.com/2018/11/15/sr.ht-general-availability.html