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“More people than ever say they’re feeling pressured to look and be the best. It’s taking a toll.”
“Exposed private cert key may also be an issue for IBM Aspera”
“San Francisco – The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today released Certbot 1.0: a free, open source software tool to help websites encrypt their traffic and keep their sites secure.Certbot was first released in 2015, and since then it has helped more than two million website administrators…”
” If you are a hobbyist with the ability to store and display your minis in a dedicated space, chances are you may have an IKEA Detolf glass…”
I have some laser-cut acrylic stand inserts for my Detolf, which due to their design, reduce the amount of space available on the original shelves quite a bit. These extra shelves and brackets look like a much better solution, so I might need to hunt some down.
(I also need to get a second Detolf, but that’s another story…)
“Alexander Samuel reflects on tagging and its origins as a backbone to the social web. Along with RSS, tags allowed users to connect and collate content using such tools as feed readers. This all changed with the advent of social media and the algorithmically curated news feed. Samuel wonders if we h…”
I remember the rise of tagging “folksonomies” and the rush to add them to blogging software at the time (2005ish, per the original article). Because of how they were implemented there was always a tension between organising content through categories vs tags, which meant some blogs didn’t use them, while others went “all in.”
For myself, I’ve found myself drifting away from using either. I used to categorise posts into a particular theme, and then tag with more fine-grained keywords. Back when your “content” and “niche” “mattered”. Now I almost never bother explicitly setting either; I blog for myself, so I don’t feel I necessarily need to define everything into a taxonomy that helps other people make sense of things. Maybe I should put more effort into this, for the day my memory starts failing me?
“I just realized that instead of storing my GPG keyring to disk, I could be just using my Yubikey for that! I followed the (very clear!) steps over at https://github.com/drduh/YubiKey-Guide and got my key up and running in moments (I skipped a few steps that weren’t in my threat model).
I might go back and even consider hardening the keys I have set up.”
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“I love music. I need it in my life and for a number of decades, there was more music in my life than there was not. When I was 13 I used to have a paper round that paid £11 on the Saturday morning. I would head to town that afternoon and buy a new album from the store and immediately listen to it o…”
“This past weekend, just before everything slowed down for Thanksgiving, I got a chance to reflect on my photographic journey. While it is easy to quantify the technological and social success of a …”
“I’m always happy for a friend when they start a job at Apple — but I’m also sad when it means they have to stop their community activities: no more podcasting and blogging, developer meetup organizing, presenting at conferences, writing side-project apps, contributing to open source things.”
” I was on campus at UCI today to sign the paperwork to confirm that I’ll be teaching my Game Design class again next year. It also …”
“So…the end of Praetorian of Dorn is something of a controversy. And because I feel like indulging in a fluff discussion, I figured I’d post something that I’ve been mulling over e…”
“An entire day dedicated to Warhammer 40,000? At Warhammer World, the official home of the hobby?! Sounds like an awesome …”
That Archeopter flying machine for the Mechanicus is the most Laputa-looking thing, and I love it.
“From turkey tips to transgiving, the internet is helping queer and trans people survive the holidays.”
“There’s even support for the ZFS filesystem (though it’s “EXPERIMENTAL”).”
I’ve been thinking about switching up my Linux distro for a few weeks, so I might try this. Manjaro’s been good to me, but my setup is starting to feel a little too hacked together and rickety for my liking…