Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social
Casually and non-expertedly interested in open source, books, security, Rust, Linux (Kubuntu, atm), and Neovim. Work at CNN. Secure contact: https://gist.github.com/sts10/4a4e01021b3a5ad42e9b73e0abd7b7e3
Joined Apr 2017
Stork: an impossibly fast web search made for static sites, written in Rust, compiled to WebAssembly
h/t WasmWeekly https://twitter.com/WasmWeekly/status/1245060543049650176
Houseparty has offered up a $1 million bounty following an explosion of online rumors that downloading the app led to people's accounts on other services such as Netflix and Spotify being hacked.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/03/31/tech/houseparty-coronavirus-lockdown-scli-intl/index.html
> But when reached for comment about whether video meetings are actually end-to-end encrypted, a Zoom spokesperson wrote, “Currently, it is not possible to enable E2E encryption for Zoom video meetings..."
https://theintercept.com/2020/03/31/zoom-meeting-encryption/
omg and we have new Waxahatchee! https://open.spotify.com/track/2mGEnJq6bBQnYxLyG9UV4U
The New York Times is sharing a bunch of their Covid-19 data publicly:
> With no detailed government database on where the thousands of coronavirus cases have been reported, a team of New York Times journalists is attempting to track every case.
Article: https://www.nytimes.com/article/coronavirus-county-data-us.html
Github repo: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data
(License: https://github.com/nytimes/covid-19-data/blob/master/LICENSE)
Feel like my purpose in browsing the Internet these days is to find links to send to each of my people being like “this made me think of you how are you doing?”
legit the happiest news I've heard this week:
Portrait of a Lady on Fire is coming to Hulu tomorrow, March 27
"Designing an end to a deadly American obsession: The Lawn"
> Lawns have proliferated since the rise of the suburbs in the mid-20th century. But their maintenance produces greenhouses gases and they are biodiversity deserts. Shifting attitudes to lawn care offers a giant eco opportunity. The question is, how?
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/lawns-american-yard-us/index.html
I'm with one brother and have another brother in a different state. We have a Nintendo Switch at each location. What games should we look into if we want to all play at once?
today I'm listening to the new Nine Inch Nails album that came out today, for free
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dp58R7BEhrw&list=PLVhjwEM59tQSYKweLE6CxMXtYpkJ7mI7d&index=1
TIL about "Firefox Better Web," a partnership between "Scroll and Mozilla’s Firefox to bring ad-free news to a wider audience"
"Earlier this week, the US Department of Transportation said truck stops now qualify as an essential business, meaning they are viewed as too vital to shut down."
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/21/cars/truck-stops-coronavirus/index.html
"The small digital network making free food deliveries to vulnerable neighbors in New York"
> A recent map of the group’s members showed someone on nearly every block within the neighborhood’s limits. “It’s not about charity, it’s about solidarity,” [one member] said
https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/24/us/coronavirus-delivery-help-brooklyn-intl/index.html
what are y'all using for group video chats? especially interested in regard to privacy concerns
gah I am SO EXCITED for this book to come out tomorrow:
"This Is Chance!: The Shaking of an All-American City, A Voice That Held It Together"
"These images are haunted and haunting, like stills from movies about plagues and the apocalypse, but in some ways they are hopeful.
"They also remind us that beauty requires human interaction… Beauty entails something else. It is something we bestow.
"It will be the moment we return."
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/03/23/world/coronavirus-great-empty.html
Is there ever going to be anything as cool as ‘Into the Spiderverse’ again?
cool birdsite thread of design work the author done for Mozilla/Firefox
does anyone use display scaling on a hiDPI monitor in KDE?
It's working ok for me, BUT when I tile windows they don't cover the top third of the screen. It's like the window tiler doesn't understand the scaling
Casually and non-expertedly interested in open source, books, security, Rust, Linux (Kubuntu, atm), and Neovim. Work at CNN. Secure contact: https://gist.github.com/sts10/4a4e01021b3a5ad42e9b73e0abd7b7e3
Joined Apr 2017
