Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

Am I calculating the entropy of a word list, given its length, correctly here?

https://github.com/sts10/tidy/blob/master/src/lib.rs#L133-L137

wrote a new tool to help combining and cleaning up large word list text files!

https://github.com/sts10/tidy

#rust

I incorporated two word lists from SecureDrop into one of my projects today (https://github.com/sts10/rug).

Since SecureDrop is licensed under GNU AGPLv3 (https://github.com/freedomofpress/securedrop/blob/develop/LICENSE), I also should use that license for my project as well, right?

Troy Hunt says he's open-sourcing the "Have I Been Pwned" code base

https://www.troyhunt.com/im-open-sourcing-the-have-i-been-pwned-code-base/

lol

Two Gen Zers Listen To Phil Collins's 'In the Air Tonight' For The First Time And Get Their Minds Blown
https://digg.com/video/teens-listen-to-phil-collins-for-the-first-time

I re-worked rug, my random username generator

https://github.com/sts10/rug

just tested Dangerzone for the first time. It's a program by @micahflee that aims to "take potentially dangerous PDFs, office documents, or images and convert them to a safe PDF." Pretty easy to use!

https://dangerzone.rocks/

do y'all use something else to make PDFs etc. safe before opening?

"The Quest to Liberate $300,000 of Bitcoin From an Old Zip File"

"The story of a guy who wouldn't let a few quintillion possible decryption keys stand between him and his cryptocurrency."

https://www.wired.com/story/quest-to-liberate-bitcoin-from-old-zip-file/

"Kubuntu Linux 20.04 for a digital painting workstation: Reasons and Install guide."

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article783/kubuntu-linux-20-04-for-a-digital-painting-workstation-reasons-and-install-guide

omg

"Scientists rename human genes to stop Microsoft Excel from misreading them as dates"

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/6/21355674/human-genes-rename-microsoft-excel-misreading-dates

TIL about LibreWolf, "A fork of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom."

Advertised features:
- No experiments, adware, annoyances, or unnecessary distractions.
- Privacy-conscious search providers: DuckDuckGo, Startpage, Qwant and more.
- uBlock Origin is already included for your convenience.

https://librewolf-community.gitlab.io/

haven't tried it, but looks interesting

h/t @The_Observer6955

1Password is launching a "development preview" app for Linux. It's read-only so far, but interesting that the listened to users!

https://discussions.agilebits.com/discussion/114964/1password-for-linux-development-preview

https://support.1password.com/cs/getting-started-linux/

TIL about "Fawkes", "a tool that disguises photos with pixel-level changes that confuse facial recognition systems."

http://sandlab.cs.uchicago.edu/fawkes/

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/03/technology/fawkes-tool-protects-photos-from-facial-recognition.html

"Nearly 30 million Americans told the Census Bureau they didn't have enough to eat last week"

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/31/us/food-insecurity-30-million-census-survey/index.html

ok here's a fun one for you all.

You have to write a pretty simple, small program (as in, could be a CLI) that you, personally, will have to run once a year for decades. It does not have to remind you to run it -- it's a given you'll remember to run it. Also, it is _NOT_ a life or death situation... more like a yearly errand.

How do you write it? How do you store it? What language?

I remain excited to see what kind of keyboard System76 designs and produces!

https://blog.system76.com/post/625078388641710080/reimagining-the-keyboard