Sam Schlinkert @schlink@octodon.social

Happy 2019!!

If you're cozied up with your laptop today, maybe take a read through my new "Digital Security Guide for Friends and Loved Ones"

https://write.as/sts10/digital-security-guide-for-friends-and-loved-ones

Random reminder to use a password manager if you aren't already! It'll help you stay safe online by using long, unique passwords for each service you use.

While LastPass or 1Password are great choices, I prefer KeePassXC

Official site: https://keepassxc.org/

Official quick-start guide: https://keepassxc.org/quickstart/

My getting-started guide: https://sts10.github.io/2017/06/27/keepassxc-setup-guide.html

What's your favorite Ursula K. Le Guin book?!?!

Apple's "product launch pageant has become a parody. Time to call it quits." write Charlie Warzel for NYTimes Opinion:

"The entire event is at odds with our current moment — one in which inequality, economic precarity and populist frustration have infiltrated our politics and reshaped our relationships with once-adored tech companies… Serving journalists pastries topped with gold leaf doesn’t do much to help either."

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/09/11/opinion/apple-keynote-2019.html

on my iPhone, I have a single alarm set for a specific time to go off every weekday. It works great, EXCEPT when on day 1 I wake up a bit before my alarm and want to get in the shower. I figure the alarm will go off during the shower, so I disable the alarm. Then, the next morning (day 2) I accidentally sleep in cuz I forget to turn the alarm back on.

Is there a solution to this I don't know about? Setting an individual alarm for each weekday isn't ideal

"In an attempt to dispel the idea that if you have to google stuff you’re not a proper engineer, this is a list of nearly everything I googled in a week at work, where I’m a software engineer with several years’ experience."

https://localghost.dev/2019/09/everything-i-googled-in-a-week-as-a-professional-software-engineer/

"As well as its meandering narrative, a carrier bag story also contains no heroes. There are, instead, many different protagonists with equal importance to the plot. This is a very difficult way to tell a story, fictional or otherwise. While, in reality, most meaningful social change is the result of collective action, we aren’t very good at recounting such a diffusely distributed account"

https://theoutline.com/post/7886/ursula-le-guin-carrier-bag-theory

solved:
println!("Today is {}", todays_date.format("%B %-d, %Y"));

playground: https://play.rust-lang.org/?version=stable&mode=debug&edition=2018&gist=07af60521bb5597a5c1b1bff5a3e4565

shoutout to @CobaltVelvet and @codesections

OK, today's #Rust question:

let todays_date = Local::today();

println!("Today is {}", todays_date.format("%B %d, %Y");

gives "September 02, 2019".

But what if I want it without the leading zero ("September 2, 2019")?

At this point it’s just interesting how I can be so bad at something that’s not physical at all

"Today’s open source communities have the potential to serve as gateways to a more radical politics, one that pushes for the decommodification of not just information but also the material resources needed to sustain the production of information."

Really strong essay about the state of open-source/free software as a philosophy

https://logicmag.io/failure/freedom-isnt-free/

structopt 0.3 just came out

Changelog: https://github.com/TeXitoi/structopt/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md

h/t r/Rust https://www.reddit.com/r/rust/comments/cxgw86/announcing_structopt_03

missed this a few weeks back, but @elementary moved their blog from Medium to Jekyll/Github (yay!)

https://blog.elementary.io/welcome-to-the-new-blog/

can't thank the folks who helped enough. Think I caught some malware. I deleted strange files, including an .htaccess, and change my FTP and webhosting passwords. I probably need to re-work my whole system to make it more secure, but I seem to have fixed the short-term issue for now.

My personal site, http://samschlinkert.com/ , works when you visit it directly, but if you google my name and click it (2nd result) it redirects to an online pharmacy site.

what might be causing this, and what can I do to fix it?

TIL something cool about #Rust's Cargo tool:

"If you call cargo with -v, it will show you the corresponding rustc and test binary command lines. Copy those and you can issue them manually."

https://twitter.com/llogiq/status/1166072298664804353

Interesting piece on internet moderation

"Could Restorative Justice Fix the Internet? Perhaps. But it relies on people being capable of shame, so …" via NYTimes Opinion

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/20/opinion/internet-harassment-restorative-justice.html

Curious how admins/other feel about moderation on Mastodon/the Fediverse generally

haha ok her name is Loora Wang https://twitter.com/chocolicuado/status/1165476739671191552

oh, just found more videos of these super cool women

https://twitter.com/mvddm/status/1165790800413745153

anyway, try the new Taylor Swift album; it's nice

This video from a boat sailing through a field of floating pumice rock is pretty soothing!

https://youtu.be/PEsHLSFFQhQ?t=53

more info: "A giant raft of rock floating in the Pacific could help heal Australia's Great Barrier Reef" https://www.cnn.com/2019/08/25/asia/pumice-stone-underwater-volcano-great-barrier-reef-intl/index.html

one time I was at a wedding with bunch of college of bros and the DJ pulled my buddy aside and was like, "So what's the deal with all your bros requesting Taylor Swift?" and he was just like "We just like Taylor Swift, man."