K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

Hey @freemo, in light of the stay-at-home orders impacting so many people, do you think it would be practical to host a Jitsi instance?

@realcaseyrollins

In principle, that makes sense, but it doesn't come off that well in practice. Tell me I'm wrong (or to be diplomatic, say my *argument* is wrong) and I have to defend my position, but tell me you disagree and I'm not going to bother. I have no desire to spend any effort convincing a guy who's going to ignore what I say because "it's okay to disagree". Pointing out what I said that was wrong, on the other hand, is a strong signal that you were paying close attention to what I was saying, and I'll extend you the same courtesy.

(I guess you could do both and say, "I disagree because you were wrong," but that would seem to defeat your purpose).

@realcaseyrollins you could probably implement this as a mastodon client bot without messing with the server code itself.

Have it monitor the local timeline and pipe it to spamassassin. If a message scores too high (i.e. likely unwanted content), the bot can fire off a report. If you gave it mod privs, it could also silence the user or post pending a human mod looking at it.

@sptnkmmnt

Many Linux environments allow you to enter Unicode codepoints. On my machine, I:
1) key Control-Shift-U and release
2) type the hex for the character
3) press enter or space

The hex for Ω is 3A9. If your system works the same, you should see after each step:
1) u̲
2) u̲3̲a̲9̲
3) Ω

@realcaseyrollins not all the google stuff is at the app level where a user can enable it. So you could disable, say, the google drive app if you wished, but the underlying libraries of code would still exist on the system. If malware compromises your phone, it might be able to execute that code to get into your account and delete everything/encrypt everything and extort you/save illegal content and call the FBI.

@realcaseyrollins

So it has a couple security advantages. It has a feature called PrivacyGuard (Permissions Hub in 17.1) which helps with those apps that request full permissions and the kitchen sink by allowing you to run them without granting everything they want. Sometimes school or work requires you to install something that wants full disk and network access for no good reason, and it's nice to have measures to prevent it from just sending a copy of all your stuff to the app's author.

Second, it doesn't come with all the google stuff baked in, which reduces the attack surface considerably. You install only what you want, which means that the other apps aren't even running on your phone and so they can't be compromised, even if an exploit is discovered.

Incidentally, I don't recommend haring off into more obscure ROMs, especially at the outset. Aside from thoroughly-reviewed, secure code, you'll benefit from a much larger community to go to if you have trouble - you lose all ability to contact the manufacturer for support, and this helps fill that gap.

@realcaseyrollins very much yes :)

@realcaseyrollins As far as I can tell, they do no written work anymore, only audio and video shows. Which is a shame because I would ordinarily try to read their take, not least to see the differences in approach from centrist coverage of the same stories.

@fearnow I used avalon.fun with friends and found it an accurate recreation of the board game.

@ujcmtgs4n4jqza @obi

Looks like it was due to shifting to weekly rather than nightly builds, combined with dropping one due to their signing problem. I just found it a little disconcerting going from a new release every night to nothing for thirteen days in a row.

Now all that's left is to wait for my device to get promoted to 17.1.

@realcaseyrollins

Also worth knowing - how to use v4l2loopback, snd_aloop and mplayer to fake any video file as your hardware audio and video inputs.

@zleap @design_RG

I think it's moot given the current state of the race (the odds of him being elected president are almost negligible), but in principle, if the states of emergency Trump has declared related to the current pandemic are still in effect, he will have extra powers beyond what the president normally does, particularly relating to healthcare. He could probably get some done via executive order, but considerably less than if he had support from the other branches of government.

@realcaseyrollins

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/api/rate-limits/

@freemo I own a Printrbot Simple (the original, laser-cut wood version) which has been something of a disappointment. The calibration cubes print great but real-world shapes tend to leave the print head at a slightly different "zero" every time it goes up a level, which manifests as skewing the z-axis. The controller board also has a tendency to fail; in fairness to the manufacturer, they know this and offer a very good deal on a new board if you send in your old one.

@design_RG I think you've got a C-119 Flying Boxcar there

@freemo

Huh, I mostly hear it from conservatives/right-libertarians (Eric S. Raymond uses the description frequently). I'm surprised it's not a term you more frequently encounter, since that's also where you were on the compasses you did a while back.

@realcaseyrollins

@freemo I notice that many of the ads I've seen this week are posted by accounts with the bot flag set. Since it's already in the server rules that bots may not post to the public timeline, can the server be configured to automatically detect and report such posts and mute them pending your review?

If it's a spambot you can suspend the account, if a legitimate bot you can warn the owner to post unlisted, and if a real user you can let him know he needs to unset the bot flag on his account.

@freemo Glad to chip in. We're not paying anyone to be the maid here, so we have to take responsibility for keeping the space tidy ourselves.

@hrisskar I use Pale Moon for my main and plain Chromium (not Chrome) as a backup. They may not be built like Fort Knox but to my knowledge haven't ever allowed malware onto my system.

Does anyone know why there are no new #LineageOS downloads in the past four or five days? The website shows a history of nightly builds that cuts off after 24 March or 25 March.

It seems the 17.1 builds suffered from a signing problem this week, but it's not clear what happened to the 16.0 builds. Are they affected by the same bug? Discontinued as development shifts to the newest version? Paused due to the virus-fighting measures imposed around the world?