Charles Stanhope @cstanhope@social.coop

Today Zoom reached a settlement with the FTC to close its security holes and protect its users better.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/press-releases/2020/11/ftc-requires-zoom-enhance-its-security-practices-part-settlement

Do we trust our intimate conversations with doctors, colleagues, friends and family to this company?

Wouldn't it be good to join an online meeting platform that you can trust? That is owned by users and workers? That is not analysing user behaviour?

Did you check out #meetcoop? Online meetings with privacy first.

Become a member today! http://meet.coop

Who'd have thought that one of the most effective ways to make voting more representative is simply to remove the rule "you must only vote for one candidate"

https://electionscience.org/library/approval-voting-versus-irv/

So it's been a while coming but I'm finally losing my housing, soon. (Folk who've followed me for a while are familiar with my unusual work/housing situation, but it's... well, unusual.)

Looking for a new place for me, my partner, and our cat. Lots of mechanisms for securing housing aren't available for us, so if anyone knows of a person around the Triangle, in North Carolina, that'll work with us, please let me know.

(Boosts welcomed.)

My tiny audio microblog code is available via git: https://git.chrisbeckstrom.com/chris/noisecloud

Although I made this to "scratch my own itch," I want to share it with the community. So much of what I use every day was created and shared by regular people, and I want to give back. My code may not be pretty but it works. I'm totally open to suggestions/pull requests.

Thank you all for the encouragement!

@Midder @liaizon @django @ConnerHabib @bekopharm @wilbr

“the good news here is that it really is going to get better. Keeping your head down, wearing masks and keeping your distance is more valuable than ever, because there’s an actual finish line in sight that you have to reach. Hang on for the vaccine – for the vaccines – because they really are coming.”

—Derek Lowe

https://blogs.sciencemag.org/pipeline/archives/2020/11/09/vaccine-efficacy-data

Hello Fediverse 👋
I am Akshay (He/Him). I am from Pune, India and I live in Berlin, Germany. I like to talk about open source software, haskell, politics, food and a few more things I cannot remember right now.

I will mostly toot in English, sometimes in Hindi and Marathi, Italian on special occasions and I aspire to be able to toot in German someday.

I don't know what else to say so please enjoy this picture of me trying to imitate a Halloween cake.

#introduction

Since people liked the rsync tips, I decided to expand them into a post:
http://lpar.ath0.com/2020/11/farewell-to-scp/

The most minimalist creative coding environment is alive:

⟶ https://tixy.land

By https://aem1k.com/

✍️ #illustration #drawing #artwork #MastoArt #scifi

what a gift on this tense, uncertain day, to have this beautiful piece on Gillian Welch and David Rawlings by Hanif Abdurraqib.

“It’s like doing a dance in 40 pounds of chains.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/03/magazine/gillian-welch-david-rawlings.html

Massachusetts voters pass right-to-repair expansion opening up car data

https://www.engadget.com/motor-vehicle-data-question-1-081059455.html

Some good news from the US elections today :)

IndieWebCamp East is in cyberspace - join me? I'm registered. It's free, friendly, #decentralized, non-#SurveillanceCapitalism, slightly #geeky and fun. https://reb00ted.org/quick-notes/20201103-registered-for-indiewebcamp-east/

Introducing the kernel.org git transparency log https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/introducing-the-kernel-org-git-transparency-log

#m68k Compiler explorer: George Nakos runs an independent instance of Matt Godbolt's compiler explorer that features quite a few 680x0 cross compilers, and a few native ones. It is mostly Atari 16/32 focused.

http://brownbot.mooo.com

People can also share code snippets using the share button, for example https://tinyurl.com/y55g53qc