Evan 
@evanskaufman@fosstodon.org
Software developer, tech tinkerer, and chaotic good.
"Limited" on twitter.
Also, just to piss off the pronoun-phobic: he/him
Joined Aug 2018
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Medical company threatens to sue volunteers that 3D-printed valves for life-saving #coronavirus treatments
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I just want to make this perfectly clear: I will never use (known to be) backdoored crypto. I will not purchase "compliant" devices. If it comes down to it, I will stockpile grandfathered legacy devices.
Don't let the coronavirus hype distract you. They're pushing this shit through **right now**.
If you don't yet know about the government's latest attempt to legislate encryption backdoors, look here https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/earn-it-bill-governments-not-so-secret-plan-scan-every-message-online
Ever deeper down this rabbit hole I go...at least this one was a simple config fix: https://www.turek.dev/post/fix-wsl-file-permissions/
Biggest stumbling block so far is the ssh keypair alongside all the code (on my windows drive) that ansible refuses to use because it thinks everything is 0777 😂
Took the plunge and installed WSL on my Win10 rig.
So far, so good. Once I get vagrant, virtual box and ansible to play nicely, I can finally pick up some personal dev projects I let lapse. 🤞
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There's a whole class of weird US court cases against inanimate objects:
United States v. Approximately 64,695 Pounds of Shark Fins
United States v One Solid Gold Object In The Form Of A Rooster
I decided to see what a neural net would make of them.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/612669075940900864/court-cases-that-sound-like-the-weirdest-fights
Covid19, levity
Everyone's reckoning with this self isolation, meanwhile my hermit lifestyle is mostly unaffected.
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Exciting new #foss software #Dangerzone by @micahflee helps protect you against malicious email attachments and other files.
https://tech.firstlook.media/dangerzone-working-with-suspicious-documents-without-getting-hacked
#phishing #opensource #security
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Protecting Civil Liberties During a Public Health Crisis
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/03/protecting-civil-liberties-during-public-health-crisis
Covid19, price gouging
Alternate title: "Matt and Noah Colvin: assholes of newsworthy proportions "
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/14/technology/coronavirus-purell-wipes-amazon-sellers.html
The irony is I _love_ the nexus 6, but the battery and charging port wear out faster than the software, and end up very difficult and expensive to replace
My #Nexus6 is beginning to show its age, and now I'm stuck trying to find a relatively new Android phone that is actively supported for #lineageos.
It is...difficult and slow going so far
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Protect our Speech and Security Online: Reject the Graham-Blumenthal Bill
https://act.eff.org/action/protect-our-speech-and-security-online-reject-the-graham-blumenthal-bill
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covid-19 and capitalism in USia
So, state and local governments as well as some banks are starting to provide interest free loans for small/medium sized businesses affected by the pandemic.
If you find out that a business has received assistance but still hung their low-wage employees out to dry, get loud about that shit.
Suffer no such business to survive.
It is proven! I am evanskaufman on Keybase: https://keybase.io/evanskaufman/sigchain#8433af4c838d84c01b06054bd0d9989c1f4d4b2481f42c510a4779fb180d27740f
Capitalism is wild.
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Software developer, tech tinkerer, and chaotic good.
"Limited" on twitter.
Also, just to piss off the pronoun-phobic: he/him
Joined Aug 2018
