Johan Vandegriff 
@johanv@fosstodon.org
Tinkering is Johan’s main token
From this there’s a proverb he’s spoken
For in work or playing
He lives by the saying
If you can’t fix it, it ain’t broken.
Joined Oct 2017
I attended Bitcamp, a hackathon at my school, this past weekend. My team made a trash can that insults you when you put recycling in, and we won "Most Entertaining Hack!" If you have time, please like our project on devpost so we can win the people's choice award. Or just check out the description because it's indubitably humorous: https://devpost.com/software/obnoxious-scheme-to-convince-all-to-recycle
I gave the presentation on digital rights to the Christian fellowship tonight and people said they learned a lot. Some of my friends gave other presentations about mass incarceration, human trafficing, and gentrification, and I learned a lot about those as well. This world is deeply unjust, and whatever your passion is, you will find brokenness in that area. I'll upload a video later, but here are the slides for now: https://drive.confuzer.cloud/index.php/s/yGBSiDRge9zQe5g
So far I have:
racial and sexist bias in digital profiling companies (ad targeting, background checks)
cost for a smartphone (and conversely poor people being judged for owning one)
ethical options are harder to find
I'm writing a 5 minute presentation on "Digital Rights for the Marginalized" for my Christian fellowship's series on God's desire for justice. Any recommendations for topics I should mention?
#100daysofcode Day 29: I messed up an apt-mirror by having it sync to the wrong folder and it filled up the disk. Fun fact: when a disk is 100% full, you cannot start apache, tmux, etc.
#100daysofcode Day 28: I set up a mirror of devdocs.io for the offline hackathon at http://confuzer.cloud:9292/ They provided docker build instructions which made it easy to set up: https://github.com/freeCodeCamp/devdocs
#100daysofcode Day 27: I set up centos and EPEL mirrors.
#100daysofcode Day 26: I set up a local Ubuntu, Debian, and Raspberery Pi mirror for an upcoming hackathon that the Linux Club is organizing where the internet will be disconnected halfway through. My friend also set up Arch and OpenBSD mirrors. The temporary location is http://confuzer.cloud:1234/
#100daysofcode Day 25: I've started the challenge again! Today I set up a wiki for the Linux Club and played this beginner hacking wargame that someone recommended:
http://overthewire.org/wargames/bandit/
I'm currently on level 23, but I found someone else's solution to level 30 in the /tmp directory...
Under new leadership, the patent office is trying to reinterpret a supreme court case in a way that would enable #patenttrolls to win lawsuits against small software companies and developers. This is a petition to keep the current interpretation of the case:
https://act.eff.org/action/save-alice-tell-the-patent-office-to-apply-supreme-court-law
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I continued my #Valentine's Day tradition of installing a new unfamiliar Linux distro. This time I installed #BedrockLinux underneath #VoidLinux. I really like Bedrock's ability to use the AUR in any distro! It all started on Valentine's Day 2016 when my Ubuntu system crapped out and I spent all night installing #Arch. #ilovefs
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#HelloWorld! The Swiss no-log VPN has officially joined the open source, federated social media network. As an organization focused on giving people greater control of their data, we wanted to join a social media network that respects this. We’ll be sharing toots about service updates, new VPN projects, and news on privacy.
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#HelloWorld! As active members of the open-source community, ProtonMail supports open source projects like Mastodon. Mastodon’s decentralized nature reminds us of the days when the Internet was free and not under the control of a few monopolist giants. Our followers can look forward to toots about service updates, new projects, and news on privacy.
I set up a last minute booth for the Linux Club (I'm the new club president) at my school made from a cardboard box. We started with 36 people in the club and ended the day with over 100! Right now we're using groupme for our communication, and it's not ideal for so many people. I'm thinking of trying #mattermost, #rocketchat or #matrix. Which one should I choose? Any other suggestions?
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Do you like sci-fi? Do you write your own stories for fun or profit? Why not join us in a low pressure semi-collaborative journey among the stars:
Cosmic Voyage is a public access unix system focused on storytelling. Practice some command line skills while you write and get motivated from your peers.
Visit us on irc.tilde.chat in the #cosmic room as well.
#100daysofcode Day 24: I put together a fun list of terminal tricks: http://confuzer.cloud:8000/
Also since school is started I've been slacking on this challenge...
#100daysofcode Day 23: I wrote a script to show info about a system and I set it to run in my .bashrc when I log into my school's servers for a class. https://johan.vandegriff.net/glance
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our Founder and CEO Todd Weaver: "Given the growing importance of Purism’s mission amid the barrage of news about how large tech companies are surveilling and exposing their users, it seemed like an opportune time to share our origin story..." #ThrowbackThursday https://puri.sm/posts/purism-origin-story/
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git log --pretty=format:%cd --date=short | uniq -c # Print a count of the commits per day in a git repo.
#100daysofcode Day 22: I adapted the #zfs script to accomodate #Ubuntu 16.04 and also work with a single disk, then I could install it on another computer (along with #xrdp remote desktop) for a school research team (https://umd-aimar.com/).
Tinkering is Johan’s main token
From this there’s a proverb he’s spoken
For in work or playing
He lives by the saying
If you can’t fix it, it ain’t broken.
Joined Oct 2017
