Ingo @lasombra@fosstodon.org

Bye Terry Jones 😞 .
Always remember than phyton programming language takes its name from Monty Phyton.

When you run a few #VSCode instances

LibreOffice 6.4 is nearly here – and in the meantime, our documentation community has been updating the guides! For instance, the guide for the Math module is already available: https://blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2020/01/22/the-documentation-team-announces-the-math-guide-6-4/

#film
Monty Python star Terry Jones dies aged 77

Tributes are paid to the comedy great, who had been living with dementia.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-51209197

More:
https://www.uponarctic.com/2019/05/28/the-wall-of-gdpr/

When I'm refactoring some really old code:

Things which your project could use which immediately make me stop being interested in touching it at all:

- Google groups
- Bazaar
- LaunchPad
- SourceForge
- Slack

Don't use those things, thanks.

For fuck's sake stop using fucking Slack for your open source project, christ. Get it through your fucking skulls, Dudebros. This is some basic fucking shit.

I put together a blog on using OpenBSD to create a highly available firewall pair.

I'm still fairly new to OpenBSD in terms of experience, so I'm sure I've probably got something wrong, let me know if so!

https://stuarthowlette.me.uk/posts/openbsd-firewall-ha/

Amazon Echo’s privacy issues go way beyond voice recordings

https://theconversation.com/amazon-echos-privacy-issues-go-way-beyond-voice-recordings-130016

#SurveillanceCapitalism

If you want to support political activism for Free Software in Europe, please consider donating to the FSFE https://my.fsfe.org/donate @fsfe @fsfe

Mastodonhost.com using #CloudFlare. 🤔

Amsterdam right now. 🥶🥶

Apple: "Where can we find somewhere with low taxes for our European focused business?"

Ireland: "Here! We'd be happy to have you!"

Apple: "Okay thanks."

EU: "Wait a minute guys! You are not playing fair! Ireland, you have to tax Apple more, like a lot more!"

Ireland: "But… we don't want to."

EU: "You have to! It's not fair otherwise."

Apple: "What in tarnation have we stumbled into?"

TIL that MPEG LA (yes, the Moving Pictures Expert Group Licensing Association) licenses patents for Qi wireless charging. But Qi cannot even tell you if these patents are sufficient or if they cover wireless charging. Or if they’re offered under RAND https://www.wirelesspowerconsortium.com/knowledge-base/patents-and-trademarks/patents-licenses.html

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/graphs/contributors

https://github.com/swaywm/wlroots/graphs/contributors

It's been a huge team effort, all of these people deserve your thanks if you use #sway. I'm certainly grateful ❤️

If you actually want to make sure your Android Phone routes all dns queries to a local dns server (which might in my case route to a port opened by Tor Browser), you can add ips to you loopback device like so:

ip addr add 8.8.8.8 dev lo
ip addr add 8.4.4.8 dev lo
...

This way, at least the dns requests will not be leaked to google dns (or cloudflare's 1.1.1.1)

A happy ending to the Better Blocker saga

TL; DR: Apple have been in touch and offered us a way to migrate to our new not-for-profit without impacting the experience of existing Better Blocker (@better) customers.

https://ar.al/2020/01/20/a-happy-ending-to-the-better-blocker-saga/

I recently discovered MPV's many upscaling filters. Combining some of them with Anime4k allows flawless upscaling of 640p anime to 4k on my desktop and a CPU stress-test on my laptop. Config file at https://gitlab.com/Seirdy/dotfiles/blob/master/.config/mpv/mpv.conf #mpv