Simon @simon@fosstodon.org

I'm (re)joining the #fosstodon community! This will be my primary account, mainly tooting about mainly #linux #retro and #FOSS geekery

The GNU song https://youtu.be/OPgo6s1lBbw

On a related note. I was about to buy the Kindle version of this book and somehow noticed that the number of pages was different. Instead of the full version it's the first 2 chapters that were given away free. I reported to Amazon a month ago and they did nothing. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1449388396/

Amazon (not a 3rd party) sold an obvious fake of a no starch press book. https://twitter.com/billpollock/status/1183094406573748225

is it just me that gets this awful error window when starting #etcher?

YouTube has really become the worst nagware.😡😡😡 Even switching back and forth between apps shows this relentlessly..every time. I hate myself for forgetting to use newpipe.

In the future, to get one of the jobs the robots haven't taken, you will need to impress a #robot. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/09/27/ai-facial-recognition-used-first-time-job-interviews-uk-find

#Retro gaming is seeing a strong resurgence in our house lately. windjammers last night, followed by some bubble bobble.

Heads up if you want a current #minetest (clone of #minecraft) version: 'snap install minetest' will give you the current 5.0.1 version, much newer than the apt repos. And thanks to some support from @popey , the kids were able to play the tutorial game after copying it to ~/snap/minetest/current/games.

New #arch logo

Just throwing out some garbage. #windows

Sorry BBC, this is garbage. The words don't correlate with the discrepancies in the stats. And the methods of measuring this is totally flawed (30 min period of network activity, no consideration of local processing of snippets or bulk sends once a day) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-49585682

working on the spacing and kerning a bit..

very quick and dirty attempt at making a #font from my own handwriting with birdfont.

If you get tired of waiting a few minutes for sslabs.com to return a result, https://github.com/drwetter/testssl.sh is a lot quicker, and doesn't require opening ports to the outside world #infosec

Entertaining tour of a bunch of X windows tools and utilities. Think I've used about a third of these at some point on #linux and #solaris https://cyber.dabamos.de/unix/x11/

@kev @mike hey guys, i was thinking that fosstodon is nice and all, but sometimes it feels like i'm just following random strangers and wonder if anyone even sees my toots...perhaps we need a bit more community feel? Maybe a regular #fosstodonfriday hashtagged weekly thread that's started/ promoted by the admins/mods, with a weekly question to promote a bit more interaction in a visible way,: e.g.: what's your dream job, tell us something we don't know about you,etc. serious or jokey. Thoughts?

Vulnerability added to webmin by malicious actor, remained for over a year #infosec https://threatpost.com/backdoor-found-in-utility-for-linux/147581/