Fabian @fabian@floss.social

Quarterly reminder: unsubscribe from all the things!

This year's #Rust survey is out, everyone participate! :)

#rustlang

https://blog.rust-lang.org/2019/12/03/survey-launch.html

Oof. If you were using any of the two #Python libraries mentioned in this article, you might want to regenerate your #SSH and #GPG keys and review your projects. #typosquatting #malware #security #pypi

https://www.zdnet.com/article/two-malicious-python-libraries-removed-from-pypi/

Uhhh, DragonPy will be a #Python conference in Ljubljana next year! https://dragonpy.com/

Hey all, I'm writing a post about the best open-source alternatives to Google's Android apps. I already have a lot of the big ones (Firefox, ProtonMail, K-9 Mail, Signal, etc.), any more suggestions?

#android #oss

searx: Dem Blocking von Startpage und Co. entgehen

https://www.kuketz-blog.de/searx-dem-blocking-von-startpage-und-co-entgehen/

Does anyone know a tif/tiff viewer for Windows 7 & 10 with which you can scroll through a multipage tif/tiff document with a mouse similar to scrolling through a pdf in Adobe Reader?

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

#AskFediverse #FollowerPower

State of JavaScript survey is up:

https://survey.stateofjs.com

I filled it out even though I don't consider myself a JavaScript developer. I was going to ignore it but a friend said he'd filled it out because he too doesn't consider himself a JavaScript developer. Maybe that's what's needed in developer surveys.

#javascript #developer #survey

After a short search I could not find an #activitypub app for Q&A such as Stackoverflow. I guess that it needs a completely new approach and cannot just mimick Stackoverflow. Is anyone working on this? I don't feel good to use a central service when I need an answer. #fediverse

Damn, Feedly have just jacked up their prices and reduced what they offer on their current 'Pro' tier.

Honestly, I thought £60ish a year was a lot for a RSS reader, but to get the same features I'm looking at £75ish now.

I also don't like the way they tried to slip it under the radar without telling me.

Does anyone know about any other good (non-self-hosted) RSS cloud services?

Is there a PeerTube instance focussed on video- and/or boardgaming? Thinking about saving some of my Twitch "highlights" for the future.

RT @stefansell@twitter.com

Der Staat hungert Schulen aus, Firmen springen ein. Dadurch kommen Lehrmittel voller Ideologie ins Klassenzimmer: https://www.freitag.de/autoren/der-freitag/werbung-statt-bildung

➔ Tim Engartner (2019): Wie DAX-Unternehmen Schule machen Lehr- und Lernmaterial als Türöffner für Lobbyismus: https://www.otto-brenner-stiftung.de/fileadmin/user_data/stiftung/02_Wissenschaftsportal/03_Publikationen/AH100_Lobbyismus_Schule.pdf

Just found this opensource.com article about Greenpeace becoming an 'open source' organisation. Quite ironic, since a few months ago I met one of their principal IT managers, who openly mocked our efforts to use #foss and #opensource IT in-house. Greenpeace relies 100% on Google's Gsuite. Any comparison with fair trade coffee was met with a "yeah but this is easier, we just don't care about Google's dubious side."

https://opensource.com/open-organization/19/10/open-platform-greenpeace