Michel Salim @michel_slm@floss.social

Hear hear, #GNU #Guix is 8 years old *and* version 1.2.0 is out today!

https://guix.gnu.org/en/blog/2020/gnu-guix-1.2.0-released/

Do not miss the release song and all the niceties!

Fancy, finally an alternative to Let's encrypt!

https://scotthelme.co.uk/introducing-another-free-ca-as-an-alternative-to-lets-encrypt/

It's always good to have alternatives around. ZeroSSL appears to be a European company that now provides free TLS certificates using the ACME protocol.

#TLS #SSL #CA #infosec #letsencrypt

Attempting to use GNU Guix: https://ruzkuku.com/txt/guix.html

The developers of Signal are currently doing a user survey:

https://surveys.signalusers.org/s3

I told them that I really like the app but also that I would like:
a) Signal on @fdroidorg
b) a proper desktop client
c) no data stored in "secure enclaves"

Maybe you'd like to tell them, too?

#freeyourandroid
#freesoftware
#android

Prolonged AWS outage has taken down a big chunk of the internet https://www.theverge.com/2020/11/25/21719396/amazon-web-services-aws-outage-down-internet

Guile running on Guix running on the Hurd running on a VM running on Guix running on my machine

You too could experience such joys https://guix.gnu.org/blog/2020/childhurds-and-substitutes/

Holy shit! 2+ hours of this outage is crazy!

ACM
Amplify Console
API Gateway
AppMesh
AppStream2
AppSync
Athena
AutoScaling
Batch
CloudFormation
CloudTrail
CloudWatch
Cognito
Connect
DynamoDB
EventBridge
IoT Services
Lambda
LEX
Managed Blockchain
Marketplace
Personalize
Resource Groups
SageMaker
Support Console
Well Architected
Workspaces

I would like to introduce you fine people to The 512KB Club. #512Club

https://512kb.club/

>GitHub will establish and donate $1M to a developer defense fund to help protect open source developers on GitHub from unwarranted DMCA Section 1201 takedown claims

Big shoutout to GitHub for committing to this.

"Standing up for developers: youtube-dl is back"
https://github.blog/2020-11-16-standing-up-for-developers-youtube-dl-is-back/

#GitHub

If github was standing up for developers, it would have told RIAA to eff off while coming up with a better policy framework to deal with bogus DMCA claims.

Instead, github cancelled a project with no notice, and it took thousands of pissed off developers to change github's mind.

Nothing would have been done in the absence of blowback. That is not in any sense "standing up for devs".

Suggestion- maybe move code to any other code hosting platform anyways.

Why spend less than a minute building a new image with debootstrap when you can clone one you've already built in less than a second?

packer-builder-nspawn-debootstrap is now packer-builder-nspawn v1.2.0:
https://git.sr.ht/~angdraug/packer-builder-nspawn

Now with clone and import options, still with debootstrap as fallback for when you want a clean start.

Letters to voters sent!

Encouraging eligible voters to exercise their democratic rights

https://votefwd.org/

#TheBigSend

"Don't get me wrong here: It's not a question of affording it. I can comfortably afford newer hardware. I just don't have any interest in it unless I have a need for it, and "Google can't write Javascript" doesn't qualify as a real need. I should not need modern hardware to type text - and, hey, halfway modern hardware chokes out anyway."

The End of the Blog: Google's New Bloggr Interface Is Broken: https://syonyk.blogspot.com/2020/10/end-of-blog-new-blogger-interface-is.html

It turns out that the reason free, open source messengers suck on iOS is that #Apple force-closes background applications unless you pay them for the privilege - which is why proprietary applications like WhatsApp, Discord and Facebook Messenger work just fine.

This means small and free actors are banned from participating.

I just tagged v1.0.0 of nspawn-debootstrap builder plugin for Packer: https://git.sr.ht/~angdraug/packer-builder-nspawn-debootstrap

It will build you an nspawn ready chroot that you can pack up or clone. It provides a communicator interface for Packer's standard provisioners such as shell and chef.

Watch this space for the things I'm going to do with it.