Daniel @daniel@campduffel.social

@atyh I think you hit the nail on the head. People able to write good software are a very small percentage of the population. It would be pretty trivial to hunt most of them down and deduce who wrote what, even if it's by shadow profiles. Thankfully there are pretty massive collections already written. My gut tells me that they got to Linus a few years ago, but I'm afraid that we may already be undermined on the hardware side. What are your thoughts on prep? Everyone fend for themselves?

@atyh My friends, who are missionaries, had a very vibrant church community in Russia, but they recently had to relocate to Kazakhstan. Things must have been really bad for them to do that.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever was pretty good!

“He will judge between the nations,
and will decide concerning many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares,
and their spears into pruning hooks.
Nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.”
-Isaiah 2:4

@parker @p @atyh It really does depend on what kind of users you have. Are you friends already, how active are they, how much uploading do they do? My VPS+domain costs around $300 annually. I use the VPS for other things too, but that's only about $1/month for a couple dozen people and that is a pretty fair price to me for not having ads or being the product.

These folks made several great documentaries together that just got better and better. I think about them often and they should be added to school curricula IMHO.

Tales from the Green Valley
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0478958/
Tudor Monastery Farm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4103600/
Victorian Farm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1372211/
Edwardian Farm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1821820/
Wartime Farm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2470814/

I'm not a big fan of multi-factor-authentication because it is a tool being used for the de-anonymization of the internet. I don't know of any way to push back and I can't even find a list of companies that require a mobile number.

“Democracy requires Privacy as much as Freedom of Expression.”
-Anonymous

Tomb encryption looks a bit interesting. Nothing really new under the hood, but I appreciate the attempt at streamlining and polishing. I always need a cheat sheet to remember the LUKS dance.
https://www.dyne.org/software/tomb/
Linux only though.

While I was walking around in the woods this past week I thought about how peaceful and old everything seemed. The thing is, the trees and the landscape were not that old. I don't think I saw a tree over 150 and most were less than 100. The canopy was 80-100' in most places. The trees used to be old and huge averaging 5' diameters. Food literally used to fall from the sky because 25% of them were chestnut. Then, in a generation or so, they were gone and few even know if their existence.

@atyh @purism In the same boat. I know everyone is dealing with component procurement, but that can’t be the whole picture. Getting emails about some investment scheme lately, which screams that they ran out of money. What they undertook was very hard and I’m not really angry about it. Being proactive and transparent about everything would have been the best policy.

Something like a monthly deadman switch would be a nice feature. If a timer isn't reset, send out info to the right people.

OK, I don't use a password manager, but I'm starting to feel the need for one. If I died or had a head injury, my wife would just be hosed trying to access everything. I would probably be in the same boat if something happened to her. It would be nice to have a working solution for me, her, and my aging parents as well. They rely on their phones to do so much of everything and I'm not sure I can break them of it. Any ideas are welcome, but I keep leaning toward just writing them in a notebook.

@futzle I'm guessing you haven't seen the Brick Testament.
https://thebricktestament.com/the_law/brawling/dt25_12.html

@kelbot
Eddie the Eagle(2016)
Hunt for the Wilderpeople(2016)
The Englishman who Went up a Hill but Came down a Mountain(1995)
About Time(2013)

These are a few we've seen lately.

Our visit to NC for my brother’s wedding has been great despite hurricane Ian!

I miss and love being back home in the woods. This yellow poplar is over 150’ tall and about 29” in diameter.