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How Trigger Warnings Are Hurting Mental Health on Campus - The Atlantic
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/09/the-coddling-of-the-american-mind/399356/

What I find interesting is that this article was written nearly four years ago, and the very behaviors talked about (content warnings, #TriggerWarning, etc) are prevalent all over #Mastodon

#ArchLinux package manager "pacman" flaw could allow remote attacker to execute arbitrary code as root.
"Notably, this bypasses pacman's package signature checking."
https://security.archlinux.org/ASA-201903-7

sway 1.0-rc3 released:

https://github.com/swaywm/sway/releases/tag/1.0-rc3

And come check out our /r/linux AMA!

https://redd.it/as1dd0

It isn't just software making things sluggish of course:

https://danluu.com/keyboard-latency/

I wouldn't have thought 30+ ms of latency would be common, at least not with keyboards meant for hackers and gamers. That may not seem too bad by itself but you have to remember that there's also going to be display lag added on at the other end.

Wrote a thing about passwords.
https://medium.com/@tobylh/passwords-schmasswords-3723a520f398
#privacy #security #infosec

Rust doesn't have a specification
Therefore all Rust code is undefined behavior
Therefore Rust has more undefined behavior than C
Therefore Rust < C
Checkmate athiests

WUT 😂

"Internal documents show that the social network gave Microsoft, Amazon, Spotify and others far greater access to people’s data than it has disclosed."
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/18/technology/facebook-privacy.html

#Privacy #Facebook

Simple text is the most accessible way to "encode" a message. It's small, searchable and easily readable at different speeds. The next time you do a video tutorial or review, consider writing a blog post instead.
Thank you

Grouping and sorting regular and symlinked folders before files with ls in zsh – https://hund0b1.gitlab.io/2018/10/13/grouping-and-sorting-regular-and-symlinked-folders-before-files-with-ls-in-zsh.html #Linux #zsh