Ryan Daniels @ryandaniels@linuxrocks.online

On Flatpak disk usage and deduplication: https://blogs.gnome.org/wjjt/2021/11/24/on-flatpak-disk-usage-and-deduplication/

#flatpak #gnome

When I was young we had to roll a physical ball inside our mouses around the desktop uphill both ways

i downloaded all 10.000 of those ugly lazy lions nfts and turned them into a mosaic of a person right-clicking

Seriously, the Chrome team just landed a patch that lets sites block "View Source" _right in the middle_ of the Chrome Dev Summit.

https://chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/src/+/3260807

https://developer.chrome.com/devsummit/

Dead serious #infosec career tip: learn to read NIST security publications. They're very clearly written and authoritative. "Can we use RSA-1028 here?" "Not according to NIS 800-57 Part 1." Like, that's an argument ender.

For another example: "How often do you rotate your passwords?" "Never unless compromised." "LOL, why?" "NIST 800-63B section 5.1.1.2 says not to." Go ahead, explain why NIST is wrong.

take a moment to reflect, as this is the summit

For any of y’all that have been having issues with youtube-dl being throttled to ridiculous levels, it seems that google is on it’s BS again, and that youtube-dl isn’t maintained anymore [0].

That said you can instead use the yt-dlp fork that fixes this issue and probably more [1]

Also, if you’ve been using mpv to watch youtube, you can tell it to use yt-dlp by adding this line to .config/mpv/mpv.conf : script-opts-append=ytdl_hook-ytdl_path=yt-dlp [2]

[0] https://github.com/ytdl-org/youtube-dl/issues/30075 [1] https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp [2] https://hund.tty1.se/2021/10/12/how-to-use-yt-dlp-instead-of-yt-dl-with-mpv.html

I keep coming back to this infographic comparing instant messaging platforms, so I thought I would share.

If you're in need of a quick VM (linux, windows or macos) this quickemu script is pretty cool https://github.com/wimpysworld/quickemu

god I love The Register's headline writers https://www.theregister.com/2021/10/23/software_freedom_conservancy_mastodon/

Yes. This.

#IsolateTrump

If you configure #Firefox to resist fingerprinting, you won't be able to get past #Cloudflare's browser check; it will just go into an eternal loop.
https://github.com/arkenfox/user.js/issues/1253

cc: @djsundog @thegibson

PSA: don’t use Ghost. They take your data hostage and then the CEO sends you emails lecturing you about how it’s terrible of you to be upset about that.

@TheGibson Earlier today I figured out how to mitigate that stuff on a large scale without having to touch the UI...

https://mastodon.sdf.org/@paradroyd/107067173901265381