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jgoerzen

@jgoerzen@floss.social

Hacker, dad, pilot, amateur radio operator, activist, guy that is susceptible to new hobbies. Former president of Software in the Public Interest.

I live miles from the nearest paved road in #Kansas.

Interests: #rust #debian #linux #pilot #flying #hamradio #emacs #orgmode #kansas #floss #kansas #raspberrypi #programming #parenting #retrocomputing

SRE at Google. I do not speak for my employer; views expressed here are my own.

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jgoerzen, to email
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Anybody have recommendations for providers? I've been using @mailbox_org since 2019 but the service is going downhill. They are outright blocking mail from a number of legit senders, support now takes days to respond and when it does it's not particularly helpful).

I last reviewed mail providers in 2019 here https://changelog.complete.org/archives/9952-review-of-secure-privacy-respecting-email-services .

My criteria -- it must: let me bring my own domain, by privacy-respecting, have reasonable support, not require clients other than IMAP/SMTP.

futurebird, to random
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The way the supreme court is acting the chances of me living on the lamb in two years publishing illegal political 'zines on old ditto machines in people's basements is increasing far too quickly.

I like teaching math and having a mailing address and phone number.

:(

jgoerzen,
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@ND3JR @cpm @futurebird @shekinahcancook Feel free to ask me about any #NNCP questions! Speking of meshes, Meshtastic is LoRA-based and Yggdrasil Network is IPv6-based. I've written quite a bit about Yggdrasil; one of my earlier posts about it was https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10319-make-the-internet-yours-again-with-an-instant-mesh-network and is probably still a good intro.

dentangle, to random
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Multicast is, essentially, networking with consent.

Only traffic that we consent to receive will be sent to us, and we can revoke that consent at any time. Multicast is opt-in.

Conversely, unicast traffic is opt-out. We can only block unicast traffic with something like a packet filtering firewall.

I'm trying to explain what we mean by in the @librecast project in plain language. 🤔

jgoerzen,
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@dentangle @librecast I am very interested in this. Sadly I don't get IPv6 assigned at the moment. I doubt this is compatible with network, but it would be fantastic if somehow it would work there!

jgoerzen, to Facebook
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This is so ridiculous, but I am not making it up: my post about an illegal raid on the Marion County Record because, apparently, the same site wrote a story critical of due to.... of posts about climate change.

Screenshots and the full story on my blog here: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10657-facebook-is-censoring-stories-about-illegal-raid-in-marion-kansas

jgoerzen,
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@ploum I just discovered that yesterday! Wordpress enabled it for me and I can't figure out how to disable it. I don't even know where it goes. SIGH! I found a post that said I could go to Jetpack Settings, but I get permission denied there.

I'm ticked at Wordpress about this.

jgoerzen, to security
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I am getting tired of reading about the issue as if it is all about issues within . It is much bigger than that, and those takes conflate the problem with the solution.

So I wrote "The xz issue isn't about Open Source" here: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10642-the-xz-issue-isnt-about-open-source

jgoerzen, to random
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Does anyone have suggestions that can do signature verification of streaming data (as in a pipe)? The problem with in this case is that it will emit all the data out the pipe, only indicating with an exit code if the signature was good - at which point most of the data may have been processed. is slightly better, withholding the last 25MB until things are fully verified.

I suspect I need something that signs blocks of the input. Does it exist?

jgoerzen, to random
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OK, this was just too cool. 4 billion if statements. https://andreasjhkarlsson.github.io//jekyll/update/2023/12/27/4-billion-if-statements.html

jgoerzen, to random
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The case for #hope and #optimism, a thread.

Lately I've noticed an increase in very pessmistic posts here. The topics are varied: COVID, AI, capitalism. Sometimes valid points are included. But the hopeless tone is the opposite of what we need.

We know there is hope, that activism can and does make a difference. Give people hope and they will act. 1/

jgoerzen,
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Nearly a year ago, I referenced https://floss.social/@jgoerzen/110024518389577005 Morgan Housel in the context of the SVB bank failure. Do you remember all the doom-and-gloom at the time? My thread sought to dispel all that... and I was right.

A few Housel quotes that are relevant in other contexts: "Progress happens too slowly to notice, but setbacks happen too quickly to ignore." and "Say we'll have a big recession and newspapers will call you. Say we're headed for average growth and no one particularly cares." 2/

jgoerzen,
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Think about it. There is a lot of truth in there, and it extends beyond economics.

Let's take an example: long . My feed on Mastodon has been full of alarm on there. Here is a data-backed, balanced, report: https://yourlocalepidemiologist.substack.com/p/long-covid-research-roundup

One thing to highlight: Among adults, those that have received every vaccine dose recommended for them have a substantially lower risk of long COVID. 3/

jgoerzen,
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By focusing solely on the potential effects of long (which are real) the doomsayers go on to say that it is a huge risk to everyone (which it is not). The are then neglecting the hopeful part: It is highly preventable.

And this, in turn, forecloses the action part: asking "why aren't more adults fully vaccinated, and what can we do about it?" Because that is something that we CAN do something about, and is effective.

4/

jgoerzen,
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How about late capitalism? A lot of people (rightly!) cite the power of corporate greed, oppressed workers, etc. and then (wrongly!) throw up their hands as if there's nothing we can do about it. "It's just more evidence of late capitalism." And they never suggest something better, either.

Would it surprise you to know that people have been saying we're in the midst of late for nearly 100 years? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Late_capitalism

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jgoerzen,
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I see a lot of the doomsayers parroting (apparently unknowingly) old Soviet rhetoric.

Again, the power of corporations IS a problem. But it is neither a new, nor a hopeless problem.

In fact, well-known Linux kernel contributor Jon "maddog" Hall wrote a story from nearly 50 years ago, in which a CEO knowingly made a product less safe, because making it safer would be more expensive than paying higher insurance: https://www.facebook.com/maddoghall/posts/pfbid02LarmY3jeGhpfdMKejnAy1U7tR6hjaps4wrJvVxADTgpcGhtB7W9V6nJvuTs5hupxl

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jgoerzen,
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We all know of the negative things in the world. Let's step back and look at some of the hopeful ones of the last 15 years:

  • The USA dramatically expanded health coverage and rights, making it come much closer to universal than it ever had
  • A resurgence of unions in the USA has been hard-fought but beginning, even in Amazon and Starbucks
  • Power has tilted to workers; at least hybrid work options appear to be durable, and fully remote is more common too, despite CEO desires

7/

jgoerzen,
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Even within the last 4 years:

  • change denial has significantly decreased
  • 40% of US electricity is now emissions-free https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/12/40-of-us-electricity-is-now-emissions-free/ , a huge jump.
  • $600 billion invested in clean energy in the USA alone, jumpstarting everything from solar to EV sales and charging (many of those funded chargers will come online this year)
  • Far-right leadership candidates were defeated in the USA, Brazil, Argentina, France, and others.

8/

jgoerzen,
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All of these were the result of hard work by activists around the globe. They believed that there was hope, that a better future was possible, and that they could make a difference.

And they did.

Because they were RIGHT.

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jgoerzen,
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As I quoted Housel a year ago: "Pessimists often extrapolate present trends without accounting for how markets adapt... extremely good and extremely bad circumstances rarely stay that way for long because supply and demand adapt in hard-to-predict ways." Housel goes on to cite example after example of this, from energy to banking.

Again, I think this point is wider than economics.

10/

jgoerzen,
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Both of these things about are true:

  1. The world is the hottest it's ever been during recorded human history;

  2. The movement towards clean energy and practices is already huge and is gaining momentum.

So often I see people focus on #1 and ignore #2. There has already been huge success against the wishes of the wealthiest energy corporations on earth! We can build on that, rather than give up while we're winning.

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jgoerzen,
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Do you remember the tone of Barack Obama? It was one of optimism and hope. It inspired people. As he often said, his accomplishments were only possible because of all the activists that joined.

The fascist tone is one of doom and gloom.

If you are a progressive, who are you helping by spreading doom and gloom?

12/

jgoerzen,
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So when you consider the negative things in the world today, put them in perspective. Media of all types isn't going to highlight the positives. You have to seek those out. And in so doing, you find inspiration.

Inspiration about what could be possible. Inspiration about what people have already accomplished against huge odds.

Inspiration to spread hope -- and action -- to everyone else.

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dale, to firefox
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Seeing lots of discussion around Firefox marketshare, would be interested to hear what features / functionality people thought Firefox could implement that would make a big impact?

jgoerzen,
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@mike @dale I love Firefox Translate and welcome other local and private AI features if they're useful.

johnefrancis, to Weather
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The Euro, Canadian, and US forecast models all agree on a big storm for Wed Jan 10th.

Euro - mostly rain
Can - about 30cm snow
US - about 40cm snow

A while ago, they were forecasting some additional smaller storms before and after the 10th. Those storms are now forecast to take the El Nino track across the US.

Will this big storm actually occur, or will it too get diverted onto the southern track as we get close to the 5-day window of accurate forecasting?

image: GFS's disaster

jgoerzen,
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@david_megginson @johnefrancis It is also notoriously difficult in winter to decide on precip, since a few degrees difference in temps can mean rain/freezing rain/sleet/snow. And that means both surface and aloft temps.

And yeah, as a , we care about weather above the surface which is even less accurate in forecasts than surface weather!

jgoerzen, to security
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My advice to consider first when evaluating systems: https://changelog.complete.org/archives/10620-consider-security-first This is part of my decision to migrate my devices to running pure .

ernie, to random
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I bought a laptop today. I tried to make it as cost-effective as possible. Went with Intel, though I almost went team AMD.

jgoerzen,
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@ernie Did you consider Framework? I got one to replace my desktop AND laptop due in part to extreme upgradability. And I do prefer Intel thanks to good Thunderbolt support for docks.

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