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Gustavo Niemeyer

@gniemeyer

Father, Thinker, Solver, Hacker, Janitor, Listener — Helping talented people creating great software — CTO @ Canonical

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why do unix assembly files use a .s extension? someone asked me today, and i didn’t know, so i asked ken. the .s is for source, just like .o is for object.

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Interesting: WSL uses the Plan9 protocol for FS integration between Windows and Linux. The reason is not so exciting though.. "We had the code."

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Once upon a time, running a web browser inside a terminal was a real thing many people wanted to do. Fast forward too many years and now we care about running terminals inside the web browser.

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Hey everyone, here's a new blog post! This one has loooooooots of pics from the #ubuntusummit so please enjoy :D ubuntu.com/blog/ubuntu-su…

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Quick 2FA hint: if the service doesn't support multiple 2FA devices, re-add your original device and while doing so scan the QRCode a second time from the backup device. Time-based OTP (TOTP), the most popular kind nowadays, are inherently synchronized on time.

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Gustavo Niemeyer @robteix My 2FA/TOTP strategy is to first capture a screen grab of every seed and save in an encrypted off-line backup, then use that to feed into the authenticator(s).

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Twitter is now blocking and flagging Mastodon links as "unsafe". If that is an attempt to keep people around, they're doing it wrong.

Twitter is now blocking and flagging Mastodon links as "unsafe". If that is an attempt to keep people around, they're doing it wrong.
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Over the New Year holidays I've spent a while thinking about some aspects of my note taking workflow and researching on how to improve it. If you're interested on the topic, come with me for a short walk on the thread below. 1/n mastodon.social/@niemeyer/1096…