Several security-focused messaging apps give users the ability to choose between two modes: unencrypted chats, or end-to-end encrypted ones that might lack certain features. This is an anti-pattern when it comes to usable security, and it brings some risks that are rarely discussed.
So you just updated to Fedora 32, sat down to work, and realized that Docker wasn’t working. Maybe at this point you vaguely remembered hearing about something called CgroupsV2 being a thing in Fedora 32, and maybe also something about Docker not playing nice with CgroupsV2. You kick yourself for a moment but decide that this is a good opportunity to get to grips with Podman. You could just turn off CgroupsV2 but it seems like working with Podman might make your future Fedora life a bit simpler.
I’m not one of those people who constantly has their head buried in a book — one of those at heightened risk of falling down a manhole because they are reading while walking instead of looking in front of them. A part of the reason is that I tend to gravitate towards denser books — the type of book that feels Important, and that might prompt impressed nods when I bring it up to my philosopher friends. This is a bad habit. It means that I just end up doing something else that isn’t reading. One of my resolutions for the new year is to read for enjoyment rather than for some imagined book CV. In that spirit, I wanted to write up a list of some of the reads I enjoyed the most this year.
My project fediverse.space is an interactive map of the fediverse. The fediverse, or “federated universe”, is the set of social media servers, hosted by individuals across the globe, forming a libre and more democratic alternative to traditional social media.
In the age of social media, identity is becoming increasingly fluid and fragmented: with greater access to information comes more exposure to new perspectives and personalities, and for every side of our selves, there is a channel to express it and an audience at the ready. This explosion of identities fits neatly into the logic of consumer capitalism: more identities means more markets. Thus, identity fluidity – a concept that has liberatory potential – ends up reinforcing existing capitalist structures. Søren Kierkegaard, as one of the early experts on identity, presents a useful lens to explore this contradiction.