Raphaël Bauduin

An (online) open source license compatibility checker: https://fossa.com/resources/devops-tools/license-compatibility-checker/

#foss #license #legal

Good progress this weekend on myowndb.com upgrades and @asfaload@mastodon.social documentation, incl a tutorial video! #foss #fsharp #rustlang #buildinpublic

For @asfaload@mastodon.social I chose ed25519 signatures for its pervasive use. However, there's one place it is not common: the TPM in PCs... Why? 😫
#security #cryptography

Tried to activate #passkey for my Google account using #firefox and #bitwarden. It was a traumatic experience.... I don't even know how to explain how it took so much time for so little result... @arstechnica@mastodon.social has more prose about passkeys: https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/12/passkey-technology-is-elegant-but-its-most-definitely-not-usable-security/

@e_mydata@mastodon.social : accessing the /e/ os install page at https://e.foundation/installer/ with @mozilla@mastodon.social 's Firefox on Android proposes proprietary browsers alternatives.... A welcome page explaining alternative installation procedures would probably be better.

A collaborative #slideshow solution in one html file! Edition and presentation. And #opensource ! https://github.com/nyblnet/bento

#foss

Note to self: in #rustlang, you convert an Option in a Option<&String> with the method as_ref, and for the conversion Option to Option<&str>, use as_deref.
Damn, I have a hard time memorising these method names. Same for Option::ok_or.
Absolutely not intuitive to me.

If you want to help bumblebees, this is a tree they love: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitex_agnus-castus

If you hear someone say microsoft loves #opensource, point them to this report: https://research.mozilla.org/browser-competition/over-the-edge-2/

I'm a fan and user of #docker #swarm. Such a pity it didn't get traction. Most of us don't need google-scale tech and the #k8s complexity it brings... As swarm is just barely alive, this seemed promising: https://uncloud.run/ But: allowing all containers to contact all others?☹️Too easy to shoot in one's foot

Say what you want about #LLMs , it is what allowed me to keep https://myowndb.com up to date. It is a #foss #fsharp project with 1500+ human-authored commits that lost my focus. Without llms I would have archived it. Now I plan to continue to #BuildInPublic . Disclaimer: the project has exhaustive tests without which nothing would have been possible. Also, llms were used as assistive technology.

The #ascii representation of a #ssh key is based on an astonishingly simple #algorithm. Read the simple idea at https://www.jfurness.uk/the-drunken-bishop-algorithm/
and the full #paper at https://dirk-loss.de/sshvis/drunken_bishop.pdf
So simple I'll probably implement it for @asfaload@mastodon.social for easy hash comparison when signing

A sudo replacement in systemd: https://fosspost.org/systemd-wants-to-expand-to-include-a-sudo-replacement/
RIP Unix philosophy.
As an alternative, did anyone try Root As Role? https://github.com/LeChatP/RootAsRole

#linux #security #foss

Cool to see myowndb.com mentioned in sergeytihon.com 's #fsharp weekly.
I deployed an updated version this morning, now using websharper 9. Next step is DotNet 10 then websharper 10.

A new version of https://myowdb.com has been deployed. There's no new feature, but it's part of its upgrade to the latest versions of DotNet and websharper. #dotnet #fsharp #buildinpublic #foss
Code at https://gitlab.com/myowndb/myowndb/