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1. benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 22-Sep-2015 15:07:19 EDT benfell

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   • tuttle
   This is the risk of #decentralization but not !selfhost (ing). You're just as reliant on someone else, but with less stability.
   
   I think Charles Roth deserves some credit here: When he felt he could no longer host his sites, he gave lots of notice up front. But even so, some folks were relying on him for some stuff.
2. benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 11-Aug-2015 18:50:32 EDT benfell

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   Bringing down Donald Trump
   https://disunitedstates.org/?p=7934
3. benfell (benfell)'s status on Saturday, 25-Jul-2015 00:45:04 EDT benfell

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   Okay !security folks. What are the recommendations on email?
   
   I see this lovely little gem here: http://postfix.1071664.n5.nabble.com/Disabling-Anonymous-Diffie-Hellman-td67965.html
   
   Basically the argument seems to be that if you try to be secure, you'll just force a downgrade and be entirely unsecure. This is not the kind of argument that makes me happy.
   
   What do people think?
4. benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 07-Jul-2015 22:49:51 EDT benfell

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   Economic malpractice
   https://disunitedstates.org/?p=7838
5. benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 14-Jun-2015 20:22:04 EDT benfell

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   !security - I'm feeling like I haven't been paying enough attention to the travails of openssl. Is the project just having a bad year? Is this normal? Is it time to switch to libressl or something else?
6. benfell (benfell)'s status on Monday, 08-Jun-2015 20:40:13 EDT benfell

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   Market value and human value: Time to take it personally
   https://disunitedstates.org/?p=7668
7. benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 27-May-2015 20:22:59 EDT benfell

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   So I have an avatar. Why won't !gnusocial display it?
8. benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 20-May-2015 20:09:02 EDT benfell

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   Diploma mills and the neoliberal substitution of the superficial for the substantial
   https://disunitedstates.org/?p=7534
9. benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 25-Mar-2015 03:55:46 EDT benfell

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   *Why* on ${DEITY}'s green earth would nsd use SSL3? And how can I get it to stop bitching that 'certificate verify failed', presumably because it is stupid enough to use SSL3? Even commenting out the directives in nsd.conf doesn't stop it from complaining. !security
10. benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Mar-2015 16:16:17 EDT benfell

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    I don't think this is how it's supposed to be.
    
    I have three servers. Not *one* of them has IPv6 from my service provider. All of them now have IPv6 via IPv4 tunnels courtesy of he.net . !selfhost
11. benfell (benfell)'s status on Tuesday, 10-Mar-2015 16:12:23 EDT benfell

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    Another bit of evidence for !selfhost : Open Salon is shutting down with undue haste. From the note I received, I don't see even how one would recover one's content there except by crudely copying and pasting each blog entry.
12. benfell (benfell)'s status on Wednesday, 18-Feb-2015 20:23:32 EST benfell

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    This was much too easy to overlook. !security !freebsd
    https://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2015-February/054580.html
    And while you're at it: https://stribika.github.io/2015/01/04/secure-secure-shell.html
13. benfell (benfell)'s status on Friday, 05-Dec-2014 20:10:10 EST benfell

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    • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
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    @pskosinski @nawi @bobjonkman
    
    My own feeling has long been that I want to host as many of my own services as possible. It's like driving cross country rather than flying: I am in control and I value that.
14. benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 13:03:18 EST benfell

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    • Joshua Judson Rosen
    @rozzin I'm not sure the abstraction is really an enhancement. For me, !security needs to be kept simple. #KISS
15. benfell (benfell)'s status on Sunday, 09-Nov-2014 12:59:52 EST benfell

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    • Joshua Judson Rosen
    @rozzin can't see why one would upgrade to 2.0. 2.1 supports ECC, although that seems to have been backported into 2.0 on #FreeBSD and some Linux distributions.
16. benfell (benfell)'s status on Thursday, 06-Nov-2014 09:58:35 EST benfell

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    #GnuPG 2.1.0 is out: secring.gpg is no longer used, but the announcement doesn't say how secret keys are now maintained. !security
17. benfell (benfell)'s status on Monday, 09-Jun-2014 02:42:27 EDT benfell

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    • Former Bob Jonkman -- Please use the new server at https://gs.jonkman.ca
    @bobjonkman I used #Thunderbird for a while but it just got too slow, even when I told it to stop caching mail locally. I think, but don't recall specifically, there was other misbehavior as well. Now I use a combination of mutt (logging in to my server), Courier SqWebMail (which supports gnupg), and Roundcube (which doesn't--the plugin for it that's supposed to work doesn't). I'v…

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