Software Cooperative News

It’s nice to see that Emacs isn’t being outdone since Thunderbird 3 Introduced Reply-To List: Alok G. Singh got in touch and pointed me at Gnus’s support for List-* headers. I’ve updated my page of email clients that support mailing lists.

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savs seemed to agonise about posting it but I think his Top 10 crimes of Developer Engagement is spot on even if it might not be as amusing as Aral Balkan’s similar message.
I think it applies to my recent RFID development work too: the public information is fluffy and you have to hunt or reverse-engineer [...]

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Revisiting two old ssh points:-

Smart Tricks with ssh mentioned ServerAliveInterval 3600 and the page I referenced for it mentions ClientAliveInterval on the server-side. Is there any reason not to use that?
ssh security mentioned sslh to put ssh on port 443, but it seems Top J2ME MIDP Application MidpSSH can’t connect to ssh on other [...]

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A periodic security review at our co-op suggested switching PasswordAuthentication no on even more hosts. One of those caused a bit of a heated discussion about the benefits of increased security and the drawbacks of making emergency access harder, reminding me of the old joke about a secure computer being one encased in a [...]

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The debian GNU/Linux kernel’s firmware content is one of the most troubling bugs, and (as I understand it):

it mostly came from upstream (so fixing it only in debian isn’t sustainable),

it’s something some FSF supporters kick us for (often while ignoring other not-aiming-for-100%-free systems and turning a blind eye to the non-program problem in their own [...]

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