Francois Marier (fmarier)

Francois Marier

Increasing surveillance transparency by adding a MITM mode in the browser: http://blog.gerv.net/2012/02/official-mitm-mode-in-firefo/ #ssl

Francois Marier

I wish more libraries were using Readme-Driven Development (http://tom.preston-werner.com/2010/08/23/readme-driven-development.html)

Francois Marier Jacob Barkdull

@jacobwb By default, it redirects to Gravatar automatically when it doesn't have an image for the hash you requested.

Francois Marier Jacob Barkdull

@jacobwb there's a feature comparison with Gravatar here: http://wiki.libravatar.org/features/

Francois Marier Libravatar , Daniel Devine , Jacob Barkdull

@jacobwb have a look at https://launchpad.net/services-libravatar for a !php !libravatar library that does all the work for you

Francois Marier Allison Randal

Sozi, another Inkscape-based Prezzi replacement (used by @allisonrandal at #lca2012): http://ur1.ca/79pl5

Francois Marier Electronic Frontier Foundation

Interesting long-term solution to the problem of having to trust #ssl certificate authorities: https://www.eff.org/sovereign-keys !eff

Francois Marier

Comparing the technical specs of paper and electronic books: http://ur1.ca/7lf94 (paper wins)

Francois Marier Daniel Devine

@ddevine it's the * key (used for multiplication) on the numeric keypad

Francois Marier

Complete screensaver lock bypass on Linux / X11. Six lines you need to comment out now: http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2012/01/19/7

Francois Marier

Website to check whether or not the insect crawling into your house is poisonous: http://isthispoisono.us/ (via #lca2012 list) #australia

Francois Marier

How to do user-centric and privacy-respecting online services: http://ur1.ca/7h5jf

Francois Marier Richard Fontana

@fontana Is https://opensource.com/user/216/feed your "blog" or do you also write elsewhere?

Francois Marier

The @PerfPlanet aggregator ( http://www.perfplanet.com with RSS at http://ur1.ca/7db2d ) is great for web devs who care about #performance

Francois Marier Dave Lane

You should try https://mobile.twitter.com/ if you haven't already. It's a lot cleaner and simpler.

Francois Marier

A good reminder that we need smartphones with a full FOSS stack: http://security.stackexchange.com/questions/9416

Francois Marier

Why new employees shouldn't get commit access on corporate-sponsored FOSS projects: http://ur1.ca/6o5cx

Francois Marier

A neat tool for checking your DNS zone configuration: http://www.zonecheck.fr/

Francois Marier

"The real reasons for 'Apps that need JavaScript'" http://ur1.ca/6esh9 (by @codepo8)

Francois Marier

Some good advice regarding backward- and forward-compatible REST APIs: http://ur1.ca/6e059