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1. Four ways to get or insert in a Rust map

   Using the entry API to insert things in more complicated situations.

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2. Generating secure passwords

   How to generate passwords in accordance with rules

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3. 2020 Stewardship Testimonial

   This is the text of the Stewardship Testimonial I gave during the service on September 20, 2020.

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4. A limerick which must be seen

   You can’t call the British Queen Ms.
   Tain’t as nice as Elizabeth is.
   But I think that the Queen
   Would be even less keen
   To have herself mentioned as Ls.

   Asimov, Isaac. “Out of Sight”. Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine Dec. 1973.

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5. A Tool to Handle /etc/passwd.pacnew and Friends

   The last several times I’ve updated filesystem, .pacnew files were created for /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/group, and /etc/gshadow. My default approach for merging .pacnew files is to use vimdiff to edit the original and new files simultaneously. Unfortunately, this doesn’t work very well for /etc/passwd and friends because they are databases, not configuration files.

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6. Liars and Outliers Review

   This is a review of Bruce Schneier’s Liars and Outliers, a book about security. He works from first principles to develop an understanding of what happens today.

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