Is there, like, an Open Source Roomba?
Awesome tutorial for making a dual band 40/80m antenna by KG0ZZ http://amateurradio.bz/40_80_meter_antenna.html #hamradio
China Bans Online Bible Sales as It Tightens Religious Controls https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/05/world/asia/china-bans-bible-sales.html?partner=rss&emc=rss #ChristiansandChristianity #Religion-StateRelations #PoliticsandGovernment #ReligionandBelief #FreedomofReligion #E-Commerce #China #Bible
Moved over from the apparently now-defunct mastodon.cloud instance, so kind of, but not really #newhere.
I'm into #linux, #privacy, #music of most kinds, #photography, and #cats, especially #lolcats. I'm also an unabashed #Christian (and rational, too!), but I don't thump people over the head with the Bible or hate on the LGBTQ+ crowd, either.
Help make it happen for 'Quantum Series' https://igg.me/at/QuantumSeries/a2b0/18758221 #creation #animation #bible
> Fear, panic, invention, procrastination, conversation, more conversation with the director, more conversation with the DP (because I want to know what the color palette is), reading an enormous amount of books, more procrastination, more fear, and more deadlines until somebody yanks the score away from me.
https://www.quora.com/How-does-Hans-Zimmer-compose-a-soundtrack
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‼️ BREAKING: Judge unseals search warrant records, 2nd person of interest in the Las Vegas shooting has been identified as DOUGLAS HAIG. Haig's LinkedIn shows he had a "DOD Top Secret clearance", worked for top weapons manufacturers, and specialized in Military Ammunition.
https://is.gd/E4RFeR
I am very pleased & proud to say that I'm now an official The Document Foundation Member (https://www.documentfoundation.org)
I've been promoting & helping however I could #libreoffice and #OpenSource in general regardless of any recognition as I think it's the right thing to do but being a Member will help doing more as a team.
Do your part as well and upgrade to LibreOffice: https://www.libreoffice.org/
“DasSur.ma – Deep-copying in JavaScript”
https://dassur.ma/things/deep-copy/
Kickstarter for the new Mycroft Mark II just went live. Get em while they're hot people!
Seriously, if you're interested in AI assistants, but are concerned about privacy, this is the kind of project that needs your support.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/aiforeveryone/mycroft-mark-ii-the-open-voice-assistant
"please enable javascript in your browser"
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I took this snapshot while I was on a morning jog last spring. I hope y'all like it https://a.weirder.earth/media/NGSPCGyY4isxQ-bHcyc
I've been using Wire for a while now and still like it a lot!
Just today, Martin Shelton posted a beginner's guide similar to his others. Check it out:
Wire for Beginners https://medium.com/@mshelton/wire-for-beginners-8ee6caef49cb
https://www.securemessagingapps.com/
Every time I mention Wire, someone gets all up in my timeline about how it leaks metadata and that Signal is the most secure. Having to use your phone number is a pretty impressive hunk of metadata to leak, yo.
"But there are workarounds!" If your first response is to suggest a *workaround*, you've ignored the fundamental design flaw.
Of course, neither of them use #IPv6, so it's hard for me get excited about either one. I go where my friends are (firmly entrenched).
Attacking secure usb keys behind the scene: the hardware way
https://www.j-michel.org/blog/2018/01/16/attacking-secure-usb-keys-behind-the-scene
The disclosure of the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities has brought a new level of attention to the security bugs that can lurk at the hardware level. Massive amounts of work have gone into improving the (still poor) security of our software, but all of that is in vain if the hardware gives away the game. The CPUs that we run in our systems...
Excellent write up by Jonathan Corbet: Is it time for open processors?
https://lwn.net/Articles/743602/
Looking at Susan Kare's Apple icons and fonts again makes me appreciate how much effort went into packaging so much information in so few pixels
http://kare.com/apple-icons/
http://kare.com/fonts/
They're masterpieces of visual economy
