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Collecting Twitter data with TAGs and exporting to Gephi – Doug Specht
I’ve got to try this out on datasets I have collected with TAGS ⌘ Read more
Building a desktop application for Datasette (and weeknotes)
Interesting, I have to check this out ! ⌘ Read more
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In reply to: 1980s computer controls GRPS heat and AC
A Kentwood High School student programmed it when it was installed in the 1980s. Whenever the district has a problem with it, they go back to the original programmer who still lives in the area. ⌘ Read more
Every Web Browser Absolutely Sucks.
The title explains it all, you don’t even have to read.
There are no good, even passable web browsers. None. Not a single one even comes close.
The weird thing is this: making a good browser should be easy! Among the existing web browsers, you could assemble all the parts necessary for a passable (if not perfect) browser. No one has ever bothered to do this, instead, people assembled 90% good stuff and 10% junk.
Here I will list:
- Featu … ⌘ Read more
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30 free and open source Linux games – part 3
With Linux celebrating it’s 30 year anniversary, I thought I’d use that as an excuse to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. If you’ve haven’t ⌘ Read more
Hacking Out of a Network - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
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Gajim: Gajim 1.4 Preview: Workspaces
The Gajim team has been hard at work in the past months to prepare the next v1.4 release. The upcoming version brings a major interface redesign. In this post, we explain how the new interface works and what remains to be decided or implemented before the release.
Of course, your feedback is important! No interface can please everyone, so please react to this post with how this change would impact you positively and negatively, and ideas you have to make it even better … ⌘ Read more
Starry Night, The Artist’s Brain, & Vincent with Roberta Olson, Jay Pasachoff, & Heather Berlin ⌘ Read more
30 free and open source Linux games – part 2
Linux is celebrating its 30-year anniversary, so I’m taking the opportunity to highlight 30 of my favorite free and open source Linux games, their communities, and their stories. I shared the first 10 yesterday. ⌘ Read more
How I paid off $117k of debt in 4 years. ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: DIY Air Purification Designs ⌘ Read more
Clearview AI Offered Free Facial Recognition Trials To Police All Around The World
Clearview marketed its facial recognition system across Europe by offering free trials at police conferences, where it was often presented as a tool to help find predators and victims of child sex abuse. ⌘ Read more
2021 Transparency Report: January to June
We’re reporting on a six-month period rather than annually to increase our level of transparency. For this report, we’ve added more granularity to our 2020 stats. ⌘ Read more
In reply to: Wildermyth tells incredible stories that hit surprisingly hard
These stories mean that playing Wildermyth is not just about doing tactical battles from one end of a scripted narrative to another. It means tracking a small crew of changing people through their careers as adventurers. Sometimes their personali … ⌘ Read more
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains The Color of Light ⌘ Read more
GitHub CLI 2.0 includes extensions!
GitHub CLI 2.0 is now available, making it easy to create and share your own custom commands to make your experience even more powerful. ⌘ Read more
[~solderpunk] re: been a long time ⌘ Read more
estação atlantina ⌘ Read more
The npm registry is deprecating TLS 1.0 and TLS 1.1
Beginning October 4, 2021, all connections to npm websites and the npm registry, including for package installation, must use TLS 1.2 or higher. ⌘ Read more
Start Dev Environments locally, Compose V2 RC 1, and more in Docker Desktop 3.6
Docker Desktop 3.6 has just been released and we’re looking forward to you trying it. Start Dev Environments from your Local Machine You can now share dev environments with your colleagues and get started with code already on your local machine as well as the existing remote repository support. It’s easy to use your local […]
The post [Start Dev Environments locally, Com … ⌘ Read more
Snikket: Improving Snikket’s usability in collaboration with Simply Secure
One of the primary goals of the Snikket project is improving the usability of
open communication software. We see usability as one of the major barriers to
broader adoption of modern communication systems based on open standards and
free, libre, open-source software. By removing this barrier, we open the door
of secure and decentralized communication freedom to many vulnerable groups
for which it was previously inaccessible or i … ⌘ Read more
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re: post-capitalism living standards ⌘ Read more
In reply to: GitHub - hoppecl/jamlang0001
A small dynamically typed programming language with first-class comments, where every value is explained by a comment. ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries: Jiggle Wiggle Waggle Walk with Charles Liu ⌘ Read more
Eliminating Run-Time Errors with Agda - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
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OpenBSD on the Huawei MateBook X (2020)
My old 2017 Huawei MateBook X has been my most reliable laptop and has continued to be my daily-use workstation despite trying half a dozen others (and a desktop or two) in the past four years. Every time I’d try a new laptop, certain components wouldn’t work properly, or the keyboard would feel strange, or the screen would look bad, or the fan or some coil-whine noise would drive me nuts. And every time, I’d return to my MateBook X and everything would just work silently. ⌘ Read more
Enhanced support for citations on GitHub
We’re excited to support researchers and academics on GitHub with enhanced citation support through `CITATION.cff` files. ⌘ Read more
JMP: Newsletter: Blog, New Registration, New Billing, New App!
Hi everyone!
Welcome to the latest edition of your pseudo-monthly JMP update!
In case it’s been a while since you checked out JMP, here’s a refresher: JMP lets you send and receive text and picture messages (and calls) through a real phone number right from your computer, tablet, phone, or anything else that has a Jabber client. Among other things, JMP has these features: Your phone number on every device; Multiple phone numbers … ⌘ Read more
Erlang Solutions: FinTech 2021 State of Play
While things have undoubtedly changed considerably for the financial services industry over the past 18 months, the ascendency of FinTech remains quite unabated, with global fintech investment reaching $98bn. In the UK, FinTech investment hit a new record of £18bn in the first half of 2021, placing it second only to the United States, impressi … ⌘ Read more
Une vie en anthroposophie, la face cachée des écoles Steiner-Waldorf - La Route de la Soie - Editions ⌘ Read more
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Burning Stuff ⌘ Read more
GitHub Discussions is out of beta
GitHub Discussions is now out of beta, with features that include labels, Discussions GraphQL API and webhooks, and mobile functionality. ⌘ Read more
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august 2020 update ⌘ Read more
NYTimes: Biden Could Still Be Proved Right in Afghanistan
the idea that Afghans didn’t know how to fight and that just one more course in counterinsurgency would do the trick. Really? ⌘ Read more
Highlights from Git 2.33
The open source Git project just released Git 2.33 with features and bug fixes from over 74 contributors, 19 of them new. We last caught up with you on the latest in Git when 2.31 ⌘ Read more
Monal IM: Monal 5.0.1: Synchronized builds and bugfixes
We have released Monal in version 5.0.1 which contains mostly corrections and small improvements. Now the iOS and macOS builds are also synchronized and available in the Apple App Store.
Here are the changes in this release:
- Show warning if camera permissions are missing while trying to use camera
- Fixed duplication … ⌘ Read more
Securing your GitHub account with two-factor authentication
The benefits of multifactor authentication are widely documented, and there are a number of options for using 2FA on GitHub. ⌘ Read more
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A screenshot of a very tiny c program written on System7
I’ve got to use macOS by nature of my work. Lately I’m increasingly down on this. Here I will not re-hash anything about the current state of Apple’s hardware and software ecosystem. I don’t care.
Wanting to take a trip down nostolgia lane, however (to when I was 2 years old) I thought I’d install Mac OS System 7. What follows is a quick guide for doing the sa … ⌘ Read more
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The Forgotten Nazi Steam Rocket Engine (3D Printed) ⌘ Read more
Peter Saint-Andre: Meditations on Bach #6: Further Instrumental Considerations
Although the first five of Bach’s suites for unaccompanied cello lie quite naturally on the bass (when tuned in fifths, that is!), the sixth suite in D major (BWV 1012) is a slightly different story because it was originally written for an instrument with five strings, not four. The exact identity of this instrument remains a mystery - some think it was written for a viola de spalla, others for a violoncello piccolo. Whatever the truth of the matter, p … ⌘ Read more
Bringing back old-school web pins and buttons
Back in the not-quite-as-bad-old-days (at least as far back as the 90’s), every good website had a small “ad” gif that fans of the site could use as a colorful link. These are called “buttons” or sometimes “pins.”
You can see sites that collect these internet artifacts (both the good ones and boring ones) here and here.
Most people would have **do … ⌘ Read more
Building a healthy and secure software supply chain
Securing the software supply chain is now an everyday concern for developers. As attackers increasingly target open-source components as a way to compromise the software supply chain, developers hold the keys to making their projects as secure as they can be. That’s why Docker continues to invest heavily in our developer tools like Docker Desktop […]
The post [Building a healthy and secure software supply chain](https://www.d … ⌘ Read more
Negativity Bias - Biases & Heuristics | The Decision Lab
Negativity bias is linked to loss aversion, a cognitive bias that describes why the pain of losing is psychologically twice as powerful as the pleasure of gaining. ⌘ Read more
Dealing With Big Data - Computerphile ⌘ Read more
What’s new from GitHub Changelog? July 2021 Recap
A public beta for CodeQL package manager, additional options to manage Actions runs from first-time contributors, GitHub Discussions translation, and more. ⌘ Read more
Cosmic Queries - A Cosmic Crisis ⌘ Read more
Seamless teaching and learning through GitHub Classroom and Visual Studio Code
This GitHub Classroom extension for Visual Studio Code provides a simplified introduction to Git, GitHub Classroom, and Visual Studio Code. ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Permacomputing Update 2021 | viznut ⌘ Read more
GitHub’s Engineering Team has moved to Codespaces
Over the past months, we’ve left our macOS model behind and moved to Codespaces for the majority of GitHub.com development. ⌘ Read more
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Explains Acheiving Orbit ⌘ Read more
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Ignite Realtime Blog: JSXC Openfire plugin 4.3.1-1 released!
The Ignite Realtime community is happy to announce the immediate availability of version 4.3.1 release 1 of the JSXC plugin for Openfire, our open source real time collaboration server solution! This plugin can be used to conveniently make available the web-based JSXC client (a third-party developed project) to users of Openfire.
The upgrade from 4.3.0 to 4.3.1 brings a small number of changes from the JSXC project whi … ⌘ Read more
🙌 Liked: Drawdown Framework ⌘ Read more