User:Woozle/linkdump/2017
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January
- Defunct CrunchBang Linux now replaced by BunsenLabs Linux https://www.bunsenlabs.org/index.html
- Difficult to classify: https://medium.com/@sarahjoyshockey/uncle-bob-9631e9907b71#.qv02kjue9
- same author has other pieces that are similarly difficult to classify
- http://arstechnica.com/business/2017/01/yahoo-board-drops-to-five-mayer-is-out-name-changed-to-altaba/
- https://www.facebook.com/sageandswiftcatering/ - Sage & Swift
- http://www.boredpanda.com/solar-geodesic-dome-solardome-norway/ - another self-sustaining geodesic-domed house in Scandinavia
- http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2016/11/09/behind-trumps-victory-divisions-by-race-gender-education/ - as I suspected, most mammals do not menstruate.
- http://www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com/
- http://blog.neospeech.com/2016/07/08/top-5-open-source-speech-recognition-toolkits/
- http://www.radionz.co.nz/international/programmes/datelinepacific/audio/201830255/tahiti-floating-village-to-test-technology-for-a-better-ocean - seasteading finally to get going?
- try this when wireless is being weird: sudo ifup wlan0
- Doesn't work. What does work is "service network-manager restart" (as root/sudo)
- http://www.crowdcrux.com/deadly-ecommerce-mistakes-avoid/ - planning to do many of these deliberately
- http://kotaku.com/how-peanuts-used-marcie-to-explore-unhealthy-relationsh-1791599363 - Charles Schulz, self-esteem, asymmetrical relationships
- https://thezoequinn.tumblr.com/post/155785701663/a-gender - Zoë Quinn
- hardware for massive external storage:
- https://healthchecks.io/pricing/
- https://www.braintreepayments.com/
February
- https://nextcloud.com/collaboraonline/
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/02/bored-with-ho-hum-cloud-backups-use-usenet-yes-usenet-instead/ - some details about how usenet works
- https://keybase.io/docs/the_app/install_linux - encrypted chat
- https://www.hamrick.com/reg.html - not FOSS, but seems to serve a useful function (and is available for Linux)
- A Cheap Battery That Can Store Renewable Energy and Last a Decade
- https://www.neuraldesigner.com/blog/perceptron-the-main-component-of-neural-networks - gives the standard sigmoid function
- In case the "$title->userIsWatching()" bug ever comes up again: https://phabricator.wikimedia.org/rSBLSda9896651d212588ff97b9a6c60fe3616da069c7
- https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/02/aol-will-cut-off-third-party-app-access-to-aim/
March
- https://news.utexas.edu/2017/02/28/goodenough-introduces-new-battery-technology
- artificial organs (both done at Wake Forest):
- https://www.moonwards.com/index.html
- http://www.washingtonsblog.com/2013/06/microsoft-programmed-in-nsa-backdoor-in-windows-by-1999.html
- https://zoneminder.com/ - "A full-featured, open source, state-of-the-art video surveillance software system."
- http://indeed.com - check "email production"
- http://www.comeoutandshowthem.com/buydurhamsigns - "welcome to Durham" signs
- https://medium.freecodecamp.com/how-to-set-up-a-vpn-in-5-minutes-for-free-and-why-you-urgently-need-one-d5cdba361907
- Android stuff:
- https://diybookscanner.org/ - from Marla
April
- http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/age-cheap-electric-car-has-arrived
- http://agbuilders.us - Durham-based; the web site was apologizing for the contact form having been broken
- http://www.communitychi.com - Miles Rowe