User:Woozle/linkdump/2017

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.
  • https://plus.google.com/u/0/+PaulaRizzuto/posts/iqvS9DeF2iR
• http://www.momthisishowtwitterworks.com/
• http://blog.neospeech.com/2016/07/08/top-5-open-source-speech-recognition-toolkits/
  • Simon blog: http://simon-listens.blogspot.com/
  • https://openstt.org/
• 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:
  • http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/the-best-external-desktop-hard-drive/
  • http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-network-attached-storage/
  • http://thewirecutter.com/reviews/best-usb-hubs/
  • https://www.amazon.com/Vantec-CB-ISATAU2-Supports-2-5-Inch-5-25-Inch/dp/B000J01I1G/ - handles IDE drives
• 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
  • http://www.ngprovider.com/free-newsgroup-server.php
• 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
  • https://plus.google.com/105349929791302602676/posts/XLTzzS5mzBP
• 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
  • https://plus.google.com/+YonatanZunger/posts/46TLpR9bGhJ
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/tech/super-safe-glass-battery-charges-in-minutes-not-hours/
    • https://plus.google.com/111952522706131998075/posts/KYYPK9nRJ2n
• artificial organs (both done at Wake Forest):
  • http://www.bbc.com/news/health-26885335 - vagina
  • http://www.smithsonianmag.com/40th-anniversary/organs-made-to-order-863675/
  • http://hplusmagazine.com/2014/05/08/total-gender-change-within-decade/
• 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."