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
  • related: https://freedompenguin.com/articles/how-to/old-vista-laptop-linux-zfs-file-server/
• 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."
• 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://www.androidpit.com/how-to-remove-the-google-search-bar-from-your-android-homescreen
  • https://www.androidpit.com/what-is-the-best-android-launcher
  • https://www.androidpit.com/root-android - complete rooting guide
• https://diybookscanner.org/ - from Marla

April

• http://www.mnn.com/green-tech/transportation/blogs/age-cheap-electric-car-has-arrived
  • https://plus.google.com/+DawnShepardME3/posts/dqvUHXcjFNN
• http://agbuilders.us - Durham-based; the web site was apologizing for the contact form having been broken
• http://www.communitychi.com - Miles Rowe
• https://www.indeed.com/ - another job-hunting site
• http://takeastance.us/ - Stance phone-your-representative app
  • https://www.twilio.org/#stories - used by Stance; apparently they've adopted a "free for organizations that support our agenda" policy like one I've been considering
• https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq
  • fees may make it mostly useless in the US, but it is open-source (someone could set up a US-based liberapay)
  • there's a comparison of crowdfunding services linked from that page
• https://www.pimcore.org/en/resources/download
  • https://www.cmscritic.com/free-open-source-personalized-web-experience-management-with-pimcore/
• http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/04/android-apps-linux-desktop-anbox
• https://community.republicwireless.com/message/529658-why-does-the-republic-app-say-its-incompatible-with-evolvesms-when-everything-actually-seems-to-work-fine - my question
• https://www.teamviewer.com/en/download/linux/
• https://opensource.com/article/17/4/webcomic-artist
  • https://mastodon.technology/users/schestowitz/updates/22793
• http://www.2daygeek.com/cockpit-monitor-administer-multiple-remote-linux-servers-via-web-browser/#
  • https://mastodon.technology/users/schestowitz/updates/22816
• https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant
  • https://www.nature.com/articles/ncomms15112
  • https://mastodon.social/users/cypnk/updates/2170154
• https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/we-re-getting-closer-to-mass-production-of-bones-organs-and-implants
  • https://plus.google.com/+UmediaTDurgen/posts/1NYb2Ry117S
• OStatus / GNU Social compatible:
  • http://www.postactiv.com/
    • https://plateia.org/notice/11228

May

• https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=914 - problem setting up a CIFS (Samba) mount
• PayPal evilness:
  • https://hackernoon.com/paypal-is-still-one-of-the-worst-online-examples-of-customer-service-42f3c13f6cd0
  • https://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/68cg8h/psa_if_you_opened_your_paypal_account_before_you/
• http://alternativeto.net/software/weebly/?license=opensource
• https://lbry.io/what - distributed alternative to YouTube, currently in development
  • Downside: namespaces are allocated by bidding, i.e. money = power, yet again
• http://www.durhambikewalkplan.com
• http://techrights.org/2017/04/30/twitter-shadowbans-epo-critics/
  • https://mastodon.technology/users/schestowitz/updates/28881 - via
  • https://twitter.com/Woozalia/status/865537503742246913 - my tweet
  • http://techrights.org/2015/05/28/reddit-censorship/ - Reddit does it too (owned by Conde Nast, wayyyy too Microsoft-friendly)
• https://jsonfeed.org/2017/05/17/announcing_json_feed
• http://inhabitat.com/forward-labs-new-solar-roof-is-33-cheaper-than-teslas-and-it-can-be-installed-in-half-the-time/
  • https://plus.google.com/109429043900581551434/posts/1GwJNAcrvfA
• http://www.flamingpear.com/superbladepro.html - used to create a lot of the artwork for VBZ (with PaintShop Pro)
• https://www.linux.org/threads/freetuxtv.4557/
  • https://mastodon.technology/users/schestowitz/updates/46361
• https://blog.freeradical.zone/why-ive-automated-deployments/ - automated deployment of Mastodon

June

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NG-LATBZNBs - an independent experiment using neural networks to reproduce speech
• Command-line A/V playback on Android with VLC, Termux and youtube-dl
  • https://mammouth.cafe/users/dredmorbius/updates/3960
• https://opensource.com/article/17/6/internet-standing-rock
  • https://mastodon.technology/users/schestowitz/updates/47600