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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:
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- http://www.2daygeek.com/cockpit-monitor-administer-multiple-remote-linux-servers-via-web-browser/#
- https://www.theverge.com/2017/4/25/15421734/artificial-womb-fetus-biobag-uterus-lamb-sheep-birth-premie-preterm-infant
- https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-04-27/we-re-getting-closer-to-mass-production-of-bones-organs-and-implants
- OStatus / GNU Social compatible:
May
- https://www.centos.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=914 - problem setting up a CIFS (Samba) mount
- PayPal evilness:
- 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
- Another alternative, tho does not appear to be federated: https://mediagoblin.org/
- 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/
- 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://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://opensource.com/article/17/6/internet-standing-rock
- https://futurism.com/china-is-about-to-begin-the-worlds-first-clinical-trial-with-embryonic-stem-cells/ to cure macular degeneration and Parkinson's
- https://www.masterclass.com/classes/steve-martin-teaches-comedy
- https://obsproject.com/forum/resources/how-to-set-up-your-own-private-rtmp-server-using-nginx.50/ - Icecast and nginx
- https://matrix.org/ - replacement for IRC? Federated.
- https://rocket.chat/ - another Slack-like service, but not federated
- https://www.olimex.com/
- https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/raspberry-pi-looper/
- http://altplatform.org/
- https://itch.io/ - indie-game-sharing site
- http://scuttlebot.io/ -- I think this is a logger for Discord
- https://www.coactivate.org/people/location-search?location=North+Carolina
- http://www.streetjelly.com/
- http://jelly.media/ - professional services
- https://windowmaker.org/ - Linux GUI with GUI config? Gasp of astonishment.
- https://podupti.me/ - automatically updated list of active Diaspora pods
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/durham-makerspace - apparently SplatSpace's only online interactive presence?
- https://hypatiasoftware.org/transparency/ -- I should talk to these folks when vbz is up
- http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2017/06/ring-linux-skype-alternative
- https://github.com/halcyon-suite/halcyon-for-mastodon/tree/master/public_html - PHP-based Mastodon (client? server?)
- http://cheapbotsdonequick.com/source/celesteh - Twitterbots for Dummies
- https://www.image-line.com/flstudio/ - proprietary multitrack audio editor for Windows
- http://www.shareable.net/blog/the-mutual-aid-network-takes-a-ground-up-approach-to-create-a-collaborative-economy
- https://www.getgrav.org/
- https://unhosted.org/
- https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/ -- a federated social networking standard
- http://aaron-kelley.net/blog/2012/02/automatically-reset-your-cable-modem-when-the-internet-goes-missing-part-2/ - automatically reset cable modem when internet goes out
- https://streamable.com/ -- apparently a service of Apricot Mountain Inc:
- https://musicoin.org/nav/howitworks.html
- https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/220/testosterone?act=2#play - This American Life episode about testosterone ("Infinite Gent")
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/carolinekee/distractions-come-at-me - ADD (ADHD-PI)
July
- mutual aid networks & related:
- http://theheroines.blogspot.com/ - text interviews with trans women
- http://ask.metafilter.com/310771/What-does-it-mean-to-know-youre-a-certain-gender
- https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1445999785467370&id=645746355492721&_rdr#1450546875012661 - kid comes out as gay to his mom. Link to longer YouTube vid.
- The Elderly Girl:
- http://elderlygirl.blogspot.com/ - blog; last entry is 2014-01-20
- https://www.blogger.com/profile/06676077471122625558
- http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/deseretnews/obituary.aspx?pid=183291572 - died 2016-12-30
- http://yourls.org/ - URL shortener
- https://thishosting.rocks/how-to-shorten-your-links-with-your-own-domain/#shared
- https://frama.link/ - another one, albeit all in French
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zov7PEXdVZk - inside Rolling Acres Mall, Akron OH
- https://garbados.github.io/outreachy-blog/documentation-is-hard/ - guide to writing it
- http://www.sicpers.info/2017/07/open-source-because-i-got-mine-so-fuck-you/
- http://hugin.sourceforge.net/ - panorama photo stitcher
- https://bankofthecommons.coop/fairpay/
- https://introvertdear.com/news/introverts-speak-class/
- http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/633b5583-f0b1-4917-baf5-eb02ca44552a
- https://woocommerce.com/ - open source (I think) e-commerce software
- crowdfunding stuff:
August
- https://www.buzzfeed.com/ryanmac/inside-the-storm-at-soundcloud
- https://blog.archive.org/2017/08/11/hypercard-on-the-archive-celebrating-30-years-of-hypercard/
- https://shop.fairphone.com/en/ - modular smartphone (in "pre-order" phase as of 2017-08-11)
- https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/26/people-owned-internet-exists-net-neutrality
- https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/08/09/another-city-comes-converting-local-businesses-worker-cooperatives/
- http://news.berkeley.edu/2017/08/10/emotionalacceptance/
- http://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/how-trump-ruined-my-relationship-with-my-white-mother-1797935049 -- dealing with toxic family
- Ronald Mallett - time travel researcher
- Teleportation: Photon particles today, humans tomorrow?
September
- https://www.reddit.com/r/changelog/comments/6xfyfg/an_update_on_the_state_of_the_redditreddit_and - Reddit going mostly closed-source, for corporate reasons
- https://www.osvehicle.com/projects/ - open-source electric vehicle framework; assembled products also available
- https://mst3k.interlinked.me/users/Elizafox/updates/86279 - Apple apologist bingo
- https://www.opengarden.com/how-to.html - cellphone mesh app
- https://www.gotenna.com/ - hardware that also somehow enables mesh
- https://cybre.space/users/devurandom/statuses/3476995 - how to set up a "compose key" (same as "deadkey"?) for entering diacriticals
- https://hub.libranet.de/channel/zotnews/?f=&mid=966fec4e0e7df84c754a2f94f65ca8a148d63cb6b8e7d107869a70fa42ccb875@hub.libranet.de - a bit of Spam Wars history, and why you don't have to have an SSL certificate to send email
- http://mashable.com/2017/04/05/mastodon-wont-survive/
- http://conceptnet.io/
- WordNet
- https://www.weco.io/ - cooperatively-owned Reddit alternative
- http://telegra.ph/The-conflict-between-the-moderators-of-Anticapitalistparty-and-Kittytown-09-12 - Mastodon interpersonal issues
- https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now - agrees with my assessment of HTML
- http://www.theplaidzebra.com/science-finally-supports-that-we-are-all-born-as-blank-slates-and-gender-is-merely-a-construct/ - hrmm...
- https://crimethinc.com/posters - source of memes and posters; distributed collective
- http://www.tulpa.info/what-is-a-tulpa/ - kind of like a deliberate multiple personality
- http://jon.fed.wiki/view/welcome-visitors - federated wiki
- http://www.wikihow.com/Comment-on-Tumblr -- commenting on Tumblr. Ye gods.
- http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/09/05/book-review-surfing-uncertainty/
- http://money.cnn.com/2017/09/20/technology/business/equifax-fake-site-twitter-phishing/index.html
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/gotoky/gotoky-the-most-advanced-secure-100-off-grid-commu - another cell-mesh thingy
- https://www.moo.com/us/products/cotton-business-cards.html - possibly a source for VBZ to print cards? (Dunno anything about their business ethics in general, but recycling t-shirts seems appropos.)
- https://puri.sm/shop/librem-5/ - another alternative smartphone, oriented towards security and privacy
- https://psiloveyou.xyz/a-letter-of-resignation-636c548da547 - this need for social interaction seems very familiar
October
- https://www.wired.com/story/a-patient-gets-the-new-transgender-surgery-she-helped-invent
- https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMUvSH-s1AT1Agd3IJt10MQVjDXC6mFxRbKm9jTMVi0zj8nUahBzgbB6uqn33YkRw?key=NkhOT2hVejJfbzRmQ3BfclVtY01EMV9veUF6amRR - photos of Mongolia
- https://snowdrift.coop/ -- Snowdrift: "Project categories will include software, music, movies, journalism, research, and more. Too often, these things get artificially limited technically and/or legally as part of securing funding. Our goal is to fund them so that these limitations are no longer needed."
- router-in-a-box distros:
- https://medium.com/we-distribute/got-zot-mike-macgirvin-45287601ff19 - Mike Macgirvin and development of Hubzilla
- http://www.teejeetech.in/p/timeshift.html?m=1 - backs up Linux system files in an efficient way
- https://www.thenation.com/article/the-grain-that-tastes-like-wheat-but-grows-like-a-prairie-grass/
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/8x8ppp/poetry-twitter-bots-best-twitter-bots-art-allison-parrish-everyword
- https://wikihouse.cc/about
- https://3dprint.com/57764/winsun-3d-print-fake/
- https://awoo.space/users/forestservice/statuses/2373159 - Bicalutamide (possibly superior to spiro), in case I didn't already stash this link somewhere
- http://accio-shitpost.tumblr.com/post/166576128375/trans-women-heres-some-shit-your-doctor-wont - useful HRT stuff, with sources
- https://ventspace.wordpress.com/2017/10/20/games-look-bad-part-1-hdr-and-tone-mapping/ - color curves and stuff
- https://www.percona.com/blog/2016/03/16/change-user-password-in-mysql-5-7-with-plugin-auth_socket/ - I ran into exactly this problem
- https://medium.com/a-stellar-journey/on-worldwide-consensus-359e9eb3e949
- https://neocities.org/
- https://radremedy.org/about/
- https://edgylabs.com/saudi-arabia-granted-a-humanoid-robot-citizenship/
November
- https://medium.com/breathe-publication/blockchain-just-became-obsolete-the-future-is-hashgraph-de4948609cbf
- http://www.cremnc.com/memsol.cgi?user_id=2029928 Pepper Fluke
- https://github.com/BanjoFox/fedibook - federated Facebook alternative (project by BanjoFox)
- https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2017/11/with-deletion-of-one-wallet-280-m-in-ethereum-wallets-gets-frozen/
- https://www.madebycooper.com/products/pins-patches/hard-enamel-badges/ - a place to get enamel pins made
- https://cybre.space/users/cassolotl/statuses/99002170932980520 - toot flowchart
- https://cybre.space/users/cassolotl/statuses/98998694421964075 - toot visibility truth-table
- https://techcrunch.com/2017/11/14/a-mesh-network-spontaneously-erupts-in-the-us-and-helps-connect-puerto-rico/amp/
- https://holo.host/holo-host-users/
- https://mymodernmet.com/nasa-juno-spacecraft-jupiter-images/
- https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ -- possibly cheaper cloud hosting? Need to convert euros to dollars...
- https://mastodon.technology/users/carlozancanaro/statuses/99065082264887335 - file structure management utils
- https://octodon.social/users/kensanata/statuses/99066311109917535 - another one
- https://github.com/kensanata/mastodon-backup - Mastodon backup tool/formatter
- https://framatube.org/#en -- PeerTube, currently in development
- https://tpassing.com/
- https://space.coop/
December
- https://aeon.co/essays/what-the-ctenophore-says-about-the-evolution-of-intelligence
- https://www.scuttlebutt.nz/ "a decent(ralised) secure gossip platform"
- http://scuttlebot.io/ - uses scuttlebutt
- https://github.com/ssbc/secure-scuttlebutt - implementation with security guarantees
- https://www.cis.upenn.edu/~bcpierce/unison/ - file synchronizer
- https://steadyhq.com/en#howto - another Patreon alternative? But seems to have high fees (not sure how they compare, actually)
- https://gumroad.com/ - and another (but only supports exclusive content?)
- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vbz49j/new-study-finds-that-most-redditors-dont-actually-read-the-articles-they-vote-on - pitfall for InstaGov to avoid
- http://candypunk.io/2017-12-07-hosting-a-free-tor-relay-with-aws-ec2/
- Patreon fee changes:
- https://dragon.style/users/anthracite/statuses/99134536552688196 - brief explanation of Patreon changes
- http://www.pretty-terrible.com/funny-money-patreon-style/ - more detailed explanation
- https://blog.patreon.com/updating-patreons-fee-structure/
- https://brianbalfour.com/essays/patreon-onboarding-growth
- https://twitter.com/eilatan/status/938896770108678145 - author of pretty-terrible piece also
- https://twitter.com/cwbuecheler/status/938787629738397696
- https://subfictional.com/my-theory-patreon-doesnt-want-to-be-a-money-services-business/
- https://twitter.com/jephjacques/status/939585867294928896
- https://www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2017/12/13/16772556/patreon-drops-service-fee-plan-apology-update
- https://mastodon.cloud/users/dredmorbius/statuses/37435925 - the "script" command
- Fedbook -federated Facebook replacement:
- http://time.com/4533133/5-ways-to-deal-with-a-psychopath/ - psychopathy
- http://www.earthnutshell.com/100-photos-from-north-korea-part1/
- Source code for MATE desktop wallpaper mgr:
- https://weworkremotely.com/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2017/12/11/people-are-taking-out-mortgages-to-buy-bitcoin-says-joseph-borg.html
- "self care":
- Patreon alternative:
- https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2097284 - differential privacy
- www.blipbillboards.com/cost/ digital billboards
- https://cloudfront.crimethinc.com/assets/zines/self-as-other/self-as-other_screen_single_page_view.pdf - analysis of "self-care"
- https://archive.org/details/boj1995-07-26.boj1995-07-26 - Brides of Jesus
- https://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-dunion-edd-lpc/relationship-rx-9-tips-fo_b_4890602.html - emotional intimacy (kind of stiff, but has some useful thoughts)
- https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/02/heres-what-an-actual-six-strikes-copyright-alert-looks-like/ - Comcast
- leads for building an ISP:
- http://ora.network/ - digital skill-swapping
- https://cloudvault.me/#pricing
- https://ghostbin.com/paste/q2vq2/raw
- https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/someone-explain-to-me-the-alien-alloys-before-i-fucking-1821387673
- https://github.com/Laurelai/recipehub
- https://2017.fair.coop/decisions-process/ - collective decisionmaking is difficult
- https://saijogeorge.com/strikethrough-text-generator/
- https://amp-heraldsun-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/amp.heraldsun.com/news/business/article190014834.html
- https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/12/21/voices-from-the-field-can-co-ops-displace-the-gig-economy/
- https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/02/21/solarpunk-anarchist-solutions-to-global-problems-a-quick-list/
- https://superuser.com/questions/859490/how-do-i-access-my-modems-gui-when-its-in-bridged-mode/993785#993785
- https://greyduck.net/journal/2888 - self-hosted LastFM replacement... but what's this with audioscrobbler?
- https://gumroad.com/l/kwOuS - cooking book by a Mastodonian
- https://medium.com/bread-and-circuses/how-i-got-paid-0-from-the-uber-security-bug-bounty-aa9646aa103f - Uber's security bug bounty is bogus
- https://www.starfriends.org/ - gender-flexible OkC alternative
- https://maximecb.github.io/Turing-Drawings/#4,3,0,2,0,2,2,2,1,2,3,1,2,2,2,1,0,2,2,1,1,1,3,2,2,2,3,2,2,0,1,0,2,2,2,1,2,2 - a good one; never seems to stabilize
- https://github.com/dino/dino - desktop IM client
- https://omnia.turris.cz/en/#buy - maybe vbz could be a NA distributor for these? also, .cz
- http://www.sacbee.com/news/nation-world/national/article192149904.html