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January
- https://octodon.social/users/LenieBlue/statuses/99241517076908220 - the neural network zoo (diagrams of numerous new architectures)
- http://www.loamlands.com/new-blog/2016/9/13/sweet-high-rise - includes a bit of Durham and NC Pride history
- https://randomascii.wordpress.com/2018/01/07/finding-a-cpu-design-bug-in-the-xbox-360/
- https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/01/08/2142243/western-digital-my-cloud-devices-have-a-hardcoded-backdoor
- http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/apps/a25736/signal-app-guide-how-to-use/ - Signal
- https://startyourownisp.com/
- https://www.additudemag.com/symptoms-of-add-hyperarousal-rejection-sensitivity/ - ADHD, rejection sensitive dysphoria
- https://www.hetzner.com/cloud?country=us - cloud hosting
- https://www.theverge.com/2017/12/30/16829804/browser-password-manager-adthink-princeton-research - a rather fiendish scheme
- https://social.weho.st/@Fairphone - Fairphone
- https://wiki.chatons.org/doku.php?id=en:charter
- https://aardwolf.social/
- http://wiki.asexuality.org/WTFromantic
- ADHD stuff:
- Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria:
- https://www.starfriends.org/ - OkCupid alternative
- https://github.com/zigg/fediplay "a Mastodon client that automatically plays your friends' music"
- https://solarpunkanarchists.com/2016/02/21/solarpunk-anarchist-solutions-to-global-problems-a-quick-list/ solarpunk
- https://nonprofitquarterly.org/2017/12/21/voices-from-the-field-can-co-ops-displace-the-gig-economy/
- https://entropynet.net/ "An IRC network for enby furs and friends"
February
- https://yunohost.org/#/whatsyunohost
- https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2017/ - hard drive failure rates (via Serif)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l06KEWCcnQE - 1990-04-06 video, ~45 minutes long - typical day of a high-school student
- https://copenhagensuborbitals.com/
- https://www.everythingcli.org/ssh-tunnelling-for-fun-and-profit-autossh/ - if only it could work with Caja
- http://www.ncis.org/ncis-research-grant
- 2018-02-12 Developing a Permanent Treatment for Lactose Intolerance Using Gene Therapy
- LaTeX stuff:
- http://www.lyx.org/
- https://www.sharelatex.com/ - lets you preview output on web
- TexMaker
- https://thetakeout.com/there-s-a-secret-meaning-behind-costco-s-prices-1823076306 - hacking Costco
- OpenGraph: see Facebook Platform#Open Graph protocol
- https://blog.emacsen.net/blog/2018/02/16/osm-is-in-trouble/ - OpenStreetMap
- https://medium.com/tootsuite/this-isnt-about-social-media-this-is-about-control-112dea8a21fd - Mastodon
- https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html
- https://www.behance.net/gallery/61907159/UK-National-Rail-Maps
- https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/150551-the-500mw-molten-salt-nuclear-reactor-safe-half-the-price-of-light-water-and-shipped-to-order
- https://www.wired.com/2016/07/real-hackers-behind-mr-robot-get-right/
- https://www.vox.com/first-person/2018/2/19/17017976/autism-average-age-death-36-stress - autism
- https://hydrusnetwork.github.io/hydrus/ - desktop media organizer
- http://theoraah.tumblr.com/post/142300214156/understanding-the-spectrum - autism comic
March
- https://medium.com/@Gargron/twitter-is-not-a-public-utility-2bc49567152b - Mastodon vs. Twitter, and why federation is important
- https://glitch.social/@serafin/99645404299941417 - looks like it could be important info about obtaining Mastodon auth token
- .bmp:
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTn56jJW4zY - brief story about Margaret Hamilton and the moonshot code
- http://thecodelesscode.com/case/234 - related
- http://www.loopinsight.com/2018/03/13/scott-kelly-spent-a-year-in-space-and-now-he-has-different-dna-than-his-identical-twin-brother/
- http://beneficialstate.org/silver-tsunami-employee-ownership-solution-cooperatives-democracy-at-work-institute/
- https://medium.com/tootsuite/the-mastodon-spring-creators-release-65f60d0edb8c
- http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/07/do-you-deserve-a-diamond-engagement-ring-but-cant-afford-it-heres-your-chance-6306796/ - Ginny McQueen history
- https://askubuntu.com/questions/19430/mount-a-virtualbox-drive-image-vdi - how to copy a VirtualBox .vdi file to a mountable image
- https://www.sfchronicle.com/bayarea/article/The-Silicon-Valley-quest-to-preserve-Stephen-12759775.php#photo-15234266 - Stephen Hawking voice emulation Raspberry Pi
- https://www.twingalaxies.com/feed_details.php/777/esportscom-has-failed-to-pay-multiple-employees-for-months-of-work+&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us
- http://gource.io/#introduction
- https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite - distributed relational db based on SQLite
- https://monsterpit.net/@daggertooth/99758674665873612 - the problem with Tootdon
April
- https://dupeguru.voltaicideas.net/ - file de-duplication with a GUI (includes deb package)
- https://sovrin.org/ - portable decentralized identity
- https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/04/brexit-doesnt-have-mean-deleting-domains - .eu
- https://www.popsci.com/new-liquid-based-3d-printer-takes-minutes-not-hours - developed at UNC-CH
- https://symless.com/synergy - nonfree, but source is available
- https://www.brahma.world/synergy-stable-builds/
- Lottie says "can do it easily using https://paulschou.com/tools/xlate/ "
- https://jbt.github.io/markdown-editor/ - live preview as you type; good for editing Gists
- http://www.focustheweb.com/2015/04/06/a-basic-collaboration-workflow-on-gist.html
- https://unascribed.com/gif2vp9 - .gif to .vp9 converter
- https://github.com/gbraad/gauth/ - A simple application for multi-factor authentication, written in HTML...
- https://rclone.org/ - like rsync for digital storage services (like Amazon S3)
- http://www.protoc.org/blog/2014/11/23/first-thoughts-on-the-new-openbsd-httpd-server/ -- OpenBSD httpd
- https://dbv.vizuina.com/ - database version control (web-based, looks like?)
- https://github.com/ErikDubbelboer/phpRedisAdmin - for Redis dbs
May
- Liberapay: site, Mastodon
- Funkwhale: site, GitLab
- instance: https://funkwhale.mastodon.host/
- https://coderwall.com/p/kdoqkq/pbcopy-and-pbpaste-on-linux
- https://beakerbrowser.com/ - truly distributed web apps using the DAT protocol
- https://cybre.space/@uranther/99865300932733408 - links to media center OS for Raspberry Pi
- https://heeris.id.au/2013/this-is-why-you-shouldnt-interrupt-a-programmer/ - coding, which is maybe a subset of software development
- http://www.mdmag.com/medical-news/hormone-therapy-for-transgender-patients-potentially-safer-than-previously-thought - HRT
- https://escargot.log1p.xyz/ - replacement MSN server
- https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume - like Medium, but federated with ActivityPub
- https://gitlab.com/queertypes/adventurers-code - code of conduct example
- https://accessibility.blog.gov.uk/2016/09/02/dos-and-donts-on-designing-for-accessibility/ - accessibility, web design
- https://medium.com/chmcore/the-eudora-email-client-source-code-940197e0618 - Eudora
- https://yro.slashdot.org/story/18/05/24/1633218/woman-says-alexa-device-recorded-her-private-conversation-and-sent-it-to-random-contact-amazon-confirms-the-incident
- https://www.loomio.org/d/jgGJ8ucA/proposal-to-take-over-a-mastodon-hosting-service-hosting-external-instances-but-also-to-enable-the-creation-of-thematic-sister-coop-instances - looks like MaaStodon is being transferred to social.coop
- https://github.com/FredrikNoren/ungit - Git
- http://science.sciencemag.org/content/347/6227/1190 - molecular synthesis
June
- https://pixelfed.org - federated image sharing
- https://news.slashdot.org/story/18/06/01/2034202/microsoft-is-talking-about-acquiring-github-says-report
- https://durhambeltline.com/
- https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/type-2 - another personality-type system (see typetalk, Color Wheel, D&D alignments)
- https://blog.archive.org/2018/06/05/internet-archive-code-for-science-and-society-and-california-digital-library-to-partner-on-a-data-sharing-and-preservation-pilot-project/
- MMMBop:
- https://www.pullapart.com/inventory/interchangeable-parts/
- https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2018/06/04/microsoft-github-empowering-developers/ - Microsoft's acquisition of GitHub
- Things to listen to:
- https://gitea.io/en-us/ - self-hosted GitHub-ish thing
- http://strlen.com/treesheets/ - like mindmap meets spreadsheets
- https://www.crisistextline.org/texting-in/
- http://www.worldofindie.co.uk/?p=682 - published images of Luna were deliberately made low-quality; originals now available
- http://amitransgender.net/ - some useful links
- Structural connections in the brain in relation to gender identity and sexual orientation
- https://www.infoq.com/news/2018/06/developers-should-abandon-agile - Agile
- https://erowid.org/experiences/exp.php?ID=23803
- https://twitter.com/DurhamComplete/status/1009424056490319872 - NC 147 pedestrian crossings
- https://github.com/Plume-org/Plume - federated blogging software
- Lollipop Cloud
- https://github.com/jfmcbrayer/brutaldon - Mastodon front end
- https://forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=48441 -- odd tech dispute about FileZilla malware-like behavior
- https://polrproject.org/ - link shortener
- https://github.com/polymerwitch/FlockTogether
- http://www.afieldguidetoearthlings.com/preview.html - neurotypicality
- http://snagglebox.com/article/perseveration/
- https://dev.glitch.social/@hoodie/100244772561685883 - important features in a federated social network
- Constituent Meeting to ForkOffTogether
- https://medium.com/@cassolotl/i-left-mastodon-yesterday-4c5796b0f548
- https://medium.com/we-distribute/faces-of-the-federation-christopher-allan-webber-on-mediagoblin-and-activitypub-24bbe212867e
- Angular:
- https://www.udacity.com/course/how-to-use-git-and-github--ud775 - online course
- https://trade.kraken.com/markets/kraken/btc/usd - Bitcoin exchange, rather sophisticated UI
- https://www.theguardian.com/society/2018/jun/30/nothing-like-broken-leg-mental-health-conversation
- rejection-sensitive dysphoria:
- Social_rejection#Rejection_sensitivity
- Avoidant personality disorder -- how is this different?
- Slack alternatives:
- https://github.com/mattermost - the official Mattermost page doesn't mention that this is available; written in Golang and React
- Zulip: Python, React, Electron
- https://github.com/RocketChat (https://rocket.chat/install) - Meteor
July
- http://sorcyress.tumblr.com/post/175409823637/ceescedasticity-jumpingjacktrash-vastderp
- http://radiooooo.com/
- http://neurocosmopolitanism.com/neuroqueer-an-introduction/
- https://ts4jc.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/the-haney-place-using-a-ramshackle-farmhouse-to-explain-blending-in-public/
- http://www.starobserver.com.au/news/international-news-news/world-health-organisation-declassifies-trans-mental-illness/169653
- https://www.ghacks.net/2018/07/03/researchers-release-deda-to-anonymize-laser-printer-tracking-dots/
- https://start.coop/press-releases/ - co-operative incubator
- http://mntmn.com/reform/reform-beta-1.html - DIY portable computer
- https://github.com/liberapay/salon/issues/232 - MangoPay has cut off LiberaPay for "technical reasons"
- https://github.com/SirCmpwn/fosspay
- https://www.energylivenews.com/2018/07/11/researchers-make-a-splash-with-uranium-extraction-from-seawater/
- Communications, Computer, and Software Workers Industrial Union 560
- https://lollipopcloud.solutions/
- https://taiga.io/
- https://github.com/taigaio - installation looks complicated
- https://opensource.guide/
- https://webamp.org/
- https://thedailywtf.com/articles/comments/classic-wtf-flawless-compilation
- https://www.statnews.com/2018/07/25/ibm-watson-recommended-unsafe-incorrect-treatments/
- https://nixos.org/nixos/about.html
- https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/43413/how-can-i-safely-remove-a-sata-disk-from-a-running-system - interesting details about interacting with drive hardware in Linux
- https://linux.slashdot.org/story/18/07/28/1428250/german-state-plans-to-migrate-13000-workstations-from-linux-to-windows
- https://github.com/atech/postal - "a complete and fully featured mail server for use by websites & web servers." Interface looks nice. What language?
- https://www.renogy.com/products/generators/
- https://fourthievesvinegar.org/ - DIY pharma
August
- https://vuvuzela.io/ - via Garbados
- Firefox DNS change:
- http://iangreenleaf.github.io/Scisr/ - PHP CLI refactoring tool
- https://github.com/websocket-client/websocket-client#wsdumppy -- websocket client in Python, for testing wss:// connections
- https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/562544287/pillowfortio-a-better-social-media-platform -- Pillowfort -- is it federated?
- https://mashable.com/2014/05/08/app-net-potential/#by32B3t.BOqK
- https://web.archive.org/web/20150321152542/http://www.revolution60.com/page2/index.php?id=84850310691- App.net
- https://bencane.com/2015/09/22/preventing-duplicate-cron-job-executions/ - cron
- Apache Kafka "open-source stream-processing software platform"
- https://twitter.com/atomicthumbs/status/1032939617404645376 - technical problems with Tesla's car software
September
- https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/08/31/2345253/procrastination-is-more-about-managing-emotions-than-time-says-study
- https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-45117163 -- assisted suicide for mental illness
- https://www.vox.com/2018/9/4/17486110/metabolism-diet-fast-weight-loss
- https://www.wired.com/story/tyranny-neurotypicals-unschooling-education/
- http://icepeople.net/2016/06/10/riches-and-refugees-people-ask-about-buying-pyramiden-weekly-heres-one-guys-reason-and-what-hes-eyeing-now/ - Svalbard
- https://themighty.com/2018/06/anxiety-from-complex-trauma/
- http://www.rapideuphoria.com/ - another interpreted server language
- https://www.cnet.com/news/tech-employees-likely-to-suffer-from-impostor-syndrome/
- https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/13/new-york-times-digital-standard-market-cashierless-store-san-francisco.html
- https://hackaday.com/2018/09/20/one-mans-journey-to-become-his-own-isp/
- http://haya2now.jp/en.html - very detailed tracker for a particular satellite
- https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2018/09/23/why-im-leaving-chrome/ -- Google Chrome login change, why.
- https://mastodon.social/@hntooter/100785608131114110 - related shenanigans
- https://theblogpress.com/blog/seeing-weird-characters-on-blog-how-to-fix-wordpress-character-encoding-latin1-to-utf8/ -- fixing munged chars
- https://blog.joda.org/2018/09/do-not-fall-into-oracles-java-11-trap.html
- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2211 - I posted instructions on how to activate the re-link button in Signal
- https://slashdot.org/story/18/09/24/1949250/machine-learning-confronts-the-elephant-in-the-room - AI doesn't really understand what it's looking at
- https://github.com/Microsoft/MS-DOS - MS-DOS source code
- https://www.squareonevillages.org/toolbox - Tiny House Village Toolbox
October
- https://prismaticspeech.com/speech-services/transgender-vocal-training/
- https://www.bountysource.com/ - software bounty tracker
- Solid:
- https://hackaday.com/2018/09/26/hack-my-house-raspberry-pi-as-infrastructure/
- https://youbroketheinternet.org/
- https://science.slashdot.org/story/18/10/07/0146243/scientists-connect-the-brains-of-three-people-allowing-thought-sharing -- "thought-sharing" seems an overstatment
- https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2017/12/steam-drops-bitcoin-payment-option-citing-fees-and-volatility/
- https://plus.google.com/+MarkWelch/posts/j1XM53NwEDU - more dissing of PHP
- https://translifeline.org/microgrants
- https://www.androidauthority.com/lineage-os-devices-908496/ - LineageOS is an alternative to Android
- https://www.lifewire.com/sms-gateway-from-email-to-sms-text-message-2495456 - email-to-SMS
- Lack of these things may cause email to get rejected or spammed:
- DKIM is basically, you set up a public key as a TXT record in DNS and you sign all outgoing emails
- SPF simply limits what IPs can send which is not as secure... you can maliciously spoof those with a router MITM
- DMARC isn't as required but it sets up a way for you to receive reports on SPF etc. failures
November
- https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00153EYTO/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_ep_dp_qipWBbDQEW3T2 - 30 Amp automatic power transfer switch
December
- https://www.findhorn.org/about-us/ - a spiritual retreat (should start a collection)
- http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20180814-norways-plan-for-a-fleet-of-electric-planes - electric aircraft projects
- https://www.theverge.com/2018/5/8/17332070/google-assistant-makes-phone-call-demo-duplex-io-2018
- https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/
- https://intersectionalneurodiversity.wordpress.com/2017/11/19/new-research-suggests-social-issues-are-down-to-neurotypicals-more-than-autistics/
- https://github.com/signalapp/Signal-Desktop/issues/2211#issuecomment-425086661 - how to re-register in Signal app
- https://s.qbfreak.net/vt320-systemd