NerdResa @NerdResa@witches.town
Queer feminist from Berlin. Fights for social justice, does research about the Internet. Network geek. Bisexual. She/her
a week or so ago I wrote a mail to a podcast I like, telling them I think they're great.
In their latest episode they mentioned that they were very happy to have received a fan mail. Like 1 fan mail.
I thought my message would just be one of many.
So anyway, if you can, tell creators you like that you like what they do, they might not hear it as much as you'd think. :)
OpenSource development, Nextcloud, bit of a rant Afficher plus
If you've ever pulled an old webpage out the Wayback Machine, or made use of their copious collections of old audio, music and film, drop by https://archive.org/ and give them a few $$ during their fundraising drive. Keep the history of the web alive!
LosslessCut.
A no-nonsense video cutter for Linux.
Free and open-source video trimming and cutting tool. It works on audio files too.
Ridiculously simple to use. One look at the interface and you’ll know what to do.
-Supports all the major video and audio file formats.
-Faster editing with keyboard shortcuts (press ‘h’)
-Very simple to use.
-Immediate video rendering.
-No quality loss.
-Snapshot extraction from a video.
PSA for people who #code:
Looking stuff up does NOT make you bad at coding.
"Not having to look up stuff" is NOT the benchmark for a good coder, especially as coders have to look up stuff ALL THE TIME!
And I don't mean highly advanced stuff, but stuff like "How does division work again?" or "What's that function called?" or my personal favorite "How to I nest for loops in list comprehensions?".
It's ok if you have to look up stuff!
An article on Sopranica, "an open source, DIY cell network that allows smartphone owners to make calls, send texts and eventually browse the internet with total anonymity." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/595zg5/sopranica-jmp-wom-cell-network-diy-anonymous
How many #InfoSec #SysAdmin #DevOps and other techie people have dedicated servers running and not being used most of the time to their full potential? I know I do.
Surely there is a way to have them connect and create a libre cloud - think of it as SETI@Home or Folding@Home, but for running services (say, docker containers or VMs).
That could create infrastructure for people who cannot afford their own servers, but would like to play with stuff.
SYW Sew Yr Own Clothes to Fit:
The alltime 👌 💯 👍 book of fundamentals of clothesmaking is "Metric Pattern Cutting" by Winnifred Aldritch
How do I know this? My tailoring teacher stressed that this was /the/ book to have. She was right.
They've changed it a little each time it's re-issued; fashionable cuts, computers, etc, but *Any Version Is 98% Same Stuff*
With this book (& MPC4Men/Children) you can make basically any 20th-c Western clothes from scratch.
It is /dirt cheap/ 2nd hand.
Life goal:
Be the person doing the cool non-commercial or anti-corporate tech presentation. When in Q&A somebody asks how to make it more commercial, do it with corporate control, etc, call these issues what they are and refuse.
<3
#System76 will disable Intel Management engine on its Linux laptops
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/106996
Oh man, I love it when EFF gets philosophical: "DRM gets made over the course of years, by skilled engineers, at a cost of millions of dollars. It gets broken in days, by teenagers, with hobbyist equipment. That's not because the DRM-makers are stupid, it's because they're doing something stupid.”
(Also this is a terrifyingly good article: https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/10/drms-dead-canary-how-we-just-lost-web-what-we-learned-it-and-what-we-need-do-next)
DIY audio hardware protip:
Always check the solder joints. Usually, if you hear noise on the line it's not the component, it's the joint
This is a video series on soldering from the 1980s. It's by far the most comprehensive, clear, and informative series on soldering you'll ever find
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIT4ra6Mo0s&index=1&list=PL926EC0F1F93C1837
Note the lack of most fancy equipment, unlike in contemporary instruction videos. A lot of it is down to patience and the skill of the person doing the soldering
Real fucking cyberpunk isn't an overpaid security guard with more toys than a personal best buy. THIS is.
https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kz3xyz/detroit-mesh-network Ignored By Big Telecom, Detroit's Marginalized Communities Are Building Their Own Internet
@megfault Lvl 8 doggo / hacker's familiar.
Skills: Barking (in C, Python); attacking intruders and law enforcement.
Description: A doggo can be a hacker's best friend. He can help you finish your daily takeaway pizza, and he can comfort you when you despair of not finding that one bug in your code.
Additionally, if properly trained, he can bite law enforcement officers.
I'm planning to organize a chaos.social but also a general mastodon meetup as self organized session at #34c3
Who is interested?
I got a comic book in the mail from a patreon I back, and it was beautiful, but also really really dark and honest.
It's about a kid with a shitty parent meeting people on the internet in the early 90s.
http://www.incredibledoom.com/issue01 https://retro.social/media/yZbI93Cw0ZFiYfh6sjI
