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Feb 22, 2023 from Chim Kan - Startups, Fintech, Digital Transformation and Products

Top 10 Alternative Tech News That You Should Know for the Week (Week 8 February 2023)

I curated 10 news articles on AI, Business, and Sci-fi technology trends. Give some thoughts and suggest new topics or news.“My class required AI. Here’s what I’ve learned so far”The author shares ...

Feb 20, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Scoring news and email in Gnus

Executive summary Gnus, the newsreader for Emacs, can assign arbitrary scores to articles that it downloads. The scores can be used to define a user-generated, understandable AI recommendation engi...

Feb 19, 2023 from Joybuke

Biological Superiority, Software Freedom, and Mastery of Ones Own Domain

I’m sure many are aware of cyborgs, cybernetic organisms, and the general idea behind them. It’s the concept of biological life merging with artifical life. In its most classic conception, it bring...

Feb 17, 2023 from Caffeinspiration

In the desert, no service, and your partner's late to the rendezvous. What now?

Let’s say, purely hypothetically, that you’re in Joshua Tree National Park. Your partner dropped you off in the morning, and you’ve spent the day hiking and scrambling in pretty populated areas of ...

Feb 12, 2023 from nutcroft

One thought at a time

There is a graffiti piece in Finsbury Park that reads “Poor is cool”. “Poor is definitely not cool”, Charlie responded when she saw this. “Rich and privileged people say that because they’ve never ...

Feb 05, 2023 from Volution Notes

Another take on the binary to text encoding

A few words about one of my latest open-source projects, `z-tokens`, that among other thinks, also tries to tackle this problem but providing more added value compared to existing solutions.

Feb 02, 2023 from nutcroft

How to: Run your own nostr relay

This is how to setup a nostr relay, fast! First, get an Ubuntu 22.04 VPS somewhere. Second, add its IP to a domain name. Then: ssh root@yourdomain.com apt update apt upgrade apt install -y curl bui...

Jan 25, 2023 from Lorenzo Setale's Blog

Happy to give back, happy to pay

I miss the days when I bought software on my Mac instead of using a subscription. More and more software and services are moving to subscription-based models. In this blog post, I want to share my ...

Jan 25, 2023 from micheal@ecliptik.com

Tailscale on the DevTerm R-01

Intro Recently I assembled a ClockworkPi DevTerm R-01, a cyberdeck-like terminal with a RISC-V compute module. While the retro-future design of the DevTerm really appealed to me, and I’ve also been...

Jan 24, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

"no such file or directory" after enabling CGO in Docker

Quick fix for the "no such file or directory" error after enabling CGO, when running in a scratch docker image.

Jan 24, 2023 from nutcroft

Analysing The White Lotus — Season 1

This contains spoilers about season 1 of The White Lotus. I. The White Lotus Season 1 (2021) is about freedom: Black masseuse is exploring an opportunity to become free of her job enslavement. Trop...

Jan 18, 2023 from Tim Bachmann's Blog

Running the WeeChat IRC Client on a VPS in Docker

Walkthrough on how to setup the WeeChat IRC client in docker.

Jan 18, 2023 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

I am moving to Finland

This is what I was packing for The past two weeks or so have felt like a fever dream. It’s been a blurry daze ever since I received my passport from the Finnish Embassy in New Delhi. I still can’t ...

Jan 16, 2023 from Home on Random effect

Web processing with Gnus

This is a post about reading news using an Emacs package called Gnus instead of a traditional web browser. Gnus gets a lot of bad press from the Emacs community, but I think it is a very effective ...

Jan 14, 2023 from Anirudh Oppiliappan

2022 in review

Late again because I was busy packing Quite possibly the “fastest” year I’ve experienced—it feels like yesterday when 2022 began. I think I did a lot last year, contrary to previous years where I f...

Jan 13, 2023 from Joybuke

Ideology obscufation and abstractions

Most ideologues are rolling in their grave due to their follower's abstraction obsessions. This article is a more refined version of a draft of a previous article I had. The previous article attack...

Jan 12, 2023 from Latest entries from petermolnar.net

I ended up with a Zigbee smart home because the alternative was hurting my ears

I've been eyeing with FIR (far infrared) heating for years, long before we got to buy our current house. Now we have it, and while it's certainly not a cheap way to heat, it feels lovely; getting h...

Jan 07, 2023 from [tekovic.com~]#

Configure Lenovo Thinkpad T480s fingerprint reader on Debian Bullseye

The fingerprint sensor on Lenovo Thinkpad T480s is not supported by libfprint, so you can’t use it out of the box. Thankfully, there’s a project called python-validity based on open-fprintd that’s ...

Jan 03, 2023 from Joybuke

The Law Is the Internets Biggest Enemy

None of this is legal advice, I am not a lawyer, and this notice is legally required for me to say People like to shit on libertarians a lot, and sometimes for good reason, however, if there is any...

Jan 03, 2023 from William Lyon's Blog

Spatial Search Functionality With Neo4j

Radius Distance, Bounding Box, and Point in Polygon Search With Graphs