Farseen @itsfarseen@mastodon.social

If you were looking to write the perfect *non-technical* book on decentralisation, what would you include? 🤔

(boosts appreciated!)

Smooth(er) Text Scrolling on HD44780 LCDs

Most Hackaday readers are likely to be familiar with character LCDs driven by the extremely common Hitachi HD44780 controller chip. If you’re looking for a cheap and easy way for your microcontroller project to … https://hackaday.com/2020/07/16/smoother-text-scrolling-on-hd44780-lcds/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1283996415908294658

- Portugal ends coal burning two years ahead of schedule -

- #Futurology - #Futures #Studies and #speculation about the #development of #humanity, #technology, and #civilization - #bot -

136,000 + Americans being for-profit covid-massacred by capitalist US elite, 740 billion bi-partisan military budget approved to massacre the world and ecology -- landback and fighting apocalyptic empires is the only way forward. Silver Spook Live!
https://twitch.tv/silverspook

The real #CancelCulture is to #WearAMask😷 and keep distance so we all together can cancel this pandemic. 🤷‍♂️

It's cool when countries can put aside all their differences and work together to do what's important: war crimes.

Do you have any foss project that is funded only by voluntary donations? Do people actually pay?

Help funding a new anime making system!

The current anime making system pays low wages to animators and working there it's unsustainable.

https://gogetfunding.com/new-anime-making-system-project/

#anime

Software Defined Radio Academy Goes Virtual

They say every cloud has a silver lining. It’s hard to find a positive among all the bad news about the current global pandemic, but it has pushed more conferences and events to allow online participation eith… https://hackaday.com/2020/07/08/software-defined-radio-academy-goes-virtual/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1281052042220515328

KeePassXC 2.6.0 Free Password Manager Released With New Light And Dark Themes, Password Checks

https://www.linuxuprising.com/2020/07/keepassxc-260-free-password-manager.html
#Linux #passwordmanager #security #windows #macos

https://libranet.de/proxy/7a/aHR0cHM6Ly8xLmJwLmJsb2dzcG90LmNvbS8tbC1fYTZSQnZja1UvWHdXeWEzektBWkkvQUFBQUFBQUFFbzAvckg2cC1HXzJOS0lxLUxScjQ0VTcwaVlNZm95bzlEYVl3Q0xjQkdBc1lIUS93MTIwMC1oNjMwLXAtay1uby1udS9rZWVwYXNzeGMtMjYwLnBuZw==.png

*KeePassXC 2.6.0 Free Password Manager Released With New Light And Dark Themes, Password Checks*
> KeePassXC 2.6.0 was released recently with improvements like an overhauled user interface with new light and dark themes, new offline password health check, check passwords against the Have I Been Pwned online service, and more.
www.linuxuprising.com https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-515f-05b7-66a5-2b7716960606

Oh that looks like a promising and relative easy way to build #android apps using #haskell https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/fq90h9/haskellandroidsdl_a_framework_for_haskell_apps_on/

Why don’t they just say who it’s for? “This position is for rich kids who can afford to live off their parents while doing a series of unpaid internships. Working class background? Get a job in a shop or something.”
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RT @AnandWrites
This, too, affects who gets to speak.
https://twitter.com/AnandWrites/status/1280556276871835649

If you have $4 and like cyberpunk, help me put some food in my kids' mouths!
"This is secretly the greatest and also funniest cyberpunk point and click adventure game on Steam. Very low-fi art style but the gags are just too good to pass up, and a lot closer to a "real" cyberpunk dystopian future than most favorites of the genre."
Itch: https://silverspook.itch.io/neofeud
Steam: https://store.steampowered.com/app/673850/Neofeud/

Instead of uploading all our information to silos like Facebook or Twitter, we should be able to host our own basic (meta)data like avatar, status updates or social connections in a standardized format.

You would then be able to grant services like Facebook or Twitter access to that data via a token, and you could control which service gets access to what kind of data.

Yes, I'm still dreaming of a semantic web.