Jack @jacksgt@mastodon.social

European website to buy used and refurbished IT hardware (including refurbished servers, workstations, desktop PCs, laptops and components):

https://www.bargainhardware.co.uk/

An entirely self-contained Puppet control repository: custom Puppet code, internal and external Puppet modules, Hiera YAML configuration and all the boilerplate around it.

https://blog.cubieserver.de/2019/self-contained-puppet-control-repository/

A livereload web server in Python: a very nice tool when you want to fiddle with some HTML/CSS/JS. Just hit 'save' in your favorite editor and it will automatically refresh the website in your browser!

https://github.com/lepture/python-livereload

Two interesting lightning talks about e-mail @ FOSDEM19

Autocrypt - Automating E-Mail Encryption:
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/autocrypt_email/

IMAP, JMAP and the future of open e-mail standards:
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/email_standards/

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And a lightning talk showcasing console oriented web services:
https://fosdem.org/2019/schedule/event/console_services/

How to create a GIF from a video with FFmpeg and ImageMagick:
> ffmpg -i input.flv -vf scale=320:-1 -r 10 -f image2pipe -vcodec ppm - | convert -delay 5 -loop 0 - gif:- | convert -layers Optimize - output.gif

https://superuser.com/questions/556029/how-do-i-convert-a-video-to-gif-using-ffmpeg-with-reasonable-quality

If you need to cut the video before that:
> ffmpeg -ss 30 -i input.wmv -c copy -t 10 output.wmv

https://superuser.com/questions/138331/using-ffmpeg-to-cut-up-video

This guy put a tremendous amount of studying into his application process. He really earned those offers.

https://blog.usejournal.com/i-interviewed-at-six-top-companies-in-silicon-valley-in-six-days-and-stumbled-into-six-job-offers-fe9cc7bbc996

http://blog.christianperone.com/2019/01/a-sane-introduction-to-maximum-likelihood-estimation-mle-and-maximum-a-posteriori-map/

Keep (Traefik) service secure and fail-safe by it sandboxing with systemd:
https://blog.cubieserver.de/2018/locking-down-traefik-systemd-service/

Computerphile has two excellent videos on the difficulties of modern IM platforms and how the Double Ratchet algorithm (also used in OMEMO) solves these.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXv1boalsDI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9sO2qdTci-s

How to check Database / Table size in MySQL & MariaDB:
https://tecadmin.net/how-to-check-mysql-database-tables-size/

Excellent article on how to implement a simple system call and how to use the creds structure in the Linux kernel.
Nice, deep information but still gets the point across quickly.

https://www.shanetully.com/2014/04/adding-a-syscall-to-linux-3-14/

I really need to keep this in the back of my head:

> Our studies suggest that after people have conversations, they are liked more than they know.
> People systematically underestimated how much their conversation partners liked them and enjoyed their company, an llusion we call the "liking gap".

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30183512

To the computer architecture people who always praise "ARM and its reduced instruction set are so clean", look at the typical bootchain of such a chip:
https://lineageos.org/engineering/Qualcomm-Firmware/

Go says Wat - differences between expected and actual behaviour in Go:
https://about.sourcegraph.com/go/gophercon-2018-go-says-wat/

Your Face is not a Bar Code - comprehensive essay against widespread face-recognition in public areas
http://polaris.gseis.ucla.edu/pagre/bar-code.html

"We treat light like a drug whose price is spiraling toward zero."

http://nautil.us/issue/11/light/drowning-in-light

Well, at least Alex Honnold's hand get sweaty when he watches himself climb, too! :D

Very good article: http://nautil.us/issue/61/coordinates/the-strange-brain-of-the-worlds-greatest-solo-climber-rp

Excellent write-up!
http://jamie-wong.com/post/color/