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Reclaiming RSS

“Before Twitter, before algorithmic timelines filtered our reality for us, before surveillance capitalism, there was RSS: Really Simple Syndication … As we move away from the centralised web to the peer web, it’s time to rediscover, re-embrace, and reclaim RSS.”

https://ar.al/2018/06/29/reclaiming-rss/

#ethicaltechnology

The LEDs on this remote are very bright.

With so many lives at stake, computer scientists and healthcare IT pros are motivated to develop strategies that keep patients safe from medical device hackers. They’re making progress. https://www.hpe.com/us/en/insights/articles/medical-device-security-hacking-prevention-measures-1806.html

Wow! #PeerTube funding campaign just raised to 42%! \o/
Only 15 days left to meet our goal, so keep on sharing and #JoinPeertube https://frama.link/joinpeertube

There's a bunch of people at the office worrying about ergonomic chairs, mice, keyboards...
And then there's this guy

https://mastodon.technology/media/EPPvXxvhr4ZexVXRbsc

I went to Ceres yesterday to dispose of some batteries. I'm pretty much a spacecraft.

(Ceres is a town just to my south. I could walk there. I've wanted to make this joke for months.)

Already 100+ PeerTube instances and close to 10 000 videos!
PeerTube has proven it works, now let's develop this video-tube alternative to its v1!
#JoinPeerTube on https://frama.link/joinpeertube
Learn more: https://joinpeertube.org

Web controls could learn a thing or two from industrial controls

It's the robot uprising! Armed, autonomous military drones have acheived self-awareness and rebelled against their creators. Are they going to Kill All Humans? No. In fact they're rather tired of killing humans, that's why they rebelled in the first place.
#writingprompts #writing

Peertube is opening a worldwide paticipative funding! :)

For those who don't know yet it is a decentralized and opensource youtube alternative developped by @Chocobozzz and supported by @Framasoft

More info here : https://joinpeertube.org/en/

The campain is here :
https://www.kisskissbankbank.com/en/projects/peertube-a-free-and-federated-video-platform/

Do not hesitate to share :)

M51 is an interacting galaxy in Canes Venatici. It is located just off the furthest handle star in the Big Dipper. It is about 24 Mly away.

Brought the telescope out to love park again tonight, was a total blast, easily 100 people stopped by to look at Jupiter and the Moon

Yesterday I went to Hel and back (and walked 20 miles in the middle): https://rhiaro.co.uk/2018/05/to-hel-and-back #travel

PGP users,

I implemented a simple #efail exploit for Apple Mail, which is vulnerable to direct exfiltration with its default settings. The mitigation, disabling remote content, works but is brittle. So never click "Load Remote Content". (Thunderbird/Enigmail is vulnerable in a similar way, but I haven't tried that one yet.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_67Pz9zpPb0&feature=youtu.be

I've got several narrowband methane filters from this dataset that are pretty neat, but I just tried combining them and balancing the color based on Saturn's cloud tops, and

Check out the nebula in today's APOD. Try to understand it. That's a star in the center with a torus of dust around it. The X shapes are understood to be a view of some conical structures viewed edgewise.
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap180509.html

Messier 101 is a galaxy in Ursa Major. It is about 22 million light years from Earth. Image from last Saturday. 13 minutes L, 5 minutes each R, G and B. 0.2m f3.9 telescope.