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When software came with books, manuals and physical things. (Yes, I still have the cloth map, too.)
“Repository unavailable due to DMCA takedown.”
Well, that’s kind of crap.
Oh, wow…there’s an IKEA museum site, and it has catalogs from 1950 onward online: https://ikeamuseum.com/sv/startsida/
Remember when the smallest amount of JavaScript would bring your desktop browser to its knees? …and now even mid-level phones (pocket computers) run nice JavaScript-based fluid dynamics. Wild.
Thanks to everyone involved in improving that chain.
Appreciations:
https://radiotope.com/blog/?p=posts/2020/07/30/Appreciations.md
(I basically hope these people stumble across this by Internet-searching their own name.)
If you love your macOS Terminal.app color scheme, and also use Blink Shell on iOS, you might want the same theme there. You’ve also been too lazy to try to recreate it, because it’s a pain. I wrote a thing just for you! (OK, I wrote it for me, but you can use it, too.)
Having tea with a Tasmanian Tiger.
Thanks to Tony Gray from AUC/X World for these.
Bonkers (in the best possible way):
https://bigboxcollection.com/#CollectionOverview
Not just if you’re a video game fan—great site design, too.
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Weekly News Summary for Admins — 2020-08-05
“So, do you think one day robots will have human rights?”
“Perhaps,” the robot said, “but first I want to see all humans have human rights.”
“What do you mean? All humans do have human rights. It’s in the name.”
“Then I first want to see all humans considered human.”
“Oh. Yeah.”
(Micro SF/F stories)
How to Make this Moment the Turning Point for Real Change
https://scriptingosx.com/2020/06/weekly-news-summary-for-admins-2020-08-05/
These will make amazing personal workstations:
https://www.raspberrypi.org/blog/8gb-raspberry-pi-4-on-sale-now-at-75/
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Oh! While it's best viewed on a laptop screen (or larger screen), it's also 'mobile-friendly'. I've just set the screen orientation to landscape, which fixes a problem with some buttons. So, it works on a phone, but really looks better on bigger screen :) https://artatomic.itch.io/data-meditations-an-abstract-koi-pond
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Today, we're releasing the full text of THE MAKING OF THE TECH WORKER MOVEMENT by @bentarnoff@twitter.com, a ~50 page zine that tells the story of how the tech worker movement was made, and how it remade the people who participated in it. https://logicmag.io/the-making-of-the-tech-worker-movement/full-text/
Wow - I had the pleasure of interacting with Tim in a previous role. He’s genuinely compassionate and concerned, so, if you piss him off, you’re doing something really wrong.
https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2020/04/29/Leaving-Amazon
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Keep a notebook where you write down your ideas, inspirations and wishes. Keep reading your old notes and improve upon them.
If something stays on the list for long enough, start working on it: you probably have given it enough thought now and it clearly seems worth it.
Short, but effective Docker-building technique:
https://duo.com/labs/tech-notes/multi-stage-builds-with-docker
Be more clever (obnoxious?) with your video conferencing!
https://duo.com/labs/tech-notes/leveling-up-your-video-conferencing-with-obs
Really fantastic work here:
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📣 Beehive 0.4.0 is out! 📣
New Hives:
- Twitch
- Instapaper
- Rocket Chat
- ipify
- Cloudflare DDNS
- Mixcloud
Added more Events & Actions for various bees and services, Mastodon among them!
...and many more new features & bugfixes!
Get it here:
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Announcing airbreak, a toolkit to jailbreak inexpensive CPAP machines to turn them into emergency #COVID19 ventilators by unlocking all operational modes and allowing custom software extensions. https://airbreak.dev/
Server run by the main developers of the project 
It is not focused on any particular niche interest - everyone is welcome as long as you follow our code of conduct!