tshrinivasan @tshrinivasan@mastodon.social

I used to ask, “If you stole Steven Spielberg’s address book, would it help you get a movie made?”

The point was that even if you had the phone numbers and names, calling them up and saying you’d stolen them wasn’t worth very much. The data has no value without trust and connection.

Now, twenty years later, all the address books have been stolen. Everyone has all the data. Identifying the right people (or spamming everyone) is easy and cheap.

Which makes the point even more urgent than ever: Without trust and connection, access to data is worthless.

— Seth Godin

https://seths.blog/2020/06/the-stolen-address-book/

#quote #trust

(I stole the entire post!)

This Sunday we have class on "Online Self Defence"

Speaker: Prasanna
Date: 28/06/2020
Time: 4PM
Join: https://8x8.vc/FSFTNOnlineSessions

We invite everyone who are interested, to participate in the upcoming knowledge sharing sessions online.
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The Folding@home software runs while you do other things - it will be working to help find cures for diseases like cancer, ALS, Parkinson’s, Huntington’s, Influenza and many others

The software runs on Linux, MacOS, or Windows and whilst I'm often a bit hesitant about the purpose or motives behind decentralised computing, this project is endorsed by numerous academic research labs and has partnerships with Intel, Nvidia, ATI, Cisco, Oracle and others.
They have also been focussing on research around Covid-19.
See Folding@home – Fighting disease with a world wide distributed super computer.
#technology #distributed #medical
https://foldingathome.org/rss.xml https://squeet.me/objects/962c3e1082c9d6f1a53c56ff145dc8f66c926350

#30DaysOfEmacs

Begin!

https://janusworx.com/blog/emacs-day-01/

This week in KDE: We really hate bugs and we want to squash them all!

https://pointieststick.com/2020/06/26/this-week-in-kde-we-really-hate-bugs-and-we-want-to-squash-them-all/

You want to learn shell scripting? Or you want to improve your existing knowledge? You can start learning Bash shell scripting for free with these resources of PDFs, video courses and interactive Websites by @soul_predator

#Linux #Bash

https://itsfoss.com/shell-scripting-resources/

I wrote about how to setup your personal #dns over HTTPS server https://kushaldas.in/posts/setting-up-a-personal-doh-server.html #DoH #privacy

You'd think a standing desk is not a big deal. I know I did. As it turns out though, it's actually a huge positive change.

here's my story: https://joshrollinswrites.com/help-desk-head-desk/20200622/

#standing #ergonomic #Productivity #desk #desktop #writing #emacs

New Pepper&Carrot "Episode 33: Spell of War" is now published online! https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/article466/episode-33-spell-of-war
#peppercarrot #krita #creativecommons #webcomic

Looking for more people to do a short video on "how I use @opensuse" or "why I use #openSUSE" - https://bit.ly/38bPJJI Let us know or do a video and tag us.

13 Things to do After Installing Linux Mint 20

https://itsfoss.com/things-to-do-after-installing-linux-mint-20/

#linux #mint #upgrade

#Emacs as a Window manager. :-)

https://invidious.snopyta.org/watch?v=MquoGuU8sHM

Took the Nextcloud Bookmarks app out of my toolchain. I just used it to get bookmarks from my mobile browser into the org file, where I store all my bookmarks in.

Now my method is to share the page with the
Nextcloud Notes widget => append to note => bookmarks.

The disadvantage is, that the app pulled some metadata into the bookmark, where now is only the link. But on the other hand it reliably works. No more missing bookmarks.

#orgmode #emacs

Trying to learn vocabulary with #pamparam in #Emacs

https://github.com/abo-abo/pamparam

#org-mode everywhere.

Today a coworker taught me in #emacs magit I can apply hunks of a git stash by expanding the hunk and pressing 'a' on each piece. This is cool!

Reminder: Emacs online APAC meetup, Saturday, June 27, 2020 at 1400 IST with Jitsi and #emacs on irc.freenode.net. DM if interested to give a talk or demo!