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I just built linux and systemd on my router, took less than 40 minutes.
2019 is wild.
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"My third remark introduces you to the Buxton Index, so named after its inventor, Professor John Buxton, at the time at Warwick University. The Buxton Index of an entity, i.e. person or organization, is defined as the length of the period, measured in years, over which the entity makes its plans. For the little grocery shop around the corner it is about 1/2,for the true Christian it is infinity, and for most other entities it is in between: about 4 for the average politician who aims at his re-election, slightly more for most industries, but much less for the managers who have to write quarterly reports. The Buxton Index is an important concept because close co-operation between entities with very different Buxton Indices invariably fails and leads to moral complaints about the partner. The party with the smaller Buxton Index is accused of being superficial and short-sighted, while the party with the larger Buxton Index is accused of neglect of duty, of backing out of its responsibility, of freewheeling, etc.. In addition, each party accuses the other one of being stupid. The great advantage of the Buxton Index is that, as a simple numerical notion, it is morally neutral and lifts the difference above the plane of moral concerns. The Buxton Index is important to bear in mind when considering academic/industrial co-operation."
Dijkstra - The Strength of the academic enterprise
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD11xx/EWD1175.html
Great read.
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The eink typewriter I built a few months ago has been featured on a paper magazine (they apparently still exists) :D
I'm stocked!
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@kragen
> displays take 750mW for 120ms to do a 1-bit (non-grayscale) update,
I think the problem is a little bit more complex. As I mentionned in my article, you basically have 4 different way to update a pixel, 8 if you have a partial refresh system.
It'll mostly depend on the current color of the pixel as well as the desired color.
So in the case of a white -> black or black -> white full update, you're going to draw some serious intensity for at least 3 seconds where in the case of a white -> white fast refresh, you'll probably end up not drawing any power at all.
What I'm trying to say is that I think you can go pretty far in term of power efficiency with a e-ink display (mostly by leveraging their bi-stable nature).
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Hey!
I wrote a small write-up about the e-ink computer/digital typewriter I made 4 months ago.
https://alternativebit.fr/posts/ultimate-writer/
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I haven't wrote an article for nearly two months.
This has to be put to an end.
Expect a write-up about the e-ink computer I made 4 months ago by tomorrow night :)
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Today, I read more about #indieweb [1].
I really like both the project incentives as well as the methodology they seem to follow: first experiment, then refine the ux, lastly try to standardize.
To me, webmentions [2] are their biggest success. This protocol allow you to receive notifications, comments, reposts from other websites implementing webmentions[3].
It gets really nice when you combine this with an application such as bridgy [4] which will convert your facebook, twitter, google, instagram, flickr and github notifications to a webmention that you can then integrate easily to your website.
Sadly, you'll need some kind of server-side dynamic rendering to show your webmentions. This will be a problem when you use a static website generator and refuse to add any kind of client-side JavaScript.
Other than that, webmention plugins have been developped for most of the popular CMS.
[1] https://indieweb.org/
[2] https://www.w3.org/TR/webmention/
[3]https://aaronparecki.com/2018/06/30/11/your-first-webmention
[4]https://brid.gy/
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@alanz @alcinnz this is the idea behind my project. A tor-encapsulated AP federation to be more precise. Making running a node behind a NAT possible without any configuration.
I'm still wondering how to modelize a karma system on top of that.
I'll write about it when I reach a somehow definitive design.
.:Ninjatrappeur:.
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