h
If you're a programmer who likes the functionality that Docker provides, but you can't stand the bloat, I can't recommend this talk by Liz Rice enough. Liz's "Containers From Scratch" presentation is a classic already. One badass classic for #golang and for hacker culture as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc
The takeaway is: You don't really need Docker bloat to do containers.
h
“No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.”
- Buenaventura Durruti
h
Regarding Apple's San Francisco font licence terms...
By way of an example, reading an OpenType font face into main memory using FontForge, modifying the image of the glyph for the number zero to get a slashed zero, and then generating an SVG font from that isn't illegal in my jurisdiction. https://social.coop/media/rfX_BM8yUhz6yeHjXD0
h
Apple's San Francisco "free" font download is a work of art. Not because of the quality of the typography but because of the intellectual property engineering they've devised, comparable to the pyramids of Gizah to make it impossible to use in systems other than Apple's. Curiously, I may be able to reverse engineer it under the law of the jurisdiction where I live.
h
Not all AI-like software is evil garbage, not all software that learns about user behaviour is evil garbage, not all recommendation and behavioural monitoring software and services are evil garbage.
But all capitalist subsided for-profit AI-like recommendation software is always evil garbage without exception, 100% of the time.
If you're going to claim the opposite you will just have to show one single example of a successful capitalist such software or service.
But you can't, and you won't.
h
@jjg I know very little about ham radio, but I looked into this a few months ago.
http://blog.bliley.com/10-popular-sdrs-software-defined-radios-2018
The other thing missing in the list would be a suitable antenna.
There's also this website that I found enthralling, from my perspective of someone who was born before the internets.
http://www.websdr.org/
All connection to the outside world we had at home when I was little was listening to the BBC shortwave radio service.
It still surprises me how things have changed.
h
This is a proof-of-concept on how the SYSTEM_ALERT_WINDOW Android permission can be used by malicious software to intercept user interaction.
https://github.com/noln/system-alert-window-example
h
Going fully neoliberal on IP supremacy, EU Parliament sets out to implement DRM system for 3D-printing
h
@iona I like the Jazz Manouche channel on Jazz Radio (France),
http://www.jazzradio.fr/radio/webradio/10/jazz-manouche
That's just one of the 32 streams (they call them "les webradios") airing music around the clock. Not all of it strictly jazz, but variations of folk, soul, funk, etc. There's one for everyone.
http://www.jazzradio.fr/radio/webradio
h
Gmail messages 'read by human third parties'
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44699263
h
@absor70 It seems that some directories got cross-linked with the content of some other directories. What was used to be the root directory of that ext4 partition has been copied as a subdirectory of one of the directories. No data appears to be lost, but I still have nearly 1 TB worth of garbage left to back up just in case there's something missing elsewhere.
I'll dig up into that next weekend, for now the good thing is that everything is safe, if not exactly functional.
h
@absor70 It's a task I would have preferred to avoid, but everything will be fine anyway.
Thanks for your suggestion.
h
@absor70 Just noticed that TestDisk is available for both Linux and Windows (and possibly other systems as well)
It's pretty good, but unfortunately it won't fix the partition table automatically and it would probably take me too long to bother editing it manually byte by byte.
So I'm using TestDisk to copy files elsewhere, re-creating the directory structure on another disk. I'll delete that partition and create a brand new one afterwards.
The Tor Project
Egypt has done more than censor the internet. Egypt was found to have hijacked unencrypted HTTP connections for advertising and cryptomining 💰
A groundbreaking new report by OONI and AFTE details these anomalies and more: https://blog.torproject.org/egypt-internet-censorship
h
@sir It's strange because the TestDisk utility has found the partition and is able to read files from it, the directory structure is there intact. When I write back the corrected partition table however, Linux appears to be unable to access that partition.
I'm hard pressed to guess what's exactly wrong with it.
I may be forced to save a few things delete, then re-create partitions. More or less the same time-consuming process I was trying to avoid.
h
@absor70 Ahhh... sorry, I've used TestDisk already (the one by Christophe Grenier)
There seem to be a few utilities under the same name.
h
@absor70 That seems to be a Windows-oriented tool, isn't it?
h
@absor70 I haven't tried that, thanks for your suggestion. I'll look into it.
h
Data loss experienced in the form of a wrecked partition table on a 2TB portable hard drive resulting from unreliable electric current during travel.
Trying to reconstruct an ext4 partition using gpart. Happy days.
It's not the end of the world because this is a backup disk, but it will save me many hours (or possibly days) of restoring things back to normal if I can just recreate that partition table.
Any alternative suggestions that may possibly work are welcome.
Tux Machines
Graphics: Vulkan, RadeonSI, USB Type-C DisplayPort, Wayland, Mesa and OpenGL
http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/113164
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