Notices by ☆ Dmitri ☭ (yogthos@mastodon.social), page 20

magnificent biology inspired flying robots

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/4xap7p/zero-history-is-real-life-now

RGB Forest: visual geometric jazz

http://prostheticknowledge.tumblr.com/post/168118250006/rgb-forest-video-from-oscar-l%C3%B3pez

Sopranica is a surveillance-free cellular network built by volunteers from around the world. It’s easy to use and free to set up.

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/595zg5/sopranica-jmp-wom-cell-network-diy-anonymous

Earthworms Reproduce in Simulated Mars Soil—a First

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/mars-soil-earthworm-agriculture-science-spd/

TIL: output your microphone to a remote computer's speaker
dd if=/dev/dsp | ssh -c arcfour -C username@host dd of=/dev/dsp

http://www.commandlinefu.com/commands/browse/sort-by-votes

Spider drinks graphene, spins web that can hold the weight of a human.

https://www.mnn.com/green-tech/research-innovations/stories/spider-spins-web-can-hold-weight-human-after-drinking-graphene

Intel's management engine - in most CPUs since 2008 - can be p0wned over USB

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/11/09/chipzilla_come_closer_closer_listen_dump_ime/

Brand new Jupiter pics from Juno

https://www.flickr.com/photos/136797589@N04/sets/72157687076314492/

https://mastodon.social/media/KHXGDrXDVX1cWaTOffw

https://mastodon.social/media/5tlfJv7ExywtqleIcac

In Portugal has no net neutrality, and internet providers are starting to split the net into packages.

https://www.expatica.com/pt/moving-to/Setting-up-internet-in-Portugal_105624.html

https://mastodon.social/media/uVX4_FsqWKWOEyuu-RY

a good illustration of what makes Mastodon important https://mastodon.social/media/U6i_HiSAaIFq9820z9Y

MNT Reform: DIY Portable Computer http://mntmn.com/reform/

@Riley @theoutrider I find it offensive that I don't have root on my own phone. These are general purpose computers, and they're locked from you.

Google decides what runs on the phone and how it's used, it's absurd.

TIL all vanilla beans must be hand pollinated because the only species of bee capable of pollinating a vanilla bean orchid is likely extinct.

https://www.vanillapura.com/pages/vanilla-bee-extinction

aligning things using CSS https://mastodon.social/media/mQi14ht0XiT0VsEVKlk

The ISO has decided not to approve two NSA-designed block encryption algorithms: Speck and Simon. It's because the NSA is not trusted to put security ahead of surveillance.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2017/09/iso_rejects_nsa.html