Ask yourself why all these companies are fighting each other to be your default DNS provider. Why do their "privacy" solutions always give them your data instead? It's valuable data and it's easy to control it yourself. #privacy https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/own-your-dns-data
26 years strong! Happy Anniversary! Happy #DebianDay!
Debian celebrates 26 years! https://bits.debian.org/2019/08/debian-turns-26.html
The next FOSDEM will take place on 1-2 February 2020 at our usual venue, Universitรฉ Libre de Bruxelles (thanks ULB!). https://fosdem.org/2020/
See https://fosdem.org/2020/practical/ for venue location and other useful information. The site will be updated further in the coming months.
Purism CTO, Nicole Faerber, nominated for โCTO of the Yearโ by Women in IT Awards.
https://puri.sm/posts/nicole-faerber-nominated-for-cto-of-the-year-by-women-in-it-awards/
I've been having a look at the live coding for a simple web game in Clojure (The parens of the dead -- https://tinyurl.com/yxpd2xju).
The series is an amazing exercise of effective and efficient programming. I wish the creator would have used magit along the way to have a look at the git workflow as well.
The creator is also known for his Emacs Rocks series (http://emacsrocks.com)
The lengths some will go to escape vendor lock-in: Two men bribed AT&T employees over $1 million to install malware that unlocked iPhones. https://www.zdnet.com/article/at-t-employees-took-bribes-to-plant-malware-on-the-companys-network/
Seriously, folks. Comparing phones' booting times sounds idiotic to me.
https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/bx64mp/librem_5_vs_android_which_boots_faster_purism/
We are proud to unveil the final hardware specifications for the Librem 5 smartphone, set to begin shipping in Q3 of 2019.
https://puri.sm/posts/librem-5-smartphone-final-specs-announced/
Cambridge, MA is moving closer to becoming the fourth city in the U.S. to ban face recognition. https://www.wbur.org/news/2019/08/01/face-surveillance-photos-ordinance-privacy
Contemporary programming cannot be understood without version control systems (particularly #git). If you really want to become a great programmer, try to push your knowledge on them.
For those times when your repo looks screwed up:
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I'm using the "Literate DevOps" approach by Howard Abrams (https://tinyurl.com/ppzvxex), which is brilliant. As a result I will get a Readme (notebook), and configuration files and scripts all parameterized.
Today catching up with my #Kubernetes from-scratch-bootstrapping in #Gentoo
What a No-Carrier Phone Could Look Like
https://puri.sm/posts/what-a-no-carrier-phone-could-look-like/
Wrapping my head around #Tensorflow.
An affordable approach is to use dictionaries for weights/biases, then functions for subparts (e.g., encoder/decoder), then functions for connecting the subparts (model).
An example here: https://tinyurl.com/y3bmgsqf
At the intersection of #AI, #ComputationalModeling and #Medicine. #Gentoo is the means and the end. Now recovering my freedom, one server at a time.