When you are in my line of work, well firstly, you don’t have any. (Zing! LOL, help, join my Patreon.) Secondly you spend a bunch of time fighting against the myths about a thousand years of history or so that we have created to feel better about ourselves. One of the really rampant myths that I d...
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Christopher Sikkenga (savethis.space)A duck video conferencing with a mallet remember that early cartoon of the duck with a mallet about to break his computer? The pandemic has forced many organizations pivot to online training. Facilitators have quickly adjusted their in-person sessions to the age of Zoom. Perhaps, too quickly. Techno...
It’s snappier than front-of-the-front-end developer.
Astronauts and a Robot. This is a frustratingly good movie. I wish I had the film-making vocabulary to describe it properly. As a fun sci-fi heist, it is a triumph. The special effects are light-years beyond Star Wars – both the original and the sequels. The multi-lingual world it presents is poss...
Hurra, die überarbeitete und erweiterte Neuauflage von “Dann haben die halt meine Daten. Na und?!” ist endlich überall durch den Freigabeprozess durch und auf allen Plattformen verfügbar! 🎉 -> zur Buch-Detailseite mit Leseprobe und Links zu “den üblichen verdächtigen” Shops Kaum zu g...
Some ways of combining security and usability for two-factor authentication on the web.
Last week Elastic announced that they were “Doubling Down” on open source by changing their licensing to a non-open license – MongoDB’s Server Side Public License, or SSPL. Let me clarify in my opinion this is not doubling down – unless, as our good friend @gabidavila highlighted, that m...
> Amazon [..] cloud is like Mc Donald’s
I love it already 🤣
https://www.percona.com/blog/2021/01/20/keeping-open-source-open-or-why-open-is-better/
The State of Virtual Reality on Linux
When I first learned about that virtual reality stuff, I was still a kid and it was through movies like The Lawnmower Man. I really did not understand what it was about: it was very confusing, some people in a place doing things… but they weren’t in that place, and those things were not real. La...
Looks like @patolinux wrote an in-depth article on virtual reality (VR) with a focus on his #linuxgaming experiences on #Linux PC: https://boilingsteam.com/the-state-of-virtual-reality-on-linux/ (and how it spoils your average 3d game).
fluffy (beesbuzz.biz)This tweet has been making the rounds in IndieWeb spaces, and reflects a thing I’ve been thinking about on and off lately for obvious reasons:
Matthias Pfefferle (notiz.blog)Ich hatte es im Januar 2019 schon einmal erwähnt: Ich arbeite gerade an einem ActivityPub Plugin für WordPress. Da ich das ganze in meiner Freizeit mache, hat das auch seine Zeit gedauert, aber gerade ist es in einem ganz stabilen Zustand… immerhin funktioniert es mit den meisten bekannten Platt...