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Technology ConnectionsI have another video today! It's about old-school video projectors and how amazing they were.
Seriously, not only is it almost unbelievable that this even works, but it's doing full HD video with incredibly good image quality. It's also a royal PITA.
Video projectors used to be ridiculously cool
The true fascists won't tolerate discourse. Which is why they tend to silence via violence. There are left fascists and there are right fascists.
If your argument cannot stand against free speech, then it isn't a good argument. It doesn't matter what was said, words are not violence.
I'm not a republican or a democrat. I believe in free speech. I believe in debate. I believe in the ideals of public discourse. I abhor hate, and I truly disdain violence.
Funny what happens when people play with paradoxes. Just saying.
RudoInspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.
https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/
Meredith Whittaker📣Official statement: the new EU chat controls proposal for mass scanning is the same old surveillance with new branding.
Whether you call it a backdoor, a front door, or “upload moderation” it undermines encryption & creates significant vulnerabilities
Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦Also, shout-out to @letsencrypt for dramatically changing the security landscape of the Web for the better over the years.
Rarely is there an example of a project so effective and so directly improving everyone's lives, while at the same time keeping the original engineering mindset and just Doing Stuff Right™ humbly in the background.
Next November it will have been exactly a decade since LE started. We all owe them a huge 10th birthday party.
wtfismyipSaved you some fucking keystrokes. If your user-agent starts with curl, http://myip.wtf will just return your IP address as text. #curl
Fedora Project🚨 ⚠️ Emergency PSA: A critical security exploit was discovered in the xz package recently, used for compression and decompression on nearly all Linux distributions.
Rawhide users ARE impacted and should immediately STOP using Rawhide until the package update is fully rolled back. (1/3)
Security Advisory: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/urgent-security-alert-fedora-41-and-rawhide-users
AndresFreundTecI accidentally found a security issue while benchmarking postgres changes.
If you run debian testing, unstable or some other more "bleeding edge" distribution, I strongly recommend upgrading ASAP.