Ben Zanin

@gnomon
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Robertson screwdriver owner, believer in the value of personal-scale computing and skeptic of the value of computing scales any larger than that

(previously https://twitter.com/gnomon ; account de-funked)

Small hacks: https://git.sr.ht/~gnomon/

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My new-to-me Braille display (which I will post more about soon, I am very excited about it) has maybe the most satisfying charging animation of any device I’ve used. It feels very pleasant and makes a nice noise. #braille

Given the general state of the world, I think it's time to remake Bad Dudes, but going the other direction.

A pair of ninjas fight through waves of US presidents to rescue a street brawler named Ronnie.

Are you a bad enough dude to rescue RONNIE!?

#Gaming

ok back to cooler stuff:

"Western OSINT researchers consistently underperform on China-focused work for one reason: they treat the Chinese-language internet as a translated copy of the English-language web. It isn't. The highest-value records β€” company registries, procurement awards, court and enforcement data, regulatory penalties, patents, disclosures β€” are indexed under Chinese names, Chinese pivot terms, Chinese identifiers, and Chinese document conventions, and they surface on different engines and official portals than the ones English-speakers default to.

This repository is a practical, bilingual playbook for doing that work well and lawfully."

#infosec #cybersecurity #threatintel

https://github.com/ArgeliusLabs/chinese_osint_search_dorks

GitHub - ArgeliusLabs/chinese_osint_search_dorks: A Bilingual Field Guide to Baidu, Chinese-Language Query Pivots, Public Records, and Verification

A Bilingual Field Guide to Baidu, Chinese-Language Query Pivots, Public Records, and Verification - ArgeliusLabs/chinese_osint_search_dorks

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if there was another limited production run for #tangara, how much would you be willing to pay for one?

Halfway through my walk, I realized I wasn't shooting in raw. Here are a couple of ones that were in raw.

The boats are with the Soligor 200mm and the iris is with the Helios 58mm.

I got myself a second-hand Sony Ξ±7 II. It arrived today, along with the adaptor for M42-mount lenses. The weather was nice, so I took it on a test drive to the local park.

OK, I used to be sceptical about mirrorless cameras, but focus peaking is so good. All these shots were taken with manual focus lenses from the 1970s. I'm shooting auto for now. All shots were edited.

The flowers were with a Helios-44-2 58mm f/2. The boats and the ducks and fish were with Soligor 200mm f/3.5. Both lenses are from the 1970s.

Steve McIntyre wrote up a page for Debian about the upcoming Secure Boot certificate expiration here: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot/CAChanges , and he's also started a list of systems with known broken firmware here: https://wiki.debian.org/SecureBoot/BuggyFirmware . Much thanks to Steve!
SecureBoot/CAChanges - Debian Wiki

I'd love to get feedback on this proposed change to bookwyrm's book page: https://github.com/bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm/pull/3988
Re-arranges book view by mouse-reeve Β· Pull Request #3988 Β· bookwyrm-social/bookwyrm

Description I quietly launched the suggestions feature on bookwyrm.social and it was immediately obvious that it was completely hidden and almost impossible to find underneath scrolling upon scroll...

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are there any good linux email clients that aren't thunderbird (which is Fine but i'm wondering what the others are like) that also, importantly, supports HTML email? I wish html email didn't exist too but it's unavoidable now sadly. also good threading/mailing list support is important

If you haven't heard of run-at-time in Emacs, now you know. Also included is a demo of using run-at-time to send yourself a future notification in macOS.
http://yummymelon.com/devnull/scheduling-future-tasks-in-emacs.html

#Emacs

Scheduling Future Tasks in Emacs

Back when I had to run a lot of long-running simulations on Unix systems, I became an ardent user of the at command, which lets one schedule a program to run at a future date. I also used at...