Mastodawn

TIL: kiwix can serve wikipedia locally quite easily. For English and German wikipedia with articles and images, you need 165 GB of disk space.

Now I can do all the queries I want without straining Wikipedia servers :) Nice!

#nix #nixos #wikipedia

Pengui-ng🐧Apr 9

Electronic Frontier Foundation Apr 7

Mandated 3D printer censorware is doomed to fail for its intended purpose, but will still manage to hurt the professional and hobbyist communities using these tools. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/print-blocking-wont-work-permission-print-part-2

Print Blocking Won't Work - Permission to Print Part 2

Legislators across the U.S. are proposing laws to force “blueprint blockers” on 3D printers sold in their states. This mandated censorware is doomed to fail for its intended purpose, but will still manage to hurt the professional and hobbyist communities relying on these tools.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Pengui-ng🐧Apr 9

Electronic Frontier Foundation Apr 8

American consumers deserve the assurance that the devices they use, whether routers or other connected smart home devices, are built to withstand attacks that put themselves and others at risk, no matter where they are manufactured. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/banning-new-foreign-routers-mistargets-products-fix-real-problem

Banning New Foreign Routers Mistargets Products to Fix Real Problem

On March 23, the FCC issued an update to their Covered List, a list of equipment banned from obtaining regulatory approval necessary for U.S. sale (and thus effectively a ban on sale of new devices), to include all new routers produced in foreign countries unless they are specifically given an...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Pengui-ng🐧Dec 25

Hacker News Robot Dec 18

GitHub Actions for Self-Hosted Runners Price Increase Postponed https://pricetimeline.com/news/189

GitHub Actions for Self-Hosted Runners Price Increase Postponed - PriceTimeline

GitHub update on the postponement of the price increase for GitHub Actions for self-hosted runners to $0.002 per minute. Below is a screenshot of the update shared on X (@github).

Pengui-ng🐧Dec 15

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Benedikt Ritter (he/him)Dec 15

🎄 Advent of Donations - Day 15 🎄

Today: Another piece of my keyboard driven terminal workflow. I'm sponsoring the zoxide project! zoxide keeps a list of all the places you've visited in the terminal and let's you jump to them without having to insert the full path of the directory.

Learn more about Advent of Donations and zoxide in my latest blog post update: https://britter.dev/blog/2025/12/01/advent-of-donations/#day-15---zoxide

#AdventOfDonations #zoxide #terminal