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Home Assistant
Open source home automation
2019-11-30 hacking • home • automation • smarthome • iot • tootme
WWV Simulator
For when your shortwave radio is out of reach
2019-11-30 wwv • time • hacks • fun • nist • tootme
More Quadriga weirdness
Founders of a Canadian crypto company have a long history of fraud. One's death in India looks less plausible now.
2019-11-30 quadriga • fraud • bitcoin • scam • tootme
NordVPN sleaze
Allegations that NordVPN is working with a malware company to use unwitting people's computers as VPN endpoints
2019-11-29 vpn • network • privacy • nordvpn • oxynet • badtech • tootme • via:hackernews
50 best PC strategy games
An idiosyncratic list!
2019-11-29 games • pc • strategy • tootme
DDR home movies
415 hours of archival film from East Germany. Tragically bad user interface but lots of amazing video
2019-11-29 video • berlin • germany • ddr • eastgermany • history • 8mm • tootme
Independence Day (Hawaii)
Today is the anniversary of Hawai'i being guaranteed its sovereignty in a treaty with Great Britain and France
2019-11-28 hawaii • history • sovereignty • hawai'i • tootme
Spencer's statement
Fired Navy Secretary writes his view of what happened with Trump intervening to protect a war criminal
2019-11-28 trump • military • warcrimes • politics • corruption • navy
Ryan Russell
Only out LGBT player the big American sports, nice photo of him with his boyfriend
2019-11-26 lgbt • gay • happy • sports • nfl • ryanrussell • tootme
San Juan Hill
Former Manhattan non-white neighborhood, wiped out by urban renewal to make room for Lincoln Center
2019-11-26 newyork • urbanrenewal • history • nyc • manhattan • racism • lincolncenter
Watchmen Recap, Episode 6
Excellent summary. Spoilers of course, also content warning for lots of anti-Black violence
2019-11-26 watchmen • tv • recap • lynching • violence
Broader impeachment context
A simple list of various forms of Trump corruption adjacent to the Ukraine bribery that no one is investigating
2019-11-26 trump • corruption • politics • bribery • treason • ukraine
Queer like Pete
An explanation of the type A-gay that Pete Buttigieg represents. It's legitimately queer, just different from what straight America is used to
2019-11-26 america • gay • lgbt • identity • buttigieg • politics • tootme
California DMV sells you out
They make about $1.50/Californian/year selling your DMV data to companies
2019-11-25 dmv • privacy • california • tootme
RIPE's last IPv4 addresses
The Internet is officially out of IPv4 space now. Or at least, everything's allocated and now it's a reseller's market.
2019-11-25 ipv4 • internet • ripe • addresses • tootme
Trump corrupts the Navy
A dangerous escalation in Trump's expanding circle of awful actions
2019-11-25 military • navy • trump • politics • corruption
Romanov costume ball
Photos from 1903 showing lavish Russian costumes at a party. (Modern colorization)
2019-11-25 russia • costume • romanov • history • fashion • tootme
Navy Sec'y Spencer's resignation
Eloquent, honorable letter of a military man resigning because his Commander in Chief keeps interfering to defend a war criminal
2019-11-25 politics • america • military • navy • spencer
City shoe repair
Old shoe shop in Santa Fe; also sells great red chile
2019-11-23 chile • santafe • newmexico • shoes • businesses • history • tootme
Lao Gan Ma Chili Crisp
Enormous details about the Chinese (Guizhou) sauce
2019-11-23 food • guizhou • chili • chilicrisp • sauce • tootme
boojale
Latinx humor from San Antonio
2019-11-22 funny • latinx • sanantonio • texas • tejas • tootme
Hmong radio
Immigrant culture in the US has a pirate radio like thing going using conference calls as the medium
2019-11-22 hmong • culture • radio • via:metafilter
Cybertruck precedents
Photos of various ridiculous concept cars from the 70s and 80s
2019-11-22 cars • design • cybertruck • funny • tootme
ICANN / .org corruption
Evidence from the sale and commercialization of the .org domain. Names Fadi Chehade at the middle of it.
2019-11-22 internet • dotorg • icann • registrar • dns • domains • tootme
Inside WeWork
Gossipy details about Adam Neumann
2019-11-22 wework • adamneumann • tirefire • cult • business • startup • tootme
Tim Cook <3 Donald Trump
New Trump promo / ad makes heavy use of images of Apple and its CEO.
2019-11-22 trump • politics • timcook • cook • apple
Decentraleyes
Privacy add-on that tries to block CDNs from tracking you by serving local copies of things instead
2019-11-21 cdn • privacy • ads • firefox • tootme
Privacy Possum
A more aggressive Privacy Badger. Doesn't just block stuff, it tries to make things expensive for tracking companies
2019-11-21 privacy • ads • browser • addon • firefox • tootme
Weasel collaborator
Zuckerberg and Thiel and their dinner with Donald Trump. So ashamed they kept it a secret
2019-11-21 facebook • zuckerberg • thiel • politics • trump • collaborator
Responses for loyal Nixonites
1973 Art Buchwald column about Watergate
2019-11-20 nixon • politics • trump • funny • buchwald • oped
Google Gets Social!
Brand new gaming product lets users fill in their profiles with long-dead IM platforms
2019-11-20 google • stadia • obsolete • social • incompetent • funny • tootme
Space Claw temporarily crippled
One talon removed for antenna upgrades.
2019-11-19 spaceclaw • sutrotower • sanfrancisco • tootme
Fallout 76 cannibals
Hilariously written article about player-created content
2019-11-19 games • cannibalism • fallout • funny • tootme
“Water” in European languages
Nice map and explanation of etymology
2019-11-18 language • etymology • maps • water • via:Reddit
VR finger tracking
Valve index controllers track motion of all fingers. Folks are using them to talk in ASL in VRChat
2019-11-18 asl • vrchat • vr • deaf • games • valve • tootme
Start Your Own ISP
A practical guide to starting your own Internet Service Provider
2019-11-17 isp • interenet • networking • tootme
Tetrachromats
Some 12% of women are genetically capable of seeing more than the usual 3 base colors
2019-11-17 vision • color • via:hackernews • tootme
nss-tls: A DNS over HTTPS resolver for glibc
Use DNS over HTTPS in the standard way a Linux system would expect
2019-11-17 dns • dnsoverhttps • privacy • internet • linux • resolver • tootme
A 2020 contested election
Simple explication of a nightmare scenario where Trump loses the election but refuses to honor the vote
2019-11-17 trump • politics • civilwar • america • 2020 • election
Sappho and her Friend
A subreddit devoted to humorous discussion of LGBT erasure
2019-11-17 gay • lgbt • lesbian • funny • reddit • tootme
Google Pixel 4 review
First deep, thoughtful negative review I've seen. Matches all the quick hot takes at launch; Google's phone just underwhelms.
2019-11-17 google • pixel • pixel4 • phone • smartphone • android • tootme
Google Search tweaking
Details on the various ways Google sculpts its search results
2019-11-16 google • search • ads • ranking • informationretrieval • tootme
Nandi Bushell
Nine year old girl rocking the fuck out of her drum kit playing along with Nirvana
2019-11-16 nirvana • music • drumming • awesome • tootme
Trump pardons war criminals
Military men who committed murder pardoned
2019-11-16 trump • murder • warcrime • politics
Honey Cut
More investigative reporting on the Vitamin E acetate that's killing some vape users. Traces the origin of a popular adulterant that's the culprit
2019-11-14 thc • vaping • health • marijuana • tootme
Ubiquiti acts shitty
Excellent networking hardware starts sending surveillance data from your network without your permission or any way to turn it off
2019-11-14 ubiquiti • network • privacy • badtech • tootme
Facebook camera spying
Evidence the iOS app turns the camera on while you're reading your feed
2019-11-12 camera • facebook • tirefire • privacy • scandal • badtech
Stephen Miller's white supremacy
A long list of emails demonstrating his hateful thought
2019-11-12 miller • politics • trump • immigration • stephenmiller • nazi
Patriot Front
A new white supremacist group in America
2019-11-12 america • nazis • patriotfront • politics • via:metafilter
Painted Churches of the Texas Hill Country
Czech Catholics built some beautiful churches
2019-11-12 church • texas • czech • history • tootme • architecture
Naomi Wu on Metafilter
Famous tech reporter from China is in the middle of some stuff being done to her; she shows up on Metafilter to explain
2019-11-12 metafilter • naomiwu • lgbt • china • shenzen • tootme
Abar, The First Black Superman
1970s blaxploitation superhero movie. Possibly relevant to the new Watchmen show
2019-11-12 watchmen • superman • black • blaxploitation • movies • tootme
Smudge the Cat
The white cat from the women-yelling-at-cat meme
2019-11-11 cats • memes • funny • culture • tootme
Transferring PC games
Instructions for all the different game launchers to let you copy a game's files to a new PC rather than re-download them
2019-11-10 games • steam • epic • bethesda • copy • download • tootme
Kiki Scene
Lovely photo essay on the evolution of the drag ball / house culture in NYC for LGBTQ / POC youth
2019-11-08 drag • photos • lgbt • gay • tootme
Optimizing C++ and Rust
Example of optimizing code for a modern CPU to take advantage of multiple cores, cache efficiency, SIMD, etc
2019-11-07 optimization • code • simd • programming • tootme
Alito and Kavanaugh are corrupt
Posing chummily with an anti-gay group who has submitted amicus briefs for cases that are currently before the court
2019-11-07 supremecourt • justice • america • politics • lgbt • outrage
Phantom text messages
Serious system glitch betrays that carriers are storing your SMS messages for _months_, then resending them spuriously
2019-11-07 text • message • privacy • sms • cellphone • badtech • tootme
Saudis plus Travis Kalanick
Massive sovereign wealth fund from the murderous nation funds sociopath to disrupt cooking. $400M series A in convertible debt.
2019-11-07 tk • travis • traviskalanick • saudis • funding • startups • tirefire
Remove the Mona Lisa
Provocative but on-point article about the stupidest problem at the Louvre. A museum full of excellent art and everyone goes to see one meh tiny portrait.
2019-11-07 louvre • paintings • monalisa • art • museum • tootme
Nevada County on power outages
Official letter details all the harm PG&E's outages have done to the local economy
2019-11-06 nevadacounty • grassvalley • politics • pge • psps • tootme
Linux performance over time
Analysis shows core functions slower or more variable than before, a combination of complexity and security mitigation
2019-11-06 linux • performance • systems • tootme • benchmarks
Light Commands
Command someone's Alexa with a laser from hundreds of feet away
2019-11-05 laser • voice • alexa • siri • privacy • badtech • tootme
De mi Rancho a Tu Cocina
Doña Angela's hit cooking show from Michoacan, as seen on NPR
2019-11-05 cooking • mexico • food • tv • tootme
DNS Wars
A history of the key Internet protocol. Summary of Paul Vixie's talk: note he's an expert but biased historian
2019-11-05 vixie • dns • internet • privacy • tootme
Bitcoin whale
Evidence some one individual using Tether manipulated Bitcoin price in 2017
2019-11-05 bitcoin • bitfinex • tether • fraud • crypto • tootme
Tether fraud, short explanation
Not as detailed as the Oct 29 article by another author, but a good readable summary
2019-11-05 tether • bitfinex • crypto • scam • bitcoin • tootme
Adtran 411
This is the optical network terminal (aka fiber modem) my ISP gave me
2019-11-04 sonic • network • internet • fiber • tootme
Uighur Kristallnacht
Evidence of religious erasure in Western China
2019-11-04 china • uighur • muslim • religion • genocide
11,000 President Trump tweets
Detailed analysis. Over half his tweets are attacks.
2019-11-03 trump • twitter • politics
Build the Wall, for kids!
You have to indoctrinate children to be white supremacists, it doesn't just happen
2019-11-02 children • politics • whitehouse • immigration • hatred
Sleep Like The Dead
A mattress buying guide site that claims to be independent and not fraud
2019-11-02 mattress • sleep • shopping • tootme
Death Stranding review
Excellent writing by Heather Alexandra
2019-11-01 games • deathstranding • kojima • tootme
Pressure Stall
New-ish Linux performance monitoring, with CPU, IO, and Memory split into separate categories
2019-11-01 linux • performance • loadaverage • top • systems • tootme
Indie.vc 2020
Unusual VC fund is opening up to new investments
2019-11-01 indievc • vc • investing • startups • tootme
Dog chorus
New Guinea singing dogs howl as a group
2019-11-01 newguinea • dogs • howling • music • animals • tootme