Be authoritative. Tell your readers what they need to know, not what you might ideally like them to know. Tell them also what they need to think about it.

Save your readers time. If you are summarising a file of documents for them, you do not need to give them the experience of reading it themselves. Don’t use a piece of writing as a dumping ground for evidence; use the evidence sparingly to illustrate your argument.

Pick your battles. You may need to prove some points laboriously, especially if the ground is controversial. But you can’t do this across the board. Work out where a blow-by-blow account is necessary and where a simple allusion will suffice.

Don’t include details just because they are fun or interesting. If they don’t serve your argument or your story, they should go.

Observe the 5% rule. Any text, whether it’s a 1,000-page novel or a tweet, can be reduced by 5% without serious sacrifice of meaning. In fact, the true percentage is probably higher …

Rewritten in Rust: Modern Alternatives of Command-Line Tools
https://zaiste.net/posts/shell-commands-rust/

Following the success of our first smartphone, the Pro1, team F(x)tec have been working closely with our customers and the wider tech community to bring you a special version of our award winning phone.

In partnership with XDA (one of the largest online tech communities) we present the Pro1-X; the smartphone that gives you control. Control over your data, control over your privacy, and choice over your software. For the first time, a high spec smartphone with your choice of Android, Lineage OS or Ubuntu Touch OS out of the box.

So you just got your first longboard or cruiser board, now what!? Landyachtz team rider Alex Hannigan gives you all the tips he wishes he had when he started skateboarding. You’ll learn about foot placement, how to push, footbrake, turn, carve and whether you are goofy or regular! We’ll also give you some helpful tips like what to look for when picking a spot to skate. Comment below to let us know what other trick tips you’d like Alex to teach you.

Im Juni 2020 hat die Kommission eine öffentliche Konsultation über ihr lang angekündigtes Gesetzespaket zu digitalen Dienstleistungen gestartet. Rückmeldungen zu Online-Sicherheit, Haftung, Marktbeherrschung, Online-Werbung und intelligenten Verträgen etc. sollen bis 8. September eingeholt werden. Einerseits geht es darum, wie mit dem Digital Services Act die in der E-Commerce-Richtlinie aus dem Jahr 2000 festgelegten Regeln aktualisiert werden könnten. Andererseits sollen sogenannte Ex-ante-Vorschriften aufgestellt werden. Damit soll auf Märkten, die durch große Plattformen geprägt sind, fairer Wettbewerb auch für kleine Akteure gewährleistet werden können. Die Ergebnisse der Konsultation sollen in den Rechtsakt, der Ende 2020 von der Kommission veröffentlicht werden soll, einfließen. Umso wichtiger erscheint eine rege Teilnahme an diesem Konsultationsprozess.

Der Digital Services Act wird die Akteure, InteressenvertreterInnen und Stakeholder jahrelang beschäftigen

Whether you’re keeping safe from a pandemic, cosplaying, scaring passersby, practicing kissing, or just giving a lonely alien a hug, we’ve got just the thing for you! This Facehugger mask was patterned by the incredibly talented LeatherHub Patterns and is laser cut from 4-5 oz vegetable tanned leather. This li’l leather beauty is available as a completed mask or as a kit – the kit has everything you need to build, connect, sew, dye, and mold your Facehugger to your liking. One kit contains 60 laser cut leather pieces and requires anywhere from 4-10 hours of assembly, perfect for a weekend of crafting.

Here's another iteration on the Zero Terminal projects I've been working on for a few years. For those of you who haven't seen them, I've been trying to design the most usable all in one Pi Zero computer out there.

This version departs a little from the previous ones, as it is more focused on modularity, and forgoes a keyboard as standard, though it is possible to add one, as I'll show you in a bit. The goal here was to create something very versatile, allowing for all sorts of use cases to unlock the Zero's potential. Anyways, let's take a look at it.

I have been running a full IBM System/370 Mainframe on a $20 Raspberry Pi Zero for ~5 months. Thousands of lines of COBOL and HLASM running flawless. Tested an entire bank’s mainframe COBOL on it.

That’s fundamentally all that the STUN protocol is: your machine sends a “what’s my endpoint from your point of view?” request to a STUN server, and the server replies with “here’s the ip:port that I saw your UDP packet coming from.”

For example, we’ve observed that the UC Berkeley guest WiFi blocks all outbound UDP except for DNS traffic. No amount of clever NAT tricks is going to get around the firewall eating your packets. So, we need some kind of reliable fallback no matter what.

You could implement relays in a variety of ways. The classic way is a protocol called TURN (Traversal Using Relays around NAT). We’ll skip the protocol details, but the idea is that you authenticate yourself to a TURN server on the internet, and it tells you “okay, I’ve allocated ip:port, and will relay packets for you.” You tell your peer the TURN ip:port, and we’re back to a completely trivial client/server communication scenario.

Interactive Connectivity Establishment (ICE) protocol. Like STUN and TURN, ICE has its roots in the telephony world, and so the RFC is full of SIP and SDP and signalling sessions and dialing and so forth. However, if you push past that, it also specifies a stunningly elegant algorithm for figuring out the best way to get a connection.

Ready? The algorithm is: try everything at once, and pick the best thing that works. That’s it. Isn’t that amazing?

Let’s look at this algorithm in a bit more detail. We’re going to deviate from the ICE spec here and there, so if you’re trying to implement an interoperable ICE client, you should go read RFC 8445 and implement that.

Several DNS-related programs want to automatically manage the DNS name server and resolution configuration file at /etc/resolv.conf. In some situations, you may want to manage this file yourself. Here is how you identify which programs are automatically managing this file on your Linux distribution, and how you can take back manual control of the file.

There are quite a few different tools that fight to control a Linux system’s DNS resolution configuration file /etc/resolv.conf including netconfig, NetworkManager, resolvconf, rdnssd, and systemd-resolved.

After a prolonged period of inactivity, new devs have taken over to support
htop. The new 3.0 release features lots of improvements (
https://github.com/htop-dev/htop/blob/master/ChangeLog ), mostly to
underlying low-level items.

Since 2012, the Raspberry Pi nano computer has become an increasingly important part of the DIY and « maker » community. The increase in power of the Raspberry Pi over the years offers very interesting possibilities for radio amateurs. Indeed, it allows not to permanently monopolize a PC in the decoding of frames with software like WSJT-X, FLDIGI, etc…, without forgetting the possibility to control the Raspberry Pi remotely and thus to be able to work outside the radio shack as I can sometimes do on my couch. Moreover, this nano computer is now widely used in any Hotspot (DMR or D-STAR).

Researchers from Intel Labs have developed an open-source 3D printed smart robot that it is possible to build for less than $50.

Once combined with a modern smartphone, the additive bot is able to navigate autonomously, and its real-time sensing capabilities enable it to conduct recon tasks such as following people. The PLA-based Openbot has also been designed to be easy to build too, and its STL files have been made freely available online. By making their design public, the researchers hope that creators will tinker with and improve their robot to continue developing new applications for it in the future.

In the 8-bit age, data screeched slowly off tape decks. In the 16-bit era, floppy drives whirred, clinked and chunked according to the peculiarities of the system's disk controller. For the BBC's "Boring Talks"—podcasts about things most people would find boring—journalist Keith Stuart remembers.

YARH.IO is a fully hackable and custamizable Raspberry Pi based handheld, running Raspberry Pi OS and supporting all other Operating Systems available for Raspberry Pi.

On this page, I want to share and document my experiences flying and using a kite antenna. There's nothing too special about a kite antenna. It's a fun, novel approach to the ham's age-old question about where to hang a wire antenna. When I lived inland, I could usually find a tall tree in which to hang an antenna. After relocating to the Galvston Island, tall trees are hard to come by. While the beach may lack trees, it usually does not lack wind.
A kite antenna setup is pretty straight forward and once you deploy it a couple times, it's downright simple. The key factor is having enough wind!

Neugierig wurde ich durch eine Veröffentlichung von W9SCH in der SPRAT Nr.69 unter 'A Four-Band UP & OUTER Antenna' und später durch einen Artikel im QRP-Report. Die Antenne ist als 'Upper & Outer' bekannt geworden. Sie besteht lediglich aus einem vertikale Strahler, dünner Draht, der locker um einen Glasfiebermast gewickelt wird und einem horizontalen 'elevated' Radial. Dieses Radial, als 'zweiter Strahler' bildet das einzige Gegengewicht, keine weitere Erdung. 'Wenn Strahler und Radial die gleiche Länge, λ/4 haben, funktioniert die Antenne schon recht brauchbar. Ein Tuner sollte aber eingeschleift werden, um das SWR zu optimieren.

Amateur radio (Ham radio) operators and engineers, have been experimenting with radio and antennas since Marconi. The use of a kite to support an antenna makes for great days operating and a wonderful HF antenna.

The linked pages that are listed below describe
various elements of a typical kite-antenna flying
field setup. One important lesson that we have
learned so far is that good kite-antenna contacts
result from flying the best possible antennas.
Another lesson learned is to keep the time that is
required to set up and put away as short and
convenient as possible - otherwise we will not do it!

Admittedly, we already have a page about our kite antenna exploits which makes for interesting reading. However those pages are about the practical use of these antennas. This talk given by Henryk M0HTB covers some of the background and the equipment considerations to supplement the practical exploits.