« usbkill » is an anti-forensic kill-switch that waits for a change on your USB ports and then immediately shuts down your computer.

JSON is everywhere on the Internet. Servers spend a lot of time parsing it. We need a fresh approach. The simdjson library uses commonly available SIMD instructions and microparallel algorithms to parse JSON 2.5x faster than anything else out there.

A while back I bought a DYMO LabelManager Plug N Play Label Maker to help organize things. Before I bought it I had done some cursory searching and saw there were Linux drivers, and I set up CUPS, fixed permissions (of course), and installed the DYMO drivers, but nothing was showing up.

Well, turns out there’s a reason for that – the LabelManager PnP actually labels itself as a HID device, not a printer! (lsusb -v to peep the details)…

Luckily, with a bit of searching, I found a nice little Python 3 script called dymoprint (github) that reverse-engineered the USB protocol and works perfectly. Another dev subsequently wrote a Perl script that generates 64px tall bitmaps to the printer. (I have lots of existing image generation code to build a Python version of this, but honestly, the first dymoprint script does just about everything I want, which is just to print some simple labels).

I saw that someone else did get it to run on CUPS – it looks like you have to set up modeswitching, but I haven’t tested that personally.

Type in the address bar about:config (press Enter)
(promise to be careful, if asked)

Type in the search bar and look for the preference :

browser.fixup.alternate.prefix

And set its value to false

WindowSwap is a quarantine project by Sonali Ranjit and Vaishnav Balasubramaniam that lets you use your browser to watch a video of a window and its unique view from different locations across the globe. There are scenes from all over: there’s a rainy street in Thailand, a small field with a gentle breeze on a sunny day in Austria, a mountain view from Switzerland, a busy street in London, a view over a boardwalk and the ocean in Japan, a cat watching birds in Qatar, a view of the...

Michael Gardi, who makes reproductions of vintage computers and computer-like games, went all out and built a DEC H-500 Computer Lab. He even posted a step-by-step Instructable on how to make your …

When radiation from the sun causes a global disaster on Earth, survivors on an overnight flight from Brussels race from city to city trying to stay ahead of the sun's rays by remaining in the cover of night.

Amid the COVID-19 pandemic, many people have transitioned to working—and socializing—from home. If these trends become the new normal, certain companies may be in for a big payoff.

Popular video conferencing company, Zoom Communications, is a prime example of an organization benefiting from this transition.

As of May 15, 2020, Zoom’s market capitalization has skyrocketed to $48.8 billion, despite posting revenues of only $623 million over the past year.

My advice is always use UASP with USB 3.0 devices on the Pi 4, otherwise you're missing out on a pretty substantial performance gain. Also, remember to plug USB 3.0 devices into the blue USB 3.0 ports, not into the black USB 2.0 ports, otherwise you won't see any of the performance difference.

Ein Wutausbruch, der verstört: US-Präsident Trump droht, manchen US-Staaten nicht in der Coronakrise zu helfen, weil sie seine Arbeit nicht genug wertschätzen.

A role for configuring Firefox, including addons, preferences and css styles.

Notes:

A Firefox profile named 'default' will be created if it doesn't already exist.
If any addon being installed is a 'complete theme' addon, it will be set as the selected theme (this is the default behaviour of the firefox-addon role dependency).

Requirements

Currently the role has only been tested against Fedora (23) hosts, but in theory should work for all Linux variants.

An Ansible Role that installs Firefox, the firefox addons mentioned in Firefox Kompendium, the user.js from Ghacks, some offline fonts so remote fonts are not required and some search keywords for the Url-Bar. The role is compatible with RHEL/CentOS, Fedora, Debian and Ubuntu. Be aware that while this config blocks a lot of tracking, which helps bot with privacy and security it give the user a very unique fingerprint aswell. Thats why it´s still recommended to use the TOR Browser for normal surfing and this firefox config for functions that websites that require a login (e.g. forums, social media, online banking or online shopping).

user_pref("accessibility.force_disabled", 1);
user_pref("accessibility.typeaheadfind.flashBar", 0);
user_pref("app.normandy.first_run", false);
user_pref("app.shield.optoutstudies.enabled", false);
user_pref("app.update.auto", false);
user_pref("app.update.checkInstallTime", false);
user_pref("app.update.doorhanger", false);
user_pref("browser.feeds.showFirstRunUI", false);
...

in thunderbird user profile folder in "chrome/userContent.css" I have this:

/ quote colors for message display / blockquote[type=cite] { color: PowderBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote { color: LightBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote { color: SkyBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote { color: LightSkyBlue ! important; } blockquote[type=cite] blockquote blockquote blockquote blockquote { color: DeepSkyBlue ! important; }

/ quote color for message composing / span[_moz_quote=true] { color: PowderBlue ! important; }

Spiel 1
Das erste Spiel ist für 1-4 Spiele gedacht. Es handelt sich um ein Spiel indem man einen festen Punkt „fangen“ muss. Es gibt eine laufende und einen stehende LED. Man muß jetzt mit seinem Taster genau im richtigen Moment, wenn die laufende LED die stehenden LED kreuzt, seinen Taster betätigen.
Wenn man alleine spielt, bekommt man einen Punkt, wenn man daneben liegt, bekommt man zwei Punkte abgezogen.
Wenn man mit zwei, drei oder vier Spielen spielt, ist das Punktesystem das selbe, es bekommt aber nur der den Punkt der auch als erstes gedrückt hat. Sollte der erstgedrückte daneben liegen, bekommt er natürlich auch die zwei Punkte abgezogen.
Dies geht über 30 Runden, die immer etwas schneller werden. Wer am Ende die meisten Punkte hat, der hat das Spiel gewonnen.

Spiel 2:
Das zweite Spiel ist ein reines Spiel für zwei Personen. Dabei handelt es sich um eine Art Aufbauspiel. Man hat gegenüberliegend seines Knopfes einen seiner Farbe entsprechenden eine farbige LED. Rot oder Grün. Daneben ist jeweils ein Blauer Punkt und viele Weiße. Die Weißen markieren das jeweilige Spielfeld. Sobald man das Spiel startet, kommt ein weiteres Licht hinzu welches die ganze Zeit von links nach rechts und zurück läuft. Man muß jetzt immer im blauen Feld drücken um sein Rotes oder Grünes Feld weiter aufzubauen. Wenn man an der falschen Stelle drückt, bekommt der Gegner 5 Züge Vorsprung. Wer als erstes das Spielfeld voll hat, hat gewonnen.

Build a time tracking cube! Flip the cube to switch between tasks so you can automate your time sheets. An accelerometer tracks orientation and neopixels light up each task.

Use Adafruit IO to log data into a feed and store timestamps of each task. Setup triggers in Zapier and create an action to update a google spreadsheet. Get the Adafruit Feather HUZZAH and start building your IoT projects.

Work/life balance is at best an elusive ideal and at worst a complete myth, today’s senior executives will tell you. But by making deliberate choices about which opportunities they’ll pursue and which they’ll decline, rather than simply reacting to emergencies, leaders can and do engage meaningfully with work, family, and community. They’ve discovered through hard experience that prospering in the senior ranks is a matter of carefully combining work and home so as not to lose themselves, their loved ones, or their foothold on success.

Here's (via https://pluralistic.net/2020/06/30/deafhood/#diagnosis-cure) an admirably compact diagnosis of the malady afflicting capitalism and a suggestion for a cure from Yanis Varoufakis:

In 2008, we had an "endogenous" crash, caused by the finance sector itself. Governments gave them trillions, but "this liquidity did not turn into actual investment in the real economy."

"Banks recovered, the oligarchy found themselves with appreciating assets, the majority our there had to face harsh austerity. This boosted the disconnect between the world of money (that was doing well) and the world of the real economy (which was not)."

Now we face an "exogenous" crash, caused by the pandemic, but, "when Covid-19 arrived on the scene, it acted like a pin that bursts a gigantic bubble. Reflating this bubble, in the absence of public investment, will not be possible however much money Central Banks pump in."

But even today, TrackPoint fans across the internet still swear by their favorite input method and will broker no argument that it isn’t the superior form of computer navigation (the ThinkPad subreddit, for example, is full of appreciative posts). It’s like non-QWERTY keyboard layouts in that respect: well thought out, potentially better-to-use alternatives that exist only at the fringes of computing because other input methods are so much more popular, and it would take too much effort to switch.