Bitcoin - pulling the curtains on computer security
All software contain bugs. All complex software contain numerous bugs. Some of those bugs are security holes.
Bitcoin · English · Internet · Security
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Blogs are nothing but distributed forum threads
Here is the text broken up into paragraphs: I like forums. They’re a one stop place for me to go to read up on various subjects, comment on them and read comments from others. The thread starter participates in the comments, and you refer to other similar threads or branch off if (when) the discussion becomes off topic.
Blogs · English · Forum · Internet · Meev
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Bluetooth and Home Assistant in rootless docker
How to solve a Bluetooth dependency issue in rootless Docker setups by patching the dbus-fast Python library to disable UID-based authentication.
If I remember correctly, at one point my Home Assistant (H-A from now on) installation started complaining on the Bluetooth component not starting up correctly. Since I wasn’t using Bluetooth (the server doesn’t even have the hardware for it) I just ignored it.
Docker · English · Home Assistant · Linux · Rootless
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Create your own locally hosted family AI assistant
What you’re seeing in this picture is a screenshot from our “family chat”. It’s a locally hosted Matrix server, with Element clients on all the computers, phones and tablets in the family. Fully End2End encrypted of course - why should our family discussions end up with some external party?
AI · English · LLaMa · LLM · Matrix
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Creativity surplus as virtual work
In the spring of 2008 I sat in the audience at Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco, watching Clay Shirky on stage. His talk about the cognitive heat sink, on how television had disrupted humanity from spending large parts of our time on being creative, on producing things we wanted to produce, to being simple receivers of information pre-packaged by someone else made a huge impact.
English · Gamification · Minecraft · Participation · Simulation
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A few months ago I had to give up using my Mac Mini as my primary personal computer.
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“it’s better to burn out than to fade away” (From Neil Young’s My My, Hey Hey - and known for being quoted by Kurt Cobain in his suicide note) I remember my teenage years well. I also remember voicing the opinion above, along with other things along the lines of “life ends at 30”. I’m 42, almost to the day. I have no intention whatsoever of fading away. I consider myself a transhumanist , and I spent some time being a board member of the Swedish subcategory of Humanity+ . I subscribe to the idea of aging being just another disease we haven’t cured yet, and I eagerly follow the current state of research on the subject. One development in particular, popularised by the company Elysium, is a combination of substances that counteracts one of the possible sources of a lot of age related problems, the declining quality of communication between our cell nucleus and the mitochondria that powers it. The list of things this affects (effects, even) is quite long - and for quite some time now there have been promising tests on yeasts and mice on how to counteract this decline, in effect boosting the levels back to where they were when we were younger. A few weeks ago the results of the first clinical human tests were published, and I am since five days on the same formula as Elysium sells under the brand Elysium Basis . It consists of 250mg of Nicotinamide Riboside, taken together with 50mg of Pterostilbene, once a day.
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Fountain of Youth - the two month update
Today it’s exactly two months since I started on my "Elysium Basis" regime . Since quite a few of my friends have asked me to write an update on my thoughts about it - here it is.
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GrafX2 SDL2 version for macOS 64-bit
update 21/7: I’ll make regular builds of this, and hope to have it completely automated soon. They can be found here (link might change in the future):
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update 20-07-20: Since a few weeks back I no longer use any macOS systems, being Linux only nowadays. Because of that I feel that I can no longer keep this service running, due to not being able to verify that things are working or being able to quickly correct them when they’re not. Hopefully the Hatari project can in time setup automatic CI pipelines for macOS too.
Atari · Development · English · Retro
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