ericlathrop

5 yıl öncediscuss

A bat conservationist thinks bats are blamed for viruses because they're sampled more often than other mammals:

"Since 2005, when coronaviruses in horseshoe bats were first hypothesized to be the ancestors of the coronavirus that caused SARS, bats have received far more scrutiny than any other group of animals. For example, in the study on which the scariest headlines were based, researchers sampled nearly twice as many bats as rodents, shrews, and nonhuman primates combined and didn’t even include carnivores or ungulates."

https://issues.org/a-viral-witch-hunt-bats/

ericlathrop

7 yıl öncediscuss

GE makes in-wall Z-wave light switches that work wonderfully. No cloud dependency, and you can control them with open source software like HomeAssistant.

ericlathrop

10 yıl öncediscuss

I'd like to see how one of the oldest package managers, Perl's CPAN, stacks up.

ericlathrop

11 yıl öncediscuss

  The current version of titus is 0.2, released on 2014-08-17.

I'd be wary of using any piece of security software that hasn't had a release in over a year.

ericlathrop

11 yıl öncediscuss

I did exactly this over the holidays to get into a deceased family member's computer.

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

There's a growing open source keyboard community built around keyboards like the ErgoDox using the Teensy Microcontroller. Keyboards are surprisingly easy to build from scratch by hand.

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

Do you have node.js installed and in your $PATH?

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

That looks very nice. Much more comprehensive than my tool. If all my tool accomplished was to prompt you to release your better tool, then I'm a happy camper. Yay open source!

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

Wow, that's a pretty neat approach! How well does that work with multiple people?

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

This tool helps you stay distributed by keeping a server somewhere that constantly backs up all your repos. With this you can't accidentally forget to make a copy if you make a quick repo in a coffee shop somewhere, and delete the local copy days later when you're cleaning up.

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

Plus, you can use this to backup someone else's repos in case they delete them.

ericlathrop

12 yıl öncediscuss

Not when you use several different computers, or when you're done with an old project and delete your local copy.

ericlathrop

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