Teleconferencing Like It’s 1988: Connecting Vintage Hardware to Zoom Hackaday

Sep 232020
 

Hang up your car phone and toss that fax machine in the garbage. Even back in the late 80s it was possible to do away with these primitive technologies in favor of video conferencing, even though this technology didn’t catch on en masse until recently. In fact, Mitsubishi released a piece of video conferencing equipment called the VisiTel that can be put to use today, provided you can do a bit of work to get…

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New York Times Article on Green Party Ballot Access News

Sep 232020
 

The New York Times has published a long article about the Green Party. The theme is that the Republican Party in the past and currently has helped in a few states to get the Green Party on the ballot. The story is myopic. The authors take it for granted that it is difficult for a party like the Green Party to get on the ballot. The authors should ask the big question: why should be…

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Facebook vows to restrict users if US election descends into chaos Ars Technica

Sep 232020
 

Enlarge / United States Map – State with glow with malicious code background in a 1970 dot matrix font on a computer screen. 8K Resolution ready. (credit: Matt Anderson Photography | Getty Images) Facebook has said it will take aggressive and exceptional measures to “restrict the circulation of content” on its platform if November’s presidential election descends into chaos or violent civic unrest. In an interview with the Financial Times, Nick Clegg, the company’s head…

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Meet the doomers Richard Stallman’s Political Notes

Sep 232020
 

*Meet the doomers: why some young US voters have given up hope on climate.* I agree with their estimation of our future. But they are wrong to give up the fight because of the situation. They are right that avoiding disaster calls for big national efforts which current governments refuse to do. (I call them “planet roasters” because of that refusal.) And it is too late to fully avoid the disaster. But it is not…

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Watch a Fast Sand Plotter Plow Patterns at Speed Hackaday

Sep 232020
 

[Mark]’s sand table wisely has a glass top.Most of us have probably seen a video of a sand drawing table at work, in which a steel ball — magnetically-coupled to a gantry under a layer of sand — lazily draws geometric patterns with utter precision and zen-like calmness. That’s all well and good, but [Mark Rehorst] thinks it can also be interesting to crank up the speed and watch the ball plow through sand just…

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A city in Brazil where covid-19 ran amok may be a ‘sentinel’ for the rest of the world New on MIT Technology Review

Sep 232020
 

What happens when a major city allows the coronavirus to rage unchecked? If the Brazilian city of Manaus is any answer, it means about two-thirds of the population could get infected and one person in 500 could die before the epidemic winds down. During May, as the virus spread rapidly in Manaus, the equatorial capital of the state of Amazonas, dire reports described overwhelmed hospitals and freshly dug graves. Demand for coffins ran at four…

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