IPv6 Christmas Display Uses 75 Internet’s Worth of Addresses Hackaday

Dec 252018
 

We’ve seen internet-enabled holiday displays before, and we know IPv6 offers much more space than the older IPv4 addressing scheme that most of us still use today, but the two have never been more spectacularly demonstrated than at jinglepings.com. The live video stream shows an Internet-connected Christmas tree and an LED display wall that you can control by sending IPv6 ICMP echo request messages, more commonly known as pings. Reading the page, you quickly parse the fact…

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FSF Blogs: Some losses from 2018 What’s New at GNU

Dec 252018
 

When I look back on 2018, of course I see successes for user freedom across the world: the appeal in Christoph Hellwig’s GPL compliance case against VMWare is moving forward; Google employees are rallying against Dragonfly, the authoritarian search engine being built for the Chinese government; the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) home state of Massachusetts is taking steps for the Right to Repair; and people all over the world shared their tips and tricks to…

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Some losses from 2018 What’s New at GNU

Dec 252018
 

When I look back on 2018, of course I see successes for user freedom across the world: the appeal in Christoph Hellwig’s GPL compliance case against VMWare is moving forward; Google employees are rallying against Dragonfly, the authoritarian search engine being built for the Chinese government; the Free Software Foundation’s (FSF) home state of Massachusetts is taking steps for the Right to Repair; and people all over the world shared their tips and tricks to…

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New Bar in [Town] jwz

Dec 242018
 

Who else is excited for the new cocktail bar?It’s a new venture by [notable local restaurateur], the owner of [famous upscale bar], [spin-off of famous upscale bar], and [spin-off of the spin-off] — so you know it’s going to be good. The bar will feature inventive cocktails with a local twist, including hand-made [ingredient] from [local boutique food business]. There will also be a limited food menu of “small bites”, including such delights as [unexpected…

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Free software and the revolt against transactionality Stories by Rococo Modem Basilisk on Medium

Dec 222018
 

In 1994, the electronic pop band KLF burned a million pounds — money they had earned by following instructions laid out in a book they wrote called “The Manual”. To this day, they deny having a conscious justification for that powerful act. One possible interpretation is to see The Manual & the Burning as two sides of a single central thesis: a rejection of the connection between labor-value and price-value implied by money, through a violation of…

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Critics Say Bernie Sanders Is Too Old, Too White, and Too Socialist to Run for President in 2020. They’re Wrong. The Intercept

Dec 202018
 

Sen. Bernie Sanders gives a speech at a “get out the vote” campaign event with Democratic gubernatorial candidate Christine Hallquist on Nov. 4, 2018 in Burlington, Vt. Photo: Stephanie Keith/Getty Images Who will be the Democratic nominee for president of the United States in 2020? Will it be Sen. Bernie Sanders, who came second in 2016? A growing number of voices, both liberal and conservative, loudly disagree. “I think his moment is passing,” says Daily…

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Before and After: What We Learned About the Hemisphere Program After Suing the DEA Deeplinks

Dec 192018
 

As the year draws to a close, so has EFF’s long-running Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the Drug Enforcement Agency about the mass phone surveillance program infamously known as “Hemisphere.” We won our case and freed up tons of records. (So did the Electronic Privacy Information Center.) The government, on the other hand, only succeeded in dragging out the fake secrecy. In late 2013, right as the world was already reeling from the Snowden…

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Courts Want “Something More” Than an IP-Address to Catch Pirates TorrentFreak

Dec 192018
 

While it’s not getting making big headlines in the mainstream media, US courts are still loaded with BitTorrent related lawsuits. The cases are filed by a small group of copyright holders. To state their claim, these companies generally rely on IP-addresses as evidence. These IP-address details are collected from BitTorrent swarms and linked to a geographical location using geolocation tools. With this information in hand, rightsholders ask the courts to grant a subpoena, forcing Internet…

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Librem 5 dev kits are shipping! Purism

Dec 192018
 

The Librem 5 dev kit’s hardware is done and shipping! We are beyond excited for our backers to receive their dev kits before year-end. Our entire PureOS Librem 5 development team will getting the same dev kits, upgrading the generic i.MX 6 boards (which most of the demos you have seen have been based on) to the Purism i.MX 8M based dev kit. We aim from this point forward to have a community assisted development…

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Sen. Jeff Merkley Wants to Stop Congress Members From Insider Trading By Banning Them From Owning Stocks The Intercept

Dec 192018
 

Sen. James Inhofe, an Oklahoma Republican recently elevated to chair the Senate Armed Services Committee after the death of John McCain, was implicated recently in what looked to be an insider trading scandal. A few days after meeting with President Donald Trump and Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis to successfully advocate for a military budget increase, Inhofe purchased between $50,000 and $100,000 of stock in defense contractor Raytheon, which stands to profit from additional defense spending. Inhofe…

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Oh Deer! Poacher sentenced to 12 months of regular Bambi screenings in the cooler The Register

Dec 182018
 

Animated tear-jerker awaits man who illegally shot bucks An outlaw hunter will spend not only the next year or so behind bars, but also must face regular screenings of the Disney film Bambi.…

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The Little Typer Lambda the Ultimate – Programming Languages Weblog

Dec 162018
 

A new introductory book about dependent types, involving some familiar names: The Little Typer by Daniel P. Friedman and David Thrane Christiansen. Foreword by Robert Harper. Afterword by Conor McBride. An introduction to dependent types, demonstrating the most beautiful aspects, one step at a time. A program’s type describes its behavior. Dependent types are a first-class part of a language, and are much more powerful than other kinds of types; using just one language for…

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Manhattan Mystery of Creepy Jingles and Random Noises Solved Hackaday

Dec 162018
 

Here’s a puzzler for you: If you’re phreaking something that’s not exactly a phone, are you still a phreak? That question probably never crossed the minds of New Yorkers who were acoustically assaulted on the normally peaceful sidewalks of Manhattan over the summer by creepy sounds emanating from streetside WiFi kiosks. The auditory attacks caused quite a stir locally, leading to wild theories that Russian hackers were behind it all. Luckily, the mystery has been…

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iCEBreaker, The Open Source Development Board for FPGAs Hackaday

Dec 152018
 

The Hackaday Superconference is over, which is a shame, but one of the great things about our conference is the people who manage to trek out to Pasadena every year to show us all the cool stuff they’re working on. One of those people was [Piotr Esden-Tempski], founder of 1 Bit Squared, and he brought some goodies that would soon be launched on a few crowdfunding platforms. The coolest of these was the iCEBreaker, an…

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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal – Skimmed Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily)

Dec 152018
 

Click here to go see the bonus panel!Hovertext:My new website, skimmedit ™ is just reddit but you can only read headlines and comment on what you think the article is about.Today’s News:

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A Christmas classic: Cloudera founder asks staff to stay another day The Register

Dec 152018
 

But y’know, maybe we will terminate positions post-merger if there’s a business case Cloudera founder Mike Olson has asked staffers to turn down recruiters’ advances ahead of the firm’s merger with Hortonworks – despite acknowledging there could be layoffs.…

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The Problem With Using Face Recognition on Fans at a Taylor Swift Concert American Civil Liberties Union

Dec 152018
 

The use of face recognition by companies raises a host of concerns about privacy and unfair watchlisting. Rolling Stone reported this week that face recognition was used on attendees at a Taylor Swift concert in Los Angeles to look for stalkers. Stalkers are a real problem, and we sympathize with how scary it must be for a celebrity to know that they are out there. Nonetheless, we have a number of concerns about where this…

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