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Hosted by Windigo on 2021-01-18 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: alcohol.
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I discuss the subject of alcohol with my partner of sixteen years, Mrs. Honeyhume. While we agree on many subjects, alcohol is not one of them.
She believes alcohol is an important experience, one to be shared with friends, and I dislike nearly everything about it.
We discuss what we like/dislike about alcohol, our histories with it, and present our personal anecdotal evidence.
Hosted by Ahuka on 2021-01-15 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: GIMP, images, photos, graphics, layers.
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Series: GIMP | Comments (0)
Layers are the feature that does most of the heavy lifting in GIMP. After our previous introduction, we start to get hands-on with the controls that let us work with Layers
Hosted by b-yeezi on 2021-01-13 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: PCR,COVID019.
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Series: Health and Healthcare | Comments (1)
The top ten are:
Blog site: http://biblicaltrumpets.org
My review on the FP3 when it came out
https://lxcast.net/lxcast-2-fairphone-3-fair-but-not-free-yet/
Two solutions for a free OS:
lineage OS - free android with the Gapps removed
https://download.lineageos.org/FP3
the /e/ project !! A "de-googled" operating system - actually a fork of lineage OS - this is what I'm going to talk about here.
https://e.foundation/about-e/
The research paper on Google Data Collection by Professor Douglas C. Schmidt, Vanderbilt University (2018) - learn how and how often normal Android phones send your data to Google servers.
https://digitalcontentnext.org/blog/2018/08/21/google-data-collection-research/
Another background article on tracking (in German) based on research from a Norwegian journalist:
https://www.golem.de/news/datenschutz-wie-ich-die-ueberwacher-in-meinem-smartphone-aufspuerte-2012-152829-2.html
MicroG services, a replacement for Google's libraries on /e/ with purely open-source implementations.
The man behind the /e/ project: Gael Duval, pioneer of Open Source, Mandrake, Ulteo...
https://www.indidea.org/gael/blog/about-gael-duval/
His article outlining his vision for /e/ : https://gael-duval.medium.com/e-os-redefines-the-mobile-operating-system-paradigm-for-a-more-sustainable-world-4e929b1010c
You can buy a FP3 and an FP3 + with /e/ pre-installed here !!
https://esolutions.shop/de/
Installing on your phone: over 110 devices supported: from Asus to Google, to Oneplus and Xiaomi
https://doc.e.foundation/devices/
Install /e/ on FairPhone FP3 - FP3 | /e/ documentation
Privacy ratings of apps: https://exodus-privacy.eu
Alternative launchers:
I recommended you add these apps:
Backup via adb is apparently broken | Not the fault of /e/!!
You cannot simply flash a new recovery, such as TWRP, to flash images or backup, instead, you can use this method
https://twrp.me/fairphone/fairphone3.html
Donate or become a member to keep the project going:
https://e.foundation/donate-2/
Feel free to add any comments below!
Theme Music: Jazzhar, "Room with a View" CC-BY-SA, check him out on Jamendo and on Free Music Archive
An adhoc show in traffic, about how sockets and 3 way switches work.
Hosted by Ken Fallon on 2021-01-07 is flagged as Clean and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: Freedom.nl,xs4all,ISP,crowdfunding.
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In this interview with Anco Scholte ter Horst, CEO Freedom Internet, we discuss the history of Internet in the Netherlands. How inspired by the work as XS4All, a new ISP was founded with privacy, security and quality at its core.
From: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XS4ALL
XS4ALL was sold to KPN in December 1998, but remained an independent subsidiary. In January 2019, KPN announced that it would eventually phase out the XS4ALL brand and continue operations under the KPN brand. A petition and a special action commission was started to try to revert this decision, the petition has been signed over 50,000 times, signatories include ex-board members and founders of XS4ALL. In November 2019 the committee launched a new company named Freedom Internet, meant to serve as an ideological successor to XS4ALL, and supported by a crowdfunding action that raised 2.5 million euro. Freedom Internet initially offers e-mail hosting, and is meant to roll out its first DSL connections in early 2020.
In this show I talk with Apostolos and Vasilis who I met at FOSDEM 2020 about the Pictor radio telescope which they created and now maintain. Using free and open source software and hardware they have made a radio telescope that anyone can operate via a simple web page and which can return results to you within a minute or two. In fact you'll hear me get excited during the show when I realise this and submit an observation request, the results of which came back immediately and which you can see below.
To date Pictor has performed 3,500 observations from over 700 users from all around the world. Additionally, the PICTOR web platform is now equipped with a 3.2m antenna, which is about 4 times more sensitive than the previous 1.5m antenna, so users can observe the radio sky for free with an even more sensitive instrument.
On top of that, after 204 hours of integration time and over 3 TB of data, they have produced a Northern Sky Hydrogen (HI) Survey produced with the PICTOR Radio Telescope. This effort actually marks the very first radio-image obtained in Greece, shown here:
Pictor all sky images of hydrogen in our galaxy
Here are the results of the observation I performed during the show. The body of the email pictor sent back to me confirms the observation I requested:
Your observation has been carried out by PICTOR successfully!
Observation name: mcnalu first try
Observation datetime: 2020-12-08 12:40:09 (UTC+2)
Center frequency: 1420000000.0 Hz
Bandwidth: 2400000 Hz
Sample rate: 2400000 samples/sec
Number of channels: 2048
Number of bins: 100
Observation duration: 10 sec
Observation ID: 82937104
Your observation's averaged spectrum, dynamic spectrum (waterfall) and Power vs Time plot are attached in this email as an image.
And this is the plot attached to that email:
Graphs showing raw and corrected radio spectra for mcnalu's observation request
Please do have a go at using Pictor and let us know how you got on by recording an HPR show.
Hosted by Zen_Floater2 on 2021-01-05 is flagged as Explicit and released under a CC-BY-SA license.
Tags: chromebooks,chromiumOS,Opensource,Freesoftware,cloud computing.
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As usual, I have botched up the show notes where they make absolutely no sense and I fully expect the ENTIRE HUMAN COMMUNITY from HPR to attack me endlessly over my incompetence. They just keep forgetting that I'm a squirrel who lives in a magical forrest and not a human being and therefore does terrible show notes,
There were so many issues brought up about chromebooks and chromiumOS that I could not prepare a detailed list of them all.
This ENTIRE conversation was derived from the work found on GNU WORLD ORDER episode 383 for which you will find his show notes AS::: https://gnuworldorder.info/ "Linux, Flatpaks, Android apps, and ChromiumOS on a Lenovo Chromebook."
Now, if you don't like my show notes and you do like this aliens show notes, then may I suggest your anti-squirrel and you need to be sent to a de-programming camp for rehabilitation.
Remember, squirrels represent planet earth.
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