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White House cybersecurity adviser Giuliani took his iPhone to the Genius Bar when he forgot his password / Boing Boing
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read via https://bionicteaching.com/weekly-web-harvest-for-2019-10-27/
Coventry Domains – Owning your space in a digital world
Netflix is ending support for old devices from Samsung, Roku, and Vizio in December
Smart TVs are a mistake. I’ve never liked the idea of relying on a crappy computer built in to an expensive TV, when you could get a much more capable box like an Apple TV that is external and replacable every few years. On top of that not connecting your TV to the internet means the manufacturer can’t sell your viewing habits and history.
A Technical and Cultural Assessment of the Mueller Report PDF | PDF Association
This is a super nerdy look into the Mueller report. It's not evaluating the content of the report, but how or if it holds up as a good PDF document. I guess this type of article makes some sense coming from the PDF ASsociation...
Laughing OnLine
I love stuff from The Pudding.
The Computer Chronicles - The Internet | YouTube
So cool to see someone describe what a Browser is in 1993. This video also is a really cool showcase of what using pre-web internet services was like. There is even a feature on early video conferencing developed at NASA! Definitely going to use this on digciz.jadin.me during history of the internet next time I teach it.
This resilient Raspberry Pi cyberdeck is made for the end of the world - The Verge
This is so cool. I wish something like this was available as a kit to buy. I have no reason to own something like this, but the nerd in me doesn't care.
How the Internet Was Invented | The History of the Internet, Part 1 - YouTube
Best Year in Music
A journey through every Billboard top 5 hit to find music’s greatest era.
Moving to zsh, part 6 – Customizing the zsh Prompt – Scripting OS X
This whole series is helpful as someone who is begrudingly moving to zsh with the release of Catalina. I still kind of want to just stay with bash though as its what I use on every server I interact with. Zsh is at least similar enough to bash though.
Unraid backup with Borg + Rclone
Need to look in to this later for backing up my home server.
I built a huge 5ft Gameboy you can fully play in Web VR - reddit.com/r/OculusQuest
I Made a Website for a Class- Now What?
8 Bit Music Theory - YouTube
I love how niches like this can be carved out. This channel uses video game music to explore music theory concepts. So cool!
Lifebits, the Next Corner of Cyberspace? | bavatuesdays
The Quality Factor: Learning to Blog FOR your Students | Silvia Tolisano- Langwitches Blog
Great post within a series on learning how to model blogging as a teacher.
Found via: https://www.downes.ca/cgi-bin/page.cgi?post=70348
App tracking alert in iOS 13 has dramatically cut location data flow to ad industry
Good.
Sensei: A Beautifully-Designed Dashboard and Set of Utilities for Your Mac - MacStories
Build your very own self-hosting platform with Raspberry Pi and Kubernetes
The advancement of computing power from the original Raspberry Pi a few years ago to the Raspberry Pi 4 is astounding.
How to Change Your Off-Facebook Activity Settings | Electronic Frontier Foundation
Via https://digitallyliterate.net/dl-231/
What are some good, lesser-known CLI applications and terminal uses?
A handful of command line tools that I should check out, mostly for searching files, from a helpful redditor.
Icecast Streaming Media Server :: View topic - Fallback Mount Problem
My Newest Rube Goldberg ds106 Broadcast Machine: Ladiocast + Nicecast – CogDogBlog
How to Connect to an API with JavaScript – Tania Rascia
HTML DOM - Common tasks of managing HTML DOM with vanilla JavaScript
Importing CSV from Google Drive to Google Sheets - Excelify.io - Medium
Info importdata function and making downloadable links from public google drive files.
Tips for using Google Sheets for event programme planning – MASHe
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