James Dearing 🐲 jdea@identi.ca

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I've been into electronics and computers all my life. If only I could get a wifi connection with my brain! I'm an atheist and a blogger.

  • I swear my cat has learned to tell time

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    "It's 3:00. Time to start begging for my 5:00 supper." #catlogic

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  • Funny WiFi names?

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    So I'm about to set up a new wireless network, and I'm tired of the boring names I usually come up with. So, I need your help: what are some funny network names I could use?

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    NSASurveillanceVan316

    Nathan Willis at 8 years ago

    ThePasswordIsYourCreditCardNumber

    Nathan Willis at 8 years ago

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    Good ideas so far :)


    I kind of want to use 'WOPR', but that reference only really works if I set the password to 'Joshua'.

    James Dearing 🐲 at 8 years ago

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  • Kickstarter-funded textbook "Producing Open Source Software" 2nd Edition Now Finished

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    As a backer of the Kickstarter campaign, I was a little disappointed to learn that the 2nd edition of "Producing Open Source Software" would not be released in 2013 as originally planned. In particular, the delay meant that I could not recommend it to the teacher of my Open Source Development class that I took in 2015 - the first edition was outdated and the second edition, though web-accessible at the time, was unfinished and volatile.


    Glad the book is out now, at least as a web site. When the dead-tree version becomes available, I will gladly add it to my library, knowing that I can access the source code online.

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  • So my printer has telnet

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    So I just found out that my printer accepts telnet connections (thanks nmap!). It has two accounts - 'admin' and 'user' - both of which have the default password 'access'. Any fun things I should try before disabling telnet?

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  • How to detect and get rid of bots on my home network?

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    So I just checked my IPv4 address at Am I Hacked?, a service that lets you know how many times your IP address has tried to connect to their honeypots. I sorted the results by date and made a bar graph.


    I'm not 100% certain that this data actually represents connection attempts from my home network because we have a dynamic IP address. It is worth noting that my ISP has not contacted me, which suggests that they have not detected significant suspicious activity.


    My first instinct is to try and identify which device(s) on my network might be infected. I don't think my router supports any kind of activity logging, so that means examining every device.


    Our Windows computers have Norton antivirus and firewall software, provided free by our ISP.

    Our Linux computers run GUFW for firewalls and do nightly antivirus scans with ClamAV.

    Our phones and tablets (running Android and Ios) have no antimalware software that I know of.

    We also have various other internet-of-insecure-things devices.


    Also, my router (a mid-2009 Apple Airport Extreme) is going to be replaced soon with the far more capable Turris Omnia.


    Any recommendations?

  • A hairbrush with a built-in microphone & other sensors

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    https://techcrunch.com/2017/01/03/withings-brush/


    Now I've seen everything.


    Who will take advantage of it first: the NSA or the botnet operators?

  • A toast

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    Just listened to the zeroth episode of Late Night Linux, the new podcast from the creators of Linux Luddites. I know it wasn't a full episode - just a short thing created to ensure that their software was working - but I must say I was hoping for something a bit longer. I propose a toast to the new show: may it last longer than the old one while remaining just as entertaining, and may Paddy make frequent appearances even though he is no longer a host.

  • My cat loves pea soup

    8 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    My cat Cedric has always been a real foodie. I've never met a cat as obsessed with food as he is. But it never occurred to me to give him pea soup, until a few minutes ago when I found him licking my dirty soup bowl.


    Anyone else have a cat with unusual tastes?

    I had a cat that really liked thin plastic (e.g. plastic bags). Apparently the more crinkly the better. I had to be very careful not to leave anything like that out. She would find it very quickly. Perhaps that is more abnormal than unusual... She was a sweet cat otherwise. :)

    Charles Stanhope at 8 years ago

    Years ago, had a cat that would eat corn on the cob.

    hammerron at 8 years ago

  • TechCrunch: "Replicated raises $5 million for its product taking SAAS products out of the cloud"

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/31/replicated-raises-5-million-for-its-product-taking-saas-products-out-of-the-cloud/

    β€œSmart companies protect their data while giving staff a first-class experience with the latest tools,” said Witoff. β€œWe’ve been able to efficiently and securely manage a suite of modern, well maintained internal applications that our team loves by deploying these applications through Replicated. This kind of efficiency just wasn’t possible before.”

    Funny, I thought installing software locally was a common occurrence. Maybe I'm just old-fashioned.

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  • 9 years ago via AndStatus To: Public

    An insightful question somebody posted on Open Source Stack Exchange:
    Why do free/libre software advocates tolerate proprietary firmwares in just about every computer components except Wi-Fi cards? http://opensource.stackexchange.com/questions/4656/why-do-free-libre-software-advocates-tolerate-proprietary-firmwares-in-just-abou?newsletter=1&nlcode=599658|5169

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    >> Ben Sturmfels:

    β€œI've posted an answer here. Please vote it up if you like it!
    CC @Free Software Foundation, @Free Software Foundation Europe”

    Voted!

    James Dearing 🐲 at 9 years ago

    Upvoted more than one answer, several good angles there.

    Claes Wallin (ιŸ‹ε˜‰θͺ ) at 9 years ago

  • How lucky we are to live here!

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    "Earth is the only place we know of where the environment is not constantly trying to murder us, except of course when it is." [Dinosaur Comics]

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  • You need more sleep

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers


  • Learning FontForge

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    Learning how to use FontForge for my Nina Improved font project. FontForge offers so many features, its GUI is more than a little intimidating for someone new to making fonts.


    Luckily, since this is a fork of an existing font, most of the work is already done. I'm mostly just fixing invisible errors that FF autodetects.

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    This is nice! [Snowdrift.coop](https://snowdrift.coop) uses that font (along with other material from Nina.) Please post a note here if you made some progress on that.

    mray INACTIVE at 9 years ago

    >> mray:

    β€œThis is nice! [Snowdrift.coop](https://snowdrift.coop) uses that font (along with other material from Nina.) Please post a note here if you made some progress on that.”

    Will do!

    James Dearing 🐲 at 9 years ago

  • Anyone want to buy some LaserDiscs?

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    I'm selling a bunch of movies. 82 to be precise. See my CraigsList ad.

    Hehe, no thanks.


    I have some LD I should get rid of, too xD

    JanKusanagi at 9 years ago

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  • 9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    "Necessity may well be called the mother of invention, 
    but calamity is the test of integrity."

    – Samuel Richardson

  • Blockchain technology and CC-style licenses

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    I just saw this article pop up in my RSS reader. Haven't finished reading it yet: https://blog.mediachain.io/please-share-with-gratitude-b489e60a3e13 

  • Just installed Bitcoin

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    Installed Bitcoin Core earlier today. Synchronizing with network now; about 1 year behind. The data I've downloaded so far takes 47.7 GB.

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    Yeah, Sorry, That is just not going to scale. It clearly is already out of the reach of the Bandwidth constrained.

    Freemor at 9 years ago

    It's up to 90GB now.

    James Dearing 🐲 at 9 years ago

  • 9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    And now begins the month know as Checkuary, when everybody writes the wrong dates on checks. Happy new year everyone!

    Happy gnu year! o/

    JanKusanagi at 9 years ago

  • Traditions

    9 years ago via Dianara To: Public CC: Followers

    I wrote this blog post about my family's Christmas traditions. Curious what holiday traditions (Christmas or not) other people follow!