DEFCON 201 @defcon201@hostux.social

Join #TechAtHome by 💡 creating a project with spare parts you have at 🏠 home!

Submit your project today! → http://ed.gr/cjmuw

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1282012044087230465

Many Verizon Wireless custmers I know are complaining that they were given Verizon's Call Filter for free to help them through the pandemic. It was not opt-in, they were simply notified that they have it. And now the free offer is over and Verizon has begun silently charging them for the service.

All those who called to complain were told they "must have signed up to keep the service" even though none of them actually asked for it in the first place.

This week in KDE: Elisa displays the progress of the playing song inline and allows you to customize the sidebar, the Disk Usage viewer recovers a classic widget design and KDE's remote desktop session viewer, KRDC, solves its cursor lagging problem.

https://pointieststick.com/2020/07/10/this-week-in-kde-new-features-galore/

Dear social justice folks around the world: I am as happy as you are to see the decline of Facebook, but please please please do not replace it with Instagram, a platform owned by the same company with all the same privacy problems, censorship of anyone who uses Tor, etc. It's just as shit and unsafe as FB. Do not.

We enabled scale-to-fit in #phoc on @ManjaroLinuxARM #phosh edition. Simply update your system. Issue 'scale-to-fit app on' by replacing 'app' with your desired application.

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/ManjaroLinux/status/1281924234219003905

Last call for GUADEC 2020 BoF and workshop submissions! If there's a GNOME or FOSS related topic you'd like to include in the schedule tell us your idea by the end of today.
https://discourse.gnome.org/t/guadec-2020-call-for-workshops-and-bofs/3532/2
#GUADEC #OpenSource #FOSS

If, in the course of Hacker Events, it becomes necessary for one user to distance the physical presences which have connected them with another, a decent respect to the customs of Hackerkind requires that they should adapt to causes which impel them to the separation.

This, we have done.

https://nyc2600.net/2020/06/30/nyc2600-meeting-july-2020/

If you like audio, hardware, music & tools: check out #ModularManifestation with @amethystseer TODAY at 2pm PST

➡️Instagram live: @SupplyframeDesignLab

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1276243671206240262

RT from Mukesh Sankhla (@Mukesh_Sankhla0)

🌈🖤🤎💜💙💚💛🧡❤️🤍🏳️‍🌈
@arduino @hackadayio @hackaday @Hacksterio @instructables #WS2811LEDs

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/Mukesh_Sankhla0/status/1276239430051786752

Metasurface Design Methods Can Make LED Light Act More Like Lasers

Light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are not exactly new technology, but their use over time has evolved from rather dim replacements of incandescent signal lights in control panels to today’s h… https://hackaday.com/2020/06/18/metasurface-design-methods-can-make-led-light-act-more-like-lasers/

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/hackaday/status/1273698563760050182

"Hey, #Microsoft , can you stop bombing people and putting babies in concentration camps?

Microsoft: OK, we heard you, we're renaming master branch to main branch. #ethics

Announcing ActivityPub Conf 2020!

Following a successful inaugural conference in 2019, we have expanded APConf 2020 to a four day event that will occur entirely on line via Big Blue Button!

The CFP is open through July 8 at: https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#cfp

We invite proposals for birds of a feather topics and 30- 60 minute talks related to ActivityPub. Register online (https://conf.activitypub.rocks/#register) or feel free to email us with questions (activitypubconf@riseup.net )

#apconf2020 #activitypubconf

well I'll be damned.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/06/18/tech/facebook-trump-ads-triangle-takedown/index.html

*Yay,* made a page for

#ActivityPub #Conference 2020

You could register and the Call for Proposals is open through July 8

Following a successful inaugural conference in 2019, we have expanded APConf 2020 to a four day event that will occur entirely on line via Big Blue Button!
#apconf2020 ⬡

https://conf.activitypub.rocks/

#BSDNow "Upgrading #OpenBSD, Where do Unix man pages come from?, Help for #NetBSD ’s VAX port, #FreeBSD on Dell Latitude 7390, PFS Tool changes in #DragonflyBSD , and more." https://www.bsdnow.tv/355