Veilid the open source project has recently announced a secure communications framework, designed for decentralized peer-to-peer use through a multi-hop mesh routing system that combines strong encryption with untraceability
(Cult Of The Dead Cow)
https://www.theregister.com/2023/08/12/veilid_privacy_data
"IPFS was not designed with privacy in mind," Rioux told the DEF CON crowd. "Tor was, but it wasn't built with performance in mind. And when the NSA runs 100 [Tor] exit nodes, it can fail."
Network Effects: The Evolution of Online Communities
At its core, the internet is a network—a global system of computers talking to one another and exchanging information.
The internet was originally conceived by the U.S. government’s Advanced Research Projects Agency, with the goal of allowing researchers using computers at one university to talk to researchers using computers at other universities.
https://open.substack.com/pub/digitalnative/p/network-effects-the-evolution-of
Veilid (pronounced Vay-Lid, from 'Valid and Veiled Identification')
Veilid allows anyone to build a distributed, private app. Veilid gives users the privacy to opt out of data collection and online tracking. Veilid is being built with user experience, privacy, and safety as our top priorities. It is open source and available to everyone to use and build upon.
this actually looks cool
Vaonis, a company that has been dedicated to making the cosmos accessible by all, introduced its latest project this week
Called Hestia and currently up on Kickstarter (and already fully funded), the product essentially turns your phone into a smart telescope
The way it works is simple enough. Using groups of lenses (6 lenses in 3 groups), Hestia can optically zoom in on large objects up in the sky.
Scientists in Japan develop a wearable robot with 6 arms in a first step towards a cyborg future
SQFMI is now selling the BeepBerry, its latest open-source gadget. Based around a Raspberry Pi Zero W and a Raspberry Pi RP2040 microcontroller, the BeepBerry also has a BlackBerry Q20-derived keyboard and a 2.7-inch display.
There's very little a Chromebook can't do compared to Windows or a Mac....
premium Chromebooks can keep up with Windows and Mac..mm
#windows #CbomeOs #mac #CoSoTech ....
https://www.androidcentral.com/chromebooks-laptops/is-there-anything-chromebook-cant-do
The latest Kabuntu laptop marries security-first hardware with its Linux-based operating system
The official release date of the Kubuntu Focus lr24 is Tuesday, April 25, 2023
new browser in town(obvs chromium based) like Brave and Mullvad browsers it has a VPN built in
Sidekick makes the Internet distraction-free. It speeds up your workflow and protects against attention killers
he only desktop app you need
Sidekick interconnects all your web apps and extensions in a single place. Now, finally, Grammarly works in Notion, Slack, and WhatsApp. All messengers and apps at your fingertips, with end-to-end search hosted locally.
In celebration of the dumb phone, a rare sanity-saving gadget
https://www.theverge.com/23662032/smartphone-dumb-phone-tik-tok-instagram-mental-health
For most computer users, the idea of working with containers is a non-starter. But with user-friendly tools like Portainer, they don't have to be.
How Portainer makes working with containers simple
https://www.zdnet.com/article/what-is-portainer-and-can-it-help-the-average-computer-user/
Opinion: Europe is throwing billions at quantum computers. Will it pay off?
We must increase support for quantum software development, or this technology is just a waste of money
https://thenextweb.com/news/europes-throwing-billions-at-quantum-computers-will-it-pay-off
A system used by the Dutch city of Rotterdam attempted to rank people based on their risk of fraud.
The results were troubling.
This Algorithm Could Ruin Your Life
https://www.wired.com/story/welfare-algorithms-discrimination/
Modernising an organisation’s estate (servers, desktops, laptops, network infrastructure etc) to newer, faster technology is vital to maintaining and improving daily operations – not only does it improve the efficiency of day-to-day business but it also strengthens security measures.
https://technative.io/protecting-technology-and-information-through-modernisation/
AI reality with some humour
sidenote
all Atari gamers will remember that moment you figured out breakout and it didn't take us over 500 games lmao
Wildebeest is a new project from Cloudflare that’s designed to make it easier for individuals to set up and run their own Mastodon-compatible servers(takes MINUTES to connect to fediverse)
Today we're introducing Wildebeest, an open-source, easy-to-deploy ActivityPub and Mastodon-compatible server built entirely on top of Cloudflare's Supercloud.
https://blog.cloudflare.com/welcome-to-wildebeest-the-fediverse-on-cloudflare/
Microsoft, Amazon and Salesforce have announced large layoffs in January
What will these events mean for the rest of the industry?
https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/what-big-tech-layoffs-suggest-for
E = Mc2 - Energy Milk Coffee
Fáilte Abhaile 🏴 “a nod’s as guid as a wink tae a blind horse”
ta be aff yer heid helps