shaunlebron

Transcribed from an interview with Toby Schachman and Paula Te on The Afrofuturist Podcast:

There's this notion of the open-source movement. There are a lot of things
that we totally resonate with that because it's about understanding how your
technology works. We're totally 100% on board with that.

But then there are other issues with the open-source community, where it's
very internet-based and so open-source ends up benefitting this group of
people who have really strong access to internet and understand how to use

halocaridina

-- 1. Create a new generic password entry in Keychain Access called "WHATEVER_AnyConnect_VPN" (the name in Keychain access must match that in line 39 below) with your password for the Cisco AnyConnect VPN server.  
-- 2. Open this script in Script Editor (both this and the above are in the Applications->Utilities folder) and "Save as.." an Application (.app) with desired name.
-- 3. Open Security & Privacy System Preferences, go to Privacy, Accessibility.
-- 4. Enable the above .app so it can access Accessibility
-- 5. Copy and paste a nice icon on the generic Applescript icon (I used a copy of the default AnyConnect one)
-- 6. Add the new .app to /Users/[yourshortname]/Applications with a shortcut to your Dock 
-- 7. Enjoy the fast connection with no need to enter password and increased security of not having a sensitive password stored as plain text
-- 8. Run script again to close connection

-- AnyConnect now refered to as targetApp

acolyer

Internet Scale Services Checklist

A checklist for designing and developing internet scale services, inspired by James Hamilton's 2007 paper "On Desgining and Deploying Internet-Scale Services."

• http://mvdirona.com/jrh/talksandpapers/jamesrh_lisa.pdf

Basic tenets

• Does the design expect failures to happen regularly and handle them gracefully?
• Have we kept things as simple as possible?

tmm1

nickloewen

This is a plain-text version of Bret Victor’s reading list. It was requested by hf on Hacker News.

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Highly recommended things!

This is my five-star list. These are my favorite things in all the world.

A few of these works have had an extraordinary effect on my life or way of thinking. They get a sixth star. ★

awhow

-- 1. Place in ~/Library/Scripts and enable the Applescript menu via the Applescript Editor
--    (Or export to .app to run from spotlight.)
-- 2. Substitute "vpn.example.com" and "redacted" for your VPN server and password
-- 3. Open Security & Privacy System Preferences, go to Privacy, Accessibility
-- 4. Enable Applescript Editor and System UI Server (or for this .app if so exported)
-- 5. Trigger script from the menu (or run from spotlight)
-- 6. Enjoy being connected
-- 7. Run script again to close connection

ice799

#!/custom/ree/bin/ruby

# USAGE:
#
# echo "|/path/to/core_helper.rb %p %s %u %g" > /proc/sys/kernel/core_pattern 
#

require 'etc'
require 'net/smtp'