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@jz if you have a rad1o it can do air quality measurements, i can provide you with an app, that dumps this on the serial port over usb, but i'm sure it's easy to also show it on the display.

@pluralistic that's what i'm usually doing. will do so again.

@pluralistic oooooh, want! is there a way to throw money at you without needing a creditcard, interacting with an american company, and without being locked out by cloudflare which things i am a bot? i'd love an ebook version, also i wouldn't mind throwing more than the fixed pledge on kickstarter...

my list of #38c3 #talks i did see, or wanted to, a recommendation, not exhaustive. media.ccc.de seems to be a bit slow, give it some time.
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"Liberating Wi-Fi on the ESP32" very exciting research for advanced fuckery with wifi and very cheap hw https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-liberating-wi-fi-on-the-esp32

"BioTerrorism Will Save Your Life with the 4 Thieves Vinegar Collective" their toolkit to test homemade pharma is quite impressive: https://media.ccc.de/v/38c3-bioterrorism-will-save-your-life-with-the-4-thieves-vinegar-collective

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@buherator i think that is an excellent question for @pluralistic or @cstross myself found libris.nl in the netherlands to be an association of b&m bookshops that has an online presence to be ok for my taste.

@nblr yes, see also my first response to this: https://chaos.social/@stf/113588910157678613

we knew they are a biased soft-power cutout for the us spies, doing selective disclosure.

what is new, is the statement that 1/ they don't investigate countries they get money from and 2/ they get earmarked money for countries of interest. 3/ and they have veto power over key personal.

but i also think, most people have never heard of bellingcat, and most people who might have consumed occrp content, dunno about occrp 8thr

@mediapart i love the fact, that all these key people were suddenly chatting openly about all this just because occrp was nominated for the nobel peace price, and they thought they can be proud on camera :)

@mediapart and it seems that some US gov agency has a veto over key personal in OCCRP. details here: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/021224/hidden-links-between-giant-investigative-journalism-and-us-government

and a shocker at the end: https://www.mediapart.fr/en/journal/international/021224/german-broadcaster-ndr-censored-own-investigation-world-s-largest-consortium-investigative-media german broadcaster #NDR which initiated this report, cancels coop with occrp and at the same time censors their own production.

@cstross if i buy this for 3 bucks, how much do you make of this? i'm buying books to support the creator (and the publisher that supports the creator) and hence i usually go for the hard cover. how does this low price benefit you or your publisher? do sales numbers somehow matter, if the price is so low?

#mac users, help! i'm going crazy, when you install #libsodium using #brew, it installs the library in /opt/homebrew/Cellar/libsodium/<version>/lib/libsodium.dylib but apparently not in /usr/lib or /usr/local/lib, so nothing finds it, and as a build script that has sodium as a dependency has to guess the versions and the path where brew installed the library. this makes no sense, what am i missing, and how is this supposed to work? what kind of madness is this?

pretty cool, someone got their hands on the original zip files containing the encryption sw for operation #vula from the 80ies, they managed to crack the password on the zip files, and now all the source code is available: https://blog.jgc.org/2024/09/cracking-old-zip-file-to-help-open.html

@adulau the IEEE just published a new posix: IEEE Std 1003.1-2024 - almost $700...

does anyone know how to disable this "next/prev post" behavior on #mastodon web frontend when a post is hilited? i want my browser to handle the scrolling, and not have random unexpected jumps in the timeline... the worst is, when i scroll down using scrollwheel, and then for some reason tap cursor up/down and suddenly i scroll back to somewhere i have been long ago... very very annoying.

@clacke @buherator hmmm, so it is ok to bully people over implementation details?

i hope this makes @buherator happy: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/110946721051361237