matthew (NB0X) @nonlinear@mastodon.sdf.org

Well, it's a clean as it's going to get. Behold! The Lab.

Ignore that tray of junk behind the vise, that all needs to go away.

#MadScience

I've been reading Bruce Schneier's "Click Here to Kill Everybody" and his description of the inexorable march toward ubiquitous connectivity is equal parts realistic and depressing. I hope there are more than a few of us who are willing to pay extra for things that aren't online.

Amazing results today. @scanlime wrote a LED panel driver design for the iCEBreaker today using all open source tools in icestudio! (in an over 8 hour marathon stream) Looks amazing! :) https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC8G48_G7suQlScUudVXyGkg

@ckeen while I'm usually against manifestos, I have to admit I like this a lot: http://pestilenz.org/~ckeen/blog/posts/ciy-manifesto.html

Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Company To Sell DIY Repair Kits To Its Customers

https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/18/10/23/1526248/motorola-becomes-first-smartphone-company-to-sell-diy-repair-kits-to-its-customers

Protocol | An ASCII Header Generator for Network Protocols http://www.luismg.com/protocol/

Alternative to #SQLite ?

Why yes. dBase III by Ashton-Tate

Hiking pictures off my cannon point and shoot camera

Yay, BepiColombo is on its way to Mercury. Here's a post by Emily Lakdawalla from the Planetary Society about it's overall flight path and the first images of itself in space.

#BepiColombo #Space #Mercury #Exploration

http://www.planetary.org/blogs/emily-lakdawalla/2018/bepicolombo-launch-self-portraits.html

If you're interested in the off-the-grid social network Scuttlebutt, there's a good essay here about it (from a few weeks ago):

https://staltz.com/early-days-in-the-manyverse.html

It's by @staltz , the creator of the Manyverse app for Scuttlebutt, and is nicely honest about the major difficulties of using the network, as well as suggesting possible solutions.

#ScuttleButt #SSB #Manyverse #OffTheGrid #SocialNetworks

Video of that antenna #hamradio

America, Compromised: Lawrence Lessig explains corruption in words small enough for the Supreme Court to understand https://boingboing.net/2018/10/22/structural-corruption.html

My BBC Ideas piece on #SurveillanceCapitalism is now on the main page of BBC News. Tell your friends, spread the word :)

https://www.bbc.com/news

HT @cbowdon