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Rubenerd: "Well recently I’ve started tinkering with Alpine Linux! It’s been recommended to me for years, so I’m finally getting around to checking it out. There’s a lot to like if you come from BSD, which we’ll dig into here."

Tool to import appropriately-licensed photos from Flickr to Wikimedia Commons

"If you work on open source software, especially command-line tools, I want you to know about newly available research reports and design guidance, and a user research HOWTO, that you can pick up and reuse.The … | Cogito, Ergo Sumana | Blog by Sumana Harihareswara, Changeset founder"

"Challenging the conventional wisdom that users cannot remember cryptographically-strong secrets, we test the hypothesis that users can learn randomly-assigned 56-bit codes (encoded as either 6 words or 12 characters) through spaced repetition. "
Sure, but *how many* can people memorize?

And a year later, we'd see one of them on the board. "Mastodon’s appeal has even attracted a few unlikely visitors: Twitter co-founders Ev Williams and Biz Stone both created accounts on Mastodon in recent weeks. “I’m kinda tinkering with it,” Stone says. “I don’t know if I’m doing something wrong or what, but my Twitter experience isn’t as great [recently]. I don’t know if it’s the people that I follow aren’t tweeting anymore or what’s happening.”"

"The German photography artist Michael Wesely has created even longer exposures. Using large format cameras (4x5 inches) he captured the light of his objects for up to 3 years in monochrome or colour."

"Let's preserve our geek history! Join GeekMom for a new series on fandom stories and if you've got your own, please share them with us!"

2010: Swedish voters submit SQL injection and JavaScript hacks to hand-written ballot.

"It wasn’t that scientists didn’t recognize the declining fish populations. It was just that they didn’t realize how significant the decline was. Pauly noted that each generation of scientists had a different baseline to which they compared the current statistics, and that each generation’s baseline was lower than that of the previous one."

"A bunch of teens at picnic tables were the first people to track Sputnik I."