The
Internet Archive
is my favourite thing on the internet, it is much
much more than just the
wayback machine
. It is a massive archive of human
culture, it might be one of the most important things being created right now.
There is much more information being added to the IA now than any one person
could process themselves. But it isn't that hard for individuals to pick an
upload or a topic and process through the files and provide some sort of best
of list.
The video below is a chat about archiving, I think the most important take away
is that we really need people to review the material and make sections
accessible.
Paraphrased:
I am waiting for someone to go through 200 floppy discs and write a blogpost:
"I looked at all this junk, these 7 are great."
I am working on a modification to
hostapd
and I really have to run this on
linux. The pi I was planning to use has seems to have finally given up the
ghost after 4 years of use. Never fear, I failed over to using the
chip
,
that came with my pocketchip flashed with the headless firmware.
The chip will use the microusb connection as a serial port by default,
similar to the way the BBB uses the usb port to do ethernet. With a serial
connection, I needed to figure out how to get the chip onto wifi.
There is a command line tool for interacting with network manager
listed in the
chip documentation
.
nmcli
is a pretty great tool for network access.
$ nmcli device wifi list
* SSID MODE CHAN RATE SIGNAL BARS SECURITY
* HameNetwork Infra 11 54 Mbit/s 100 ▂▄▆█ WPA2
NetGear-AWQ4D8 Infra 1 54 Mbit/s 69 ▂▄▆_ WPA1 WPA2
BTWifi-X Infra 6 54 Mbit/s 30 ▂___ WPA2 802.1X
BTWifi-with-FON Infra 6 54 Mbit/s 30 ▂___ --
Better yet, there is a
nmtui
interface that presents a nice ncurses way to
configure the network.
Awesome news, OONI probe now has an android tool. OONI probe uses tor to map
out censorship on the internet. If you want to make the internet a much better
place I really suggest running this app.
Unrelated
, I read an awesome write up on
reverse engineering a book
cover
. It is a shame I don't read Polish, the author including something
interesting in the cover is a real draw to the book for me.
FOSDEM is split between devrooms and booths, there are booths for a load of
different projects. The
Olimex DIY Laptop
was announced the week before,
they were showing it off at a stand at FOSDEM.
The hardware is quite nice, the case feels a little cheap, but what can you
expect for that price? The keyboard they have on it is horrible. It would be
much better served with much fewer keys on the layout, something more like a
chromebook would be good (I would settle for 40%, but the market is probably
small).
I unplugged the assembled model they had on display and they got upset and it
was quickly plugged back in. The hardware is still quite early, it looks like a
really solid start.
I don't think I would pick up the first generation of hardware, if they
continue with the project it will be really promising.
