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Table of Contents Introduction Visual Studio Code Bun.sh async/await ActiveRecord / ORM Express htmx JSX/TSX Syntax without React .editorconfig Strongly Typed Events Introduction My friend RynoTheBearded runs an Internet radio station, The #OO 24/7 Creative Commons Radio! at ryno.cc . He and his listeners chat live in his IRC chat room #oo on the Zeronode IRC network at irc.zeronode.net . In 2013,…
The following are notes for a lightning talk I gave at the New York Amateur Computer Club 's monthly meeting on 11 April 2024. The short URL for this page is https://go.glump.net/xz . Xz Utils is a part of the Linux operating system and ecosystem, and Microsoft researcher discovered at the end of March 2024 that Xz Utils has been comprormised with a backdoor feature designed to allow an attacker…
Table of Contents Introduction Preparation MariaDB DNS SeaFile Configure Your Modem or Router Apache Web Server Collabora LibreOffice Online Introduction The following are unfinished notes for a presentation I am giving at Boston Linux and Unix on 15 June 2022. Unfortunately, I was not able to get Let's Encrypt working in my demo environment and I had to stop and save what I have, so I can…
On 11 November 2021 I am giving a presentation at the New York Amateur Computer Club meeting about the basics of Cryptography. Slides Slides with speaker notes Discussion board thread for this talk
Retro Pie is a complete software system for emulating many old video game systems on modern computers. It is specifically designed for the Raspberry Pi line of tiny computers, but it also can be installed on ODROID hand-held computers and also any desktop or laptop running Debian or an Ubuntu-based operating system. Raspberry Pi is a line of tiny single-board computers designed to be cheap but…
I created this page because I noticed two things on Sunday, 22 March 2020: New York City published an update on case numbers for COVID-19 yesterday which had conveniently included a sub-series in a chart showing "number of new cases" on each day, and I saw that we passed the peak of a bell curve for that number on Thursday the 19th. That seemed like good news to me. This morning the "new cases"…
This page contains notes for a talk I'm giving at the New York Amateur Computer Club on 14 November 2019 at New York University. The short URL for this page is go.glump.net/publish-video The video recording of this talk should be available on YouTube by 1 December 2019. Check back here, or subscribe to our YouTube Channel to find out when it's published. Update: I'll try to have this page done and…
Last week I bought a Sabrent Rocket Pro USB-connected SSD storage device. The product page for this line of SSDs on Amazon says clearly that it supports Linux and it supports the Trim function, but I had a problem with that, out of the box. Trim is a relatively new feature in storage device interfaces whereby the host (the computer) can tell the storage device "these sectors contain discarded…
As of the time I'm writing this howto, there is no complete self-installing package of Zim Desktop Wiki 0.70 or later, for Windows. This is due to the Zim project migrating from Python 2 to Python 3 and from GTK 2 to GTK 3. I was the maintainer of the old Zim packages for Windows, and I have not been able to come up with a packaging workflow that works for GTK 3. As an alternative, I provide…
I gave a talk about social networking using free software, on 13 June 2019 at the New York Amateur Computer Club. This page contains my notes from the talk, and may eventually be re-developed into a fuller article. The video recording of this talk is on YouTube . The short URL for this page is: go.glump.net/free-social Resources https://stallman.org/facebook.html -- Reasons not to be used by…