N. Darville ndarville

Apparently the porn industry is going after github pages (by sending DMCA to google), you can read the story here (found there).

Using https://www.chillingeffects.org/notices/search?page=1&sort_by=&term=github.com (https://github.com/berkmancenter/chillingeffects/blob/master/doc/api_documentation.mkd#example-successful-response-2) (and an horribly quick and dirty script), here is the list all the concerned users and repositories page (you can find the data bellow):

Users pages

To use this bot:

Download ads_bot.py and requirements.txt.
Type pip install -r requirements.txt to install the requirements.
Fill out the required information in the Python file.
Ideally, create a (free) Slack account and set up a web hook to receive notifications from the bot.
Run the script :)
Relax and be ready to answer incoming calls :D

Encoding Video

Installing

Install FFmpeg with homebrew. You'll need to install it with a couple flags for webm and the AAC audio codec.

brew install ffmpeg --with-libvpx --with-libvorbis --with-fdk-aac --with-opus

Edward Snowden at IETF 93

Edward Snowden answered questions after a showing of CITIZENFOUR at the IETF93 meeting; this is a transcript of the video recording.

For more information, see the Internet Society article.

Introduction
Scale of Pervasive Monitoring
Returning to the US
Preserving the Internet

Update: download the new Pokemon Go app - it fixes all of this. Download it, and reauth, and you should be set. The grant scopes and prompt are correct and visible now too! Now if only I could actually find a pikachu...

Pokemon tokens are requested with these understandable scopes:

openid
email
https://www.googleapis.com/auth/userinfo.email
https://www.google.com/accounts/OAuthLogin (this scope does much more than it appears. see update on the bottom for more info)

How to install dlib v19.9 or newer (w/ python bindings) from github on macOS and Ubuntu

Pre-reqs:

Have Python 3 installed. On macOS, this could be installed from homebrew or even via standard Python 3.6 downloaded installer from https://www.python.org/download. On Linux, just use your package manager.
On macOS:
- Install XCode from the Mac App Store (or install the XCode command line utils).
- Have homebrew installed
On Linux:

Mastodon frontend perf suggestions

I took some time this weekend to analyze Mastodon's frontend performance. I didn't manage to write many fixes (just a config fix and better caching for static assets) so this was mostly just investigation.

The point of this document is to lay out some of my initial thoughts, since it may be helpful for others. There's a lot of technical jargon, so you may want to get some background by looking at my blog post on "The cost of small modules" and my talk on "Solving the web performance crisis" (slides).

Tootstorms

cursory investigation

	{
	"491289025" : "ijinshan-kappmarket://",
	"301521403" : "fb103361823069955://",
	"492178411" : "ils492178411://",
	"346142396" : "fb234434003713://",
	"310633997" : "whatsapp://",
	"370614765" : "com.condenet.newyorker://",
	"325058491" : "rnmddisco://",
	"382952264" : "epichttp://",
	"477048487" : "predictwind://",


	"""

	A simple example pyside app that demonstrates dragging and dropping
	of files onto a GUI.

	- This app allows dragging and dropping of an image file
	that this then displayed in the GUI
	- Alternatively an image can be loaded using the button
	- This app includes a workaround for using pyside for dragging and dropping

	#!/bin/bash

	# Fetches data from http://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/2016-election-forecast/summary.json,
	# parses the results using python, and prints the polls-only forecast results in the format:
	# "{STATE} D {PROBABILITY} R {PROBABILITY}"
	#
	# The script takes an optional argument that specifies an individual two letter abbreviation (case insensitive)
	# of a U.S. state. By default, the state is US which returns the national results.
	#
	# Examples: