Nick Knudson nickaknudson

Do your part to resist Government surveillance and take back your privacy:

Browser Privacy: HTTPS Everywhere, AdBlock Plus + EasyList, Disconnect, NoScript (FireFox), NotScript (Chrome)
VPNs: Private Internet Access (US), BTGuard (Canada), ItsHidden (Africa), Ipredator (Sweden), Faceless.me (Cyprus / Netherlands)
Internet Anonymization: Tor, Tor Browser Bundle, I2P
Disk Encryption: TrueCrypt (Windows / OSX / Linux), File Vault

Auto Synchronized Backups with Bittorrent sync & a vps

1. Cloud syncing on the cheap

Two awsome things were released yesterday :

bittorrent sync aka btsync
backupsy

Compare this to the pricing of : dropbox pro

Build your own private, encrypted, open-source Dropbox-esque sync folder

Prerequisites:

One or more clients running a UNIX-like OS. Examples are given for Ubuntu 12.04 LTS, although all software components are available for other platforms as well (e.g. OS X). YMMV
A cheap Ubuntu 12.04 VPS with storage. I recommend Backupsy, they offer 250GB storage for $5/month. Ask Google for coupon codes.

Software components used:

Unison for file synchronization
EncFS for folder encryption

Setting up Pi Zero OTG - The quick way (No USB keyboard, mouse, HDMI monitor needed)

More details - http://blog.gbaman.info/?p=791

For this method, alongside your Pi Zero, MicroUSB cable and MicroSD card, only an additional computer is required, which can be running Windows (with Bonjour, iTunes or Quicktime installed), Mac OS or Linux (with Avahi Daemon installed, for example Ubuntu has it built in).
1. Flash Raspbian Jessie full or Raspbian Jessie Lite onto the SD card.
2. Once Raspbian is flashed, open up the boot partition (in Windows Explorer, Finder etc) and add to the bottom of the config.txt file dtoverlay=dwc2 on a new line, then save the file.
3. If using a recent release of Jessie (Dec 2016 onwards), then create a new file simply called ssh in the SD card as well. By default SSH i

	/******************************************************************************
	* Half Duplex Software UART on the LaunchPad
	*
	* Description: This code provides a simple Bi-Directional Half Duplex
	* Software UART. The timing is dependant on SMCLK, which
	* is set to 1MHz. The transmit function is based off of
	* the example code provided by TI with the LaunchPad.
	* This code was originally created for "NJC's MSP430
	* LaunchPad Blog".
	*

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE
	Version 2, December 2004

	Copyright (C) 2011 Jed Schmidt <http://jed.is>

	Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim or modified
	copies of this license document, and changing it is allowed as long
	as the name is changed.

	DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO PUBLIC LICENSE

	#!/usr/bin/env python
	import optparse
	import sys

	from boto.s3.connection import S3Connection

	def sign(bucket, path, access_key, secret_key, https, expiry):
	c = S3Connection(access_key, secret_key)
	return c.generate_url(
	expires_in=long(expiry),

	var chatData = JSON.stringify({
	timestamp: (currentDate.getTime() - currentDate.getMilliseconds()) / 1000
	, chat: {
	employee_id: employeeId
	, created_at: chat.created_at
	, username: chat.chatname
	, message: chat.message
	}
	});

	import numpy as np
	import pylab as pl
	import pandas as pd

	from sklearn import svm
	from sklearn import linear_model
	from sklearn import tree

	from sklearn.metrics import confusion_matrix