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Found the live stream of my poor man's GoPro using Kali Linux and a USB WiFi device (in monitoring mode). First time decrypting wireless traffic between two devices (camera and accompanying Android app) without joining a network.

The (awesome) economics of open source

"Theories help explain why companies... have prospered even in the face of economic arguments about why they should not."

"Proprietary software is unsustainable, both for those who write it and especially for those who buy it."

"Open source can lower barriers to innovation and increase the effectiveness of collaboration, enabling continued positive economic growth."

https://lwn.net/Articles/764775/rss

Closed my AWS account today after a lengthy 4-year (working) trial period. Happy to leave the vendor lock-in, proprietary offerings, painful interfaces, and opaque pricing schemes behind.

Finished setting up rsyslog for centralized logging and discovered a simple viewing and filtering tool called lnav. If you haven't tried it, lnav (http://lnav.org/) is a fantastic tool for tailing and navigating log files in the terminal.

This weekend I traded my Android smartphone and Project Fi for a basic phone (Nokia 105) and Ting. It's been an a rewarding experience so far with a little extra freedom and time spent with family.

Drone seems to be working nicely with Gitea and incredibly easy to set up. Just wondering if it has any major drawbacks in the long run and whether time spent making Buildbot is worth the effort and additional flexibility.

Considering various CI tools for automated builds / testing. Any experience with Buildbot, Jenkins, Drone, ? Any self hosted CI recommendations from the community? Let your voice be heard!

Editing home movies in Blender today and discovered Velvets: a handful of intuitive shortcuts, improved proxies, Ardour integration, and totally groovy website dedicated to movie editing in Blender VSE: http://blendervelvets.org

Stumbled onto gitolite today (http://gitolite.com)? Anyone using it? Fantastic and simple way to manage branch protection / access controls for git repos.

Pi-hole is a great little DHCP/DNS server. Been running it at home for a solid week now. Paired with openvpn, there's ad / malware blocking on the go to cut down on unwanted mobile traffic.