Well it looks like the time has passed by again on me, no one’s fault but my own. I’ve had a lot of activity since my last post, so this will be a large one. So let’s correct this by catching up on what interesting and wonderful discoveries I’ve found on the Internet in the past month. Enjoy.
Art
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A community by artists for artists that is similar to DeviantArt.
Books
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A magazine that covers the best at science fiction stories since 1977. Each issue is available in print and digitally via third party platforms.
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The Internet Archive Manual Library is a collection of manuals, instructions, walkthroughs and data sheets for a massive spectrum of items.
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Science Fiction and Contemporary Fantasy set in alternate world South Africa.
- MIT Press: Open Access Materials via Internet Archive
- The Time Machine by H.G. Wells - Nantucket E-books
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Why We Love FreeDOS by various contributors
A collection of essays and contributions about how people started working on and using FreeDOS, and why we love FreeDOS.
Comics
Gaming
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Classic video game magazines.
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QUARTER UP! Vol. II, Summer 2023
A free online newsletter about pinball and retro arcade gaming.
Design
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Blobbee is an emoji pack based on Neofox by Volpeon.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
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Collection of typefaces that are available under a variety of free licenses.
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An open source repair symbol, inspired by the recycle symbol.
License: CC-BY 4.0
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The classless-ish CSS library you’ve been missing.
Language: CSS, License: BSD 2-Clause
Hardware
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A tiny handheld game system with a bunch of brand-new games.
Knowledge
- Creating a VS Code Editor Extension by Tim Heuer
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CPU Land by Lexi Mattick & Hack Club
Learn how multiprocessing works, what system calls really are, how computers manage memory with hardware interrupts, and how Linux loads executables.
- Easy SVG sparklines by Alex Plescan
- Inkscape Challenge | 1 August 2023 - 31 August 2023
- Lost in the Middle: How Language Models Use Long Contexts
- Mini Course Building Your Email List by Millie Adrian
Misc
- AI Causes Real Harm. Let’s Focus on That over the End-of-Humanity Hype by Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna
- Budgie Backgrounds v2.0 released
- DEF CON 31 Media Files
- First thoughts about threads by Ben Werdmuller
- Free Public WiFi by j. b. Crawford
- How to Kill a Decentralized Network (such as the Fediverse) by Ploum
- If The Shoe Doesn’t Fit, Print It! by Al Williams
- Overture Maps Foundation Releases Its First World-Wide Open Map Dataset
- Peertube Advatar Generator by David Revoy
- The delusions of Debian
- Samsung is a GARBAGE company! (Piped) by Louis Rossmann
Music
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A community driven effort with the aim of collecting as many internet radio and TV stations as possible.
News
- Fairphone 4—the repairable, sustainable smartphone—is coming to the US by Ron Amadeo
- Major U.S. energy org targeted in QR code phishing attack by Bill Toulas
- Making sense of the EU’s fight for user-replaceable smartphone batteries by Jon Porter
- New Study Reveals Forged Certificate Attack Risks by Alessandro Mascellino
- Reddit demands moderators remove NSFW labels, or else - The Verge by Jay Peters
- Rocky Strikes Back At Red Hat by Jenny List
Open Source Software
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List images by thumbnails in terminal using sixel graphics.
Language: Shell, GNU GPLv3
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Disk usage/free space utility alternative to df.
Language: Go, License: MIT
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Make dig’s output prettier.
Language: Python, License: MIT
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A free and open source reading platform without the algorithms via a web browser, or on the go with an iPhone and iPad.
License: GNU AGPLv3
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Pipe Viewer (pv) is a terminal-based tool for monitoring the progress of data through a pipeline.
Language: C, License: Artistic v2.0
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A Flash Player emulator available for both the desktop and the web using WebAssembly.
Language: Rust, License: Apache v2.0 or MIT
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Immersive terminal interface for managing docker containers and services.
Language: JavaScript, License: MIT
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A web scraping and browser automation library.
Language: TypeScript, License: Apache v2.0
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A featureless but programmable painting program.
Language: C, License: GNU GPLv3
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Take back control of your email with this easy-to-deploy mail server in a box without having to be a technology expert to set it up.
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A directory of ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software.
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A simple HTML5, YouTube and Vimeo player.
Language: JavaScript, License: MIT
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Your plan for improving personal life and workflow.
Language: Rust, License: GNU GPLv3
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Fast and lightweight Continuous Integration.
Language: C++, License: GNU GPLv3
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An interplanetary microblogging platform.
Language: TypeScript, License: GNU AGPLv3
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FoundKey is a free and open source microblogging server compatible with ActivityPub.
Language: TypeScript, License: GNU AGPLv3
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Manage many git repositories with sanity.
Language: Python, License: MIT
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A Federated microblogging self-hosted, lightweight platform built on ActivityPub protocol.
Language: Rust, License: GNU AGPLv3
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A lightweight operating system for microcontrollers with a POSIX-like environment.
Language: MicroPython, License: MIT
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A command-line tool for inspecting various Microsoft PC EXE formats.
Language: C
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Real-time audio streaming over the network.
Language: C++, License: MPL v2.0
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Command line tool for URL parsing and manipulation.
Language: C
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An open-source, peer-to-peer, mobile first, networked application framework.
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Use any camera as a webcam—DSLR, mirrorless, camcorder, point-and-shoot, and even some smartphones/tablets.
Language: Shell, License: BSD 2-Clause
OSINT
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LinkedIn enumeration tool to extract valid employee names from an organization through search engine scraping.
Language: Python, License: GNU GPLv3
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Command line tool for open source and threat intelligence.
Language: Python, License: GNU GPLv3
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A framework for gathering open-source intelligence on GitHub users, repositories and organizations.
Language: Python, License: GNU GPLv3
Privacy
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A guide on how to start protecting your online privacy with free and open source software.
- F40 Change Request: Privacy-preserving Telemetry for Fedora Workstation (System-Wide) - Fedora Discussion
- What are Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) and why are they important?
- Slack Vs Microsoft Teams — Which Is Better For Your Privacy? by Xavier Harding
Security
- How Hype Will Turn Your Security Key Into Junk by William Brown
- ProtonMail Rewrites Your Emails by John Floren
References
- Binary Matrix code, image by abbiefyregraphics, Pixabay
- The Neue Black font, open font license