I've taught several people the basics of coding throughout the years. If Python is the language you should learn first (rather than, say, JavaScript), do this »
From mid-2015 to mid-2016 I got about 1/3 of my calories from Soylent, a "meal replacement" that's kind of like a protein shake, except there's »
Technology Jeff Lindsay Rich Hickey Rob Pike Alan Kay Bret Victor The Future Peter Diamandis Digital Security Bruce Schneier Edward Snowden Julian Assange Jacob Appelbaum Motherboard »
The most unknown and underrated technology I've ever used is certainly PostgREST. What is PostgREST, and what does it do for you? Your Postgres table definitions »
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[The following fictional story is meant as an example for how dangerous superintelligent artificial intelligence will be, and how easily malicious people will be able to »
OVH's "unmetered" servers are as "unlimited" as T-Mobile's 4G -- once you use a certain amount of data transfer, you're throttled. Excerpt from the OVH license »
$ acme.sh --issue -d MYDOMAIN.com -d www.MYDOMAIN.com -w ~/www --dns dns_gd Looks simple, doesn't it? Nope. Here's what you have to do »
In using Atlantic.net for the past 13 months, I didn't notice any downtime during my stay, which I appreciate. But I'm leaving for a few »
My (Steve's) slides, covering why privacy is important, why surveillance is so dangerous, historical examples of surveillance being abused, and more: https://7n86utrjsnwezs4srry1.oasis.sandstorm.io »
The first version of CrypTag Notes, the secure note-taking and shared wiki page desktop app, has launched!!! »
Install https://git-for-windows.github.io/ Create a GitHub account at https://github.com/ Follow these instructions to generate an SSH key and add it to your »
Use Signal, the encrypted mobile messaging app. It's open source, it's created by great hackers over at Open Whisper Systems. iPhone/iOS version Android version »
I really enjoyed teaching members of Revolution LA how to use various privacy-enhancing tools at our 3-hour event on December 11, 2016. Thank you Trinity for »
Below is a list of horribly bad, true things that have happened, many of them perpetrated by the US government. 2017.01.23: Barack Obama dropped »
Perhaps because most of us suspect that both Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump would make even worse presidents than Barack Obama has been, this has led »
Slides from the talk I gave to Santa Barbara High School students: https://obr4aowrgxgkhn4hjnff.oasis.sandstorm.io/index.html »
Great point made in this Hacker News comment: Corporations will abuse your personal integrity whenever they get a chance, while abiding the law. Corporations will cry »
"Mankind's Greatest Achievement" by Nikola Tesla: When a child is born its sense-organs are brought in contact with the outer world. The waves of sound, heat »
Don't buy/rent servers from wable.com. Why? Several reasons: The way they set up automatic backups is clearly a scheme to nickel and dime you »
A friend of mine asked how I "would respond to people who say that [voting 3rd party] makes you politically irrelevant." I do have a response »
A Trump presidency would be a disaster. Obviously. But I am disturbed by how many people I talk to on the left (where I am) who »
Black Lives Matter activists are under surveillance from various parts of the government. Excerpt from an ACLU petition to stop said surveillance: By trolling Facebook, Twitter »
Good things that have happened in the world: 2016.05.19: Marxist economist Richard Wolff made this amazing video about how class works in the US »
I just signed up for ProtonMail to try it out. Here are my first impressions. [EDIT: I was pretty harsh in this review, but I now »