WordPress Create Upload Files and Directories
This tutorial explains how to create new files and directories in the WordPress /uploads/ folder.
Pomodoro Technique
There are six steps in the original technique:
Decide on the task to be done.
Set the pomodoro timer (traditionally to 25 minutes).
Work on the task.
End work when the timer rings and put a checkmark on a piece of paper.
If you have fewer than four checkmarks, take a short break (3–5 minutes), then go to step 2.
After four pomodoros, take a longer break (15–30 minutes), reset your checkmark count to zero, then go to step 1.
For the purposes of the technique, a pomodoro is the interval of time spent working.
X210 (X200). XY Tech
The motherboard is designed as a drop-in replacement for the stock motherboard of the X201 and X201s. This means that every hardware component of the original laptop is guaranteed to work with the newer motherboard, including the display, keyboard, charging port etc.
51nb’s X210 Review: A Faithful Recreation
I have not personally used the ThinkPad X201 over an extended period of time. Despite this fact, during the month I have spent with the X210, it is easy to sense 51nb’s effort in recreating a modern ThinkPad X201. Starting by keeping the exceptionally comfortable 7-row keyboard and TrackPoint, adding support for M.2 and mSATA SSDs, finding the WUXGA upgrade, and topping it off with a user-configurable BIOS to maximise performance with the 8th generation mobile chips, upgradable DDR4 RAM slots, … These all have made the X210 a truly memorable and excellent example among the contemporary laptops.
However, this recreation requires a keen hand to assemble, upgrading the motherboard and display panel is not a job for the faint of heart. The BIOS is not perfect either, especially in regards to power consumption and the battery’s status reporting. Thankfully, this does not deal a fatal blow to its practical usability, and the latter has since been fixed with later BIOS updates.
Our test sample, as mentioned numerous times before, was hastily assembled. Despite this however, the laptop demonstrated great stability even with sustained usage and torture testing. The laptop, perhaps predictably, boots quickly and is highly responsive. Thermal performance is nothing less than staggering, to the point that I have to repeatedly make sure that the thermal measuring tools and software are performing properly.
In conclusion, the X210 is a unicorn in the realm of sub-notebooks: retaining the RJ-11 modem port while extracting the full potential of the 8th generation mobile processors; keeping the comfortable and familiar input devices while adding support for cutting edge technologies like PCIe NVMe SSDs; ensuring support for the original LVDS panels while adding support for greatly improved EDP-interfaced IPS panels… The X210 skillfully combines cutting edge technologies with classic elements that make a ThinkPad great for us enthusiasts. The X210 is not just a bottle of fine wine or a fresh breeze through a medieval castle – it’s really much more than that. A faithful recreation from a passionate community of ThinkPad lovers, that’s what the X210 really is.
Chinese enthusiasts are serving global Thinkpad fans by making modern motherboards that fit in classic chassis from the Golden Age of the Thinkpad
The first thing to go was the beloved, clacky, positive-action keyboards, replaced by Macbook-style chiclet keyboards that wore out much faster, but at least the keyboards were easily swapped out when they started to falter. Then came new submicro designs that made swapping keyboards into a one-hour procedure that had to be performed by a professional who would have to virtually totally disassemble the computer.
The same forces made drive-swaps harder and harder. I used to order a Thinkpad with the smallest, cheapest drive available and then throw it away on arrival and replace it with a third-party, 1TB SSD. Now I just order the Thinkpads with 1TB SSDs and pay a premium for them (these custom options can add weeks to the build/delivery time, too) — thankfully, the price-gap on Lenovo’s 1TB SSDs and third party drives has narrowed.
And now, the Thinkpad X-series systems have eliminated their Ethernet ports and require users to carry (and not lose or break) a dongle to use wired internet.
51NB, a group of Chinese enthusiasts buy up classic, pre-Lenovo Thinkpad chassis and manufacturers new motherboards for them with modern CPUs and other hardware. They started with a run of Thinkpad «X62» system (X61s with a new motherboard) and then branched out into Thinkpad «X210″s — an X201 with a Core i7 8550u (4 cores, turbo boost up to 4GHz); 2× DDR4 SODIMM slots; 2× mini PCI Express slots; an M.2 NVMe slot; a 3.5” SATA bay; a 12.6 inch, 2880×1920, 450 nits, wide gamut display; Mini DisplayPort & VGA out; 3× USB 3.1 ports; an SD reader and gigabit Ethernet (no dongle required!).
Teixidora. Què es?
teixidora és un projecte participatiu per recollir coneixement generat en xerrades i esdeveniments, compartir documentació, explorar connexions, relacionar entre sí els debats i activitat i cartografiar actors (en general en l’àmbit tecnosocial i les temàtiques que hi interseccionen), posant l’accent en les perspectives ètiques i emancipadores, donant visibilitat a les aportacions crítiques.
Hem assajat diverses eines i metodologies per documentar el que es fa i contextualitzar-ho.
OpenArchive. Advancing human rights through secure digital media preservation
Now, more than ever, capturing media on mobile phones plays a key role in exposing global injustice.
OpenArchive helps individuals around the world to securely store and share the critical evidence they’ve captured.
Save
Share · Archive · Verify · Encrypt
Save is a new mobile media app designed by OpenArchive to help citizen reporters and eyewitnesses around the world preserve, protect, and amplify what they’ve documented.
‘Largest Distributed Peer-To-Peer Grid’ On The Planet Laying Foundation For A Decentralized Internet
“Less than 20 companies actually own more than 80% of the internet capacity, which is the storage and the compute,” de Spiegeleer told me. “It really needs to be something like electricity. It needs to be everywhere and everyone needs to have access to it. It needs to be cost effective, it needs to be reliable, it needs to be independent.”
You use the internet to send a message on a messaging service to a family member across town. As you click Send, the message will most likely travel across your continent and perhaps across an ocean, hit a number of companies’ servers along the way, then ping back, likely on a different route, hitting multiple other companies’ servers as well before arriving at a relatively local switch, ISP, wires, WiFi, and then making it down to your mom’s phone.
The alternative? In a mesh distributed internet, your message to mom might make a couple of hops over local computers, maybe a local ISP, and ping right down to her having traveled not much more than the straight-line distance between you and your favorite parent.
Código Konami
El código Konami (Konami Code, también conocido como Konami Command o Contra Code) es un truco que puede ser usado en ciertos videojuegos de Konami, que normalmente activa alguna opción secreta. El código fue usado por primera vez en la versión de Gradius para la videoconsola NES, en 1986. En la partida, el jugador pulsa la siguiente secuencia de botones en el controlador:
↑ ↑ ↓ ↓ ← → ← → B A
17 de junio de 1888, nace Alfonso Bialetti
17 de junio de 1888, nace Alfonso Bialetti, autor de una de las mayores obras de ingeniería de todos los tiempos
El mapa de la contratación pública en Cantabria
Explora 20.971 contratos del Gobierno de Cantabria y más de 4.000 licitadores. Una herramienta digital interactiva para la transparencia y el análisis desarrollada por Jaime Gómez-Obregón.
Make WordPress Core. Our Philosophies
Decisions not Options
When making decisions, these are the users we consider first. A great example of this consideration is software options. Every time you give a user an option, you are asking them to make a decision. When a user doesn’t care or understand the option, this ultimately leads to frustration. As developers, we sometimes feel that providing options for everything is a good thing, you can never have too many choices, right? Ultimately these choices end up being technical ones, choices that the average end user has no interest in. It’s our duty as developers to make smart design decisions, and avoid putting the weight of technical choices on our end users.
Alidade. Interactive guide to choose technology for an organization
Choosing technology is hard. Alidade can help.
Use Alidade to create a plan for finding technology tools that suit your social change project.
Built on in-depth research in Kenya and South Africa.
Designed for activists and social change organisations everywhere.
Scientists say most likely number of contactable alien civilisations is 36
In 1961 the astronomer Frank Drake proposed what became known as the Drake equation, setting out seven factors that would need to be known to come up with an estimate for the number of intelligent civilisations out there. These factors ranged from the the average number of stars that form each year in the galaxy through to the timespan over which a civilisation would be expected to be sending out detectable signals.
Under the strictest set of assumptions – where, as on Earth, life forms between 4.5bn and 5.5bn years after star formation – there are likely between four and 211 civilisations in the Milky Way today capable of communicating with others, with 36 the most likely figure.
The team add that our civilisation would need to survive at least another 6,120 years for two-way communication. “They would be quite far away … 17,000 light years is our calculation for the closest one,”
Mastodon Twitter Crossposter
This service allows you to connect a Mastodon account and a Twitter account and enable cross-posting between them. You can choose some options, such as if you want to post boosts, unlisted toots or replies.
Pourquoi les noms de domaine abandonnés sont dangereux
Pour donner une idée de l’ampleur du problème, Gabor Szathmari a réenregistré d’anciens noms de domaine pour plusieurs cabinets d’avocats qui avaient fusionné, et mis en place un serveur de courrier électronique. Et, sans rien pirater, il affirme avoir reçu un flux constant d’informations confidentielles, y compris de la correspondance bancaire, des factures d’autres cabinets d’avocats, des documents juridiques sensibles de clients, et des mises à jour LinkedIn. (Il a ensuite restitué les noms de domaine à leurs propriétaires d’origine).
Or, selon le chercheur, il serait facile d’utiliser la même technique pour commettre des fraudes. « En rétablissant une boutique en ligne fonctionnant autrefois sur un nom de domaine désormais abandonné, des acteurs malveillants pourraient télécharger les pages web originales depuis archive.org, puis prendre des commandes et effectuer de nouveaux paiements en se faisant passer pour une boutique en ligne tout à fait fonctionnelle », a-t-il déclaré par courriel. « Si l’ancienne boutique en ligne disposait d’un système de gestion de la relation client (CRM) ou d’un MailChimp, les criminels pourraient accéder à la liste des anciens clients en reprenant ces comptes avec un mot de passe réinitialisé par courrier électronique »
GitHub to replace «master» with alternative term to avoid slavery references
But, in reality, these efforts started years ago, in 2014, when the Drupal project first moved in to replace «master/slave» terminology with «primary/replica.»
Drupal’s move was followed by the Python programming language, Chromium (the open-source browser project at the base of Chrome), Microsoft’s Roslyn .NET compiler, and the PostgreSQL and Redis database systems.
Ni «master» ni «blacklist»: el mundo del software se rebela contra las referencias a la esclavitud
…términos como «master/slave» se llevan usando años no solo en el ámbito del desarrollo, sino también al hablar por ejemplo de las viejas configuraciones de discos duros.
Dichos conceptos siempre han suscitado cierta controversia por sus connotaciones raciales, y ahora varias empresas están impulsando cambios para dejar de usar esos términos y sustituirlos por otros más neutros. Por ejemplo usar «principal» (main), «por defecto» (default), «raíz» (root) o «primario» (primary) para sustituir al concepto de «maestro» (master).
Lo mismo ocurre con las «listas negras» y las «listas blancas» que por ejemplo usamos para admitir o bloquear ciertas palabras en los comentarios que llegan a un blog. En lugar de esos conceptos se quieren usar «lista de permitidos» y «lista de exluidos/denegados».
Cor On Collaboration Soundtrack
Pues eso, canciones que tengan que ver de forma directa o tangencial o nos recuerden a la situación que estamos viviendo.
Solivid. Recopilación de iniciativas solidarias ante la crisis del COVID-19
SOLIVID es un proyecto colectivo para la construcción de un mapa colaborativo y de un banco de recursos on-line sobre las iniciativas solidarias frente a la crisis del COVID-19.
Todos datos que recojamos seran de acceso abierto.
New York Times front page lists 1,000 coronavirus deaths — just 1% of the total US death toll
The New York Times prepared a powerful front page for its May 24 print edition, marking the somber milestone of 100,000 coronavirus deaths in the United States.
The newspaper listed the names of 1,000 people who died of COVID-19 — just 1% of the total death toll.
The newspaper staff combed through obituaries and death notices for people whose cause of death was listed as COVID-19, and listed people’s names, ages, and facts about their lives.
5G. Una perspectiva crítica
Aunque no hay un consenso general, hasta ahora no existe evidencia suficiente que demuestre algún daño inmediato en la salud provocado por las redes 5G. Como aún persisten dudas, la investigación seria y el debate continúan.
Sin embargo, el 5G no está ligado a la propagación de la pandemia. Esta acusación está perjudicando a las críticas centradas en los impactos políticos y sociales de esta nueva tecnología.
Postwoman. A free, fast and beautiful API request builder (web alternative to Postman)
A free, fast and beautiful API request builder (web alternative to Postman)
Outils partagés pour le déconfinement
Retrouvez ici des ressources inspirantes, partagées par d’autres tiers-lieux, pour vous aider à gérer le déconfinement et le retour à l’activité.
Festival Innovación Abierta Frena la Curva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uzHAZIB_0bk
Distributor. Safely reuse and syndicate content between WordPress sites
Distributor is a WordPress plugin that makes it easy to syndicate and reuse content across your websites — whether in a single multisite or across the web.
Las Calles de las Mujeres
Proyecto colaborativo de Geochicas para producir un mapa a partir de las calles que cuenten con un nombre de alguna mujer en Latinoamérica y España. Esta propuesta busca enlazar y generar contenidos en OSM y Wikipedia sobre mujeres destacadas.
Historia de una mapa, por @congosto
Lo primero que me chocó es la gama de colores del mapa. Lo normal es que se use un color y se aplique una tonalidad que se va oscureciendo conforme los valores son más altos. En este caso el valor más alto es de un color diferente de la gama, El negro no es marrón.
Además, la diferencia de color es muy grande respecto a Italia con una variación del 5%. No sé si esto es intencionado o tan solo un error de diseño. Este mapa va a la galería de ejemplos de malas visualizaciones para mis alumnos. Para colmo, los datos no eran correctos.
Como ya se dieron cuenta @resd9 y @A_Sorines el dato de Bélgica era erróneo en vez de 15,70% era 65,67%. El mapa lo publicó la Vanguardia y ha rectificado el dato aunque mantiene el color negro.
Rewriting JavaScript: Converting an Array of Objects to an Object
const arrayToObject = (array) =>
array.reduce((obj, item) => {
obj[item.id] = item
return obj
}, {})const peopleObject = arrayToObject(peopleArray)
console.log(peopleObject[idToSelect])
Django Girls
We inspire women to fall in love with programming.
Django Girls organize free Python and Django workshops, create open sourced online tutorials and curate amazing first experiences with technology.
Django Girls is a non-profit organization and a community that empowers and helps women to organize free, one-day programming workshops by providing tools, resources and support. We are a volunteer run organization with hundreds of people contributing to bring more amazing women into the world of technology. We are making technology more approachable by creating resources designed with empathy.
During each of our events, 30-60 women build their first web application using HTML, CSS, Python and Django.
Tutorial de Django Girls
Este tutorial no te convertirá en programadora de la noche a la mañana. Si quieres ser buena en esto, necesitarás meses o incluso años de aprendizaje y práctica. Sin embargo queremos enseñarte que programar o crear sitios web no es tan complicado como parece. Intentaremos explicar las cosas lo mejor que podamos, para perderle el miedo a la tecnología.
Amish Hackers
Amish lives are anything but anti-technological. In fact on my several visits with them, I have found them to be ingenious hackers and tinkers, the ultimate makers and do-it-yourselfers and surprisingly pro technology.
Some orders require the buggy to be an open carriage (so riders – teenagers, say – are not tempted with a private place to fool around); others will permit closed carriages. Some orders allow tractors on the farm, if the tractors have steel wheels; that way a tractor can’t be “cheated” to drive on the road like a car. Some groups allow farmers to power their combine or threshers with diesel engines, if the engine only drives the threshers but is not self-propelled, so the whole smoking, noisy contraption is pulled by horses. Some sects allow cars, if they are painted entirely black (no chrome) to ease the temptation to upgrade to the latest model.
When cars first appeared at the turn of last century the Amish noticed that drivers would leave the community to go shopping or sight-seeing in other towns, instead of shopping local and visiting friends, family or the sick on Sundays. Therefore the ban on unbridled mobility was aimed to make it hard to travel far, and to keep energy focused in the local community.
Turns out the Amish make a distinction between using something and owning it. The Old Order won’t own a pickup truck, but they will ride in one. They won’t get a license, purchase an automobile, pay insurance, and become dependent on the automobile and the industrial-car complex, but they will call a taxi.
Las tecnologías de la Covid-19 marcarán nuestro mañana
Al igual que las vacunas que se están desarrollando requieren de un tiempo de precaución para probar su fiabilidad, las tecnologías también lo necesitan para garantizar que no producirán daños sociales y brechas inasumibles en estados democráticos, así como para que no lleguen a generar precedentes peligrosos para nuestros derechos.
en primer lugar, que sean temporales. Es decir, que cuando termine el estado de alarma, dejen de funcionar. En segundo lugar, que se sepa cuáles son los propósitos y que se cumplan, lo que implica no seguir añadiendo capas con nuevas funcionalidades en cada actualización que extiendan los propósitos iniciales. Y por último, que se conozca quiénes tienen acceso a los datos que se recopilan y que no se permita el acceso a ellos a nadie más.
Estas empresas han optado por la opción descentralizada, algo que sin duda beneficia a la privacidad, pero por contra, merma el poder de decisión de los gobiernos y poderes públicos.
La actual situación nos debe servir para reflexionar acerca de la tecnología que queremos, donde la ciudadanía, informada, tome decisiones sobre qué aplicaciones o datos da y a qué actores del ecosistema digital. Los sistemas de cajas negras no deberían ser aceptables en tiempos de pandemia, pero tampoco en ningún otro momento.
Las tecnologías no son ni buenas ni malas ni neutrales, y en muchos casos depende del uso que se les dé o se les permita.
Laconica – Las redes sociales libres que dejamos atrás
Podríamos decir que caminamos «a hombros de gigantes». Las nuevas redes libres no surgen de la noche a la mañana y antes de las actuales existieron otras.
La Fábrika de toda la vida
LaFábrika detodalavida (LFdTV) es una cocina de procesos económicos, sociales y culturales de experimentación que trabaja para la gestión social del territorio y la ociocultura en el ámbito rural. Desde LFdTV desarrollamos dinámicas creativas y metodologías de investigación/acción alrededor de los bienes comunes, la producción cooperativa, la cultura libre y la autoconstrucción.
Montenoso
Montenoso somos unha comunidade que traballa por visibilizar e dinamizar as CMVMC de Galicia, así como outras manifestacións dos comúns.
Somos un proxecto militante que xurdiu no 2010, no que colaboramos persoas, entiades e comunidades.
Os equipos de traballo son abertos e podes participar ou propoñer ideas e accións.