NYC Open Data portal
The NYC Open Data portal is a powerful tool that ensures transparency and fosters civic innovation within our City to help improve the quality of life for all New Yorkers.
What open source programming isn’t and what should be
Let’s be clear up front about something: Just being on GitHub in a public repo does not make your code open source. Copyright in nearly all countries attaches automatically when a work is fixed in a medium, without need for any action by the author. For any code that has not been licensed by the author, it is only the author who can exercise the rights associated with copyright ownership. Unlicensed code—no matter how publicly accessible—is a ticking time bomb for anyone who is unwise enough to use it.
Unlicensed code is unsafe code, period.
When you write open source code, you know that it not only has to work, it has to work in situations you never dreamed of and may not have planned for. Maybe you only had one very narrow use case for your code and invoked it in exactly the same way every time.
The true heart of open source isn’t the code at all: it’s the community.
announce that you’re thinking of creating a new project. Talk about your design goals and how you plan to achieve them. Request input, listen to similar (but maybe not identical) use cases, and build that information into your process as you write code.
This process doesn’t end with the initial announcement. If you want your project to be adopted and used by other people, you need to develop it that way too. This isn’t a barrier to entry; it’s just a pattern to use.
Open source work sharpens your skills in ways you never realized were dull—from writing cleaner, more maintainable code to learning how to communicate well and work as a team.
Impresión de moldes para fabricar jabón hacker
Hacer los moldes con PLA es posible y la cosa resiste pero … es muy probable que tengamos que destrozar el molde para sacar el jabón. Lo cual hace que no sea un gran invento.
Por suerte existe PLA elástico. Aún no lo he probado (tengo encargado un rollo de PLA elástico que aún no me ha llegado).
How to delete files in clientmqueue? Or how to solve sendmail spam problem
sudo service sendmail stop sudo cd /var/spool sudo mv clientmqueue clientmqueue.x sudo cd clientmqueue.x sudo find . -type f |xargs rm -f
The Open Data Inventory (ODIN). Are public data available to the public?
The Open Data Inventory (ODIN) assesses the coverage and openness of official statistics to help identify gaps, promote open data policies, improve access, and encourage dialogue between national statistical offices (NSOs) and data users. ODIN 2017 includes 180 countries, including most all OECD countries. Two-year comparisons are for all countries with two years of data between 2015-2017. Scores can be compared across topics and countries.
Open Data Institute toolbox
The Open Data Institute works with companies and governments to build an open, trustworthy data ecosystem, where people can make better decisions using data and manage its harmful impacts.
Our toolbox is a collection of free tools that help with data publishing. Many of them work together to create an integrated ecosystem for open data.
ParticipateDB, the digital engagement catalogue
ParticipateDB is a collaborative catalogue that tracks the tools and services that make up this exciting and fast emerging digital engagement spaces. Project examples provide insights into the many ways these technologies are being applied in practice. And the resource section collects third-party information for additional context, from product white papers to academic case studies and more.
NOTHING TO HIDE, a film about surveillance and you
Nothing to Hide (Oct. 2016), by Marc Meillassoux and Mihaela Gladovic, questions the growing, puzzling and passive public acceptance of massive corporate and governmental incursions into individual and group privacy and rights through the «I have nothing to hide» argument.
Public money Public code
Why is software created using taxpayers’ money not released as Free Software?
We want legislation requiring that publicly financed software developed for the public sector be made publicly available under a Free and Open Source Software licence. If it is public money, it should be public code as well.
Code paid by the people should be available to the people!
Alphabet, Google’s parent company, would provide services in response to data harvested
a plausible urban future based on cities acting as important sites for ‘data extractivism’ – the conversion of data harvested from individuals into artificial intelligence technologies, allowing companies such as Alphabet, Google’s parent company, to act as providers of sophisticated and comprehensive services. The cities themselves, the project insisted, would get a share of revenue from the data.
What’s Wrong With Open Source Telegram?
…the Telegram API allows you to work with their data only. In other words, it’s impossible to store your data on a separate server or a database. The API will let you create an app that interacts with the Telegram messaging app, but this app won’t be able to live a life of its own.
Adding Custom Attributes To WordPress Menus
A simple plugin that will add a “subtitle” field to any WordPress menu.
Mailtrain: Self Hosted Newsletter App Built on Top of Nodemailer with support for encrypted messages
If a list has a custom field for a GPG Public Key set then subscribers can upload their GPG public key to receive encrypted messages from the list.
Construir un mundo rural vivo, igualitario e inclusivo
En lo rural se puede vivir bien porque la cercanía entre las personas, aunque trae algunas incomodidades y control sobre la gente, permite una corriente de solidaridad, ayuda mutua y compañía; Un hacer las cosas conjuntamente que, si es bien encauzada, permite un trabajo comunitario que posibilita un desarrollo participativo e ilusionante, en el que todas las personas en pie de igualdad puedan crecer y desarrollarse.
Las personas jóvenes necesitan de espacios propios que puedan servirles de escuela de autogestión, en toda la extensión de la palabra, desde su ocio, a su vida, su profesión y su desarrollo personal, con derecho a acceder en el medio en el que viven a las tecnologías y los recursos sociales y culturales en la misma medida que otros jóvenes de la ciudad.
Open Data Barcelona vs Google Sidewalk Labs
La Oficina [Open Data Barcelona], que es parte del Plan de Transformación Digital del Ayuntamiento que dirige la Comisionada de Tecnología e Innovación Digital, Francesca Bria, pretende el gobierno público de los datos en un trabajo en tres líneas: captación y almacenamiento, analítica y predicción, y comunicación y difusión. Es decir, el organismo captará información por sus propios medios y sensores pero también los pedirá a compañías que operan en el entorno urbano (telefónicas, energéticas y otras), los analizará y empleará para hacer con mejor tino sus políticas y los podrá a disposición de la ciudadanía, la universidad o quien los requiera.
Una oficina para «remunicipalizar la información» y convertir los datos en lo que son, un bien común.
[Sidewalk Labs] …el modelo urbanístico de Google no está tan lejos del de Blackstone (recuerdo: uno de los grandes imperios inmobiliarios del mundo) pero suma a éste la apropiación de la información, su gestión y su uso. Es decir, ya no sólo se trata de privatizar el espacio público, sino los datos que se generan en él (y en los espacios privados de cada familia y empresa que habite el barrio).
Curaengine Slicer. Support configuration options explained
Some models have overhanging parts, which means that parts of the model float mid-air when you would print the model. In this case, you must print a support structure under the model to prevent the plastic from falling down. This can be achieved by enabling generate support.
Kaos 155: Herramienta para la obtención de datos de Contratación con la administración pública y relaciones societarias en España
Malla es una red de soporte y denuncia con la que afrontar de manera colectiva la represión durante el ejercicio de las libertades civiles y políticas
Nacida del trabajo de entidades, medios de comunicación y colectivos integrantes de la coalición Defender a quien Defiende, es también una herramienta de visibilización y análisis de las vulneraciones de los derechos humanos cometidas por cuerpos policiales y agentes de seguridad privada en el Estado español, especialmente en contextos de protesta social (derechos de reunión y manifestación prioritariamente).
Keeping Your Server Secure With Unattended Upgrades
…a mechanism that installs updates automatically so you don’t have to worry about it. Obviously, this is meant for personal servers operated by hobbyists where convenience is more important than availability. In a professional environment, you would test new packages first because seemingly innocent changes may break complex applications.
Kodi is the ultimate entertainment center software. It plays almost every kind of media you can find
Kodi (formerly known as XBMC) is an award-winning free and open source (GPL) software media player and entertainment hub.
It allows users to play and view most videos, music, podcasts, and other digital media files from local and network storage media and the internet.
OSMC (Open Source Media Center) is a free and open source media center based on Linux
Founded in 2014, OSMC lets you play back media from your local network, attached storage and the Internet. OSMC is the leading media center in terms of feature set and community and is based on the Kodi project.
OSMC is a Kodi centric distribution.
Anti-eviction Mapping Project: Visualizing Bay Area Displacement and Resistance
The Anti-Eviction Mapping Project is a data-visualization, data analysis, and storytelling collective documenting the dispossession of San Francisco Bay Area residents upon gentrifying landscapes.
How do we take a feminist perspective on the design of visualizations? D’Ignazio cited six points that might bring us there
D’Ignazio says this issue is compounded by the fact that women and people of color are underrepresented in data science and technical fields in general, a trend that is worsening. She also highlights skewed quantity and quality of data that is collected about various groups of people. For instance, there are very detailed datasets on gross domestic product and prostate function, but very poor datasets on hate crimes and the composition breast milk.
¿Como se calcula el dinero que debemos pagar, por los servicios libres que usamos?
Darme cuenta que lo que me regalan las grandes coorporaciones no es tanto como les gusta hacernos creer, bajo su eslogan de gratis. Sacan mucho mas de mis datos que yo de sus servicios.
Acomodar mis practicas a mi discurso. Porque la soberanía tecnologica como los feminsismos no se basan solo en teorias si no NUESTRAS PRACTICAS.
Dejar de acumular servicios, como una depredarora capitalista. Y usar solo los que cuido y pago.
Repasar lo aprendido y usar la red optimizando recursos y no a lo capitalista ( consumista, acumuladora) solo porque es gratis.
Lunduke show: Amazon Go is terrifying
Amazon Go, the «human-free» grocery store from Amazon.com, watches your every move with hundreds of cameras and sensors. And ties everything to an account with your smart phone and credit card. This is absolutely terrifying on multiple levels. Let me walk you through why and the related services that make this abomination possible.
FontForge, a free and open source font editor
FontForge is a free and open source font editor brought to you by a community of fellow type lovers.
Create WordPress Plugins with OOP Techniques
Object-oriented code, among other things, can help organize and add reusability to your code. In this tutorial, I will teach you the basics of writing a WordPress plugin using object oriented techniques.
Securely backing up your files with rdiff-backup and sudo
A guide on setting up rdiff-backup and using sudo to run rdiff-backup without running it as the root user.
rdiff-backup – A Remote Incremental Backup Tool for Linux
Significantly, it preserves subdirectories, dev files, hard links, and critical file attributes such as permissions, uid/gid ownership, modification times, extended attributes, acls, and resource forks. It can work in a bandwidth-efficient mode over a pipe, in a similar way as the popular rsync backup tool.
rdiff-backup backs up a single directory to another over a network using SSH, implying that the data transfer is encrypted thus secure. The target directory (on the remote system) ends up an exact copy of the source directory, however extra reverse diffs are stored in a special subdirectory in the target directory, making it possible to recover files lost some time ago.
How to fix all of your crontab related woes/problems (Linux)
Every user on a system may have their own crontab file. The location of the root and user crontab files are system dependant but they are generally below /var/spool/cron.
There is a system-wide /etc/crontab file, the /etc/cron.d directory may contain crontab fragments which are also read and actioned by cron. Some Linux distributions (eg, Red Hat) also have /etc/cron.{hourly,daily,weekly,monthly} which are directories, scripts inside which will be executed every hour/day/week/month, with root privilege.
How can I own an IP address?
IP Addresses are purchased in blocks by companies with a hell of a lot of money and more importantly, infrastructure. When you get one, unless you are going direct to your RIR (Regional Internet Registry), you are only renting the IP.
Changing default crontab editor
Just simply run select-editor, this will let you choose any editor you want.
Libremanuals es un colectivo editorial que surge para la difusión de libros libres impresos acerca de Software Libre en la lengua española
Para decirlo en pocas palabras, para que el derecho a leer no esté en peligro, necesitamos leer documentos libres. Este colectivo editorial trata de fomentar este derecho.
La manera que tiene Libremanuals de fomentar este derecho es vender y traducir libros libres.
Search and replace or delete multiples lines in vim
The :global command is your friend – learn it well. It lets you run arbitrary :ex commands on every line that matches a regex. It abbreviates to :g.
To delete all lines that match «George Bush»:
:g/George Bush/ d
The command that follows can have its own address/range prefix, which will be relative to the matched line. So to delete the 5th line after George Bush:
:g/George Bush/ .+5 d
To delete the DEBUG log entries:
:g/DEBUG/ .,+10 d
Flourish: powerful, beautiful, easy data visualisation
Quickly turn your spreadsheets into stunning online charts, maps and interactive stories.
Shodan is the world’s first search engine for Internet-connected devices
Use Shodan to discover which of your devices are connected to the Internet, where they are located and who is using them.
Amsterdam reduce de 60 a 30 días el permiso para alquilar pisos en Airbnb
Los pisos en plataformas de alojamiento vacacional aumentaron de 4.500 en 2013 a 22.000 en 2017.
El problema de la vivienda en la capital holandesa, cuyos alquileres son los más altos de todo el país, llevó a un Tribunal de distrito a dictaminar recientemente que una persona puede perder su casa en Amsterdam si su propietario la usa exclusivamente para alquiler vacacional y, por esa razón, no reside en ella.
How Dokuwiki loads Javascript and how to add custom JS code
All JavaScript is collected and delivered by lib/exe/js.php. This file will concatenate all found files, whitespace compress (if compress is enabled) and cache the result. It also instructs browsers to cache the file, so when you are developing new JavaScript, be sure to refresh your browser cache (hitting Shift-F5, Shift+CTRL+R or similar) whenever your script was updated.
DokuWiki will load JavaScript from the following places:
autogenerated JavaScript (language strings, config settings, toolbar)
lib/scripts/*.js
lib/plugins/*/script.js
lib/tpl/
conf/userscript.js
Las colmenas de abejas de la miel ni son naturales ni ayudan al medioambiente
Los científicos advierten que grupos ecologistas y administraciones están errando en su mensaje de salvar a las abejas de la miel sin tener en cuenta que estas son una amenaza para las especies silvestres y a menudo perjudican al medio natural.