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stekozon Leanne Wijnsma is documenting her 484m² garden 1:1 using a flatbed scanner

Amazing. Would be nice to have a detailed view of the scanner setup she is using.

Unrelated: what's with Google Maps loading in the background?

stekozon How can I connect to a Tor hidden service using curl in php?

More to the point: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/199353/did-the-stack...

stekozon Installing Rails Sucks

I'm worried.

stekozon Microsoft Corporation sponsors IPython

And especially Drupal.

stekozon Bitlock replaces your bike key with your phone

Is lock/unlock going to use some kind of OTP, or would the same communication happen over BT everytime? Just thinking about how easily this could be cracked by malicious people near you and your bike.

stekozon Arg.js – Lightweight URL argument and parameter parser

Any idea of how this compares to purl.js ? https://github.com/allmarkedup/purl

stekozon Google Web Designer

Lack of support for Linux is a consequence of not being a webapp, and that is what I really don't like (even if this was supported on Linux, OpenBSD and Solaris). Is expecting that Google can deliver cutting edge web-based apps really weird?

stekozon Google Web Designer

"Available for Mac and PC". I'd say it doesn't sound very attractive.

stekozon Lavabit needs your help to fight for the right to keep emails private

And yet he makes a point of being able to run an American company.

stekozon Ship crosses Northwest Passage, sails into history

There is a reason why Geographic Information Systems (GIS) were created in Canada back in the 1970.

stekozon Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too

That wouldn't prevent them to build a social network around you, just like Facebook does ("ghost profiles" or whatever they are called these days). Those emails are just spam.

stekozon Today I Deleted My LinkedIn Account; You Probably Should Too

Ironically, yesterday I deleted my Linkedin account, just because it is totally useless for me and for 101% of those in my circles (or network or how you want to call it), except for a sense of doing the right thing and being professional in their social networking.

Not to mention their dubious approach to password management, of course.

stekozon Dear USA, my data has left your building

Re: other global "observers", I think most of us are assuming that the NSA is the most capable and powerful among them. While in general this may be true, I wonder how much we don't know we don't know about other agencies.

stekozon Dear USA, my data has left your building

One thing I don't entirely understand is whether having an EU-based server provided by an US company (Rackspace, AWS, Digital Ocean, you name it) makes any difference at all.

stekozon FreeBSD Is No Longer Building GCC By Default

Some Debian developers are also working since 2012 to bring clang as a better alternative than GCC: http://clang.debian.net/