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I decided to give D.Tube a try last night, and here's a brief overview of the process I went through. I ran into a few problems, but ultimately I was able to upload some video. I'm hoping to stream in

Today is the first day of Hope, but this post is about yesterday. Picture of the hostel room, sorry it's blurry. I arrived slightly late. By the time I completed the check-in process and headed across

The HOPE conference is coming! For those who don't know, HOPE stands for Hackers On Planet Earth, and it's held by 2600 Magazine, every two years, at the Hotel Pennsylvania in Manhattan, New York, USA.

Source A few days ago @gmuxx announced that The Writers' Block will be having its first official meetup. During a recent @thealliance meetup, attended by fellow co-admin @rhondak, her husband @sk43 and

Repository All of the changes in this update were applied in commit 05f2da Bug Fixes What was the issue(s)? Fixed quoting around requested crypto coin tickers (made necessary by weird values used by third

I have a new problem... or Keyboard Evolution So, I bought the Vortex Core 40 those months ago with my first Steem cashout. It has PBT dye sub keys and it's awesome to type on. Though, as I noted before,

I've been using the laptop regularly, so it was time to make some changes. Some of those changes are in software for a nicer UI and some of those are in hardware, namely, a bigger screen. The software

Linux Tips - Better History Most people know there's a command history in Bash that you can get at when you use the incremental search or using the up arrows, or with the ! operator. But what you might

Rau crept to the edge of the entryway and peered through into the dimly lit room. The floor appeared to be made of flat, grey stone and the walls were covered in dozens of tapestries of various sizes,

If you take nothing else away from this post, let it be this: Functions should be short, or at least not overly long, and variables should be wide enough in scope to get the job done, but otherwise as

This tutorial is how to get the open source Devuan Jessie Linux distribution running on the ASUS Tinker Board. There is no prebuilt image for the Devuan Linux OS for the Tinker Board. There is a Raspberry

Linux Tips - Debian/Ubuntu Searching for Software You may already know about apt or apt-cache but did you know about apt-file? This is a quick tip on finding software to install on a Debian-based Linux

I need a laptop Not to make lite of persons with actual addictions, but I have something of an addiction to single board computers (SBCs) and portable computers. I have several laptops, mobile devices,

The officers gave chase through the market, whistles blowing, following the culprit, but he was gaining speed. Passers by were moving out of the way and ducking under fruit stalls and stands. But not Mike.

Tl;dr: Yeah, I'm not dead, my health is fine, I've just not had time to post, but I'll be picking that up again soon. My work and personal life have both been extremely busy these past few weeks, but I'll

A list of standardized keywords for language learning/teaching posts to replace the current chaos, where such articles under many different keywords. The result is that potential readers have little chance

I made my first purchase using money from crypto sales. I bought a keyboard. Actually, I ordered it last week, but it arrived today and I'm (awkwardly) using it! Ultimately I used BitPay to load a VISA

Status I have more than a passing familiarity with Hiragana and Katakana now. It took me two weeks longer than expected, but I also didn't put in as much effort as I had originally anticipated. The frequency

They passed into a clearing that was surrounded almost entirely by fruit bearing trees and berry bushes. Nicole couldn't quite put her finger on it, but they looked odd. But then, by now everything was

Sirens blared as the car sped through the streets, swerving around carts and bigger obstacles, but paying no mind at all to people scrambling out of the way. As far as getaways go, everything had gone