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Neopixel Tester

August 25, 2019August 25, 2019 todbot 0 Comments

I made a thing! It’s a little reprogrammable Neopixel Tester. It’s a small PCB carrier for an Adafruit Trinket M0

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text from the output of a command line file, illustrative only
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lsof in the wild

July 9, 2019July 10, 2019 carlyn 0 Comments command line, linux, lsof, unix

A zero day exploit on the video conferencing app Zoom for the Mac hit the news yesterday. The excellent write

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Recording a Variable Strobe Light

May 26, 2017May 30, 2017 Kevin Jordan 0 Comments

Steve and I made a really fun fountain controlled by a bike pump for Maker Faire 2017. It was a huge hit

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map of the united states with 100 mile border zone highlighted in orange
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One Thing To Do Today: Border Control Advice Round Up

February 14, 2017February 15, 2017 carlyn 1 Comment border, onething, privacy, security, travel

Lots of bad advice is getting floated around about border crossings, including creating weird partitions or fake lightweight logins. Sadly,

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old fashioned label for flea powder
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One Thing To Do Today: Don’t fall for “resistance” data parasites

January 27, 2017January 27, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments data parasites, onething, privacy, security

There will be a lot of people who want to capitalize on the new activist energy that you should consider

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Stars, called Large Magellanic Cloud
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One Thing To Do Today: Find new heroes.

January 20, 2017June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments heros, onething

TL;DR: When the sun goes out, you can see the stars. I developed an allergy to demagogues and popularity contests early on,

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One Thing To Do Today: Schedule requesting copies of your credit report

January 19, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments financial, onething, privacy, security

Plane tickets to DC to march cost money. Donations to the EFF cost money. Hard drives to backup your system

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cats with keys and chains.
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One Thing To Do Today: Learn about Distributed Autonomous Organizations

January 18, 2017June 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments

I’m still hung up on truth and trust portion of the program this week.  Our minds can only hold about 150

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Young girl looks through window with lace curtain and waves
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Tuesday Sweep: Jan 17 2016

January 17, 2017January 18, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments onething, privacy, security, TuesdaySweep

Reflect What’s are the frictions keeping you from doing “what’s right”? Regret is only useful if it leads to a plan on

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woman on telephone with a leopard at her side. pink caption reads did you MEAN to send a leopard?
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One Thing To Do Today: Truth vs. Checksums

January 13, 2017January 14, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments checksum, communication, information theory, onething, trust

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away. ― Philip K. Dick, I Hope I

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disk image file called 20151231_wholeplanet_clean.dmg
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One Thing To Do Today: Keep a clean disk image on hand

January 12, 2017January 12, 2017 carlyn 0 Comments backups, disk images, onething

TL;DR – Keep copies of your system image and vital files completely offline.  So today I’m going to talk about

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One Thing To Do Today: Learn an anti-normalization design pattern

January 11, 2017June 14, 2017 carlyn 1 Comment design pattern, logging, logs, onething, security

TL;DR Written records are your friend.  Today, moving on to the moral compass attack vector. Once the fight starts, can we

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