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Saturday 15 January 2022

Music

hi-fi AF

hi-fi AF is a High End Systems audio blog dedicated to Lynn LP12, Naim Audio and DIY.

FIP Radio

“You’re no longer there, you’re on FIP”.

The concept behind FIP has scarcely changed since its founding: commercial free music interrupted only for traffic updates, occasional announcements about forthcoming events, and a short news bulletin at 10 minutes before the hour. Long limited to 7 am-9 pm, the current live broadcasts are from 7 am-11 pm, after which a computer replays a selection of the music broadcast earlier in the day. Live programming is broadcast from Paris. FIP’s local studios are based in Nantes, Strasbourg and Bordeaux.

MailTape

Every Sunday morning, MailTape release a music selection curated with a guest. MailTape is an art collective started in 2011 gathering curators, illustrators and writers based across Glasgow, London, Orléans, Marseille, New Delhi, Paris and Stockholm. Once every six months, we throw a party. For each color, a mood: vibrant, bliss, trippy, dreamy and rough. Hope you enjoy and discover great music.

Movies

The Satoshi Mystery - The Story of Bitcoin | ARTE

The Satoshi Mystery - The Story of Bitcoin / Le mystère Satoshi : enquête sur l’inventeur du bitcoin

At the beginning of 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, “Satoshi Nakamoto” put Bitcoin into circulation. He created the first decentralised and reliable cryptocurrency. In 2011 he disappeared. The Mystery of Satoshi tells the exciting history of Bitcoin and blockchain technology, from the perspective of its mysterious creator.

Photography / Animation

Sherry Zhao

Animation, conceptual art, storyboarding, motion graphic, fashion design … because talent has no limits.

Johnny Valentine

The proof that when your content is good enough, you can do without words.

Unsplash

Unsplash is a website dedicated to sharing stock photography under the Unsplash license. The website claims over 110,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 11 billion photo impressions per month on their growing library of over 1.5 million photos. Unsplash has been cited as one of the world’s leading photography websites by Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, CNET, Medium and The Next Web.

Newspaper

Social journalism

Medium

Medium is an online publishing platform developed by Evan Williams and launched in August 2012. It is owned by A Medium Corporation. The platform is an example of social journalism, having a hybrid collection of amateur and professional people and publications, or exclusive blogs or publishers on Medium, and is regularly regarded as a blog host.

Williams, previously co-founder of Blogger and Twitter, initially developed Medium as a means to publish writings and documents longer than Twitter’s 140-character (now 280-character) maximum.

Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture

Google Arts & Culture features content from over 2000 leading museums and archives who have partnered with the Google Cultural Institute to bring the world’s …

KODA

Kodasema OÜ is an architectural and engineering company that creates innovative living and housing solutions. Simplicity and freedom – are the values that a KODA house offers creating more energy and time in many ways.

IT

Services

IVPN

IVPN is a VPN service offered by Privatus Limited based in Gibraltar. Privatus Limited has been independently audited by cure53 and has undergone a no-logging audit and a comprehensive pentest report. They accept Bitcoin, Monero, and cash as payment methods and all of their clients are open source as well.

ProtonMail

ProtonMail is an end-to-end encrypted email service founded in 2013 in Geneva, Switzerland by scientists who met at the CERN research facility. ProtonMail uses client-side encryption to protect email content and user data before they are sent to ProtonMail servers, unlike other common email providers such as Gmail and Outlook.com. The service can be accessed through a webmail client, the Tor network, or dedicated iOS and Android apps.

ProtonMail is run by Proton Technologies AG, a company based in the Canton of Geneva. Its servers are located at two locations in Switzerland, outside of US and EU jurisdiction.

ProtonVPN

ProtonVPN is a virtual private network (VPN) service provider operated by the Swiss company Proton Technologies AG, the company behind the email service ProtonMail. According to ProtonVPN’s official website, ProtonVPN and ProtonMail share the same management team, offices, and technical resources, and is operated from Proton’s headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland under the protection of Swiss privacy laws.

ProtonVPN is run by Proton Technologies AG, a company based in the Canton of Geneva. Its servers are located at two locations in Switzerland, outside of US and EU jurisdiction.

Signal

Signal is a cross-platform encrypted messaging service developed by the Signal Foundation and Signal Messenger LLC. It uses the Internet to send one-to-one and group messages, which can include files, voice notes, images and videos. It can also be used to make one-to-one voice and video calls, and the Android version can optionally function as an SMS app.

Sorftware

split-vpn

split-vpn is a split tunnel VPN script for the Unifi Dream Machine (UDPM with policy based routing. This is a helper script for multiple VPN clients on the UDM that creates a split tunnel for the VPN connection, and forces configured clients through the VPN instead of the default WAN. This is accomplished by marking every packet of the forced clients with an iptables firewall mark (fwmark), adding the VPN routes to a custom routing table, and using a policy-based routing rule to direct the marked traffic to the custom table. This script works with OpenVPN, WireGuard, OpenConnect, StrongSwan, or an external nexthop VPN client on your network.

OpenMPTCProuter

OpenMPTCProuter use MultiPath TCP (MPTCP) to really aggregate multiple Internet connections and OpenWrt.
OpenMPTCProuter Bonding connections to really aggregate bandwidth from up to 8 internet connections with different characteristics (Fiber, Satellite, xDSL, 4G, 5G, …) Provide hybrid Internet with any ISP

ADGuard

ADGuard Software Limited develops ad blocking and privacy protection software for blocking pop-ups, banners, and web tracking, porn, malware and phishing. Some of AdGuard products are open-source, some are free, and some are shareware. Some products support Microsoft Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS. AdGuard is also available as an extension for the most widely used browsers, Firefox, Google Chrome, Opera, Safari, Yandex Browser, and Microsoft Edge.

Discourse

Discourse is the 100% open source discussion platform built for the next decade of the Internet. Use it as a mailing list, discussion forum, long-form chat room, and more!

Jekyll

Jekyll is a static site generator. You give it text written in your favorite markup language and it uses layouts to create a static website. You can tweak how you want the site URLs to look, what data gets displayed on the site, and more.

Hardware

Sixfab

Sixfab, Inc. manufactures connectivity hardware and software for the Internet of Things (IoT). Sixfab started with the Tinylab all-in-one IoT prototyping board in 2016, followed by the successful crowdfunding of their cellular IoT shields for the Raspberry Pi in 2017. The number of technologies added to their shield family increases frequently.

Arduino

Arduino is an open-source hardware and software company, project and user community that designs and manufactures single-board microcontrollers and microcontroller kits for building digital devices. Its products are licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL) or the GNU General Public License (GPL), permitting the manufacture of Arduino boards and software distribution by anyone. Arduino boards are available commercially in preassembled form or as do-it-yourself (DIY) kits.

Raspberry

The Raspberry Pi is a series of small single-board computers developed in the United Kingdom by the Raspberry Pi Foundation to promote teaching of basic computer science in schools and in developing countries. The original model became far more popular than anticipated, selling outside its target market for uses such as robotics. It now is widely used even in research projects, such as for weather monitoring because of its low cost and portability. It does not include peripherals (such as keyboards and mice) or cases. However, some accessories have been included in several official and unofficial bundles.

Standardization & Security

ANSSI

The Agence nationale de la sécurité des systèmes d’information (ANSSI; English: National Cybersecurity Agency of France) is a French service created on 7 July 2009 with responsibility for computer security.

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