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Monthly links #2

This month comes with a huge dump of links! I recently decided to clean up my Mastodon posts, and while doing so; I saved some links by sharing them here instead. Enjoy!

Articles

• EU proposes mandatory USB-C on all devices, including iPhones - The Verge
• USB-IF Announces New Certified USB Type-C® Cable Power Rating Logos - Business Wire
• New stealthy Linux malware used to backdoor systems for years - Bleeping Computer
• Twitch Confirms Massive Data Breach Reportedly Including Source Code, User Payments - Forbes
• How Android Wallpaper Images Can Threaten Your Privacy - FingerprintJS
• Firefox Now Sends Your Address Bar Keystrokes to Mozilla - How-To Geek
• Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen details company’s misleading efforts on 60 Minutes - CBS News
• Facebook banned me for life because I created the tool Unfollow Everything. - Slate
• Leaked Facebook docs show the company saw pre-teens as an ‘untapped’ audience and wanted to ‘leverage playdates,’ The Wall Street Journal reports
• Ads are now able to bypass Google Play to install apps WITHOUT user consent. Digital Turbine DSP seems to be the one enabling it. : androiddev - Reddit
• ejabberd massive scalability: single node with 2+ million concurrent users - ProcessOne (2016)
• What We Learned from the Facebook Whistleblower Hearing - New York Times
• Marketers want to influence your dreams, consumers not so much - ZDNet
• Growing Crops Under Solar Panels? Now There’s a Bright Idea - Wired
• Fairphone 4 review: ethical repairable phone gets big upgrade - The Guardian
• Apple takes down Koran app in China - BBC News
• Linux patch disables TRIM and NCQ on Samsung 860/870 SSDs in Intel and AMD systems - NeoWin
• Google found guilty of restricting Android forks in South Korea, fined $177 million - The Verge
• Fairphone 4 has an incredible 5-year warranty, aims for 6 years of updates - Ars Technica
• Amazon hit with record $885 million fine for violating EU privacy rules - TechSpot
• How much are open-source developers really worth? Hundreds of billions of dollars, say economists - ZDNet
• K-9 Mail is back - K-9 Mail
• France fines Google 500 mln euros over copyright row - Reuters
• EU passes derogation allowing email and messaging apps to search messages for “suspect content” - Reclaim The Net
• Nasty Linux systemd root level security bug revealed and patched - Zdnet
• “I’m totally screwed.” WD My Book Live users wake up to find their data deleted - Ars Technica
• Some random thoughts about XMPP spaces - PulkoMandy
• 18 Unkillable Plants for a Home Office with No Windows - Maker Stations

Audiocasts

• Darknet Diaries

Games

• Enigma - A puzzle game inspired by Oxyd on the Atari ST and Rock’n’Roll on the Amiga. The object of the game is to find uncover pairs of identically colored Oxyd stones.

Hardware

• pico-mpad - 3d printable macropad
• Framework is considering adding support for Coreboot
• 40% Keyboards: PiPi Mherkin

Software

• oatmeal - A TUI cookie manager for Chromium-based engines.
• Sendxmpp incarnations - As the original sendxmpp didn’t receive updates in a long time and stopped working for a lot of people some more or less sendxmpp inspired alternatives have been created.
• deskreen - Deskreen turns any device with a web browser into a secondary screen for your computer.
• Spook.js - “Spook.js is a new transient execution side channel attack which targets the Chrome web browser. We show that despite Google’s attempts to mitigate Spectre by deploying Strict Site Isolation, information extraction via malicious JavaScript code is still possible in some cases.”
• fm.awk - File manager written in awk
• go-sendxmpp - A CLI XMPP-client in Go that supports file transfers via http_upload.

Swedish Housekeeping

• “Skapa ett digitalt offentligt rum efter Facebooks haveri” - Dagens Nyheter
• Strömavbrott och elransonering stoppar produktion i Kina - SweClockers
• 9 av 10 HDMI- och antennkablar uppfyller inte kraven - Elsäkerhetsverket

Videos

• 7 reasons why shipping container homes are a SCAM - YouTube
• Double Shot Polyurethane Keycaps - YouTube
• How to Mass Produce Coca Cola at Home - YouTube
• Oreo Is the Knockoff. The Original Cookie Is Back for Revenge. - YouTube
• This New Minecraft Mod Gives You Incredible Performance With Shaders - YouTube
• The ThinkPad X1 Nano: A return to form - YouTube

Websites

• Maker Stations - Maker Stations is a publication dedicated to purposeful home offices and mindful productivity.
• Forget - Forget is a service that automatically deletes your old posts on Mastodon and Twitter.
• Vim Awesome - Awesome Vim plugins.
• Modern XMPP - Modern XMPP is an independent project launched to improve the quality of user-to-user messaging applications that use XMPP.
• AmIUnique - Learn how identifiable you are on the Internet.