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> Haven't found a low-tech way to make a piezo earphone just yet

The closer way I've found is this guy making it with a recycled transformer, a hard drive magnet, a jar lid, some wood, and some cables.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEMXlLqwwTA (First part. 7:07 min.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MXpprO5h79I (Second part. 9:32 min.)

Those videos are in Spanish but subtitles are available.


You can use something like https://github.com/palant/searchlinkfix


I use DDG daily but there's one thing that grinds my gears, and undermines their privacy by default statement.

They leak the searches in the URL like this https://duckduckgo.com/?q=this+is+not+private+at+all&ia=web


How is that a leak ? The URL is only sent to ddg server, encrypted using TLS so no eavesdropper can read it. It also stays in your browser history and let you use the back button.



That seems like a reasonable trade-off. It's https so it's not visible to people snooping on you, and it being GET means that browser history and sharing links to searches works.

Plus, they do have an option to go POST-only, so if you don't like their already-very-private default you can change it.


Just curious, but what threat model are you thinking of here?


I'm having fun reading and playing with 'Codebreaking, a practical guide' by Elonka Dunin & Klaus Schmeh.

https://www.codebreaking-guide.com/


Saharan dust likes to travel, that's for sure.

https://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-...



Nice, added to the queue of documentaries to watch. Thanks.


Related: Bruce Sterling's novel 'Holy Fire'.

http://www.isfdb.org/cgi-bin/title.cgi?4803


'When Big Brands Stopped Spending On Digital Ads, Nothing Happened. Why?'

https://www.forbes.com/sites/augustinefou/2021/01/02/when-bi...


What happens when small brands don't spend on digital ads? Nothing Happening is the worst possible outcome.


I do believe small brands can get more ROI using social media than wasting their money on digital ads.


Isn't part of the problem that Facebook limits the reach of accounts once they get to a certain size? My understanding is that they basically block you from broadcasting to your friends. The ROI of a small business is then limited because after a point you have to effectively pay for digital ads anyway.

Matthew Inman posted about this https://twitter.com/Oatmeal/status/923250055540219904

As an aside, this also reflects on the honesty of their ad campaign about supporting small business. If they really cared about small business they wouldn't make them pay to reach the audience they created on their platform.


That's a good point. I didn't know about that, and I'll have to think about it.

Anyway paying FB's mafia style extortion probably isn't the solution.


I don't know about other OSes but it's available on UBPorts, and it works fine.

https://open-store.io/app/teleports.ubports


I haven't used plasma-mobile yet but in UBPorts you can sync your photos with your Nextcloud instance. Another option is Syncthing.


Juliette Taka's proposal for Debian 11 is very interesting but I even like more her previous proposals, especially her "Moonlight" theme for Debian 10.

http://www.juliettetaka.com/fr/debian


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