via Zack Whittaker on Twitter… Download Tor Browser: http://torproject.org/download Open this URL in Tor to access BBC (🇺🇦): https://www.bbcweb3hytmzhn5d532owbu6oqadra5z3ar726vq5kgwwn6aucdccrad.onion/ukrainian Open this URL in Tor to access BBC (🇷🇺): https://www.bbcweb3hytmzhn5d532owbu6oqadra5z3ar726vq5kgwwn6aucdccrad.onion/russian
Full transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s emotional appeal to Russians
Here is the full transcript of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s video address early on Feb. 24 local time warning that a Russian invasion could cause tens of thousands of deaths. “Today I initiated a phone call with the president of the Russian federation. The result was silence. Though the silence should be in Donbass. That’s… Continue reading
Getting Back 2 Good
If you’ve been following my inane tweets and non-technical blog posts for any length of time since 2015, you likely know the 2016 election cycle broke me more than just a tad, with each subsequent month of the Trump presidency adding a bit more breakage. My brain is constantly trying to make sense of the… Continue reading
A WeatherFlow Tempest UDP Broadcast Receiver in Golang, Rust, Swift, and C++
After a Twitter convo about weather stations I picked up a WeatherFlow Tempest. Setup was quick, but the sensor package died within 24 hours. I was going to give up on it but I had written an R package (for the REST API & UDP broadcast interfaces) and C++ utility (for just the UDP broadcast… Continue reading
Starting 2022 Off With A Fairly Complex {ggplot2} Recreation Plot
The New York Times had a [tragic] story on Covid deaths today and one of their plots really stuck with me for how well it told that part of the story. NOTE: The red panel highlights are off a bit as I manually typed the data in (I only did the recreation to keep {ggplot2}… Continue reading
2021 Advent of Code Day 02 “Don’t Try This At Home” Edition
The Moderna booster level drained me all day on Dec 1 and did what jab two did during the overnight period (achy enough to wake me up and not get back to slumber easily). To try to wear myself down, I decided to practice a bit of R with the 2021 Advent of Code. There… Continue reading
Creating A Custom MaxMind mmdb File For Cloud Provider Ranges
I’ve been wanting to create a custom MaxMind mmdb file for alternate IPv4 range classifications for a while, and finally had an opportunity to do so for the $DAYJOB. MaxMind mmdb files are small and easy to work with and provide lightning fast lookups. This repo — https://github.com/hrbrmstr/clouds2mmdb — has an R script for pulling… Continue reading
#30DayMapChallenge 2021 Day 2: Lines
The 30-Day Map Challenge is on again, and I’m hoping to be able to scrounge some time to get an entry for each day. Day 2 is lines (Day 1 was posted on Twitter only) and — while I’m hoping to focus on saving U.S. democracy for the majority of the entries, today’s is a… Continue reading