#China Railway extends its New Silk Route to Barking, #England.
How to install #Rust from standalone installers instead of rustup. Still not sure how to bootstrap it from source.
This Data Clay project is about #digital-fabrication (including #3D-printing) of #ceramics made from clay. The website is shitty and full of “coming soon” pages, but there are some interesting projects anyway.
this dude #CNC cut bone-dry clay (for #ceramics?) with his ShopBot, a 3-axis vertical milling machine. He was going to fire it, but that was 2013, so I guess he didn’t.
Nick Johnson’s writeup of the #Ethereum Name Service, which uses the Ethereum blockchain and is gatewayed to #DNS at ens.domains; DNS delegates domains to ENS with NS records. Doesn’t seem to offer any advantages over DNS right now.
discussion of potential advantages of #Rust other than safety
Twine is an open-source #hypertext authoring tool that seems to have been intended originally for #interactive-fiction
automatically approximating #art images with threads strung across a circular loom by a lasercutter without the laser doing the “CNC threading”; related to compressed sensing
in #Guyana the Wapichan are surveying their forests with fixed-wing #drones with GoPro-donated cameras in order to stop illegal logging; it covers 50 km, driven by the open-source Mission Planner, which I assume means it’s autonomous. As dannypgh commented on HN, “If a 15 year old white kid in Nebraska built a drone following directions on YouTube to monitor land use around him, I don’t think this would be seen as incredible. The difference is a lot of people have very demeaning views of indigenous peoples - they believe they are frozen in time (usually at the time of first contact with white people) and therefore they are surprised to hear that, no, this nation (like any other) is in fact able to use technology.”
Peruvian scientists will switch from Elsevier subscriptions to using #Sci-hub, despite #copyright.
Uber Cab is being ordered by New York to give it a comprehensive list of all pickups and dropoffs, and is fighting. #privacy
#Facebook #censorship of medical safety information about breast-cancer checks. #human-rights
Brandon Harris’s (jorm’s) meditations on seasoning a cast iron skillet and loving people and identity and his struggles with his masculinity
Kamala Harris and Ken Paxton brought an unconstitutional #prostitution lawsuit against Backpage in order to get her elected to the US Senate. #politics #human-rights #censorship