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A bat conservationist thinks bats are blamed for viruses because they're sampled more often than other mammals: "Since 2005, when coronaviruses in horseshoe bats were first hypothe…

GE makes in-wall Z-wave light switches that work wonderfully. No cloud dependency, and you can control them with open source software like HomeAssistant.

I'd like to see how one of the oldest package managers, Perl's CPAN, stacks up.

The current version of titus is 0.2, released on 2014-08-17. I'd be wary of using any piece of security software that hasn't had a release in over a year.

I did exactly this over the holidays to get into a deceased family member's computer.

There's a growing open source keyboard community built around keyboards like the ErgoDox using the Teensy Microcontroller. Keyboards are surprisingly easy to build from scratch by …

Do you have node.js installed and in your $PATH?

That looks very nice. Much more comprehensive than my tool. If all my tool accomplished was to prompt you to release your better tool, then I'm a happy camper. Yay open source!

Wow, that's a pretty neat approach! How well does that work with multiple people?

This tool helps you stay distributed by keeping a server somewhere that constantly backs up all your repos. With this you can't accidentally forget to make a copy if you make a qui…

Plus, you can use this to backup someone else's repos in case they delete them.

Not when you use several different computers, or when you're done with an old project and delete your local copy.