Empowering people to do the impossible

Modern civilization requires electricity, might as well know the basics if you want to leverage the sun for that.

Turns out the internet is far simpler than you think, the hard part is just getting other networks to agree to connect to yours (called peering agreements)

these people have created a diy lab reactor you can synthesise medicines with, but I can’t find how to make it anywhere. can anyone find out, or share from their own knowledge?

EDIT: this is a lab reactor for organic chemistry, not a bioreactor with bacteria

A cheap, fast and effective way to help your community breathe better. Most effective indoors. Pair with an N95s if you plan on protesting with your friends during a pandemic but P100s with a filter for organic vapors to protect against tear gas [try to contain tear gas as quickly as possible as cleanup is much harder].

Every community needs basic resource planning and coordination if they expect to effectively progress towards shared goals

If you ever wanted to know how the computer or DVD player puts the images it does on the screen, here are the ugly details.

An in depth introduction to building your own computer from individual chips to help form a solid foundation of how computers work.

Where other projects like Linux from scratch require you to have a C compiler and a whole operating system. Live-bootstrap starts with a 510byte bootloader and just a bunch of source code and builds up to a full modern Linux distro base and without any pregenerated files

Thanks to Gnu Guix it is now possible to have a trusted modern software stack build from only source code. This is a first in the world of software trust that has been impossible for decades and even too hard for militaries around the world, until now.