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As masked agents execute people and terrorize communities, crypto executives who spent years posting about freedom fall conspicuously silent — except when writing checks for the politicians enabling it
So! Much! Melodrama!
This is a gently funny (and slightly tragic) romp with a band of travelling vagrants actors as they attempt to ply their renditions of Shakespeare to an indifferent 1700ish audience. There's a lot of charm to the characters and the plot is relatively straightforward.
The characters are…
Software signatures carry an invisible expiration date. The container image or firmware you sign today might be deployed for 20 years, but the cryptographic signature protecting it may become untrustworthy within 10 years. SHA-1 certificates become worthless, weak RSA keys are banned, and quantum computers may crack today’s elliptic curve…
One of the dreams of Web 2.0 was that website would speak unto website. An "Application Programming Interface" (API) would give programmatic access to structured data, allowing services to seamlessly integrate content from each other. Users would be able to quickly grab data from multiple sources and use them for…
This week was a rather cold one, it rained on the weekend and the days have been much chiller since then. It’s winter so it’s to be expected, but the region where I live isn’t often this cold!
In any case not a lot of things happened this time around,…
[Scott Klein and Ben Welsh in Source]
I agree, strongly, with this piece about (re)building an open source culture in news by Scott Klein and Ben Welsh. But then, I would: I spent over a decade working to build open source communities, and then another decade and…
This book is excellent at describing the symptoms of madness which have beset the world. It expertly diagnoses the causes which have led so many people into a mirror-realm of fantasy. Sadly it falls short of prescribing a cure. I doubt anyone who has fallen into the conspiracy mindset will…
Isaac Newton, one of the greatest scientific minds in human history, lost a fortune in the South Sea Bubble of 1720.
After initially making money and selling his shares, he bought back in at the peak, watching helplessly as the stock collapsed. His reported loss was around £20,000, equivalent to…
A fleshed out story, one you just might want to read.
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I'm a software developer in Camarillo, California. I write about software development, technology and music.
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Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.
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