Brandolini’s law, also known as the bullshit asymmetry principle, is an internet adage coined in 2013 that emphasizes the effort of debunking misinformation, in comparison to the relative ease of creating it in the first place. It states that “The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.”
Scored Dad’s old dressing gown. Pretty happy about that. It’s my new favourite thing.
Found myself looking up this List of Sun Microsystems employees. Particularly interested in James Gosling and Bill Joy.
When the USA purchased Alaska they called it “Seward’s Folly“.
This is a worthwhile read and an interesting and perhaps important perspective: Tiktok’s enshittification. Don’t let the title fool you, the article is about a more general phenomena than relates to Tiktok. I came across the enshittification article today while reading How To Make the Least-Worst Mastodon Threads and about Jedi Blue.
Cory Doctorow writes some interesting stuff, like this: Como Is Infosec: Content moderation is a security problem.
And I learned about fisking, which sounds more risqué than it is. Sounds like what we’ve been doing since forever on usenet.
Sad times we live in: The End of Computer Magazines in America.
This is just for the record. (So I can find it later, if it turns out that I want to.)
Mentioned here: KeePassXC Audit Report.
Holy shit. This guy is next level. https://dmitry.gr/
Discovered https://swtch.com/~rsc/. Always appreciate a good three letter username. He was mentioned here: A Cryptographic Near Miss:
Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other programmers.
Obviously from Google if he says something like that.
