When the USA purchased Alaska they called it “Seward’s Folly“.
Category Archives: Chatter
Enshittification
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.
The End of Computer Magazines in America
Sad times we live in: The End of Computer Magazines in America.
Auditors
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.
dmitry.gr
Holy shit. This guy is next level. https://dmitry.gr/
Russ Cox
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.
Books!
Key management
Silicon Chip books
The good people at Silicon Chip are clearing out their old library, and I have just arranged to buy 43 of their old electronics books for $2 each. Bargain! The gory details are here.
Toilet light cover part 2
Just an update on my toilet light cover. My new screws arrived so I replaced the big (18mm) ones with some more appropriate smaller (10mm) ones. It’s now ready to go back in the roof, will do that soon.
