2021-05-21 Nerd Roundup (Special Edition)
Daughter Katrina joins us. She knows the man.
Daughter Katrina Amenkowincz joins me for a special family edition Nerd Roundup.
| STORY | BUT WHY? |
| The Unix Philosophy By Example |
My vote for the most misunderstood yet massively-useful idea in software engineering |
| My strange, slow, 20-year quest for rural broadband |
I feel this pain |
| hn comment |
(related) HN comment nails perhaps the heart of the problem |
| Microwave Auditory Effect (wiki) |
Microwaves! (related to recent conversation) |
| Anal Oxygen Administration May Save Lives |
Turns out, "blowing smoke up somebody's butt" used to be a thing you did to help drowning people. This is both high-school funny andh as serious healthcare implications if proven out |
| Try this one weird trick Russian hackers hate |
After the Colonial Pipeline hack, the hackers apologized and claimed to not be political. But any kind of hacking/hold-up is going to be very political. Turns out, most of it is geo-targeted |
| Ask HN: [After using it on production projects] Are you satisfied with choosing Elixir or are you unhappy with making that choice? |
Fascinating discussion here around hiring the right people, trying new tech by sticking it inside old boxes of development architectures, do languages/platforms matter, etc |
| Freshly-made Plutonium from space found on the ocean floor |
I thought you didn't find trans-uranium materials naturally-occuring? |
| I have a lot to say about Signal's Cellebrite hack |
People make machine to read private Signal text messages from unlocked phone. Signal buys machine, reverse-engineers, tells world how to destroy any LE agency who uses it. tl;dr lawyer feels Signal did the right thing, but were assholes about it. |
| Cryptography experts trash NFTs on first day of RSA Conference |
Might delete. Interesting convo about how poorly we do at figuring out what might make tons of money and what might not |
| Fungus full of psychedelic drugs could cause Indiana Brood X cicadas' butts to fall off |
This is extremely important news! |
| Companies may be punished for paying ransoms to sanctioned hackers - U.S. Treasury |
Dafuq? From HN -- "...The bottom-line is that if you're a victim of ransomware, the government joins the hacker, both of them kicking you while you're down and demanding money. ..." |
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