Cool read on tracking aircraft used for the G-7 conference in Canada.
https://twitter.com/lorenzoFB/status/1009803636480888832
One of the most useful things I learned last year was how to weld. It wasn't super deep, just the basics and a bit of practice
Highly recommended because it's a very useful skill you'll never know you'll need in the future. It's quite handy to know you can borrow or rent a welder and put together something useful for yourself
Maybe a structural component, a tool, or something you may not even know you needed until you do
Canada's best weapon in a US trade-war: invalidating US pharma patents https://boingboing.net/2018/06/17/the-pharma-wars.html #Asymmetricwarfare #Copyfight #tradewar #canada #pharma #Post
Software Freedom Conservancy Welcomes #Racket as its Newest Member Project https://sfconservancy.org/news/2018/jun/12/racketjoins/
Turns out Alan Kay actually went to work for Apple in 1984, the same year they introduced the Macintosh and a year before Jobs was forced out. One of the first things Jobs did when he returned to Apple was to close the Advanced Technology Group, after which Kay left the company.
I wonder what would have happened had Kay and Jobs managed to form a decent working relationship early on.
no, sure, enjoy your walk in the woods and try not to think about how that lush forest floor is waiting for you to pitch over for good so it can take you apart and turn you into even more trees
«In 1993, John Gilmore famously said that "The Internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it." That was technically true when he said it but only because the routing structure of the Internet was so distributed. As centralization increases, the Internet loses that robustness, and censorship by governments and companies becomes easier.»
https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/06/russian_censors.html
Right now, in this moment, I am living the life I thought I would be living when I was young.
These moments don't come often, but it is important to recognize them and savor them when they do.
"Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window." - Steve Wozniak
No. He was not talking about Microsoft, he meant those IBM mainframes don't work for you, and you should only trust your personal computer.
And you should absolutely not to trust that piece of water vapor floating in the sky that claims it's doing computation for you...
In $current_year, you don't even know
“So what do you think about the late winter?”
Well, It’s getting harder to deer these days. I’ve been deering for three years now and hope to keep deering for the next ten. Winter is tough deering anyway
“Thank you, deer. Back to you, April”
I would walk 500 miles
And I would walk 500 more
But we use the metric system here
So in kilometers that's 804
Protip:
When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,
"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes
I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."
@jesterhazy
Greetings from further up the left coast!
Hot on the heels of a friend mentioning that Facebook seems to be censoring his post on Wikileaks, this tech is very interesting.
The _content_ is what is addressed, rather than _where_ it is. The difference is that once out there, anyone can make the same thing available, anywhere, even when an ISP, a social media site or a government blocks a web site.
https://ipfs.io/blog/24-uncensorable-wikipedia/
Hello all, another newb here. I suppose #introductions are in order. Been around long enough to enjoy 300 baud #BBS on 8-bit micros. Love to see decentralized social media survive and thrive. I'm
Canadian, working in infosec from an island on the BC coast. Cheers!
