Why Historians Are Reexamining the Case of the Woman Who Gave Birth to Rabbits.
Mary Toft staged an elaborate hoax, but the pain was real.
Cyber Security Month . What can you do?
Telling your staff on a poster why you use AES-256 encryption is dull!
The Problem With Bill Gates.
There is no way to be a moral billionaire. The existence of that fortune is built on a form of systemic exploitation that precludes redistribution. There cannot be both billionaires and the means of billionaires fixing the world out of the goodness of their hearts, because the only way to maintain billionaires is to maintain a system of dragging money toward billionaires.
Other stuff Nathanial Borenstein said.
The Internet is truly an amazing thing -- it has unlocked human creativity to allow us to devise more bad ideas than previous generations ever imagined were possible.
What My Sled Dogs Taught Me About Planning for the Unknown.
We should ask for support before we need it. We should support others before they ask. Because if you don’t know how far you’re going, you need to act like you’re going forever.
Wie Merkel lernte, mit dem Gopnik zu reden.
Gopniki wollen keine offenen Konflikte. Sie vermöbeln dich vielleicht ein Mal, zur Abschreckung. Aber wenn das nicht wirkt, lassen sie dich wahrscheinlich in Ruhe und widmen sich anderen, mit denen sie es leichter haben.
Remember Google Wave?
“I was wrong. CRDTs are the future” (via lobste.rs).
We wanted Wave to replace email. Email is federated. An email thread can span multiple companies and it all just works. And unlike facebook messenger, emails are only be sent to the companies that are CC’ed. If I email my coworker, my email doesn’t leave the building. For Wave to replace email, we needed the same functionality. But how can that work on top of OT?
See also organisation of US companies, officers all the way down…
On the pervasive presence of military language elements in computer security.
When we think about it, we have way better metaphors.
When fonts fall – A deep-dive into font fallback.
This is such an amazing read, I enjoyed it very much this morning: if you ever wanted to know about how browsers render a font, especially with emojis or “foreign” characters, or if you wondered about why it shows you just a box instead – it’s all explained in an entertaining and well-written manner here.