YOLOsec reflects a security strategy driven by a “you only live once” mentality – one that emboldens people to ignore future concerns around security to achieve today’s gratification. FOMOsec reflects a security strategy driven by a fear of missing out – one that frightens people into misallocating resources towards what makes them feel better about their security efforts.
What this site offers is a glimpse into the history of writers and artists bound by the 128 characters that the American Standard Code for Information Interchange (ASCII) allowed them. The focus is on mid-1980's textfiles and the world as it was then, but even these files are sometime retooled 1960s and 1970s works, and offshoots of this culture exist to this day.
Blacklight is a real-time website privacy inspector.
Canvas fingerprinting is a type of fingerprinting that identifies users by drawing shapes and text on a user’s webpage and noting the minor differences in the way they are rendered.
Relevant: The High Privacy Cost of a “Free” Website.
Oktoberfest-Attentatsopfer über Behördenversagen: „Kaltschnäuzig und pietätlos“.
Die BRD ist nicht Rechtsnachfolger des Dritten Reichs, sondern mit ihm als Völkerrechtssubjekt identisch.
How Movies Like 'Black Panther' Could Help Us Save the Planet.
“Fun fact: space wants you dead. Mars wants you dead. Titan wants you dead. Space will fucking kill you.”
The failed promise of Web Components.
Perusing the components on webcomponents.org fills me with anxiety, and I’m perfectly comfortable writing JS — I write JS for a living! What hope do those who can’t write JS have? Using a custom element from the directory often needs to be preceded by a ritual of npm flugelhorn, import clownshoes, build quux, all completely unapologetically because “here is my truckload of dependencies, yeah, what”. Many steps are even omitted, likely because they are “obvious”. Often, you wade through the maze only to find the component doesn’t work anymore, or is not fit for your purpose.
Nothing in the biological definition of sex requires that every organism be a member of one sex or the other. That might seem surprising, but it follows naturally from defining each sex by the ability to do one thing: to make eggs or to make sperm. Some organisms can do both, while some can’t do either.
Bringing the Mona Lisa Effect to Life with TensorFlow.js.
Urban legend says that Mona Lisa's eyes will follow you as you move around the room. This interactive digital portrait brings the phenomenon to life through your browser and webcam.
Senghor, Césaire, Fanon et al.
Racism is baked into the structure of dialectical philosophy.
Hegel might have been wrong for his racist writings about Africans and others, but that doesn’t tell us anything about his speculative metaphysics. Or so the argument goes.
When it dawns upon us, the size of the crimes we committed against nature.
Researchers show conscious processes in birds' brains for the first time (via futurism.com).
By measuring brain signals, a neuroscience research group at the University of Tübingen has demonstrated for the first time that corvid songbirds possess subjective experiences. (…) “The last common ancestors of humans and crows lived 320 million years ago (…) It is possible that the consciousness of perception arose back then and has been passed down ever since.”