Online Design Archives From Around The World.
RSS for Hackers (via disq.us).
Patterns for processing and producing RSS feeds.
Relevant: Which Atom/RSS Reader do you use?
The Price is (Not) Right: Comparing Privacy in Free and Paid Apps.
(…) there is no clear evidence that paying for an app will actually guarantee protection from extensive data collection in practice. Given that the free version had at least one third-party library or dangerous permission, respectively, we discovered that 45% of the paid versions reused all of the same third-party libraries as their free versions, and 74% of the paid versions had all of the dangerous permissions held by the free app.
Tango by Zbigniew Rybczynski.
After winning an Academy Award for Best Animated Short, Rybczynski stepped outside for a smoke and was denied re-entry from security, despite holding his newly-won Oscar. An altercation ensued and the director was arrested. His takeaway of the eventful evening: "success and defeat are quite intertwined."
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Convert email newsletters into Atom feeds.
Maximator: European signals intelligence cooperation, from a Dutch perspective.
This article is first to report on the secret European five-partner sigint alliance Maximator that started in the late 1970s. It discloses the name Maximator and provides documentary evidence. The five members of this European alliance are Denmark Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands, and France. The cooperation involves both signals analysis and crypto analysis. The Maximator alliance has remained secret for almost fifty years, in contrast to its Anglo-Saxon Five-Eyes counterpart. The existence of this European sigint alliance gives a novel perspective on western sigint collaborations in the late twentieth century. The article explains and illustrates, with relatively much attention for the cryptographic details, how the five Maximator participants strengthened their effectiveness via the information about rigged cryptographic devices that its German partner provided, via the joint U.S.-German ownership and control of the Swiss producer Crypto AG of cryptographic devices.
Hardware Wars: The Mother of All Star Wars Fan Films (and the Most Profitable Short Film Ever Made).
Back in 1977, San Francisco filmmaker Ernie Fosselius had the brainwave to make a spoof of a movie that had just come out. It was a risky move. Nobody had any sense that Star Wars would become the worldwide cultural phenomenon that it did.
Trigger warning: Medium.
Did Functional Programming get it wrong?
I hope this article helps explain some of the limitations of Functional Programming and generates interest in Categories as next-gen tech.
In corpus linguistics, a hapax legomenon. is a word that occurs only once within a context, either in the written record of an entire language, in the works of an author, or in a single text (via atlasobscura.com).