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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).
Word!
“I want to own the database that my apps use.”
An ongoing project attempting to explain our highly intangible, deeply disruptive, data-driven, venture-backed, gluten-free economic meritocracy to the uninitiated. With apologies to Richard Scarry.
offenevergaben.at ist ein zivilgesellschaftliches Projekt des Forum Informationsfreiheit und derzeit noch in einer Test-Phase.
Wir machen Auftragsvergaben der öffentlichen Hand über 50.000 Euro nachvollziehbar. Dafür verwenden wir seit März 2019 verfügbare offene Daten der Auftraggeber.
Amazing that after all those years the Helma Debugger is still running and (mostly, as far as I can tell) working flawlessly.
The Unreasonable Effectiveness Of Declarative Programming.
I show off minanim.js , a tiny, 100LoC, yet feature-complete library for building animations declaratively, and why someone would want to do things this way. Enjoy!