On a monstrous sentence.
This is how Éva died.
In May of that year, the group was joined by Éva Izsák, a 19-year-old Jewish antifascist activist. Lakatos, considering that there was a risk that she would be captured and forced to betray them, decided that her duty to the group was to commit suicide. Subsequently, a member of the group took her to Debrecen and gave her cyanide. – en.wikipedia.org
When the genius cult is at work murder – or at least instigation to commit murder – just becomes a byline of history. And certainly, Éva Izsák got no Wikipedia entry to tell us her story.
So here is a Memorial of Words for Éva written by her sister, Mária Zimán (via johnkadvany.com).
A man called Imre Liebschitz was the "brains" behind the group, who, by right of his alleged intellectual superiority and probably age, used psychological terror to rule over a rather large group of well-meaning young people who saw him as the embodiment of the Communist Party. What he said was always "right," therefore, they blindly believed whatever he said and obeyed his "orders," which he always presented to them as top-level instruction. Liebschitz's wife, Éva Révész, was the number two "ideologist," and this "Marxist couple" claimed a monopoly over life and death.
Coding is not ‘fun’, it’s technically and ethically complex.
Inside the Strange World of Coral Reef Crime Scenes.
People damaging coral reefs were finding it all too easy to weasel or buy their way out of convictions.
The logging framework isn't a bottleneck, and other lies your laptop tells you (via lobste.rs).
It’s easy to imagine big, impressive server hardware as faster than a machine you might take to a cafe. The truth is, server hardware is different, not necessarily faster.
Victory! ICANN Rejects .ORG Sale to Private Equity Firm Ethos Capital.
Background: What the heck happened with .org?
The Forgotten Trans History of the Wild West.
It was a frontier in more ways than one.
Relevant: 19th century female husbands.
How designers are using UX for evil.
Let’s go through some bad practices we should avoid.
From the Journal of Sound and Music in Games.
The 1-Bit Instrument (via lobste.rs).
This article explores the theory behind the primary, idiosyncratically 1-bit techniques available to the composer-programmer, those that are essential when designing “instruments” in 1-bit environments. These techniques include pulse width modulation for timbral manipulation and means of generating virtual polyphony in software, such as the pin pulse and pulse interleaving techniques.
The modern HTTPS world has no place for old web servers.
In practice there are a lot of things that have to be maintained on a HTTPS server. First, you have to renew TLS certificates, or automate it (in practice you've probably had to change how you get TLS certificates several times). Even with automated renewals, Let's Encrypt has changed their protocol once already, deprecating old clients and thus old configurations, and will probably do that again someday. And now you have to keep reasonably up to date with web server software, TLS libraries, and TLS configurations on an ongoing basis, because I doubt that the deprecation of everything before TLS 1.2 will be the last such deprecation.