Sorry Computer, You're Not a Teapot.
A nice narrative about the more exotic HTTP error messages (y’all know 404) – from the April-fool’s 418 to the recently requested 112, 460 and 451. Also shows how the web evolved from a careless playground for the few to a serious battlefield for the plenty.
Is there still a future for CAcert?
Much response from CAcert’s community mailing.
CAcert went through a major crisis in 2016. You may not have noticed it, because of the resilience of our procedures and the dedication and commitment of our teams. Apart from the new focus, a lot has happened in the operational area in recent months.
Symbolikon – Visual Library of Worldwide Ancient Symbols (via abduzeedo.com).
The self in dementia is not lost, and can be reached with care.
In the case of my grandmother, as her Alzheimer’s began to progress, she found herself increasingly agitated and wandering the corridors of the care home in which she now lived. Her agitation was palpable, as was her desire to go ‘home’. She recognised me, not as her granddaughter but as her daughter, and couldn’t understand why I was at her workplace. Acknowledging her background as a midwife, the nursing-home staff enlisted my grandmother’s help on the morning and afternoon tea rounds, creating a meaningful context for her to be in these unfamiliar surroundings and redirecting her agitation into a feeling of purpose.
Logarithmic gaslighting with Buttcoin.
Will Bitcoin be $ 1 million by the end of 2020?
An interactive chart that shows a steady curve to $ 1,000,000 per bitcoin by the end of 2020 along the actual price.
Relevant: dickening.com.
Wie im Pazifik gegen die Folgen des Klimawandels gekämpft wird.
Die Menschen konzentrieren sich sehr stark darauf, sich an die Veränderungen anzupassen – so werden Deiche und Küstenbefestigungen gebaut, die Abfallentsorgung verbessert, Mangrovenwälder angebaut, um die Küstenerosion einzudämmen und der Katastrophenschutz ausgebaut. Letztlich handelt es sich dabei aber nur um kurzzeitige Maßnahmen: Küstenbefestigungen können nur eine bestimmte Zeit halten, denn wenn der Meeresspiegel um 3 Meter steigt, werden die Inseln von Tuvalu und von Kiribati aufhören zu existieren.
Der Untersuchungsausschuss war für mich insofern ein Wendepunkt, weil ich das erste Mal richtig verstand, was genau gemeint ist, wenn man sagt, dass ein Staat in den Rechtsterror und dessen Verbrechen verstrickt ist. Was genau diese Verstrickung bedeutet, zwischen wem sie verläuft, wer wann was zu wem sagte, oder verschwieg. Entscheidend sind – wie ich finde – die Details. Man muss die Details aneinanderreihen, um zu begreifen, wie das eine zum anderen führte.
The Birth & Death of JavaScript.
This science fiction / comedy / absurdist / completely serious talk traces the history of JavaScript, and programming in general, from 1995 until 2035.
20 years ago I wrote down these words: “i want to have a system that is a browser and a finder that is an html document. finder.html – a weird idea?” (I was a macOS user at the time.)
How Do You Keep a Subway From Flooding in the Age of Rising Seas?
(…) a subway station flooded above street level, a sight that hadn’t been appeared since 2012, when Superstorm Sandy inundated nearly a dozen tunnels and many stations around the city. Except this station entrance was flooded on a sunny November day.