Slack is the opposite of organizational memory https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html

A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html

When Amazon Opens Warehouses - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-warehouses-poor-cities/552020/

I Spent Tw… https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/02/i-spent-two-years-trying-to-fix-the-gender-imbalance-in-my-stories/552404/

Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html

Longbox History: The Compact Disc‘s Wasteful Container https://tedium.co/2018/02/06/compact-disc-longbox-history/

Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/

Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/jordan-peterson-enlightenment-nietzsche-alt-right

Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html

Linguistic bots explain why big gr… https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/linguistic-bots-explain-why-big-groups-produce-simple-grammar/

Profile: Barbara Kruger on Trump, Supreme, &am… https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/profile-barbara-kruger-on-trump-supreme-and-harassment.html

A look at Barbara Kruger and Jenny … https://catnormoyle.com/2011/02/02/a-look-at-barbara-kruger-and-jenny-holzers-use-of-typographic-art/

These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/

Proceed With Caution: Let‘s Talk Warning Signs https://tedium.co/2018/01/02/warning-signs-history/

https://www.wired.com/1997/02/ffharaway/

Non-Expert Explanation | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2017/11/02/non-expert-explanation/

Virgin Cola: Richard Branson‘s Greatest Failure https://tedium.co/2017/11/02/virgin-cola-history/

The Mother of All Swipes https://logicmag.io/02-the-mother-of-all-swipes/amp/

http://www.mondo2000.com/2017/10/02/steal-singularity-part-3-bean-counters-paradise/

Different Worlds | Slate Star Codex https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/02/different-worlds/

Sigourney Weaver and sci-fi shorts: inside Neill Blomkamp’s secret film studio | Film | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/oct/02/oats-studios-secret-film-lab-sidestepping-hollywood

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America’s midlife crisis: lessons from a survivalist summit | US news | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/02/preppers-survivalist-summit-constitution-americas-midlife-crisis?utm_source=digg&utm_medium=email

Spitting out the Red Pill: Former misogynists reveal how they were radicalised online http://www.newstatesman.com/science-tech/internet/2017/02/reddit-the-red-pill-interview-how-misogyny-spreads-online

‘Computer bots are like humans, having fights lasting years’ | University of Oxford http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-02-24-computer-bots-are-humans-having-fights-lasting-years

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/business/andy-weirs-best-seller-the-martian-gets-a-classroom-friendly-makeover.html

An intelligent person
From Twitter:

The most amazing thing about the Trump presidency is that it’s made GWB look like a reasonably intelligent person.

— Derek Powazek (@fraying) February 27, 2017

And from The New York Times:

Former President George W. Bush said Monday “we all need answers” on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump’s team and the Russian government, and didn’t … ⌘ Read more

The silence of the hacks
There is a reason why I subscribed to the digital edition of The New York Times. Its journalists are superb; it is a paper I trust, and have found to be veridical after cross referencing the news they post with other major, equally trusted, news sources.

From yesterday’s edition (some emphasis mine):

The story so far: A foreign dictator _in … ⌘ Read more

Incapable of serving
From the opinion pages of The New York Times yesterday, 13 of February, 2017, also appearing in print today. Some emphasis mine.

Mr. Trump’s speech and actions demonstrate an inability to tolerate views different from his own, leading to rage reactions. His words and behavior suggest a profound inability to empathize. Individuals with these traits distort reality to suit their psychological state, attacking facts and those who convey them (journalists, scientists).
�� … ⌘ Read more

Cleaning the plate
My wife has always told me, “don’t eat everything in your plate, leave something!” It is her believe, and her culture’s, that only poor people eats everything, and that if I do so, it will show I am dying of hunger, and thus, poor. If it were so, what’s wrong with being poor? Why will I leave food on the plate, food that I really like, to pretend what I am not? I am poor, poor, poor!

That custom, though, would be an easy one to follow if the food was bad. That’s something … ⌘ Read more

Fake email clients
For a few (years?) now, there has been an increase of so called email clients that are not so. I am talking about the “value added email clients” that require a third party server/service to work. Within that category there is Nylas, Polymail, and Sparkmail, to mention a few. Although they bring an array of features not normally found on an email client, they are worthless if the third party company server(s) goes down, … ⌘ Read more

Hard to believe
If you hear or read this somewhere else — whether on social media, or via your clueless uncle Olaf — you will find it hard, if not impossible, to believe. Now, finding it on Reuters is a different story.

In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.

… ⌘ Read more

Decode It Like It’s 1999
A few years ago I started to work on an MPEG1 Video decoder, completely written in JavaScript. Now, I finally found the time to clean up the library, improve its performance, make it more error resilient and modular and add an MP2 Audio decoder and MPEG-TS demuxer. This makes this library not just an MPEG decoder, but a full video player.

In this blog post I want to talk a bit about the challenges and various interesting
bits I discovered during the development of this library. You’ll … ⌘ Read more

@kas@enotty.dk Nope, creepy here too. Dont know what asmr is? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/02/asmr_videos_autonomous_sensory_meridian_response_and_whispering_videos_on.html

Just found time to read through http://dankaminsky.com/2016/02/20/skeleton/. Maybe the best thing i read about CVE-2015-7547 yet. Does anybody has more to read about it?

Stop caring about how -e works: http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-userlevel/2016/02/29/msg009700.html

A dangerous precedent
The United States government demanded that Apple weakens the security on iOS. Tim Cook, Apple’s CEO, replied.

Rather than asking for legislative action through Congress, the FBI is proposing an unprecedented use of the All Writs Act of 1789 to justify an expansion of its authority.

The government would have us remove security features and add new capabilities to the operating system, allow … ⌘ Read more

Dumping dollars left and right

“DOD charged the American taxpayer $43 million for what is likely the world’s most expensive gas station.”

That’s what Special Inspector General John F. Sopko found when he looked at the construction of a natural gas station in Sheberghan, Afghanistan.

According to the report, at most that station should have cost about $500,000. But in this case, the Department of Defense’s Task Force for … ⌘ Read more

Huckabee offers his support
Mike Huckabee, a christian pastor turned politician has offered his support to the Court clerk in Kentucky who, against Supreme Court order, [refuses](http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/supreme-court-rejects-county-clerks-request-in-gay-marriage-case/2015/08/31/6ec094bc-4ffd-11e5 … ⌘ Read more

Jekyll and Git
I have been using Jekyll for a while now, but all this time I have been generating it on the server, That is, I had had a directory on the server holding the Jekyll files, in which I would run jekyll build to generate the website. Not too streamlined.

Before hosting this weblog on Vultr, I had it on GitHub, and their Pages would do the publishing for … ⌘ Read more

iCloud mess
Having lost many photos of certain sentimental value a few years ago has made me paranoid. Ever since I lost my child’s first four years of photographic memory I have kept copies of our family photos and videos in two different places. I keep a copy of photos and videos in our Synology NAS at home, which backup photos to Amazon S3 and videos to [Glacier](http://aws.amazon.co … ⌘ Read more

Four-way stop
Drivers in Orlando do not seem to know what to do when they reach a four way stop. It really makes me wonder how were they able to obtain a drivers license without that knowledge, as it is part of Drivers Handbook (search for “Stop Signs” on that page), the test, and occasionally encountered while driving.

For the record, and in case you live in Orlando, and do not know what to do on a four-way stop (also known as all-way stop) … ⌘ Read more

On the meaning of life
Will Durant sent a letter to a few notable figures, asking them for the meaning of life.

Spare me a moment to tell me what meaning life has for you, what keeps you going, what help—if any—religion gives you, what are the sources of your inspiration and your energy, what is the goal or motive-force of your toil, where you find your consolations and your happiness, where, in the last resort, your treasure lies. Write briefly if you must; … ⌘ Read more

Many changes coming soon
Just very recently I wrote about me moving to Jekyll from WordPress:

After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old
or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker
with the awesome Jekyll.

I also wrote —fairly recently— about [living on a Linod … ⌘ Read more

Happy birthday, viejo!

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Not a day goes by without me thinking of my Dad. Today he would have
being 92 years old.

I still remember him on his 90th birthday, doing push ups using only
three fingers on each hand. I will forever remember the endless stories
he used to tell, and his constant smile. He was the best father a son
can ask for, an example for many. It hurts so very much … ⌘ Read more

Route 53, wish I could have used you
Ever since Amazon announced it’s Route 53 service I have been dreaming on using it, but since I dislike to have services too spread out (got Google Apps and Linode now), I held up. Two days ago or so, Amazon announced new features tha … ⌘ Read more

Forget Hyde, moved to Jekyll!
After much thought, and tinkering, I decided to ditch my six year old or so WordPress and start blogging like a hacker with the awesome Jekyll.

I am still getting a few things in place, like making sure all entries are properly converted to markdown, but overall I … ⌘ Read more

Bright House saga
In two occasions I have written about Bright House service, or the lack of. Ever since my last entry, many issues aroused, but I never came here to document them.

They vary, and cover a wide range. So many Bright House technicians has passed by my house, I lost count. The proverbial “how many technici … ⌘ Read more

Да намеря време да си направя някой ден: http://kottke.org/10/02/balls-of-mud-that-shine

Hello world, again!
I am starting over. I might “port” back some entries from the old weblog, but that’s pretty much it. Right now everything is in state of flux, running on a vanilla WordPress installation with a couple of plugins on. Work will progress as time permits.

There isn’t one single reason why I am starting over, but a few. Basically, the old weblog database was “dirty” with entries and rows, and tables from plugins… and god knows what other things (I ran quite a few experiments on that one) … ⌘ Read more