NixCon 2018
We’re happy to announce that NixCon 2018, the
third Nix Conference, will take place October 25-27 2018 in London
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Cleveland Okie https://clevelandokie.blogspot.com/2011/04/editors-note-this-interview-with-robert.html

.……….//: Embracing the New Flesh https://ellaguro.blogspot.com.es/2014/10/embracing-new-flesh.html

ferd.ca -> The Zen of Erlang https://ferd.ca/the-zen-of-erlang.html

Maliciously Changing Someone’s Address - Schneier on Security https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2018/05/maliciously_cha.html

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower fears Facebook data was shared with Russia - CNNPolitics https://www.cnn.com/2018/05/16/politics/cambridge-analytica-congress-wylie/index.html

The HP-35 http://codex99.com/design/the-hp35.html

LSD research: Michael Pollan’s How to Change Your Mind, reviewed. https://slate.com/culture/2018/05/lsd-research-michael-pollans-how-to-change-your-mind-reviewed.html

Habeas Data excerpt: How a mugger helped create the modern NSA surveillance program. https://slate.com/technology/2018/05/habeas-data-excerpt-how-a-mugger-helped-create-the-modern-nsa-surveillance-program.html

Decontructing the “Unix philosophy” https://www.tedinski.com/2018/05/08/case-study-unix-philosophy.html

Java: Executing code in comments?! | Programming.Guide http://programming.guide/java/executing-code-in-comments.html

NSA Backdoor Key from Lotus-Notes http://www.cypherspace.org/adam/hacks/lotus-nsa-key.html

Book review: The puzzling empathy of debugging https://wozniak.ca/blog/2018/05/07/The-puzzling-empathy-of-debugging.html

200 years later, we can say that Marx was very often right – but in a much more literal way than he intended | The Independent https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/karl-marx-200-years-uk-politics-elections-working-class-slavoj-zizek-a8335931.html

How to send local files to Chromecast with Python - Will do stuff for stuff https://rinzewind.org/blog-en/2018/how-to-send-local-files-to-chromecast-with-python.html

Zsh Native Scripting Handbook http://zdharma.org/Zsh-100-Commits-Club/Zsh-Native-Scripting-Handbook.html

Dao De Jing Translations http://www.daoisopen.com/ddjtranslations.html

Semantic Domain: Are functional programs easier to verify than imperative programs? http://semantic-domain.blogspot.com/2018/04/are-functional-programs-easier-to.html

Are you really Facebook’s product? The history of a dangerous idea. https://slate.com/technology/2018/04/are-you-really-facebooks-product-the-history-of-a-dangerous-idea.html

Malcolm Harris on Glitch Capitalism and AI Logic http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/malcolm-harris-on-glitch-capitalism-and-ai-logic.html

Jaron Lanier Interview on What Went Wrong With the Internet http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/jaron-lanier-interview-on-what-went-wrong-with-the-internet.html

countercomplex: How I view our species and our world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/our_species_and_our_world.html

countercomplex: Reaching for the blocks of the living world http://viznut.fi/texts-en/reaching_for_the_blocks.html

Katherine Maher, Wikimedia Executive Director Interview https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/katherine-maher-wikimedia-executive-director-interview.html

countercomplex: Slower Moore’s law wouldn’t be that bad. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/slower_moores_law.html

An interesting correspondence table: http://viznut.fi/texts-en/ancient_binary_symbolism.html

Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html

countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html

Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html

countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html

Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/eminent-philosophers-name-the-43-most-important-philosophy-books-written-between-1950-2000.html

Claire Evans’s ‘Broad Band’ Excerpt http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/claire-evanss-broad-band-excerpt.html

countercomplex: The resource leak bug of our civilization http://viznut.fi/texts-en/resource_leak_bug_of_our_civilization.html

Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two […]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html

mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2009-02-20: The Good and Bad of Distributed Objects https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-02-20-the-good-and-bad-of-distributed-objects.html

Preface - APL and J https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/apl.html

The citation graph is one of humankind’s most important intellectual achievements / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/04/14/open-graphs.html

Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html

Chain Letter Evolution http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html

graydon2 | programming languages and empiricism https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/259333.html

Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html

Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good? http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html

PaintsChainer http://paintschainer.preferred.tech/index_en.html

Re: TLS in Gopher https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html

Ontology http://www.acutesoftware.com.au/aikif/ontology.html

How to Make Everything Ourselves: Open Modular Hardware - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2012/12/how-to-make-everything-ourselves-open-modular-hardware.html

How to Build a Low-tech Internet - LOW-TECH MAGAZINE http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2015/10/how-to-build-a-low-tech-internet.html

The dots do matter: how to scam a Gmail user https://jameshfisher.com/2018/04/07/the-dots-do-matter-how-to-scam-a-gmail-user.html

Formatting for Gopher with GNU troff http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/04/gopher-groff.html

How to Gopher http://davebucklin.com/play/2018/03/31/how-to-gopher.html