Alexandre Keledjian @dervishe@mastodon.sdf.org

"En avant dans le mur"
Le premier morceau du futur album des Luwig von 88: https://lv88.archivesdelazonemondiale.fr/

"Je dis et maintiens qu’il n’y a tel torchecul que d’un oison bien duveté, pourvu qu’on lui tienne la tête entre les jambes. Et m’en croyez sur mon honneur car vous sentez au trou du cul une volupté mirifique, tant par la douceur de ce duvet que par la chaleur tempérée de l’oison, laquelle facilement est communiquée au boyau culier et autres intestins, jusqu’à venir à la région du coeur et du cerveau"
Gargantua

Some DNA test performed on a piece of Jack the Ripper's shawl link him with an already known suspect: Aaron Kosminski
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jack-rippers-true-identity-finally-14150333
The original paper: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1556-4029.14038?referrer_access_token=zp3839jkaC0nUnvTqwGgPota6bR2k8jH0KrdpFOxC65q_2puS3NPK0jHAobSA8A8W7IxNNCjYyC-KX3EJrIxYVQgtBWfkPrVOZhC69Dg86s7SQsmhG_4UkhIqRLyx0X2irHHUKRF2iRuo7oM0uboSS8nF_uA40akG3As_ZwEC6c%3D

Want to play with regexp ? try https://regexcrossword.com/ :)

"Russian army command vehicles literally are still using punch tape of the 70's with AT / SX / DX computer and software by Borland C++ or Borland Pascal for MS DOS platform. Frankly I wasn't ready for this unless witness with my own eyes"
https://twitter.com/lennutrajektoor/status/1105137551206174721?s=20
Interesting, remind me the use of 8 inch floppy disc by US military: https://www.cnbc.com/2016/05/25/us-military-uses-8-inch-floppy-disks-to-coordinate-nuclear-force-operations.html

The UNIX HATERS Handbook
"To Ken and Dennis, without whom this book would not have been possible" 😂
http://web.mit.edu/~simsong/www/ugh.pdf
via Jan-Piet Mens on twitter

The CIA’s Rectal Tool Kit for Spies–Created for Truly Desperate Situations During The Cold War:
http://www.openculture.com/2019/03/the-cias-rectal-tool-kit-for-spies.html

Awesome: How to calculate: the roman way
https://cacm.acm.org/blogs/blog-cacm/235492-calculating-with-roman-numerals-is-not-so-difficult/fulltext

Awesome read about enigma by GCHQ: https://github.com/gchq/CyberChef/wiki/Enigma,-the-Bombe,-and-Typex

In this π day, two nice features:
πfs: the filesystem which contains nativelly all the documents you can produce without producing them:
https://github.com/philipl/pifs
And with the syslog-ng 3.14 version, you can calculate π:
https://www.syslog-ng.com/community/b/blog/posts/calculate-pi-syslog-ng #piday

Remember Lena ? :)
Finding Lena, the Patron Saint of JPEGs https://www.wired.com/story/finding-lena-the-patron-saint-of-jpegs/

#computing #history

Hey mastodon, i've got an #smtp question:
My smtp serveur got a certificate for TLS on port 587. Another guy try to send me email but receive the response:
Diagnostic-Code: SMTP; 403 4.7.0 TLS handshake failed.

Then i checked their certificate:
openssl s_client -starttls smtp -connect their_smtp_server:587

and it appear to have no certificate...
Frankly i'm not very pleased to accept insecure connection on my server.
Any idea ? Or do i didn't understood the trouble ?

"Princeton Web Census Data Release
We are releasing the entire Princeton Web Census data containing privacy measurements of 1 million sites conducted each month from December 2015 to June 2018. "
https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/data-release/

You like pens ? Check this benchmark from 100 best pens: http://nymag.com/strategist/article/best-pens-gel-ballpoint-rollerball-felt-fountain.html

Some points on @npm failure again: https://twitter.com/garybernhardt/status/1067111872225136640
by Gary Bernhardt

What could go wrong ???
"A Chinese research group claims to have used CRISPR to genetically edit human embryos leading to the birth of healthy twin girls"
https://www.cnet.com/news/scientists-in-china-claim-to-have-created-first-gene-edited-human-babies/
"Most importantly, the research has yet to be independently verified and has not yet been published in a journal, which makes He's video seem more like an exercise in marketing the breakthrough than having it scrutinized. [...] the announcement should be taken with a helping of skepticism."

Yet another npm adventure: "Hacker backdoors popular JavaScript library to steal Bitcoin funds"
https://www.zdnet.com/article/hacker-backdoors-popular-javascript-library-to-steal-bitcoin-funds/