MC @mc@mastodon.sdf.org

What do people think about Session, the new encrypted messenger app with metadata protection?

https://getsession.org/

Joseph Cox at Vice Motherboard has written a nice article about Phantom Secure, the company with the modified Blackberry phones:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v7m4pj/the-network-vincent-ramos-phantom-secure

Fedora 33 supports NTS with chrony: https://fedoramagazine.org/secure-ntp-with-nts/

Cory Doctorow's "How to destroy surveillance capitalism": https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

The recent Vice article about geoengineering wrote in passing that the Arctic ice melting is now irreversible.

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/pky7d7/4-ideas-to-save-the-planet-with-controversial-geoengineering

They refer to this article in Nature:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-020-0001-2

Why haven't I heard about die Edelweißpiraten before!?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelweiss_Pirates

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edelwei%C3%9Fpiraten

Language Models & Literary Clichés: Analyzing North Korean Poetry with BERT: https://digitalnk.com/blog/2020/10/01/language-models-literary-cliches-analyzing-north-korean-poetry-with-bert/

Trying out a Pixelbook with Linux/Crostini. Building Emacs 27 with my configure: 90 seconds. Not bad for a fanless laptop.

CERT-SE did a CTF-like challenge (https://cert.se/2020/09/cert-se-challenge-2020). Some solutions are cooler than others: https://csdb.dk/release/?id=196289

A friend made a Swedish Rick Astley Hotline using 46elks and 15 lines of Python:

https://gitlab.com/stemid/rickastley

Call +46 766 86 84 36 for a good time.

"Huawei cyber security evaluation centre oversight board: annual report 2020": https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/huawei-cyber-security-evaluation-centre-oversight-board-annual-report-2020

Imagine if equipment of other vendors had this kind of scrutiny!

Wittgenstein as a hardboild thinker. "The Philosopher and the Detectives: Ludwig Wittgenstein's Enduring Passion for Hardboiled Fiction"
https://crimereads.com/the-philosopher-and-the-detectives-ludwig-wittgensteins-enduring-passion-for-hardboiled-fiction/

Now some Nick Cave songs in the queue.

25 years since Where the wild roses grow single was released! Now I feel old.

You know, one of those evenings when you don a black suit, pour a cognac, listen to Depeche and Sisters and reminiscence.

Network Time Security, NTS, is now an RFC!

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc8915

Nice read. Clive Thompson's "Coders: Who they are, what they think and how they are changing our world"

On my way to Stockholm for the first time since the pandemic started. Time for an internal hackathon at $dayjob.

First longsword practise at MHFS I attended this semester this evening. So fun! Tired now.

$dayjob (https://www.netnod.se/) is looking for junior systems and network people in Stockholm, Sweden:

https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2000599279/

Sorry for the Linkedin link. It doesn't seem the job ad is on the Netnod page yet:

https://www.netnod.se/work-at-netnod