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Geoff Huston about DNS Trends: https://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2020-10/trends.html

Found another book that quotes from my BA thesis: "Microworld Writing: Making Spaces for
Collaboration, Construction, Creativity, and
Community in the Composition Classroom"

https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=3223&context=all_dissertations (PDF)

Moxie Marlinspike in New Yorker: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/10/26/taking-back-our-privacy

FOSS-North on Nov 1: "foss-north is a free / open source conference covering both software and hardware from the technical perspective."

https://foss-north.se/2020ii/

Today I worked from here. With a view to the garden. Saw a woodpecker! Tomorrow it's my turn in the study.

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.