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"Why Ethernet will never work" (1974)

"Whole Earth Discipline" by Stewart Brand - written by an environmentalist who honestly talks about what modern environmentalism got right, and what it got completely wrong, and what is actually helping us to prevent the climate change.

"The Unthinkable" by Amanda Ripley. This is essentially an extremely useful and practical guide to help you see the actual risks in daily life rather than distract on inflated bullshit.

As I have just ordered "The Precipice", I will this as opportunity to share a few other books that I believe are critical to forming a rational picture of the modern world. So...

"Factfulness" by Hans Rosling

The Precipice explores the science behind the risks we face. It puts them in the context of the greater story of humanity: showing how ending these risks is among the most pressing moral issues of our time. And it points the way forward, to the actions and strategies we can take today to safeguard humanity’s future.

https://theprecipice.com/

It's in Czech but I don't think it requires translation :)

Another "decentralized" cryptocurrency goes centralized. Bitcoin for long time has vast majority of hashing power centralized in China and shared between a few large pools. Seems like cryptographers should have also learned about economy and chaotic systems.

With tons of #Arduino libraries written in rush and without security in mind, we're now back to 90's with all the old nice C exploits like format strings, buffer overruns etc...

This is from Webduino, an Arduino webserver, as posted by isis agora lovecruft on Twitter, with at least a few potential buffer overflows

A whole shitstorm in Runet because in S2E1 of Altered Carbon there's a bar name in cyrillic that doesn't make sense 😂

The price...

Why it's always worth using additional Linux mitigations such as LKRG? They can stop a zero-day kernel exploit before a patch is published. I've been using LKRG on prod servers for around a year now.

As long as there's no violent revolution and dictatorship of the proletariat, it's not #Marxism, sorry. That was the whole point of fierce argument between Marx and Liebknecht, where Marx categorically insisted that violence is required for proper "rebirth" of the society.

http://www.isaaa.org/kc/cropbiotechupdate/article/default.asp?ID=17573

But this is probably the best news:

"scientists enjoy the highest trust ratings (82%) in Europe"

#gmo

If #globalization is an evil invention of modern #capitalism how come famous traveller Ibrahim ibn Yaqub (إبراهيم بن يعقوب) was buying ginger and other spices from India in 10th century Spain? 🤔

"The podcasts opened with advertisements for the Free Birth Society’s paid services — online courses and private consultations. Wanting to be prepared, Judith paid $299 for the group’s 10-module video guide on how to freebirth babies at home. The course paints expectant mothers as warriors — and experts, doctors and midwives as the enemy. "

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/she-wanted-freebirth-no-doctors-online-groups-convinced-her-it-n1140096

Shitstorm is going on about #Google allegedly "allowing child porn" chats on #WhatsApp being returned in search results.

Nobody really paid attention to the fact, that it's #Facebook who is hosting these groups in the first place. The fact that they're indexed (chats.whatsapp.com has no robots.txt) and returned in search results is merely a secondary symptom.

"I demand departure from the communist heaven to the capitalist hell"

Soviet scientist and political prisoner Alexander Bolonkin, Buryat ASSR, 1978 #communism #capitalism

This history is full of perfectly consistent logic and legitimate arguments 👌

This is precisely why open-source Android ROMs such as e.foundation and lineageos.org are so important for the health of the #Android ecosystem. https://privacyinternational.org/news-analysis/3330/senior-google-engineer-reveals-privacy-bombshell-androids-preinstalled-apps