Good to know: Raspberry Pi is not vulnerable to Meltdown/Spectre because they use processors that don’t do speculation.
Also a nice, clear explanation of how the vulnerabilities work.
Links
Scuttlebutt
Interesting idea: Secure Scuttlebutt, a totally decentralized social network that syncs through mesh & LAN connections & can handle being off-grid.
The Nomad Who’s Exploding the Internet Into Pieces – The Atlantic
An Off-Grid Social Network – André Staltz
Via A Plan to Rescue the Web from Internet – André Staltz
Network Neutrality: A History of Common Carrier Laws 1884–2018
Good analysis of the Patreon fiasco from comicsbeat
Good analysis of the @Patreon fiasco from @comicsbeat: Patreon’s Silence Is Destroying Their Two Greatest Successes
Rolling up all my pledges for the month into one charge is a *feature*, not a problem to “fix.”
Well, this isn’t very encouraging. But it does have a couple of interesting diagrams showing how Santa Ana winds form.
Well, this isn’t very encouraging. But it does have a couple of interesting diagrams showing how Santa Ana winds form.
Sheep with cameras.
How sheep with cameras got some tiny islands onto Google Street View
The Faroe Islands, a remote archipelago that juts out of the cold seas between Norway and Iceland, doesn’t even appear on some world maps. But as of last week, the verdant slopes, rocky hiking trails and few roads of the 18 islands are on Google Street View — and a team of camera-toting sheep helped get them there.
Reexamining old evidence with new knowledge and techniques
The first evidence of planets around another star was found in… 1917?
Another fascinating case of going back and reexamining old evidence with new knowledge and techniques.
“Our National Parks Are For Everyone, Not Just Those Who Can Afford Them” by @bartschaneman
“Our National Parks Are For Everyone, Not Just Those Who Can Afford Them” by @bartschaneman
XKCD: Cast Iron Pan
Good news for California pine trees.
With California Drought Over, Fewer Sierra Pines Dying
Good news for California pine trees.
Weird how people will complain about “tyranny” and then approve the government sanctioning force to compel displays of patriotism.
Weird how people will complain about “tyranny” and then approve the government sanctioning force to compel displays of patriotism.
Holy crap. Couple survived overnight in a swimming pool while fire burned around them.
Holy crap. Couple survived overnight in a swimming pool while fire burned around them.
The volcanic period that gave the moon its maria may have temporarily given it an atmosphere
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/air-de-lune
The volcanic period that gave the moon its maria may have temporarily given it an atmosphere comparable in thickness to what Mars has now.
Someone suggested this when I posted an article a while back about using drones as wireless nodes.
Google parent Alphabet looks to restore cell service in Puerto Rico with Project Loon balloons
Someone suggested this when I posted an article a while back about using drones as wireless nodes.
A fascinating write up on a month-long spear phishing campaign
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/09/phish-future
A fascinating write up on a month-long spear phishing campaign that tried to compromise Net Neutrality activists at Free Press & Fight for the Future. Worth a read for the various techniques they used to try to get logins, including individually targeted messages.
Who would’ve thought that post-NSA-revelations we’d be lining up for *more* surveillance? via @Verge
Who would’ve thought that post-NSA-revelations we’d be lining up for *more* surveillance? via @Verge
There’s timing: I was just wondering whether this cave tour was still open.
There's timing: I was just wondering whether this cave tour was still open.
Good news on the slow, but ongoing recovery of the California condor.
California Condors Return to the Skies After Near Extinction
Good news on the slow, but ongoing recovery of the California condor.
Your identity’s leaked, so you request a credit freeze…which can be unlocked
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/experian-site-can-give-anyone-your-credit-freeze-pin/
Your identity's leaked, so you request a credit freeze…which can be unlocked using the information that was leaked. 🤦
“If this growing cohort ‘wins’, what do they get?”
If this growing cohort 'wins', what do they get? In a post-science world, where physics and testable facts are always open to the layman's opinion in the moment, how are things better? How does one develop a new antibiotic without an understanding of speciation and disease resistance?