The Weekly Weird - 2015-08-28
- First week of new job: 2,600+ unread items in newsblur. I can't wait to count the linkedin recruiters.
- While I suffer through my gf watching every single second of media surrounding the Serial podcast here's your regularly scheduled jwz-is-awesome: http://www.jwz.org/blog/2015/08/eldritch-t-swift/
- The recent stock market unpleasantness is all due to me leaving my previous job. True story. The world is ending, sell everything #notatruestory #dontdothis http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2015/08/chinas-stockmarket-0
- A long, meandering, long, nuanced, long and delightful exploration of space and why Elon "My Sun And Stars" Musk wants to go there: http://waitbutwhy.com/2015/08/how-and-why-spacex-will-colonize-mars.html (As an aside I really like how the footnotes are implemented here)
- To be clear, this is by definition nsfw: https://github.com/minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings
- The most interesting post on the Ashley Madison hack I've seen is http://blog.erratasec.com/2015/08/ashmad-is-prostitution-not-adultery.html which sounds interesting, plausible given the low number of 'female' reported to be in the dumps and yet entirely unsubstantiated.
- Securityfreude: http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/08/how-not-to-start-an-encryption-company/
- Oops: http://gcaptain.com/a-concrete-sample-was-pulled-from-the-new-panama-canal-locks-and-it-does-not-look-good/
- I'm looking forward to playing with starfighter. I know jack squat about shellcode but I'm ambitious and bad at estimating difficulty. Plus, you know how much I love reading FIX: http://www.kalzumeus.com/2015/08/20/designing-and-building-stockfighter-our-programming-game/
- This is fascinating, straight out of Cryptonomicon: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/08/26/way-gchq-obliterated-guardians-laptops-revealed-intended/ You have to paint all the stencils, man.
- There's so much data out there that we're only now learning to see. http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/08/speech-analysis-schizophrenia-algorithm/402265/ (see also http://nautil.us/blog/mood-ringcell-phones-can-hear-depression-in-peoples-voices from a weird last year)
- Virtual particles aren't particles: http://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/particle-physics-basics/virtual-particles-what-are-they/
- And of course a pixel is not a little square: http://alvyray.com/Memos/CG/Microsoft/6_pixel.pdf
- Postmortems are great: http://danluu.com/postmortem-lessons/
- (womp womp) https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/compute/15056#5719570367119360
- THE MACHINE!!!ELEVEN: http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/655437/9a48cd3e7a8cbe8a/
- Aphyr, never change: https://aphyr.com/posts/326-call-me-maybe-chronos
- I should try this out: https://www.igvita.com/2015/08/17/eliminating-roundtrips-with-preconnect/
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Also, Intel is releasing a bunch of Stuff(tm):
- Knight's Landing, the new "lots of pentiums" gpgpu thing: http://www.servethehome.com/intel-knights-landing-details-emerge/
- Omnipath: we needed another interconnect, thanks: http://www.servethehome.com/intel-omni-path-august-2015-update/
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Cat tax: https://i.imgur.com/kXFHqvS.jpg
