The Weekly Weird - 2017-07-21
- If you have any money left after yet another ethereum heist and want to switch to something safer like Bitcoin, now you have to pick which Bitcoin. Watch at home: blockchain fork monitor.
- You know how apes learned sign language? Nope.
- I'm not entirely sure how this is supposed to work but I love the idea of embedding a bounty in likely-to-be-pirated media.
- This does sound like something I'd do but I swear it wasn't me: upgrading ubuntu by by installing the operating system in memory, wiping the root disk and reinstalling the OS back on disk from RAM.
- Remember when Pepsi (yes, the soda) had the 7th largest submarine fleet in the world?
- Oh look, certificate authorities behaving badly. (h/t like six people)
- Kind of neat: proving equality of SQL statements.
- DO NOT USE BEACON GENERATED VALUES AS SECRET CRYPTOGRAPHIC KEYS.
- Wireguard (an IPsec replacement), has been formally verified.
- I ... don't know what this is. Football in future.
- I've seen at least a half-dozen articles about 'ancient Roman concrete is magic' and I'm always suspicious. Turns out, yeah it's just that usually you want rebar more than you want long-life. If you do want long life, modern construction will be quite happy to sell you that.
- wat
- lol
- Listen very carefully, I will write this down only once.