The Weekly Weird - 2020-08-07
- "Big company gets screwed by ransomware" is an increasingly common headline but you don't often see 8-figure ransom negotiations happening in public chatrooms (h/t Vito).
- Who runs bartertown? Excel runs bartertown. (h/t Mike)
- If you are going to hack something big, verifying your Coinbase account with your driver's license to get your filthy lucre is decidedly suboptimal.
- Learn SQL by solving a murder mystery.
- Another of my favorite Itanic charts.
- I'm sure you've seen plenty of the ~1kt explosion in Beirut but a little asterisk in the story is the abandonment of the crew of the ship that was the source of the Ammonium Nitrate.
- An incredibly detailed look at switching from nginx to envoy.
- Get 13% better at distinguishing Mandarin tones by zapping your brain.
- If this leads to audiophile-level silliness in information security audits, I quit.
- I'm sure you watched the SpaceX Dragon capsule splashing down but the story of the plane behind the aerial footage is mildly interesting itself.
- Speaking of space, this grain silo took a jaunty little amble the other day. It's probably the silliest-looking thing to fly in a while but there have been some pretty gonzo designs in the past that make it look downright normal (hn comments).
- You wouldn't download a 10 meter tall wind turbine, would you?
- Ok, it's no snake jazz but how about kakapo saxophones?