Posts tagged with "linklog"

• August 23, 2019

  Ruby rest-client Gem Hijacked

  We stand on the shoulders of giants, but the giants don’t use two factor auth. https://github.com/rest-client/rest-client/issues/713

• April 9, 2019

  Are more expensive helmets safer?

  Surprisingly there’s not too much correlation between price and safety though you should clearly not just buy the cheapest thing on Amazon. https://blm.io/blog/motorcycle-helmet-safety-price/

• April 7, 2019

  Google Uses IRC for Incident Response

  Thought it was very interesting that in case of extreme reliability Google turns to my favorite chat communication tool pre Telegram. https://landing.google.com/sre/sre-book/chapters/managing-incidents/

• March 31, 2019

  Alexander Shulgin: The Godfather of Psychedelics

  Alexander Shulgin had a license from the DEA to produce any schedule 1 substance, and managed to discover over 200 psychoactive compounds before his license was revoked. He was (and still is) the first private citizen to ever be granted a license like this from the DEA, generally they are reserved for pharmaceutical companies. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Shulgin

• November 27, 2018

  What OSS Maintainers Owe You

  I’ve been seeing lots of blame for the latest JS/NPM fiasco thrown at the original author, and I’d just like us to take a moment to read this post from one of the creators of Clojure; as well as this quote by Dave Thomas when he was at Gig City Elixir in my town of Chattanooga TN. In OSS,

• July 25, 2018

  Ken Thompson Hack

  Every few months/years I remember this happened and it scares the hell out of me. http://wiki.c2.com/?TheKenThompsonHack

• July 9, 2018

  Crooks install skimmer on POS in 2 seconds

  Wow. I knew skimmers could be installed fast but this shows just how easy it is. https://boingboing.net/2018/07/09/crooks-install-skimmer-on-poin.html

• July 9, 2018

  Death Breaches PayPal’s Terms

  Other breaking news: Suicide is illegal and punishable by death! Ok, hyperbole… but still, we should honestly get a grip on the extent of our automated email. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-44783779

• July 5, 2018

  TopicBox

  From the creators of Fastmail, who I love and pay to host my email. I honestly don’t know what to think of this. Is it slack but for email, or email for slack, but isn’t slack supposed to help alleviate the need for email? https://www.topicbox.com/

• June 21, 2018

  I added support for SQLCipher to the sqlite3-ruby gem

  I’m just so happy this was accepted. You can now use SQLCipher with ruby when installed using –with-sqlcipher flag. You can also check whether or not the gem was compiled with SQLCipher by using the top level static method now available SQLite3::sqlcipher? https://github.com/sparklemotion/sqlite3-ruby/pull/232