Just a reminder, historic climate change predictions modeling human caused global warming has turned out to be surprisingly accurate.
The attached image shows the average of the leading predictions from 2004 and how it tracks to the actual observed climate change. The accuracy turned out to be quite exceptional.
Popular webcomic "The Oatmeal" no longer asks people to follow them on #Facebook, #Twitter, #instagram etc. Here's their explanation as to why (contains minor swearing):
(from https://theoatmeal.com/comics/reaching_people )
PS Currently if you want to follow them, visit here:
https://theoatmeal.com/pages/subscribe
“The password generator included in Kaspersky Password Manager had several problems. The most critical one is that it used a PRNG not suited for cryptographic purposes. Its single source of entropy was the current time. All the passwords it created could be bruteforced in seconds.”
https://donjon.ledger.com/kaspersky-password-manager/
They used math.random() on the web version y’all. This is a “security” company. I’m speechless.
"It feels like the last 20 years we've spent rebuilding all the stuff Unix users had builtin 20 to 40 years ago: online editors, shared home directories, etc. All sorts of things are repeating again.
One of the things Unix had was composability. If there's a table on a website now and one on another website, and you wanna join them? Fuck you."
-- Joshua Schachter
Software developer, open-source enthusiast, wannabe software architect. I like learning and comparing different technologies. Also general STEM nerd.