11 July 2021

20 links · Sunday

The EFAIL Hoax [The Call of the Open Sidewalk]

In 2018 a security issue dubbed EFAIL1) was all over the technical media and even leaked into the regular media. Many of those articles were misleading or incorrect. Some gave dangerous advice. Here is an example of a particularly hyperbolic headline:

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Hacking the Hackathon

The ‘Involution’ of Hackathons A late night breakthrough on our PennApps XX Project “Quick, quick, Caden! Wake up – the drone …

Capitalism: You Wouldn’t Trade it for Anything

These are political days, and hot takes on capitalism are everywhere. Jeff Bezos doesn’t pay enough in taxes, Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) is good, inflation is good, and the #1 problem with kids these days is they don’t read Marx. At least that’s what my TikT…

The Unstoppable Battery Onslaught

I’ve written more than a few blogs about energy before. Why would I write another? I can’t think of a single reason. More seriously, I recently reviewed a personal whitepaper I wrote in…

How I accidentally took down GitHub Actions

Last December, I was invited to a private bug bounty program to test a beta version of GitHub Actions. GitHub Actions is a workflow automation tool integrated with GitHub. One common use case of GitHub Actions is for CI builds – a project can fairly easily sta…

Automated Hydroponic System Build – Projects

Hydroponic farming is a method of growing crops without soil, with the main benefits of environmental and nutrient control, water conservation, and reduction of labor. This technique relies on a number of technologies that the principles of automation can be a…

Instagram Has Become SkyMall

The ads are a nonstop slurry of surreal products, and I love it

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