Notices by Gadfly (-booq-) (gaditb@icosahedron.website), page 28

@halcy

Oh my god:
"""
[Cisco ACE] devices don't support any other cipher suites, therefore disabling RSA is not an option. To our knowledge it is not possible to use these devices for TLS connections in a secure way.

However, if you use these products you're in good company: As far as we can tell Cisco is using them to serve the cisco.com domain.
"""

Histories of languages:

French: Some germans started speaking latin, then later the ones living in paris decided that all the other ones in france should speak the same kind of latin

Spanish: Someone tried speaking italian and arabic at the same time

Italian: Some fucking weirdo decided that the whole country should speak a dialect based on poetry from the 13th century

English: When some different germans got beat up by the germans from earlier and learned some latin words

"Repressive governments originally treated Facebook with suspicion... But authoritarian regimes are now embracing social media, shaping the platforms into a tool to wage war against a wide range of opponents—opposition parties, human-rights activists, minority populations, journalists."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2017-12-07/how-rodrigo-duterte-turned-facebook-into-a-weapon-with-a-little-help-from-facebook

being a person is really fucking hard

btw you should totally donate to the internet archive if you can. they keep archiving cool things like the k&r c book and their mission seems like it's just going to be more important over time

our second feature is the documentary CYBERPUNK from 1990ish found recorded off a tv onto vhs by ~vilmibm at a thrift store https://tiny.tilde.website/media/OA6FL9uNzXkR6PLpx30

when we're all disney princesses, no-one will be >:3c

While I'm inventing conspiracy theory origins for recent technologies, here's another one:

Bitcoin was invented by an unknown person pseudonamed "Satoshi Nakamoto". Before people used their spare computing time to mine bitcoins, one of the big things they did with spare compute was to run the SETI@Home client, helping to search for extraterrestrials. Who might have a vested interest in redirecting resources away from the search for extraterrestrials? Is "Satoshi Nakamoto" really a /person/?