Sorry for the shorter link list this time.
Dubsnatch (DarknetDiaries.com)
Darknet Diaries is often carried by its host’s boundless enthusiasm about cybers ecurity, but this episode features one of the strangest moments: the host insisting that there’s a pattern of featuring dolphin noises in Dubstep music. When the guest doesn’t play ball and politely tries to beg off the conversation, the host keeps pressing-he’s apparently a huge fan of dolphins. If you’re old enough to remember the heyday of Brostep, you might get a kick out of the artists referenced in this episode.
Battletanx Covers (youtube.com)
Had battletanx on the mind (it’s a perennial fascination) and wanted to see if anyone had done any decent covers. Turns out the answer is an emphatic yes!
Reckoning (infrequently.org)
This is a good discussion of the failed promises of JavaScript Single Page Apps (SPAs), complete with real case studies where SPAs have sabotaged public services.
But I do think he’s missed something critical that was always hammered home at my first job when I learned about SPAs, back when we were building them out of jquerey: server conpute costs money. Client side compute is free. To you. This could be an appropriate attitude for a commercial outfit, but not one providing a public service.
The Dying Computer Museum (textfiles.com)
Another article about the LCM’s demise. This is textfiles at his best here, highly recommend giving it a read.
Blogosphere (mikegrindle.com)
Reading this article gave me some sort of warm-fuzzies and the desire to link to it, so here goes.
abortretry.fail
This substack author seems to be gunning for https://www.filfre.net/‘s spot, but for hardware instead of software.
A brief history of barbed wire fence telephone networks (loriemerson.net)
This was pitched as a brief history of barbed wire communication. I of course assumed it would be about the way barbed wire sends a clear message to anyone planning to get to the other side of it, but it turned out to be stranger and more wonderful-a story about using barbed wire feces to carry telephony. A neat find for any fans of guerilla telephony.