April 2022
SELinux is unmanageable; just turn it off if it gets in your way
An object lesson in why policing must be transparent, accountable and flexible. Wait, what were we talking about?
The revival of a forgotten American fruit
Thumbs up for remembering the paw-paw. Thumbs down for trying to make it easier to sell in supermarkets rather than you know, to grow in backyards.
The Technocrat’s Dilemma
(Via the No Tech Magazine.)
Even true things shouted from loudspeakers start to sound like lies.
Inventing Postscript, The Tech That Took The Pain Out Of Printing
Oracle already wins 'crypto bug of the year' with Java digital signature bypass
Whole new meaning for zero consequences
What is it with programmers and their tools? You don't hear carpenters pontificating over the art of the drill, or learning hammer-fu.
GitHub suspending Russian accounts deleted project history and pull requests
Rumble Strip
Every year in the spring, small towns throughout New England host their annual town meeting. Town meetings take place in high school gyms or town halls, and anyone can come. In fact, in Vermont, Town Meeting Day is a public holiday. Everyone gets the day off work to make sure they have the chance to participate. It’s a moment when everyone who lives there can come together to talk out the issues facing the town and decide how they want to spend their money.
The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation
In short: it's an elementary statistical error, so simple it can be easily explained to a layperson, and indeed can be trivially reproduced from random data.
When a vampire not called Dracula bested the copyright system, and what it tells us about derivative works
(via Nate Hoffelder)
Car rams Russian Embassy gate in Romania, driver dead
The Problem With Disfigured Villains In Pop Culture
Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music
Please Stop Using Grey Text
Looney Tunes Without Looney Tunes
Existential, Surreal, And Creepy Backgrounds