What have I been reading this week? (20151031)

2015-10-25

- Seven Things I Did To Reboot My Life - WIL WHEATON dot NET
- How I won $5000 at a Facebook hackathon without a single line of code

2015-10-26

- Reading and writing are less symmetric than you probably think
- Write Like You Talk

2015-10-28

- A Penny for Your Books
- Please Do Not Steal My Code, Mock My Analysis, and Present My Ideas as Your Own
- More ways to Wi-Fi with the new ASUS OnHub
- The Thirty-Seven Basic Plots According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era
- Making Sense of Dell EMC VMware

2015-10-29

- What Happens When You Enter the Witness Protection Program?
- License Plate Readers Exposed! How Public Safety Agencies Responded to Major Vulnerabilities in Vehicle Surveillance Tech
- For the First Time Ever a Prosecutor Will Go to Jail for Wrongfully Convicting an Innocent Man
- Caution: Copy-Pasting URLs from Google Search can Leak Previous Searches
- Landmark for Hidden Services: .onion names reserved by the IETF
- The military lost control of a giant unmanned surveillance blimp
- Inside the Secretive World of Elite Wealth Management
- VC Guru Fred Wilson Hints The Blockchain Could Create the Next Google - Blockchain News

2015-10-31

- Scientists identify main component of brain repair after stroke

2015-11-01

- From the Them's-Fighting-Words Department: BusyBox removes support for systemd

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Dem's fightin' words!

Stated in a recent Busybox commit message (last week):

"remove systemd support

systemd people are not willing to play nice with the rest of the world. Therefore there is no reason for the rest of the world to cooperate with them."

Yikes! (heh)

Your name will be taken...

Wow. So it appears that the cypherpunk mailing list now has a "mailing list etiquette violators list". They've actually been a bit nasty to each other on the topic.

What amazes me is that so few see the humor/irony in the existence of such a list of people. I guess it's time to leave the list. It's no longer interesting.

What have I been reading this week? (20151024)

2015-10-18

- What Facebook Blue Jeans and Metal Signs Taught Us About Tornado Science - Facts So Romantic - Nautilus

2015-10-20

- Fantastically Wrong: The Bizarre Mirages That Once Scared the Bejesus Out of Sailors
- Theoretical Motivations for Deep Learning

2015-10-21

- I read all the small print on the internet and it made me want to die

2015-10-23

- A Beginner's Guide to the Synth
- The FCC will publicly shame robocallers and telemarketers every week

2015-10-24

- I you but you're bringing me down Monica Dinculescu

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More Gleebox recipes

I've pushed a few more Gleebox recipes to Github. These include:

• up - causes browser to navigate up one level in the URL
• top - causes browser to navigate to the top level in the URL
• gbm - sends the URL for the current page to Google Bookmarks
• shell - opens a gnome-terminal on your desktop
• proxy - enables or disables the desktop's proxy settings (assumes Kali or Ubuntu)

The "restart" command appears to be broken in the most recent version of Chrome (I think it was an experimental feature).  If anyone actually wants it, I can attempt adding it as an external feature (it might be a bit contrived).

What have I been reading this week? (20151017)

2015-10-12

- In defense of client certificates
- Seam carving
- Can Cyber Activists Chase ISIS off Twitter?
- How I Teach Gerrymandering

2015-10-13

- How School Shootings Spread
- Why Dell s EMC Bid Leaves VMware Looking Like Devalued Currency
- RobustIRC is a regression
- The Eye Doctor on Your Laptop Will See You Now

2015-10-15

- How is NSA breaking so much crypto?
- Social Media Cracked the Case of MH17
- Hackers Prove They Can Pwn the Lives of Those Not Hyperconnected
- Xplain

2015-10-17

- The Young Woman Who Created A New Way to Bust Sex Trafficking Rings Broadly
- The Tech Model Railroad Club Backchannel

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What have I been reading this week? (20151010)

2015-10-05

- Reverse Engineering Proves Journalist Security App Is Anything But Secure
- Sex Whipping and Pottage in Stepney
- The Internet of criminal things [LWN.net]
- Operation Delirium - The New Yorker
- Icecast in Production
- Game Maker Security and Freedom
- DARPA SyNAPSE Program
- hoarding and reuse
- How I learned to stop worrying and love the code Personal Growth
- qw3rtman/git-fire

2015-10-06

- Quantum computing: First two-qubit logic gate in silicon
- Is the Theory of Disruption Dead Wrong?
- Why Experts Reject Creativity
- Microsoft stop sending user identifiers in clear text

2015-10-07

- You Wouldn't Base64 a Password - Cryptography Decoded

2015-10-08

- How The Fuck works nvbn blog
- JFK: declassified documents reveal a cunning and cagey president

2015-10-10

- An Error Leads to a New Way to Draw and Erase Computing Circuits
- How rivalry propels creative genius Jacob Burak Aeon

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Auto-focusing the tags field in SemanticScuttle

Following is probably only important to people who use SemanticScuttle in conjunction with keyboard browser navigation tools (e.g., Gleebox). In short, this is a tweak to SemanticScuttle that causes the "Tags" field to be focused when the pop-up window appears.

I think that the original author intended for this to occur in any case, as the word "focus" is in the field declaration. It may have later become non-functional after a tweak to HTML (1.1?) or Chrome. 

In any case, in your SemanticScuttle folder, find data/templates/default and edit the file called "editbookmark.tpl.php". Find the line that contains "echo T_('Tags');". Two lines below that should be a HTML form input field with the name value of "tags". In that line, change "focus" to "autofocus" and the SemanticScuttle popup should function as intended.

What have I been reading this week? (20151003)

2015-09-27

- Imperfect 'best' practices

2015-09-28

- Reading and Writing Electronic Text
- Why I Fucking Hate Unicorns and the Culture They Breed Bothsides of the Table

2015-09-29

- Why Schools Are Increasingly Neglecting Introverts
- Prescription Drugs Are So Expensive That People Die Waiting to Get Them
- How to explain the KGB s amazing success identifying CIA agents in the field?
- These Are the Two Forgotten Architects of Silk Road

2015-09-30

- We Have Passed the Stage of Amateur Evil: Scientists respond to the Atomic Bomb August 6 1945
- Inspection of King Tut s Tomb Reveals Hints of Hidden Chambers
- Human Interference Task Force
- The Other Cray Launches CPU-FPGA Hybrids
- Brave New World: The Future of Search
- Why the yakuza are not illegal
- Bored People Quit Personal Growth
- How I learned to write a Chrome Extension in 5 hours by using the Bruce Lee technique

2015-10-02

- Crypto problems you actually need to solve

2015-10-03

- Life Is a Braid in Spacetime - Issue 29: Scaling - Nautilus
- The Untold Story of the Texas Biker Gang Shoot-Out

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