Michael @fincham@cloudisland.nz

"Email is so inherently broken, there's no reason to die on the email self-hosting hill" I say, dying on that very hill

Sexism Is a Feature, Not a Bug - Mar Hicks
https://www.are.na/block/11416442

chapter 6 in "Your Computer Is On Fire", Edited by Thomas S. Mullaney, Benjamin Peters, Mar Hicks and Kavita Philip
https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/your-computer-fire

The one year later covid twitter is amazeballz.

https://twitter.com/YearCovid

Deck water irons pass a stove's vent pipe through the deck. Water is kept in the trough, and thus cools the pipe by absorbing & dissipating heat.

What a great design.

Looks like the #unifi 'hack' was much worse than it sounded at the time ...

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2021/03/whistleblower-ubiquiti-breach-catastrophic/

This episode of The Secret Life of Machines about the history of the word processor is so good and has so many little things in it I did not know:
https://youtu.be/nN9wNvEnn-Q
Tagging @neauoire just in case they haven’t seen it yet.

"Document your goals and assumptions clearly. That won't save you from disaster, but it will at least assist the archaeologists who come later to examine your remains." (There is no Now by Justin Sheet 2015)

Root Server Operators Statement on DNS Encryption: https://root-servers.org/media/news/Statement_on_DNS_Encryption.pdf

Startup sound from the Mystery desktop theme

It’s almost christmas

https://shop.isc.org/products/dig-reference-towel-1

#dig

love 2 now have to worry about a robot killing me on the road as well as all the terrible human drivers

https://www.roadandtrack.com/news/a35878363/teslas-full-self-driving-beta-is-just-laughably-bad-and-potentially-dangerous/

My book "How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism" is a critique of Big Tech connecting conspiratorial thinking to the rise of tech monopolies (proposing a way to deal with both) is now out in paperback:

https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59

Signed copies here:
https://www.darkdel.com/store/p2024/Available_Now%3A__How_to_Destroy_Surveillance_Capitalism.html

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I'm just going to leave this here.

Unix: A History and a Memoir. Since its creation in a Bell Labs attic in 1969, the Unix operating system has spread far beyond anything its creators could have imagined. It has led to the development of a great deal of innovative software, influenced myriad programmers, and changed the path of computer technology.
This book is part history and part memoir. It tells the story of the origin of Unix, explaining what Unix is, how it came about, and why it matters.

Accessible to non-specialists, the book is written for anyone with an interest in computing or the history of inventions.

Published October 2019.

Don't get it from amazon, there are reputable retailers who sell it.

https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~bwk/memoir.html

In short, for most zones, the recommended NSEC3 parameters are: `NSEC3PARAM 1 0 0 -' https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-hardaker-dnsop-nsec3-guidance/?include_text=1

DNS
DND

just a reminder that we're offering these really nice, compact, robust, colorful, open hardware keyboards: https://mastodon.social/@mntmn/105862528147217822