Gizmodo has an article on a hacked coffee maker. IoT devices are poorly made and vulnerable.
Author Archives: Vince
Github Arctic Code Vault
This is real glacier archiving unlike the metaphoric AWS Glacier kind. Github is archiving code on film and storing it in an abandoned coal mine. Money quote:
“It’s more mine-y and rustic and raw-hole-in-the-rock than I thought it would be,” Nat Friedman, CEO of GitHub
Quote of the Day
“Capitalism” is the name Marx (that angry grifter) coined for free trade, which is what humans do if left alone. Ultimately Socialism’s problems aren’t with “capitalism.” They’re with humans.
Sarah Hoyt
Quote of the Day
The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
Quote of the Day
Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
William Pitt, British prime minister