12-Sep, 2024 - afternoon links, etc.

links, etc RFC 9620: Guidelines for Human Rights Protocol and Architecture Considerations i struggle with the IETF on a number of fronts, but this was a surprisingly compelling read. technology has become a far more powerful tool for suppression and surveillance than we thought it would be in the mid-late 1990s when we were super pumped about the democratization of information access. protocol analysis for information leakage is something that’s been de rigueur from a security perspective for some time, but even that’s proven to be insufficient....

September 12, 2024 · steve ulrich

12-Sep, 2024 - morning links, etc.

links, etc Neither Elon Musk Nor Anybody Else Will Ever Colonize Mars | Defector it’s a deliciously snarky read and brings the science. The mainstream press is failing America – and people are understandably upset | Rebecca Solnit this hits on so much of what’s been gallling me lately. tags: #uspolitics, #spacekaren

September 12, 2024 · steve ulrich

openwrt + cloudflare ddns notes

overview the other day duckdns was all sorts of wonky and there’s no real status update from anyone in the mailers or the google groups. which, is not cool. turns out that the cloudflare API does all of the necessary bits to do dynamic dns and it’s already been integrated into the ddns scripts available in openwrt. misc. steps required create an API key in the cloudflare dashboard that has perms for the necessarly zone....

September 9, 2024 · steve ulrich

08-Sep, 2024 - morning links, etc.

links, etc Prairie Innovation-Snow Planes — Lost In Sk these look like delightful death traps, from days of yore. Right-Wing Influencer Network Tenet Media Allegedly Spread Russian Disinformation | WIRED a great rundown on the right-wing media disinformation scam. wired’s kind of been killing it lately.

September 8, 2024 · steve ulrich

06-Sep, 2024 - morning links, etc.

links, etc Reeder: A New Approach to Following Feeds - MacStories this is a pretty solid overview of reeder in its latest form. it’s transformed from a best in class RSS reader to a universal reading inbox that syncs across all of your apple devices. i’ve been driving this since it hit the app store and it’s a breath of fresh air and a great consolidation of various input sources....

September 6, 2024 · steve ulrich