Human folly for 02017-02-24

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• Library hand penmanship handwriting (atlasobscura.com):

  Library Hand is a #handwriting #font developed for card-catalog records

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  discussion of Library Hand #handwriting #font

• Libhanddis (fontlibrary.org):

  Someone has made an OFL-licensed #font based on Library Hand #handwriting in FontForge

• NetBSD fully reproducible builds (blog.netbsd.org):

  NetBSD now has #reproducible-builds on amd64 and sparc64. #security

• The great explosion (simpleliberty.org):

  "The Great Explosion", #predictions #fiction with the Gands and the Antigands and the dopes and the clever people and the gnoits, exploring possible societal structures

• What could happen if you refuse to unlock your phone at the US border (arstechnica.com):

  #civil-liberties pertaining to crossing #USA borders and refusing to unlock devices

• The red of painters (theparisreview.org):

  a short #history of red #pigment #materials

• Log (apenwarr.ca):

  Avery Pennarun’s announcement of his implementation of DJB’s #redo build system, replacement for make. #apenwarr

• (pozorvlak.livejournal.com):

  pozorvlak thinks #redo is the “Git of build systems”

• Private Heisenberg absent bomb (nybooks.com):

  a review of a book arguing that Heisenberg probably sabotaged #Germany’s #WWII #nuclear-weapons effort #history

• Commentaries on living first series (krishnamurti-teachings.info):

  Jiddu Krishnamurti on loneliness

• Full color plastic (shapeways.com):

  Shapeways briefly offered a powder-bed #3D-printing process that involved baking the whole tray before removing the item, but “it did not meet [their] quality standards.”