Human folly for 02017-08-27

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• Sonnetron (wry.me):

  An automatically-composed sonnet about current politics ending with a bang.

• (lu4bb.com):

  Radio ham club founded by Pupeno’s father. #Argentina

• Testing with expectations (blog.janestreet.com):

  Jane Street tests their OCaml code by expecting it will return the same string it did last time, which they call “expect tests”, based on Mercurial’s “unified test format”, implemented in “cram”. #testing

• Ndjson CLI (github.com):

  Command-line tools for newline-delimited #JSON: cat, filter, map, reduce, split, join, sort, top.

• (n-gate.com):

  Meta-commentary on HN commentary, mostly. Cynical. “Google shits out this week’s version of its pocket surveillance platform. This release contains a big new feature, which will allow Google to patch publicly-known security problems and introduce newer, subtler security problems at an unprecedented rate of speed. Hackernews doesn’t like how the emojis look.”

• Supreme court Aadhaar right to privacy (thewire.in):

  #India’s Supreme Court establishes a legal right to #privacy in a decision against Modi’s #Aadhaar program, overruling the 1961 Kharak Singh verdict. #human-rights

• The internet of the past present and future (medium.com):

  #decentralization

• (twitter.com):

  10 libraries and bookstores in Buenos Aires, #Argentina

• Woot17 paper obermaier (usenix.org):

  #PDF #paper on #security of the STM32, defeating firmware readout protection by halting the system every few clock cycles and imaging its SRAM.

• (defenseone.com):

  #USA Army “Space Force” “on track to train well over a thousand soldiers next year”; they’re thinking of creating a “Space Force”

• Lightning FAQ (medium.com):

  #Bitcoin Lightning Network FAQ

• The truth has got its boots on what the evidence says about Mr damores Google memo (medium.com):

  Erin Giglio’s rebuttal to #Damore #toread

• How a burning man camp project became a multimillion dollar business (fastcompany.com):

  Shiftpod shelters are a US$1300 #Hexayurt offshoot

• Oath Keepers (motherjones.com):

  Mother Jones’s 2010 article on Oath Keepers. #USA #politics