A manageable batch of links this week.

• Hackers Make the First-Ever Ransomware for Smart Thermostats. IoCrapT.
• A Brief History of Email Apps.  I like the layout.  (via)
• Chinese Hunting Chinese Over POP3 In Fjord Country.  Long and worth it.
• Ring Message Bus on RS-232.
• it’s hard work printing nothing.
• The lost infrastructure of social media.  (via)
• Quadrilateral Cowboy’s Code Is Now Open Source.
• Simplenote now open source.  Except that’s the only client, not the server.  Being allowed to repaint someone else’s house is not home ownership.
• The Rise and Fall of the Gopher Protocol.  (via)
• Mental Models.  (via)
• HPE Acquires SGI For $275 Million.  Linking for SGI nostalgia.  (via)

Your unrelated link of the week: Spaceplan.  A clicker game, and very pretty.  (via)