10 months until Christmas!
- Five ways to instantly improve blah blah your productivity blah. Useful techniques, described with humor. I need to use the “Analogue Day” one.
- Be Newsletters, the archived index.
- What I Learned from Watching My iPad’s Slow Death. It used to be Moore’s Law that drove replacement, not the choices of the manufacturer.
- Vim Anywhere. (via)
- We need an internet of unmonetisable enthusiasms.
- Ex Libris, about the New York Public Library. (via)
- Fall of Voodoo. So that’s what happened to 3dfx.
- Custom game system hardware.
- An Introduction to Digital Computers, a film. Digital as in “not analog”, 1969. (via)
- https://whydoesaptnotusehttps.com/ – I am entertained by the URL, and I understand why this applies to most package managers… but it doesn’t take into account the metadata leakage that https would prevent. (via)
- Aaaand here’s the counterpoint, which I agree with: Attacks against GPG signed APT repositories. (via)
- Futures of distributions. (also via)
- Predictive command line usage, a PDF. That seems odd. (via)
> but it doesn’t take into account the metadata leakage that https would prevent.
HTTPS doesn’t really protect any metadata. Package sizes are easily correlated with flow sizes. The linked article covers this: “HTTPS does not provide meaningful privacy for obtaining packages. As an eavesdropper can usually see which hosts you are contacting … even over an encrypted connection it is not difficult to figure out which files you are downloading based on the size of the transfer.”