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Back to our usual schedule.
We spent Sunday morning quickly returning our kitchen to its “year-round” mode, and I once again praise the foresight and generosity of my wife, who made me purchase a hand-cart! The savings in back-pain was substantial.
Other than that not insignificant effort, we spent the week getting back to a normal work schedule. Both of us were fairly inundated with work, and didn’t have a lot of time for other things.
I did spend some time replacing 8th’s “TLS” library, which also includes a new cryptographic library (which I haven’t yet incorporated). The common wisdom in security circles is that “you should never roll your own cryptography”. True enough! But sometimes you can’t rely on well-established libraries either. To wit: a Java cryptography implementation mistake allows digital-signature forgeries. This is a major issue; and even though I am not affected directly, it highlights the need to be vigilant and constantly review application security. As I do.
What can you believe?
- Prof. Strassler asks: “The Earth goes around the Sun? What’s Your Best Evidence?”. Another in his series of thought-provoking science lessons.
- Matt Walsh’s very, very, serious! take on how Amazon employees are traumatized by his children’s book.
- Mallen Baker discusses what really runs the world, that we never talk about!
- A cops-eye view of Seattle’s undoing. So glad we got out when we did.
- After the Musk buyout of Twitter, all Left-non-conforming people seem to have seen their “followers” increase. Even I did, much to my surprise.
- And: can Elon Musk make Twitter great again? The author has his doubts.
The meltdown in the Twitterverse has been spectacularly amusing. Musk hasn’t even done a single thing (since he’s not yet the official owner of Twitter), and the rivers of salty tears have cleansed the streets of Silicon Valley. It’s truly a glorious moment in internet history; but as Kisin points out: Musk has his work cut out for him.
We’ve had warmer than usual, though not super hot weather this week. But a mini heat-wave is coming in just for the weekend, so we’ll enjoy the A/C this shabbat.
Our menu this shabbat includes:
home-made ḥalla,
Moroccan lemon-olive chicken,
roasted butternut-squash,
various salatim,
and some kind of dessert.
Until next time,
shabbat shalom!
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