Can't unsee these insecure Wordpress plugins

09 Apr, 2019

Programming

Water is still wet. In other news, wordpress plugin ecosystem is still ~~trash~~ a ball of slimy writhing unspeakable horrors.
TL;DR: If you ever used anything from these “pipdig” guys on your wordpress or blogger site, please stop asap.

I personally recommend switching to Hugo instead (do as I say, not as I do; you generally don’t need the complexity of Gatsby).
Just throwing it out there: Disk encryption for low-end hardware, Linux Journal

Feynman on Fermat’s Last Theorem

TL;DR: Richard Feynman once proved that the probability of Fermat’s Last Theorem to be true is less than 10^–31% and concluded: “for my money Fermat’s theorem is true”.
They Really Don’t Make Music Like They Used To

TL;DR: “Loudness wars” history and analysis; and also why a release sometimes sounds way better on a vinyl record even though technically a CD has much wider dynamic range. (spoiler: it’s usually sacrificed to make the album sound louder)
Astronomers hunting for the spy satellites

Skyminds by Skyminds (available digitally and on cassette from auasca)

Quite pleasant drone/ambient with some bluesy/desert rock kind of tunes.

“Desert Winds” track reminds me of Fallout 2 a bit, so there’s that.

TES Arena Remapped

This may sound like a custom maps set for TES: Arena, but it is not.

In fact it’s just a custom keyboard map for DosBOX to get modern WASD-style controls etc.
Can’t Unsee

Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick

Starts as silly Mars colonization sci-fi, ends up deep in scizophrenia and mindfuckery. Exactly what I like to read.
How We’ll Live on Mars by Stephen L. Petranek

And for something (a bit) more realistic, here’s this TED Book about future Mars colonisation (already dated, even though it was published in 2014 iirc).