An interesting talk about Lego CAD with some glimpses into “after market” Lego. 😀
Tag: Internet Finds
HN: the good parts
Dan Luu has a nice collection of interesting Hacker News posts.
Strings at Facebook
It’s great to see how the simplest things we take for granted are engineered and improved. Case in point: Facebook’s std::string replacement.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPR8h4-qZdk
Exciting Unlimited Register Machines
A brief and entertaining talk by an obviously excited presenter. 🙂 It goes into the same directions as Jim Weirich’s talk about the Y combinator.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Q-UwjgZ0q4
Rooting With/For Rowhammer
The Rowhammer class of exploits never stops to amaze.
WhatsApp -> Facebook
Sadly WhatsApp will start sharing your account information with Facebook. You can’t prevent Facebook getting the data, you can only opt-out of them using it for ads.
Hey Visitor, why don’t you also enjoy our SPAM
It seems ad networks have reached a new low or as the author puts it:
This transaction breaks a core promise using the internet: just because I visit a website doesn’t mean I consent to getting spam from it.
Mega Transistors
The maker of the mega processor has a series of videos describing the basics of how transistors are used to create logical gates.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPFl_8_T8gk&list=PLNmCdcvSgJj5bllQx5E3A6OsbMq2luA9J&index=1
The Management Myth
An interesting read from a doctor of philosophy with a consulting firm who went through a huge pile of management theory books to see what he missed by not having a formal “management education.”
Comparing Signal-protocol-using messengers
There’re still privacy differences when you compare messenger apps all using the Signal protocol:
In this article, I’m going to compare WhatsApp, Signal, and Allo from a privacy perspective.
While all three apps use the same secure-messaging protocol, they differ on exactly what information is encrypted, what metadata is collected, and what, precisely, is stored in the cloud — and therefore available, in theory at least, to government snoops and wily hackers.
In the end, I’m going to advocate you use Signal whenever you can — which actually may not end up being as often as you would like.