scriptjunkie @sj@social.scriptjunkie.us

This earns @SecurityCharlie a follow
https://twitter.com/taosecurity/status/1309123214455582723

Android 11's alarm clock disabled my music alarm, replaced it with annoying beeps, & only offered paid music apps as alternatives. I was furious until I checked Settings > Privacy > Permissions > Files which was disabled; can now be set to media only. Set that and it works again.

"On the use of a life"
Excellent article on research from Colin Percival, the creator of Tarsnap and Scrypt
http://www.daemonology.net/blog/2020-09-20-On-the-use-of-a-life.html

Well I wasted a ton of time pulling my hair out trying to figure why I couldn't get IPv6 networking working in a docker container. Seems /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/*/disable_ipv6 will be 1 even if IPv6 is enabled and working.

But it's mainly mechanical keyboards that are used by hackers, while most legitimate users have little need for mechanical. Good governance aims for a well-balanced approach that simply bans mechanicals
https://twitter.com/Lee_Holmes/status/1308032259706908685

Today a written off 21 year old kid in his 1st year at cycling's biggest race achieved an incredible come from behind win
“Actually my dream was just to be at the Tour de France and now the dream is I’m here and I won… unbelievable”
Congrats @TamauPogi
https://www.velonews.com/events/tour-de-france/pogacar-on-tour-de-france-victory-this-morning-i-was-happy-with-second-place/

Stop saying floating point numbers are "truncated" when converted to integers. They're rounded down.

Fight me.

This makes me angry. Mozilla shuts down Firefox Send permanently.
https://www.cnet.com/news/mozilla-shuts-down-firefox-send-file-transfer-service-after-malware-abuse/

Alex kind of hacked the prime minister, wrote an amazing post about it, and you need to read it.
https://mango.pdf.zone/finding-former-australian-prime-minister-tony-abbotts-passport-number-on-instagram

"Astonishingly, even after retraction the vast majority of citations are positive, and those positive citations continue for decades after retraction."
We complain about the truth not mattering when politicians speak, but peer reviewed social science apparently isn't much better.

This is a fantastic thread on Twitter and I cannot favorite it enough.
https://twitter.com/AlvaroDeMenard/status/1304399441303089153

Breakthrough prizes awarded; biggest prizes in academia
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/sep/10/uk-mathematician-martin-hairer-wins-richest-prize-in-academia-breakthrough

I saw a few people share the crazy Sturgis rally COVID story. Turns out it's baloney in both epidemiology and economic impact.
https://reason.com/2020/09/09/no-the-sturgis-motorcycle-rally-didnt-spawn-250000-coronavirus-cases/

them: How does Kerberos work?
me:

https://www.thejc.com/news/uk/senior-bbc-journalist-used-pseudonym-account-to-back-attacks-on-emma-barnett-after-shoah-speech-1.506092

The war Google wages on standard protocols is also annoying, making IMAP etc. ever more painful to auth to. They claim security. I'd debate them but ads don't show in Thunderbird & @halvarflake has a saying about explaining things to people whose jobs depend on not understanding.