Rolling Airframe Missile
I’ve previously discussed Standard, Sea Sparrow, ESSM and Phalanx, but there is one last air-defense weapon that deserves discussion. This is the RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile, better known as RAM. A RAM is launched from USS Green Bay Much like the other point-defense systems, RAM’s origins trace back to Eilat, and the panic that it […]
Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai form and use accidental social ties
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Plastic bans work. Billions of plastic bags were avoided in the US alone
“The bottom line is that plastic bag bans work,” said Faye Park, president of the U.S. PIRG Education Fund, in a statement. “People realize quickly it’s easy to live without plastic bags and get used to bringing a bag from home or skipping a bag when they can.” Image via Unsplash. Plastic ain’t all that […]
Write code for the web – Apple doesn’t care about you, Mr. Developer
This is a yarn of three threads, and it got a bit long. The tldr is Apple doesn’t care for me as a developer I should write code for the web Nothing is set in stone, really The story is personal, but I hope readers find something they can relate to in their own life […]
A Reasonable Configuration Language
written by Ruud van Asseldonkpublished 4 February, 2024 About six months ago, I was fed up with it. The particular it was HCL — Hashicorp Configuration Language — but that was just the trigger, it was hardly the only offender. The issue I was struggling with that day was to define six cloud storage buckets […]
How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger (2019)
For more than 30 years, the Inuit welcomed anthropologist Jean Briggs into their lives so she could study how they raise their children. Briggs is pictured during a 1974 visit to Baffin Island. Jean Briggs Collection / American Philosophical Society Jean Briggs Collection / American Philosophical Society Back in the 1960s, a Harvard graduate student […]
New Linux glibc flaw lets attackers get root on major distros
Unprivileged attackers can get root access on multiple major Linux distributions in default configurations by exploiting a newly disclosed local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability in the GNU C Library (glibc). Tracked as CVE-2023-6246, this security flaw was found in glibc’s __vsyslog_internal() function, called by the widely-used syslog and vsyslog functions for writing messages to the […]
Duncan Campbell
Duncan Campbell is an investigative journalist, author, consultant and television producer specialising in privacy, civil liberties and surveillance issues. His best-known investigations led to major legal clashes with successive British governments. Campbell now also works and is recognised as a forensic expert witness on computers and communications data. He has providing specialist testimony in […]
#include
15 Nov 2010 We’re stuck with C++, at least for another console generation. C++ has many quirks that I wish were not there, but there is no real alternative as of today. While modern languages tend to adopt the bulk compilation and/or smart linkers and so can have a proper module system and eat the […]
First-Gen Social Media Users Have Nowhere to Go
A golden age of connectivity is ending. “I deleted my Facebook years ago, spend at least three to six months off Twitter every year, and Bluesky invites are just sitting in my inbox,” a friend tells me when I ask how her relationship to social media has changed in recent times. “I basically only use […]