Week ending Sunday 2014/10/05

Monday 02:25 · @MathildeHoeg Noted… we need more of you. [Original, responding to @MathildeHoeg.]

Monday 06:07 · On the way from the Baltic Sea to the North Sea. [Original.]

Tuesday 05:29 · @Gshtrifork Please, no pictures of the karaoke… [Original, responding to @Gshtrifork.]

Tuesday 05:42 · The TeX-generated math PNGs in Wikipedia hurt my eyes. [Original.]

Tuesday 07:25 · @pragdave Dave’s not mentioning the drunken Danish karaoke… [Original, responding to @pragdave.]

Tuesday 08:42 · @rabble @carlmalamud Many found OAuth1 not that workable [Original, responding to @rabble.]

Tuesday 08:44 · @rabble I heard lotsa stories of horrible interop pain around signatures & canonicalization. OAuth 2 in practice was easier to interop. [Original, responding to @rabble.]

Tuesday 08:49 · @rabble I disagree about signing/TLS, but we’d have to sit down somewhere comfy to have that argument. [Original, responding to @rabble.]

Tuesday 08:49 · @rabble I remember @blaine said he thought the good libraries arrived just slightly too late to save OAuth 1 [Original, responding to @rabble.]

Tuesday 08:54 · @blaine The only one that I heard with any consistency is “I couldn’t get it to interop, and couldn’t figure out why.” [Original, responding to @blaine.]

Tuesday 08:56 · @blaine Actually, the whole security/crypto/identity community has historically offered crappy DX :( [Original, responding to @blaine.]

Tuesday 08:59 · @rabble There were definitely some “people” problems around that spec. [Original, responding to @rabble.]

Tuesday 09:04 · I’ve just been starting to realize that web crypto could be impt. Had dismissed it as more W3C futility. [Original.]

Tuesday 09:43 · Ebeltoft IPA FTW. [Original.]

Tuesday 12:03 · Taphouse, near City Hall Square in Copenhagen, has many awesome beers. taphouse.dk [Currently: Mikkeller Monks Brew] [Original.]

Tuesday 13:19 · @olabini Not complicated: *IF* you could trust crypto in the browser, you could provide a really nice UX. [Original, responding to @olabini.]

Tuesday 13:52 · Denmark has good beers! How to find them: grep -v 'b[oe]rg$' #pardonthegeekjoke [Original.]

Wednesday 02:50 · @brianleroux Can't see why anyone uses SMS 2-factor.... Authenticator app is way nicer. [Original, responding to @brianleroux.]

Wednesday 02:57 · Google raises bug bounties; good stuff. googleonlinesecurity.blogspot.nl/2014/09/fewer-bugs-mo-money.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+GoogleOnlineSecurityBlog+(Google+Online+Security+Blog) [Original.]

Wednesday 15:54 · @shanecurcuru Hm, is risk of losing phone or losing phone connectivity greater? Not obvious… Anyhow, print out those backup codes. [Original, responding to @shanecurcuru.]

Wednesday 16:10 · Big thanks to #GOTOaar/#GOTOcph for the invite to Denmark! Here are some pix: https://t.co/oMTBzJurUF Outstanding conference. [Original.]

Wednesday 17:10 · Now, that’s what I call a USEFUL web site: wd40.com/ [Original.]

Thursday 08:09 · @Max_Fisher Alternately, GFW successfully keeping mainlanders from finding out what’s up. [Original, responding to @Max_Fisher.]

Thursday 12:24 · Here’s OpenKeychain (I’m a minor contributor) with screencasts & geek notes: https://t.co/VFp1dvQMM5 [Almost civilian-ready!] [Original.]

Thursday 15:57 · With a Mac & $29.99, you can make quick-&-pretty-clean-actually Android screencasts: https://t.co/gnbPg1JFKk [Original.]

Thursday 19:28 · @gruber Works on Safari & Firefox but not Chrome. Interesting. Not obvious why. [Original, responding to @gruber.]

Friday 10:04 · Never heard of Handevision, but they’re shipping a 40mm for SonyE, FujiX, Canon, and µ4/3: www.handevision.de/en-verkaufsstart-fuer-lichtstaerkstes-objektiv-der-welt/ One more thing: F0.85 [Original.]

Friday 10:20 · Wow, this space is hot; Freaking USA Today covering Identity startups: www.usatoday.com/story/money/columnist/2014/09/30/baverman-entrepreneurs-and-startups-auth0/16217859/ Grats to my Auth0 buds! [Original.]

Friday 11:10 · Ruby-based monads write-up with 1,070 lines/6.7k words of intro to set the stage: “They’re simple and useful.” codon.com/refactoring-ruby-with-monads [Original.]

Friday 15:34 · Wow, @dhh reaches back and brings the heat on the Reddit remote-workers story: shortlogic.tumblr.com/post/99014759324/reddits-crappy-ultimatum [Original.]

Friday 17:02 · RT @zahedab: Germany: “We got rid of tuition fees because we do not want higher education which depends on the wealth of parents,” t… [Original.]

Friday 18:58 · Announcers suggested Cards were stealing Ellis/Kershaw signals. Plausible? [Original.]

Friday 19:03 · This was gonna be a pitchers’ duel, right? [Original.]

Friday 19:22 · @lukec Anyone can get that tour tomorrow, doorsopenvan.cahttp/doorsopenvan.ca/ [Original, responding to @lukec.]

Friday 20:05 · Heavily-processed leaf pix from Sankt Jørgens Sø in Copenhagen: https://t.co/p5IbOz0Ai5 [Original.]

Saturday 07:32 · You can follow a battle in progress on Syria/Turkey border with via #Kobani or #Kobane [Original.]

Saturday 07:59 · RT @WTFMobileWeb: Photo: Why do you have a website if you think it’s slow, ugly and not useful?   via @firt wtfmobileweb.com/post/98721875996/why-do-you-have-a-website-if-you-think-its-slow#_=_ [Original.]

Saturday 19:34 · @EricKleefeld You actually might vote NDP. [Original, responding to @EricKleefeld.]

Saturday 19:35 · @colbycosh The incorrectness of watching hockey in this context cannot be overstated. [Original, responding to @colbycosh.]

Saturday 19:59 · So, I thought I was gonna watch the Dodgers. [Original.]

Saturday 21:57 · #notalltrolls are Nazis. [Original.]

Sunday 07:54 · RT @sabreuse: So seriouspony has been harrassed off twitter again. She's one of the most thoughtful, humane, genuinely interesting ppl I've… [Original.]

Sunday 09:15 · So, what actually happened to Kathy Sierra, formerly known as @seriouspony? Where’s the story? [Original.]

Sunday 09:27 · @freebsdgirl Huh, couldn’t find it. So the story is that Robert Graham was Kathy’s attacker? Evidence seems to be suppressed. [Original, responding to @freebsdgirl.]

Sunday 09:32 · @freebsdgirl This is really really not OK. [Original, responding to @freebsdgirl.]

Sunday 10:39 · @elskwid Thanks. Feels like there are missing pieces… [Original, responding to @elskwid.]

Sunday 12:26 · I guess a temporary suspension of Godwin’s law is in order when discussing the current troll landscape? [Original.]

Sunday 12:31 · Google to Make Security Guards Employees, Rather Than Contractors: blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/10/03/google-to-make-security-guards-as-employees-rather-than-contractors/?mg=blogs-wsj&url=http%253A%252F%252Fblogs.wsj.com%252Fdigits%252F2014%252F10%252F03%252Fgoogle-to-make-security-guards-as-employees-rather-than-contractors [Bet it won’t catch on, but still good] [Original.]

Sunday 12:31 · RT @jcoglan: Before she left, seriouspony was told there's no evidence w**v doxxed her, then she was compared to him and told she asks ppl … [Original.]

Sunday 12:43 · I asked Kathy Sierra (formerly @SeriousPony) what happened; here’s what she said: https://t.co/4JEps3fXox [Original.]

Sunday 12:44 · “I hope one day there’s a place like Twit­ter where the voic­es of these peo­ple aren’t so el­e­vat­ed and over­whelm­ing.” - Kathy Sierra [Original.]

Sunday 15:05 · On “Cloud Atlas” guy David Mitchell’s 2 latest: “1000 Autumns of Jacob de Zoet”&“Bone Clocks”. Sloppy, brilliant: https://t.co/pJJlLFJZ70 [Original.]

Sunday 17:20 · Cheerfully rejecting anonymous pro-troll comments on that blog piece. Go pee in your own pool, boyos. [Original.]

Sunday 19:59 · @ftrain The emotion was “love” amirite? [Original, responding to @ftrain.]

Sunday 20:02 · “I believe that it is not too late to fight for the internet as a free and radical space” - @PennyRed laurie-penny.comhttp/laurie-penny.com/on-weev-fascism-and-the-free-internet/ [Original.]

Sunday 20:03 · @ftrain Soon to come: forgiveness. [Original, responding to @ftrain.]


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