Former ICANN CEO is now a co-CEO of the private equity firm that tried to buy .org https://domainnamewire.com/2020/07/16/fadi-chehade-is-now-co-ceo-of-ethos-capital/

Here is my cat.

PSA: the "I got my company banned by Google" story was fake, potentially black PR
https://www.reddit.com/r/google/comments/8lg820/psa_the_i_got_my_company_banned_by_google_story/

"2018-05-10 UPDATE: Intel politely asked Purism to remove this document which Intel believes may conflict with a licensing term. Since this post was informational only and has no impact on the future goals of Purism, we have complied."

https://puri.sm/posts/intel-fsp-reverse-engineering-finding-the-real-entry-point/

I mean half the internet is AWS and Cloudflare already

Introducing Spectrum: Extending Cloudflare To 65,533 More Ports https://blog.cloudflare.com/spectrum/

A fork on Github is no fork https://www.niels-ole.com/ownership/2018/03/16/github-forks.html

so systemd-resolve is a thing

https://mstdn.io/media/HpYG8Hx7G1qAfqCkg0w

The government of Canada is now using the Ethereum Blockchain https://www.reddit.com/r/CryptoCurrency/comments/7rsq7v/the_government_of_canada_is_now_using_the/

More good news from Intel

https://press.f-secure.com/2018/01/12/intel-amt-security-issue-lets-attackers-bypass-login-credentials-in-corporate-laptops/

“In practice, it can give an attacker complete control over an individual’s work laptop, despite even the most extensive security measures.”

“The essence of the security issue is that setting a BIOS password, which normally prevents an unauthorized user from booting up the device or making low-level changes to it, does not prevent unauthorized access to the AMT BIOS extension.“

Convenience is starting to look like a bad idea

A boy asked his Bitcoin-investing dad... https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/7ifv64/a_boy_asked_his_bitcoininvesting_dad/

Bitcoin is none of the things it was supposed to be https://theoutline.com/post/2592/bitcoin-is-none-of-the-things-it-was-supposed-to-be

1969:
-what're you doing with that 2KB of RAM?
-sending people to the moon

2017:
-what're you doing with that 1.5GB of RAM?
-running Slack

Linux security alert: Bug in sudo’s get_process_ttyname() [ CVE-2017-1000367 ] – nixCraft https://www.cyberciti.biz/security/linux-security-alert-bug-in-sudos-get_process_ttyname-cve-2017-1000367/ #sysadmin #sécurité #linux

"Yes, AMP pages load fast, but you don’t need AMP for fast-loading web pages. If you are a publisher and your web pages don’t load fast, the sane solution is to fix your fucking website so that pages load fast, not to throw your hands up in the air and implement AMP."

Kill Google AMP Before It Kills the Web https://daringfireball.net/linked/2017/05/20/gilbertson-amp #google #web