Write about the future you want

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Dave Rupert, Write about the future you want: There’s a lot that’s not going well; politics, tech bubbles, the economy, and so on. I spend most of my day reading angry tweets and blog posts. There’s a lot to be upset about, so that’s understandable. But in the interest of fostering better discourse, I’d like to offer a challenge that I think the world desperately needs right now: It’s cheap and easy to complain and say “[Thing] is bad”, but it’s also free to share what you think would be better.

Writings on infosec, technology and life

With the US increasing its hostility to the EU under the Trump administration and all the Big Tech companies sitting in Trump's pocket the EU is looking to migrate to alternatives.

The snow from the storm I referenced weeks ago in my last update is still on the ground after weeks of sub-freezing temperatures. With it getting up into the 40s and 50s now, it’s starting to melt off which means soon I may be able to stop walking into the street to avoid unshoveled sidewalks. I’ve had an unusually difficult the last month or so focusing on any one thing and feel like I’ve just been jumping from one thought and project to another without making much progress.

This is my monthly link dump, a regular monthly series containing a mix of links to interesting blog posts I’ve read from the past month covering arts & culture, myth, folklore, landscape punk, hauntology,…

There’s something happening on the Web at the moment that almost feels like watching that old arcade game Space Invaders play out across our servers. Bots and scrapers marching in formation, attacking our servers wave after wave, systematically requesting page after page, relentlessly filling their data stores while we watch our access logs fill up.