#CoSoSec
#CoSoTech

(Actually apple is pretty fast in fixing vulnerabilities. This is still fascinating read)

We Hacked Apple for 3 Months: Here’s What We Found.

As of October 6th, 2020, the vast majority of these findings have been fixed and credited. They were typically remediated within 1-2 business days (with some being fixed in as little as 4-6 hours).

https://samcurry.net/hacking-apple/

#CoSoFilm

MANK

1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz (Gary Oldman) as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.

Starring Academy Award Winner Gary Oldman, Amanda Seyfried, Lily Collins, Arliss Howard, ...

MANK is directed by David Fincher.

In Select Theaters November and on Netflix on December 4.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J_NqUYwngr0

#CoSoTech
#CoSoBooks

Ad Tech Could Be the Next Internet Bubble.

The scariest thing about microtargeted ads is that they just don’t work.
By Gilad Edelman

Or maybe that fear is precisely backwards. The real trouble with digital advertising, argues former Google employee Tim Hwang—and the more immediate danger to our way of life—is that it doesn’t work.

https://www.wired.com/story/ad-tech-could-be-the-next-internet-bubble/

Book:

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53947045-subprime-attention-crisis

#CoSoCosmology

(A great overview of the Dark Matter Problem)
(Personally I am in the MOND camp.)

The Dark Matter Enigma
By Jean-Pierre Luminet

"Another way to avoid the use of hypothetical dark matter is to view gravity not as a fundamental interaction, but as an emerging phenomenon of fundamental quantum information bits encoded in the intimate structure of space-time."

https://inference-review.com/article/the-dark-matter-enigma

More of the
"God Damn News"

Mainstream media is the biggest amplifier of White House disinformation.

Mail-in voting is being unfairly undermined—and researchers say it's the US media, not social platforms or foreign powers, doing the most damage.
by Patrick Howell O'Neill

https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/07/1009642/mainstream-media-is-the-biggest-amplifier-of-white-house-disinformation/

#CoSoTech

Query:

Does anyone know about "Coil" ?
Any input would be nice.
Is this just another micro-payment scam ??
Or the real deal ?

https://coil.com/about

@Museek

To watch:

Raising Peregrine Falcon Chicks is a Real Cliff-hanger.
By Gabriela Quirós

https://www.kqed.org/science/1969983/raising-peregrine-falcon-chicks-is-a-real-cliff-hanger/

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I now want to see 1,000,000 Black grandmothers, armed only with fly swatters, chasing Rump, and God boy out of office.

My take on the huge report that just dropped from the House Judiciary Committee, on competition in digital markets.

But I fear the legislation that might come down the pipe.

First let's just roll back antitrust law before Justice Brandeis destroyed it.
Secondly go after the ISP's first. That will have the bigger benefit to consumers.
Allow, and encourage local small Municipal ISP's
Then go after Google, Farcebook, Amazon, Apple, and others.

https://judiciary.house.gov/uploadedfiles/investigation_of_competition_in_digital_markets_majority_staff_report_and_recommendations.pdf

#CoSoScience
#CosoBooks

(I got an advance copy of this, boy howdy, this is good.)

A Series of Fortunate Events:
Chance and the Making of the Planet, Life, and You.
by Sean B Carroll

This is a relatively small book about a really big idea. Drawing inspiration from Monty Python, Kurt Vonnegut, ... A Series of Fortunate Events is an irresistibly entertaining and thought-provoking account of one of the most important but least appreciated facts of life.

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52579213-a-series-of-fortunate-events

#CoSoPrograming

(Notes on some interesting business models.)

Cash Cow Revisited

Unlike a freemium model, this is not an á la carte selection of features — it is all you can eat. When you purchase to move your unlock date forward, all features on or before that date get unlocked, forever.
By Drew McCormack

https://medium.com/@drewmccormack/cash-cow-revisited-4c2185e2b3d8

#CoSoPrograming

In defense of XML

YAML is to config syntaxes what Python is to programming languages. Seriously, significant whitespaces?
Have fun with a 500 lines of YAML to configure your Kubernetes deployment, and come back to explain why *you* hate it.

By Nicolas Fränkel

https://blog.frankel.ch/defense-xml/

#CoSoMusic

R.I.P.
Eddie Van Halen, Virtuoso of the Rock Guitar, Dies at 65.

His outpouring of riffs, runs and solos was hyperactive and athletic, making deeper or darker emotions feel irrelevant. The band he led was one of the most popular of all time.
By Jim Farber

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/06/arts/music/eddie-van-halen-dead.html

#CoSoPhotography

The Winners of the 2020 Drone Photo Awards

https://droneawards.photo/gallery/2020

#CoSoResist

Protests and Power.

"While Hong Kongers took the threat to their freedom seriously and organized a vigorous political response, Americans remain suspended between feelings of anxiety and a hope that transformative change can come on its own, without the hard work of harnessing protest to electoral gain."
By Maciej Cegłowski

https://idlewords.com/2020/10/protests_and_power.htm

#CoSoAstronomy

US Nobel winner's 25-year odyssey to black hole at center of galaxy.

Andrea Ghez, a professor of astronomy at the University of California, Los Angeles, is only the fourth woman to win the Nobel Prize in Physics.

https://phys.org/news/2020-10-nobel-winner-year-odyssey-black.html