internet

A 200 page action story from leftist Heinlein Cory Doctorow.

My theory about email spammers.

Is cyberpunk 25-year olds with brain implants, standing on a downtown streetcorner in the rain, trenchcoat pulled close against the chill, smoking a nootropic cigarette?

As I’ve written before, now that I’ve retired, I can devote time to my hobbies. I’ve set up a “home lab”, what we home computer enthusiasts call our computer and router setups. This is different than gamer’s “rigs”, in that a “server” is required, and it’s not allowed to have disturbingly-illuminated keyboards and cases. The aesthetic is completely different.

We often try to emulate corporate data centers by purchasing depreciated business-class machines from refurbishers.

Here’s my homelab:

This is something:

Iceberg

Something upwards of 40% of all Internet websites use WordPress blogging software. WordPress is written in the PHP programming language. Because PHP has a lot of quirks, and because just about any wanker can come along and crap out a solution to any given problem, WordPress installations have traditionally had security flaws. That makes WordPress installations subject to a lot of shady activity.