Resources
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This is a collection of links, books, resources of any form that I find useful and want to share. If you think something should be on that list and it isn’t, send an email.
Articles I Enjoyed Reading
If you look at the bottom of a page on this blog, you’ll see a selection of articles from blogs I follow generated by openring. Here is a manual list of blog posts and articles I appreciate and recommend to read.
- The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work by Phillip Rogaway
- Making God - The millenarianism and manifest destiny of AI and techno-futurism by Emily F. Gorcenski
- On Being Useful by Bert Hubert
- We lost the war. Welcome to the world of tomorrow. (20. December 2005) by Frank Rieger
Education/Courses
- The Missing Semester of Your CS Education. A class at MIT teaching you the rarely covered computing ecosystem literacy. Read about their motivation. Also take a look at Falsehoods CS Students (Still) Believe Upon Graduating by Jan Schaumann.
- pwn.college. An education platform with CTF style challenges focused on computer security maintained by folks at Arizona State University.
- Cryptome. Archive, Current listings
The greatest threat to democracy is official secrecy which favors a few over the many.
Cryptome welcomes documents for publication that are prohibited by governments worldwide, in particular material on freedom of expression, privacy, cryptology, dual-use technologies, national security, intelligence, and secret governance – open, secret and classified documents – but not limited to those.
Public Domain Works
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ – books
- https://librivox.org/ – audio books
- http://radio.publicdomainproject.org/de/index.html – radio
- https://www.nga.gov/open-access-images.html – art, images
- https://archive.org/details/americana – American Libraries
C Programming
- The Development of the C Language. Great paper about how C came to be. From B to NB (New B) to C. How it reuses different concepts from previous languages such as B and BCPL
- Talk by Ilja van Sprundel 50 years of C, the good, the bad and the ugly
- The Book about C: The C Programming Language
Rust
- The Rust Book
- Rust by Example
- The Rustonomicon (Unsafe Rust)
- The Rust Reference
- The Little Book of Rust Macros
- Rust API Guidelines
- Rust Design Patterns
Essential Browser Addons
Essential list of browser addons for surfing the web today.
- uBlock Origin (Firefox, Chrome): Block ads and tracking scripts. It can be “install and forget” or you can dig into the inner workings and have finegrained control.
- ClearURLs (Firefox, Chrome): Remove tracking parameters from URLs automatically. Good for you and good for people you send links. I consider it rude when I get links with tracking parameters in them.
Articles from blogs I follow around the net
Status update, November 2024
Hi all! This month I’ve spent a lot of time triaging Sway and wlroots issues following the Sway 1.10 release. There are a few regressions, some of which are already fixed (thanks to all contributors for sending patches!). Kenny has added support for software-…
via emersion November 22, 2024Dismissed!
Dismissing gives me a quick little lift. “That guy is an idiot!” “That place sucks!” There. Now I feel superior. Now I don’t have to think about it. I don’t even need first-hand experience. I can just echo any complaint I’ve heard. I’ve done this with restaurants…
via Derek Sivers blog November 18, 2024Generated by openring