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When I'm in the Canaries, I always go into full-on Canarian cooking mode. Today's homemade dinner: gambas al ajillo with papas arrugadas & mojo.

 

"Don't worry about what anybody else is going to do. The best way to predict the future is to invent it." โ€• Alan Kay

 

Astronomers think that there's a real chance, albeit small, that we just had a derelict interstellar spacecraft whizz by our planet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Abr4VcT3Dmw

 
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The first successful transaction across 3 different Lightning Network implementations with real BTC just happened, and the first protocol release candidate is up for review: https://medium.com/@lightning_network/lightning-protocol-1-0-compatibility-achieved-f9d22b7b19c4

 
 
 

Anyone knows the reason for Ember.js tests having switched to Google Chrome instead of the open-source Chromium?

 
 

Current Gran Canaria cycling status: doing a group ride up to the mountains early in the morning tomorrow, but I'm the sucker who has to add 17km with 250m elevation both before and after the actual ride to even get to the meeting point and home. I call it extra homework.

 

Isaac Arthur on machine rebellion: "If your goal is personal survival, pissing off the reigning champions of destruction should probably be your last resort." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHd22kMa0_w

 
 

The inevitable happened: Intel confirms critical security issues with Intel ME: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00086&languageid=en-fr

"This includes scenarios where a successful attacker could: ... Load and execute arbitrary code outside the visibility of the user and operating system."

And of course it affects "6th, 7th & 8th Generation Intelยฎ Coreโ„ข Processor Family", meaning pretty much all our desktop/laptop CPUs.

 

PSA: The last batch of 34C3 tickets goes on sale at 11:00 CET today (in ~30 minutes)! https://events.ccc.de/2017/10/03/34c3-tickets-status-and-open-sale/

 

Our little Mastodon instance is now federating with more than 1000 other instances/servers. It is literally a thousand different Twitters all talking to each other. Long live the fediverse! https://kosmos.social/about/more

 

Similar to Apple and Google, GitHub also cannibalize their own marketplace apps by re-implementing the popular ones as official features: https://github.com/blog/2470-introducing-security-alerts-on-github

Next up might be a CI solution, because GitLab pipelines are actually pretty awesome.

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