Reading recommendations (2017-08-13)
Posted on Sun 13 August 2017 • Tagged with Reading recommendations
~Onatcer tells devastating things about the new exams required to study Computer Science in Vienna in Der TU-Aufnahme-Test: Pleiten für alle! (German).
Troy Hunt provides a new service where one can check passwords against a gigantic collection of millions of leaked passwords with Introducing 306 Million Freely Downloadable Pwned Passwords.
Currently Final Fantasy XIV’s Moonfire Faire seasonal festival is running and I already played through the seasonal quests in order not to miss anything. ~Luxpheras from the Community Team put up the post Shaved Ice Ice Baby to promote the event with some pictures of the spoils.
Sidenotes.
- http://www.npr.org/sections/money/2014/10/21/357629765/when-women-stopped-coding
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-afghanistan-trump-idUSKBN1AM0F5
- http://www.reuters.com/article/us-yemen-cholera-idUSKBN1AA15D
- https://about.gitlab.com/2017/07/22/gitlab-9-4-released/
- https://blog.hboeck.de/archives/888-How-I-tricked-Symantec-with-a-Fake-Private-Key.html
- https://daringfireball.net/2017/08/safari_should_display_favicons_in_its_tabs
- https://openmw.org/2017/openmw-multiplayer-here/
- https://worldbuilding.stackexchange.com/questions/33680/how-could-a-secret-terrorist-organization-rise-to-great-power-without-anybody-re
- https://www.elastic.co/blog/building-a-better-search-experience-in-kibana
- https://www.glamour.com/story/taylor-swift-sexual-assault-trial-cross-examination
- https://www.heise.de/newsticker/meldung/Roomba-Hersteller-der-Staubsaugerroboter-will-Karten-der-Wohnungen-verkaufen-3782216.html
- https://www.polygon.com/2017/7/24/16010982/kingsway-review
- https://www.polygon.com/2017/7/26/16026296/game-of-thrones-season-7-episode-2-stormborn-sex
- https://www.polygon.com/2017/8/5/16101700/social-skyrim-mod-ai-research
- https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-kkk-once-attacked-her-family-now-she-was-writing-to-a-former-neo-nazi/2017/08/09/be143f0a-7319-11e7-8f39-eeb7d3a2d304_story.html (via Fefe’s blog)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MK6ub-Z7snI (Hyrule Myths - Can You Beat Breath of the Wild Without Climbing?)
- https://yuumei.deviantart.com/art/In-This-Moment-696987877 (a fantastic painting of a pale girl with white hair in a white dress morphing into white roses playing a glass violin)