February 12, 2023

-

StratoCat @stratoballoon

After 12 hours of painstakingly searching, mile after mile, all Inner Mongolia using Apple maps I've finally found the location of the alleguedy Chinese balloon launch facility mentioned recently in a WSJ article. It is located in the Siziwang Banner, 138 km N of Hohhot.

-

-

Reuters @Reuters

Iran marks 44th anniversary of revolution as online hackers interrupt state TV coverage reut.rs/3K0HPbg

lol

-

BREAKING THE MANNERHEIM LINE: SOVIET STRATEGIC AND TACTICAL ADAPTATION IN THE FINNISH-SOVIET WINTER WAR

Great article.

https://warontherocks.com/2023/02/breaking-the-mannerheim-line-soviet-strategic-and-tactical-adaptation-in-the-finnish-soviet-winter-war/

-

JP Aumasson @veorq

improved attacks on ChaCha6 eprint.iacr.org/2023/134.pdf (my claim in Too Much Crypto that 8 rounds are fine remains unshattered)

-

Classical Studies Memes for Hellenistic Teens @CSMFHT

-

A comprehensive approach to countering unmanned aircraft systems

https://www.japcc.org/books/a-comprehensive-approach-to-countering-unmanned-aircraft-systems/

-

Sputnik Not @Sputnik_Not

Xi Jinping discovers new hobby

-

Let's write a setjmp

https://nullprogram.com/blog/2023/02/12/

-

Portmaster.

An application firewall for Windows and Linux

Portmaster is a free and open-source application firewall that does the heavy lifting for you. Restore privacy and take back control over all your computer's network activity.

https://github.com/safing/portmaster

The cool feature is their paid VPN which works per app. I think it’s pretty cool.

https://safing.io/blog/2020/01/22/how-the-spn-compares-to-tor/

https://safing.io

-

This reminds me of the Soviet joke.

Khrushchev visits a collective pig farm with a press team for a photo op. The newspaper editors are stumped on how to caption the photo of Khrushchev surrounded by pigs. Finally, one of them has an idea: “third from left, Comrade Khrushchev”

Sandra Lawrence @Missvolare

My favourite-ever book caption