Stories by the_why_of_y

Where Did All Those Brave Free Speech Warriors Go?

Cancellation of Naval Academy Lecture by Ruth Ben-Ghiat Threatens Inst. Autonomy

FOSDEM 2023: Containerised Applications: AppImage, Snap, Flatpak [video]

Omicron wave was brutal on kids; hospitalization rates 4X higher than delta’s

Europe, After a Fumbling Start, Overtook the U.S. in Vaccination

Covid-19 Vaccine R&D Investments

Libvirt: Abort() when seeing ENOMEM errors

The Doctor Who Fooled the World, by Brian Deer

V-Party Briefing Paper #9 [pdf]

Cairó, Sim. “Market Power, Inequality, and Financial Instability” [pdf]

Android is finally using DRM/KMS

Thoughts on Microsoft Joining OIN's Patent Non-Aggression Pact

The Run-Up in Home Prices: Is It Real or Is It Another Bubble? (2002) [pdf]

Who-T: libinput is done

Data-Oriented Programming: On the Expressiveness of Non-Control Data Attacks [pdf]

The Sad History of the Microsoft Posix Subsystem (2010)

Some economists got it right (2012) [pdf]

A Stupidity-Based Theory of Organizations (2012) [pdf]

A Variable Argument Hazard (in C/C++)

Linux 4.5-rc5: efivarfs fixed to avoid “rm -rf /” bricking UEFI