Geoffrey Gimse
@textandhubris
Geoffrey Gimse
Whoever is interested in embedding further backdoors has learned from the extensive public coverage of everything that went wrong. These mistakes have been pointed out, published and learned from. We have given the actors behind this backdoor free training for future attacks. It is time that distributions learn from this as well and also take train... See more
Dirk Mueller • What we need to take away from the XZ Backdoor
there is no damnation greater than spending our allotted days in the catatonia of comfort and certainty, our inner lives automated by habit and halogen lit by convenience.
Do Not Spare Yourself
Transformation isn’t sweet and bright. It’s a dark and murky, painful pushing. An unraveling of the untruths you’ve carried in your body. A practice in facing your own created demons. A complete uprooting before becoming. - Victoria Erickson (Rhythms and Roads - 2016)
In the end, the fragile balance of open source—that unlikely blend of personalities and incentives that has driven tech’s innovation engine throughout the 21st century—won’t be upset by the odd state actor, or by malicious spam, or whatever scary new thing The Register is up in arms about tomorrow. It can only be disrupted when the community comes ... See more
Forrest Brazeal • The threat to open source comes from within
“An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.”
— Bob Dylan
the facts which I should then have recalled would have been prompted only by an exercise of the will, by my intellectual memory, and since the pictures which that kind of memory shows us of the past preserve nothing of the past itself, I should never have had any wish to ponder over this residue
In Search of Lost Time - Overture
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, Overture
“Look,” said Tyrena. “In twentieth-century Old Earth, a fast food chain took dead cow meat, fried it in grease, added carcinogens, wrapped it in petroleum-based foam, and sold nine hundred billion units. Human beings. Go figure.”
- Hyperion by Dan Simmons