• Clickspring - gently narrated master craftsmanship, in this case watchmaking. His Antikythera Mechanism series is particularly awesome
• Adventurous Way - previously RVing content, now building a house in Vermont

Physical anti-tamper, while important for this type of device, wouldn’t have helped for this particular attack. It’s an electromagnetic side channel, so they don’t even have to be touching the the thing to collect data.

That’s probably a typo. From the site:

Currently, the usable performance envelope is approximately 150 bits per second to 40 megabits per second

I’ve been playing the new Solium Infernum with a friend - the first playthrough I did not particularly enjoy (partially my fault for not playing the tutorial first) but once I learned the mechanics my second game was more fun. The UI is not very smooth to use and there are some mechanics I don’t like, but overall pretty good.

I also picked up Mindustry again last night - it’s an open source Factorio + Tower Defense + RTS that is rather addicting… The new campaign they added a couple years ago is better than the original too.

Low-Tech Magazine shows up on here occasionally, I’ve enjoyed their articles.

I’d also recommend Kris Harbour Natural Building on YouTube.

Here’s a critique of another anti-degrowth Jacobin article, and the stance Jacobin seems to take on degrowth in general - https://www.resilience.org/stories/2024-03-04/a-response-to-daniel-driscoll-another-slice-of-degrowth-bashing/

The crux of the argument is

• Planetary boundaries are hard boundaries, so the economy can’t go on growing no matter what. We can either plan this ourselves or be faced with climate disasters planning it for us.
• Degrowth is not “everyone gets less” - no one will disagree with the goal of lifting the global south out of poverty. It means diverting the unnecessary consumption (and carbon budget) of the most wealthy people in the global north to help those who actually need the economic growth.

Now that the roads aren’t icy anymore I’m trying to bike to work more often. Did the trip in the rain for the first time today, and it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be!

Which launcher are you planning to use?

Small scale, but I just got a compost bin! My muicipality was selling them for pretty cheap, I’d recommend everyone check if your town has any similar programs

Which recording of the audiobooks? I’ve been enjoying the recent Andy Serkis ones, but I hear great things about the earlier versions as well.

There is still a quantum attack against symmetric key crypto like AES, but it just reduces the effective key size by half. If you use long enough keys (256 bits) you’re still fine.

Lemon balm is my favorite!

Syncthing is a great way to sync an obsidian vault - not that hard to set up and requires almost zero maintenance. If you’ve got an iphone you might look into Nextcloud instead. For that matter, set up a Nextcloud server regardless! It’s your own personal Google drive plus calendar and contact syncing.