davecb 🇨🇦

#WritersCoffeeClub May 27. Do you read outside the genre you write?

Very! One of the things I read, for example, is "History of the British Expedition to the Crimea (1858) by William Howard Russell, correspondent for The Times", https://www.kobo.com/ca/en/ebook/the-british-expedition-to-the-crimea-5

He helped teach me to write clearly. In my case, to write computer books, which are almost as confusing as wars.

#PennedPossibilities 1025 — Would you or have you ever killed off a member of the main cast? How would or how did you feel afterward?

After one of my stories ends, the main character quietly stops being reachable at her university email (she was a retired professor) and I never found out what happened to her. It still makes me tear up.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glynmoody/116584415636701760

At least one manufacturer noticed this some years back.

@oxidecomputer saw it as a risk, and wrote their own minimalist boot and a service processor that replaces the "let's throw a random program into ring 3" approach of Intel and AMD.

They blogged about it at https://oxide.computer/blog/hubris-and-humility

#oxide #security #intel #amd

@globalnews.ca Congratulations, Alberta. You'll be like Austria, who declared its independence after WWI, but was the first country swallowed up by Germany in the ramp-up to WWII

#albertareferendum