link dump

Programming topics

• A Conversation with Bjarne Stroustrup (2004)
• The C Family of Languages: Interview with Dennis Ritchie, Bjarne Stroustrup, and James Gosling (2000)
• gsh - A POSIX shell for Windows

Decentralization and subsidiarity

• GNUnet
• Meshtastic
• My old friend John Goerzen writes extensively on these topics:
  • Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers)
  • A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP)
  • Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now
  • Roundup of Unique Data/Storage Hosting Options
  • Distributed, Asynchronous Git Syncing with NNCP
  • Make the Internet Yours Again With an Instant Mesh Network
  • Tools for Communicating Offline and in Difficult Circumstances

Must read Twitter thread ((thread reader)) on the 2018 Camp Fire, the most destructive in California history:

[A C hook] has been swinging back and forth for a very, very long time. How long was it rubbing against the hangar bracket? The answer is that we don't know. we think it is about 97 (!) years old, but we're not sure because PG&E (the electric company that owns the lines) didn't keep records about it. [PG&E] kept no records.