My blog has a new theme. I need a photo for the header and maybe a logo though… Opinions in the comments please t.co/Yug2hdSOR…
I blogged: Book recommendation: Necrotech
Book recommendation: Necrotech
I am a big fan of everything that fits into the wide array of genres related to cyberpunk. Recently I came by across a book called “Necrotech” by K.C. Alexander. I am not only a reader but also a big fan of cyberpunk-role playing games[footnote]as in pen & paper[/footnote]. One of the problems those games face is a way to limit how much cyberware, technological enhancements implanted into the body, a character can accumulate. In Cyberpunk 2020 the characters loose Empathy. And when people have too much cyberware in them they become mass-killing pschopaths and there is a special police force that hunts those people down. When you remove the cyberware and go to psychological counseling you can regain it. But at the same moment it leads to stuff like my assassin character to whom I gave an empathy of 10[footnote]the max value[/footnote] so that I could put as much CW as possible into him. In Shadowrun people loose Essence. All in all it doesn’t make much of a difference for mundane characters how much they lost. If you reach 0, you usually die.
In Necrotech the author did something similar to Cyberpunk 2020. People who implant too much cyberware become suddenly owned by their own cyberware and then start going onto a killing spree. And thus become kind of a cyberzombie who can even loose parts of their body and still go on since the cyberware controls the body now and not really the brain. And through new developments in the book it becomes a crossover of cyberpunk and starting zombie-apocalypse.
The main character is a woman who is a tough mercenary who wakes up with memory loss in a tough situation. And when she gets back to her team, they are not happy to see her while they think that she betrayed them. An interesting set up with a female main character who isn’t that stereotypical with some nice ideas of a modern cyberpunk world which extrapolates technologies and ideas from the beginning 21st century instead of the usual 80s make it a fun read if you like action and/or cyberpunk. Give it a shot.
P.s.: I should write more often about the books I liked reading.
I blogged: Tim Harford about trade t.co/AOyrF5G6x…
Tim Harford about trade
A great post by Tim Harford what is great about trade. You should read it.
there are two ways to make cheese in the UK: the obvious way, using cows, and the indirect way, by making cars and then trading the cars in exchange for cheese.
I’d say that I am an economist by training and I am actually pro-free trade and against distortions like subsidies. In my opinion the EU could for example remove the subsidies for farmers, the US should do so, too. Both economic areas talk a lot about free trade but harm poor countries with exactly such subsidies which destroy world market prices of goods like corn for example. And that means that poor countries have a hard time to produce those goods. Sure, if we would drop those subsidies our agricultural sector would have a real problem but it would also mean that we probably increase the welfare somewhere else by more than we increase them here by our subsidies. It is easy to say for me since I am not a farmer but maybe other countries should get a shot at a better standard of living, too. And it can’t be that our institutions demand free trade from other countries but increase trade barriers to those for protecting their own and hurt the countries where they do the demands and thus hurt those countries in these end. Please, more free trade. We probably find a better way for getting a middle ground in terms of regulations that protect the consumers but all in all I want more free trade. And I am anxious about those tendencies to get back to more isolationism. In the end it is probably trade or war. I prefer trade.
Oh look, there is a self-hostable alternative to IFTTT. Nice. t.co/eDJ6a1v68…
Oh look, there is a self-hostable alternative to IFTTT. Nice. https://github.com/muesli/beehive
Ars explains how to backup your computer to usenet oO
Ars explains how to backup your computer to usenet oO t.co/4FlO1BjCE…
Hm, Wire looks interesting but how is it financed? Who pays for development and running the servers and what is the plan to keep them running?
Hm, @wire looks interesting but how is it financed? Who pays for dev and running the servers and what is the plan to keep them running?
Ich muss jedes Mal in mich hineinkichern, wenn ich lese, dass Zschäpes Verteidiger Heer, Stahl und Sturm heißen
Ich muss jedes Mal in mich hineinkichern, wenn ich lese, dass Zschäpes Verteidiger Heer, Stahl und Sturm heißen
TIL: You can’t use port 587 to send mails via an smtp-client when your firewall on the server blocks it m)
TIL: You can’t use port 587 to send mails via an smtp-client when your firewall on the server blocks it m)
Ich frage mich gerade, ob ich eigentlich ein Impressum brauche? Inzwischen hab ich ja nicht mal mehr Flattr auf meinen Seiten.
Ich frage mich gerade, ob ich eigentlich ein Impressum brauche? Inzwischen hab ich ja nicht mal mehr Flatte auf meinen Seiten.
Great podcast about different aspects of infosec with @hacks4pancakes t.co/lNtgBZo17…
Great podcast about different aspects of infosec with @hacks4pancakes: Mr. Robot, Secret Dating Profiles, and Network Security with Lesley Carhart
The recent weeks I use Twitter far too much. It’s like a car crash and I can’t look away. So I deleted the client now from my phhone
The recent weeks I use Twitter far too much. It’s like a car crash and you can’t look away. So I deleted the client now from my phhone
Building my mail server. Each day a piece. I have now smtp, imap, working tls and a roundcube. Soonish I might be able to switch to it.