Links. Tweets (Week 2023.02)
Links of the Week
Day job link I: SemiBin2 preprint
Day job link II: BDB-Lab Winter update
After decades, a victory for science: Golden Rice finally arrives
Security by obscurity is under-rated. This is interesting because it is highlighting a cultural shift. When security by obscurity first became seen as a complete newbie mistake, what people were objecting to was practices such as running telnet, which is a completely unsecure protocol, on port 2323 (instead of the standard port 23). This was security relying only on obscurity. This later got taken too literally, when—for many organizations—adding a bit of obscurity is a good thing, actually if this means running ssh (a secure protocol) on port 44 (instead of the standard 22).
Tweets of the Week
Here's another #BBC100 archivists' pick from Isabel, who has chosen this 1973 report on the nudist beach in Hornsea, a Yorkshire seaside town.
Isabel says: "I often come across random items like this in the course of my work, and no programme does random items like Nationwide."
thread, ongoing
its funny
the american business suit became standard because it was quite democratic relative to previous norms
many have forgotten but a business suit is, strictly speaking, explicitly not formal wear by the old convention
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