Interesting Links for 24-10-2017

[andrewducker]

Windows 10's "Controlled Folder Access" Anti-Ransomware Feature Is Now Live

(tags: security windows )

Physicists still not sure why the universe didn't instantly destroy itself

(tags: physics )

What Everybody Gets Wrong About Jekyll and Hyde

Fascinating discussion in comments
(tags: personality fiction scifi viaSwampers )

Italy's response to Asia Argento's sexual assault claims against Weinstein shows Italy's deep misogyny

(tags: Italy misogyny abuse )

Who's paying for these 'reports' on BBC Brexit coverage?

(tags: reporting Europe uk media bias )

How Merkle Trees Enable the Decentralized Web

(tags: decentralisation )

Gym bars client for reporting his sexual assault

(tags: assault exercise OhForFucksSake )

Russian pop star reportedly murdered as part of Chechnya's anti-gay purge

(tags: lgbt murder russia Chechnya )

The History of the Ampersand

(tags: language history viaSwampers )

Comments

I refute it thus

[jack]

I thought the weak nuclear force was the thing that wasn't symmetric. I assume that's no longer the understanding if physicists are talking like that but I don't know what changed.

[miss_s_b]

Not EVERYBODY gets that wrong about Jekyll and Hyde (see I, Monster) - which may have been mentioned in the comments, I didn't get that far down. I agree vehemently with comment 3, though.

ETA: I got to about comment 15 and when I saw it was going to turn into one of those threads about all the things movies get wrong about book adaptations that I have participated in hundreds of on the British Horror films board, I nodded in acknowledgement and closed the tab. Those type of threads are interesting sometimes, but I've seen loads ;)

[calimac]

First the author says that Hyde isn't a separate person because Jekyll refers to Hyde's acts in the first person. Then he says that Jekyll refers to Hyde as a separate person.

He accepts the first because we have Jekyll's word for it. He rejects the second because Jekyll is an unreliable narrator.

It's almost as if this article were a collaboration between two separate persons in the same body.

[ironyoxide]

>Physicists still not sure why the universe didn't instantly destroy itself

Site is currently throwing a 500 Internal Server Error, ironically enough.

[cybik]

I've been learning to read writing from the Middle Ages over the last month (and will continue doing this for most of the coming year), and you really do see "&" a lot. Interestingly they also sometimes used it in the middle of words, so you might see a word like "budg&" for "budget" (only, you know, a word they'd actually use!). In the medieval period they shortened a lot of words, so you might get "qs" with a dash above it, which would stand for "quaesumus", for example. It's fascinating. Well, it's fascinating for history geeks like me :)

[andrewducker]

Interesting to me too!

(Even though I'm only a semi-history-geek at best)

[melchar]

The history of the Ampersand was glorious to read. I could feel my brain accepting the information with an almost-audible 'click', because it made so much sense.

[andrewducker]

It is lovely when things fit together like that.