Interesting Links for 12-12-2021

[andrewducker]

This Digital Bank Is Designed for the LGBTQ+ Community

(tags:LGBT banking finance usa )

Covid pill being rolled out among vulnerable Britons could fuel dangerous mutations

(tags:Pandemic medicine Doom mutation )

The Prisoner Of War who escaped a Nazi camp in full naval uniform

(tags:wwii impressive viaDanielDWilliam )

The internet (and many large companies) are dependent on software maintained by people in their spare time, for free. This may not be sustainable

(tags:software opensource security )

Britney Spears: Muppet murderer!

(tags:BritneySpears Muppets )

Here's a collection of good news from 2021

(tags:GoodNews )

"It's hard to overestimate the impact Moominland Midwinter had on me" (looking forward to reading these to Sophia)

(tags:books children )

A pictorial history of Santa Claus

(tags:Christmas pictures history )

McDonald's McRib NFT Project Links to Racial Slur Recorded on Blockchain

(tags:funny McDonalds blockchain race food )

Comments

[jack]

That's a good point. I thought getting any resources for it was the bottleneck but maybe actually DOING anything worthwhile with them is more of a hurdle than I'd realised.

Someone wrote a good comment I can't find now, suggesting funding not projects but developers, imagining them working on different things according to what they thought was needed.

In the much longer term, I sadly suspect the answer is, when security becomes something everyone needs to have (like, say, buildings that meet a fire safety standard), the government or some other body will mandate a minimum and there'll be a lot of crappy versions of that, but if they tend up needing something that isn't available, market forces will make something. I don't know what form that would take for something like SSH on Windows: it might be a set of best practices that says "use putty or ssh", or an organisation that provides a version of putty with warranties, or some less good but more certified program...