A few silly things I didn't post to Four Short Links this week (a thread).
1. Dunning-Krugerrands schadenfeude. https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/13/yam_cryptocurrency_bug_governance/
1. Dunning-Krugerrands schadenfeude. https://www.theregister.com/2020/08/13/yam_cryptocurrency_bug_governance/
2. Republishing books under the actual name of the woman who wrote them, instead of the male pseudonyms they had to use to get published. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2020/aug/12/george-eliot-joins-24-female-authors-making-debuts-under-their-real-names
3. Australia is going to do some good things with their copyright law. (Including orphan works) Us too, please? https://www.zdnet.com/article/australia-to-reform-copyright-laws-in-face-of-digital-and-covid-19-world/
4. 'As an environment grows and its applications become world-spanning, it’s less a question of whether the site is up or down and more a question of “How down is it?”' https://www.lastweekinaws.com/blog/your-disaster-recovery-plan-is-a-joke-written-by-clowns/
5. Bad week for astronomers. First Musk puts a pearl necklace of 600 satellites in low Earth orbit, then Bezos's Project Kuiper says it wants to put 3000 up there, now Arecibo is out of commission. https://www.businessinsider.com.au/broken-cable-tears-100-foot-hole-in-arecibo-observatory-2020-8