Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle — and A case against security nihilism

Issue #471 — July 22, 2021

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Man dies of a heart attack after minors swatted him over his rare Twitter handle techspot.com \| points: 494 \| comments: 529

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A case against security nihilism blog.cryptographyengineering.com \| points: 458 \| comments: 312

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Germany’s national healthcare system adopts Matrix for communication matrix.org \| points: 433 \| comments: 127

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Good Riddance, TurboTax. Americans Need a Real ‘Free File’ Program nytimes.com \| points: 323 \| comments: 228

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Nepalese student learns HTML, JavaScript, CSS using just a mobile phone linkedin.com \| points: 305 \| comments: 188

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MAPS Celebrates California Senate Passage of Psychedelic Reform Bill maps.org \| points: 302 \| comments: 87

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Pelosi and a lifetime of trading unusualwhales.com \| points: 287 \| comments: 173

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Support for team members who are mistreated in their country gitlab.com \| points: 270 \| comments: 210

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Twike en.wikipedia.org \| points: 257 \| comments: 189

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Emmanuel Macron identified in leaked Pegasus project data theguardian.com \| points: 243 \| comments: 58

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Salesforce completes acquisition of Slack slack.com \| points: 239 \| comments: 243

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Crystal 1.1.0 crystal-lang.org \| points: 237 \| comments: 60

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Kubernetes is our generation’s Multics oilshell.org \| points: 237 \| comments: 262

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NSO Group Hacked schneier.com \| points: 234 \| comments: 80

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Caffeine and theanine exert opposite effects on attention (2017) pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov \| points: 221 \| comments: 208

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Tesla plans to open its charging network to other EVs later this year reuters.com \| points: 220 \| comments: 318

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BBEdit 14 barebones.com \| points: 215 \| comments: 106

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Planning and estimating large-scale software projects tomrussell.co.uk \| points: 210 \| comments: 95

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THW: Germany′s army of volunteers for disaster relief dw.com \| points: 201 \| comments: 119

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A surprisingly common error users make when installing Brew github.com \| points: 196 \| comments: 99

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