{"id":19299,"date":"2014-11-23T11:27:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/ClaireWolfe\/?p=19299"},"modified":"2014-11-23T11:27:21","modified_gmt":"2014-11-23T19:27:21","slug":"sunday-links-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/sunday-links-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Sunday links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>News avoidance lurches right along. Mix of nooz and think pieces today.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New software (so far W*nd*ws only) aims to help activists <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/technology-30115679\" target=\"_blank\">detect and foil government surveillance<\/a>. Get it <a href=\"https:\/\/resistsurveillance.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. Can&#8217;t say how effective it&#8217;s going to be, but it&#8217;s endorsed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amnesty International, and other big-timers in the field. (H\/T MJR)\n<li>Along the same lines, <a href=\"https:\/\/letsencrypt.org\/2014\/11\/18\/announcing-lets-encrypt.html\" target=\"_blank\">Let&#8217;s Encrypt<\/a> aims to bring SSL\/TSL to the masses by taking the difficulties and mysteries out of those pesky web site certificates. (Remember: Encryption is subversive! Or so our masters claim. Which is, of course, all the more reason to do it.)\n<li>What if age is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/10\/26\/magazine\/what-if-age-is-nothing-but-a-mind-set.html\" target=\"_blank\">nothing but a mindset<\/a>? (Tip o&#8217; hat to ML)\n<li>If you were talented enough to play in the NFL, would you quit to become a farmer? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/jason-brown-quit-football-farmer-2014-11\" target=\"_blank\">Jason Brown did<\/a>.\n<li>Holleee freakin&#8217; cr*p! The shooter who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.everydaynodaysoff.com\/2014\/11\/21\/unjamming-stuck-bullets-in-barrel-with-more-bullets\/\" target=\"_blank\">did this<\/a> was lucky he didn&#8217;t (in the famous words of Ralphie&#8217;s mother) &#8220;put his eye out.&#8221; His (or her) eye. Or face. Or hands. Or parts of the guys standing next to him at the range. Just looking at that photo is mind boggling.\n<li>Which dietary supplement claims are backed by evidence and which aren&#8217;t? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/do-supplements-work-2014-11\" target=\"_blank\">Interesting chart.<\/a> But also not the be-all and end-all of truth. Much is still unknown.\n<li>10 instinctive decisions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/today\/post\/article\/20141120140223-20017018-10-instinctive-decisions-you-may-regret-forever\" target=\"_blank\">you will regret forever<\/a>.\n<li>It&#8217;s astonishing and discouraging how a cheesy, corrupt, lying, hustler <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2014\/11\/19\/nyregion\/questions-about-al-sharptons-finances-accompany-his-rise-in-influence.html\" target=\"_blank\">can be considered &#8220;respectable.&#8221;<\/a> And speaking of cheesy, corrupt, lying, downright embarrassing hustlers who nevertheless keep landing on their feet: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/2014\/11\/23\/former-washington-dc-mayor-marion-berry-dies-at-age-78\/\" target=\"_blank\">Marion Berry, RIP<\/a>.\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News avoidance lurches right along. Mix of nooz and think pieces today. New software (so far W*nd*ws only) aims to help activists detect and foil government surveillance. Get it here. Can&#8217;t say how effective it&#8217;s going to be, but it&#8217;s endorsed by the Electronic Frontier Foundation, Amnesty International, and other big-timers in the field. (H\/T MJR) Along the same lines, Let&#8217;s Encrypt aims to bring SSL\/TSL to the masses by taking the difficulties and mysteries out of those pesky web site certificates. (Remember: Encryption is subversive! Or so our masters claim. Which is, of course, all the more reason to&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/23\/sunday-links-3\/\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Sunday links<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,12,13,19,28,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-and-technology","category-guns-and-gun-rights","category-health-and-science","category-miscellaneous","category-privacy-and-self-ownership","category-resistance","ratio-natural","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clairewolfe.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}