Auto-M4B Docker docker container for the powerful auto-m4b “wrapper for ffmpeg and mp4v2 to merge, split or and manipulate audiobook files with chapters. Although m4b-tool is designed to handle m4b files, nearly all audio formats should be supported, e.g. mp3, aac, ogg, alac and flac.”

Biblioteche: Umberto Eco. “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” – Borges.

Open sourced code for Quotes the Daydreamer Android App.

The Tyranny Of Time. Interesting read on how the clock superseded Time. The title should more aptly been ‘The Tyranny of the Clock’. “Like money, the clock has come to be seen as the thing it was only supposed to represent: The clock has become time itself.”

Apple Kills Its Plan to Scan Your Photos for CSAM. The heart was in the right place but as they concluded “Children can be protected without companies combing through personal data”.

Why did the OpenSSL Punycode vulnerability Happen? “an explicit IETF design choice, that made punycode decoding part of X.509 verification, without even a line of acknowledgement in the Security Considerations.”

In Memoriam: Frederick P. Brooks, Jr. — Personal Recollections. By Steven M. Bellovin.