Notes

Sounds like German grocery delivery service Gorillas had a nasty data leak exposing customer data, orders and delivery drivers. Oh, and also Slack and SendGrid API keys. Big props to Zerforschung for the investigation!

Cory Doctorow’s Pluralistic is already two years old! Happy birthday and on to hopefully many more years! And I really try to read at least half of the posts every week 🤣

Turns out that Füllfederhaus M. Störtz in Graz has Schmidt P8126 refills which are used for instance for the Mark One in stock. Only in blue right now but black will be back in stock soon. I’m always surprised by how much good stuff they have or can get!

I have to say, The Protégé was far better than I had expected! Maggie Q in her usual role as assassin supported by Samual L Jackson fighting Michael Keaton. What more can you want? 😀

My favourite electronic band has released a new single. This time, they’ve covered the Nirvana song “Heart shaped box” and I love it 😍

To give back to this community, the GitLab for Open Source Program was created to help open source teams be more efficient, secure, and productive by allowing them to use GitLab’s top tier capabilities.

Projects have to meet some requirements but they sound more than fair! IMO a great move and will hopefully convince some projects to give GitLab another look despite the market dominance of GitHub.

Thanks to this post by Hyde I did a quick look into the EMR pens that Lamy has released recently. The whole idea here seems to be to bring the tactile feeling of LAMY AL-star and Safari (fountain)pens to digital writing on devices like Wacom tablets.

Sadly, that’s just not for me. While I like the feeling those pens (when they don’t leak), I don’t do so enough for that price point. These EMR pens are also not compatible with any Apple devices (since with EMR pens are passive devices while things like the Apple Pencil are active ones). That being said, at this point I’m doing not all that much handwriting on the tablet, something that might change in the future.

But if you do a lot of handwriting on a digital device that is compatible with Lamy’s EMR products, this could be something you at least want to try somewhere. They even offer you different nibs for various surface materials!

The row of mergers and acquisitions in the gaming industry continues today with Sony buying Bungie for US$3.6. Bungie has published an FAQ answering some of the questions you might have if you’re playing Destiny or Destiny 2. In short, nothing is supposed to change (for now).

This time with a talk by Sameer Oak about a data caching framework he’s been working on.

A great explanation by examples of why you might want to consider making your servers reachable via IPv6! I didn’t have that topic even on my radar but now it definitely I is!