Links August 2025

Dimitri John Ledkov wrote an informative blog post about self encrypting disks and UEFI with Linux [1].

This Coffeezilla video highlights an interesting scam, run a broker for day traders and don’t execute trades, just be the counterparty for every trade and rely on day traders losing [2].

First Sight is a Dust SciFi short film that’s worthy of Black Mirror [3].

Apple published an interesting article about the operation of the Secure Enclave in iPhone, Mac, and all other significant Apple hardware [4].

Reese Waters made an amusing video about a conservative catfight that’s going on, nice to see horrible people attacking each other [5].

Chengyuan Ma wrote an informative summary of the history of the Great Firewall of China [6]. The V2Ray proxy has a nice feature set!

Interesting article about the JP Morgan Workplace Activity Data Utility (WADU) AI spyware system [7]. Corporate work is going to become even more horrible.

Veritasium has a great video about the history of vulcanised rubber and the potential for significant problems if rubber leaf blight spreads to other countries [8].

Jalopnik has an interesting article about how Reagan killed the safest car ever built [9].

David Brin wrote an interesting article “Tolkien Enemy of Progress” about fiction that justifies autocratic rule [10].

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