Yes, already was pretty anxiety-ridden about the non-action I've seen from the biggest economy in the world, and after reading the paper Deep Adaptation: A Map for Navigating Climate Tragedy[0] by Jem Bendell, can say I'm much less thrilled about our chances, especially if the denial is still there as "the science has always been wrong in predicting the end, because we are still here..."

Sounds to me like some sort of hot hand fallacy with the chips being billions of lives. Problem is coming too fast, with too much at stake, for the powers that be to still act as if we have all the time in the world to do something about it. But people still believing there is a way to reverse course may keep this twisted musical chairs we are playing, going for a little bit longer.

Will there be humans still around? Maybe, chances are there will be descendants of ones who could and did hoard material, but everyone else? Not so sure on that front.

But hey, all the fascination with total societal collapse coming via zombies. super villains, or the like may have some weirdos actually pining for that. Lets see what happens when the death cults start popping up.

[0] http://lifeworth.com/deepadaptation.pdf

Been meaning to get this task done myself, but past attempts haven't worked out.

This post is making me give it another shot soon.

OP here - email me (jwm@my domain) with questions if you want, I can help diagnose problems :)

That logo was the one that was voted on* to replace the old bash logo IIRC.

This is really a neat site, thank you. Have lived in LA all my life, so recognizing places was really fun.

Makes one want to take pictures themselves so they don't forget it.

I have to agree with the homeless bit, ride on the red line and after a certain point it becomes a mobile homeless shelter. Have heard stories of the blue line, and I'm just glad I don't need to ride that one often at all.

Sympathetic to those without a home, but it almost makes one want to never ride on the metro or bus again. Which is especially hard since I have no other means of transportation.

Wow, thank you for this.

What a shame it wasn't built.

Lovely series, but first thing I thought of when reading the article was The Americans, it's about two spies in the Soviet illegals program living in a DC suburb.

Would definitely recommend it if you liked Deutschland 83.

Jack Barsky was interviewed for the behind-the-scenes podcast for The Americans. I think he might work as a consultant for the show, but I'm not sure.

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2016/03/24/a_former_kgb_...

Maybe you meant "Nobodies jaywalk in Los Angeles", because I may (or may not be) doing it sometimes.

Definitely not main streets though, that would be like playing frogger on the hardest difficulty. Already feel like I'm playing it at crosswalks.

There is NitroKey[0], which seemed to me like a good alternative to Yubikey, but I haven't ordered either yet so I can't say I have first-hand experience. But much luck if you decide to go with it, something I'm looking more and more into, especially since I too use password-store and it would be good having an easier to use setup that is still secure.

[0] https://www.nitrokey.com/

Nitrokey claims on their homepage that the firmware of the Storage version of NitroKey can be updated by software. This seems to mean that there's someone out there with a key that can sign arbitrary code that can be loaded as an update and gains access to the crypto material on the device.

I had a look through their instructions and I'm not sure if there is a signing process that happens. You have to enable firmware access from the app, and then it's a bog standard DFU flash to load the new firmware.

Does it require you to perform any physical actions on the dongle? If not, why can't I straightforwardly extract keys if I own the machine the dongle is attached to?

No, the area (a working class neighborhood) isn't so highly sought, so I'm not surprised it isn't going for a higher price.