Week 303: Murder and (musical) mayhem

Someone submitted my post about archiving my gem repositories to Hacker News, the house journal of venture capitalist Silicon Valley techbro orthodoxy, and it made it to the top of the page. Despite my trepidation, to my surprise the discussion (with over 500 comments) was mostly reasonable. The presidential election result in Brazil was a relief. It’s good news for the Amazon rainforest, and thus for (almost) everyone and everything. It’s bad news for Zuckerberg, a man who always seems to be found on the opposite side of the battlefield from humanity. Vučić being defeated in Serbia seems like good news, too. Is this a reverse for the far right international? It’s too early to count any chickens: there’s still Israel and the United States to come, and the quinquennial threat of a Le Pen presidency looms larger than ever. The eMudhra incident, in which their catastrophically insecure private keys were revealed to be so weak that one of them was literally, no word of a lie, just the…