Decent enough to get me to read the next one in the series. I would say more but I finished it about a month ago so the memories are fading. Also as usual I read it in 15 minute chunks as I was falling asleep.
An enjoyable book with some interesting action. It is lacking in grand sci-fi concepts other than the sulfur stuff, which I thought for sure was going to be a cargo ship loaded with iron filings based on some commentary I had seen before reading. But there is a good amount of near-future envisionings: drone concepts, live streaming, climate impacts, etc.
The climate topics overall are a no for me. I don't identify with the people who dread climate impacts all day long in real life. So even though I think it is plausible for such things to happen, I guess I really do not care to read a book about it. I think I envision all these "dreaders" also reading the book and being like, "yes, see that is what will happen!" and want to roll my eyes so hard.
I wonder what topics I enjoy reading that would cause such eye rolling by others?
Lastly, I am really not sure what to think of the non-lethal border wars! Is there some kernel of this developing already that I don't know about?
This book seems to be THE resource on this era and locale of old farmhouse styles. There is a ton of great info about the various types and in fact this is the only material I know of which has grouped them into specific types.
The book could be improved with more example pictures.
The overall premise of magic dying out for the given reasons is pretty clever overall, and the time travel mechanism/effects holds up to some examination. I find the historical setting to be fun and pretty well detailed in this book.
The "found documents" format is tedious, and especially so for my eBook situation due to some formatting difficulties. I think quality dropped a bit towards the end as some plot points became less plausible.
A mystery novel that takes place at a BSD conference--hilarious premise. OK execution.
I set up my own mail server about a year before reading this book so the timing wasn't great, but still this was a good read. And fortunately I had chosen almost exactly the same software stack.
I will probably use this to go back through and fine tune a few things on my server...eventually. The rspamd config comes to mind. I don't think it is updating any definitions as I mark new messages as Junk.
This book was great for putting me to sleep. But that's OK! It probably isn't great to read something that amps you up and keeps you up.
An interesting read, weaving between topics of operating system histories and philosophies. I am about a year into my Linux journey and I think this mostly motivational for me to continue that, but also made me think what would have been different if had succeeded in my experiments to get Linux running at home in the basement during my high school years. I remember burned Mandrake Linux CDs and also Ubuntu ones that I got in the mail for free.
I chose this book knowing that it was old. My thoughts were that it would be interesting to see how things used to be, and also that it would focus more on what nowadays seem to be basic principles. I can report success of both points.
The book overall had a nice balance of hacking stories, security principles, protocol analysis, and functional recommendations.
We chose the topic of philosophy for the second read our three-person book club, and after a brief consideration of Nicomachean Ethics itself we pivoted to this book to get more of a broad introductory take on the subject. This ended up being a perfect fit for me, who had essentially zero knowledge on philosophy and its characters.
This really expanded my knowledge of so many things, especially the history of Greece, Italy, Egypt, etc. as it relates to the great thinkers that bounced around the area over the centuries. The relationship of these thinkers and their ideas to religion was also particularly interesting. And of course the core idea of the book, the diverse platforms of Plato and Aristotle, is something that I will enjoy thinking about and reading more directly about for years to come.
But first I will need to read some lighter stuff. This book is lengthy and I read a lot of it in 10 minute chunks, so it seemed to drag on and on. Worth it though: this ranks as one of the most impactful books I have read.