Pluggable Authentication Modules (PAM) is a modular framework that allows applications such as su, sudo, and sshd to perform security policy logic such as authentication without implementing it directly. Applications delegate authentication to the libpam library, which then loads and executes PAM modules according to the configuration information before aggregating the results. For example, when […]| ASEC
A virus devastates humanity. Few men survive. The rest are monsters. The women are dead, except Evie. Through a quirk in her genetics, she survives. When her physiology begins to evolve, she must c…| Trigger Warning Database
By: Caleb Prus In 1485, during London’s first epidemic of the sweating sickness, the physician Thomas Forestier complained to Henry VII about certain “false leeches” ⎯healers deceiving the public through “writing of the kind[s] of powders and of medicines.” These “unexpert men” were not university-educated physicians like Forestier but ordinary tradespeople⎯ “carpenters and mill keepers”⎯who … Continue reading On Medical Manuscripts in Reynolds’ Reading Practice →| The Recipes Project
The later work of social theorist René Girard centered around the dynamics of communal human crisis.| OUTSIDER THEORY
You may have noticed that the earth struggles with a large pandemic every 100 years. What's could be causing this pattern?| Mysticurious
As the COVID-19 pandemic seems both behind us and still present as a threat and a collective trauma, Susan Einbinder’s Writing Plague: Jewish Responses to the Great Italian Plague could not have come at a better time.| The Marginalia Review of Books