/lounge/ Book Club

Social media, Netflix, TV, movies... that's for human garbage.

Read books to improve your life. Not garbage grocery store romance novels or best-selling pleb shit, but important books. No scifi or fantasy escapist trash either. Read books that make you think.

What kind of books have you read lately? What kinds of books do you like?

Here are some books I like:
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Society of the Spectacle
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media
Can Life Prevail?
Propaganda
Walden
Th Ego and Its Own
Authority and the Individual
The Machine Stops
Technological Slavery
Crime and Punishment
The Collapse of Western Civilization

Books I plan on reading:
Animal Farm
The Will to Power
The Degenerate Society: Postmodernism And How You Can Oppose It
The Panopticon Writings
Beyond Good and Evil
The Decline of the West
Why Nations Fail
Revolt Against the Modern World
Democracy: The God That Failed
Men Among the Ruins: Post-War Reflections of a Radical Traditionalist

I read a lot of programming books too, though you'll notice that I didn't list any here. Even though it's the industry I'm in, I can't help but feel like tech is soulless bugman shit that is accelerating the rise of degeneracy in the west.

Ideologically-driven books are the most captivating. They're the kinds of books that make you want to read them cover to cover.

But enough about my taste in books. So what do you like? And what would you recommend reading?

>>69
Oh yeah, just sandbox it. Just secure it. Just code it.
Hey, why don't you just make an app and become a millionaire?
Why doesn't someone just make driverless cars already?
Why don't we just teraform mars?
Oh, what's that? Some things are easier said than done?
Sandboxing? Pff, that's so easy, right? Just have a VM or something.
But there are VM escape vulnerabilities, people misconfiguration VMs all the time (sharing clipboard data, guest add-ons, etc), often people have nothing stopping the VM from doing networking, including even to the host machine, and the fact that, if you're using a VM to look at PDFs, you're probably using that VM for doing other things too, and if it gets pwned, you probably woulnd't even know, since you'd be lulled into a false sense of security because "muh sandbox" so you wouldn't even know if you got a VM escape exploit that lead to you getting a rootkit or keylogger or RAT or some shit. Just one possible scenario.

But hey, why not throw caution to the wind? Secure is for losers. Run Windows XP, Android KitKat, install Limewire and Bonzi Buddy, don't use a firewall, YOLO! Stop being paranoid! What's the matter, buddy? Ya tinfoil hat on too tight? Come on, big guy. It's the current year, getting pwned is all the rage.