All of the macs in my immediate surroundings (my MacBook Pro Late 2013), partner’s mac (similar, newer MacBookPro), mom’s mac (MacBook Air from 2015) showed symptoms of a network issue that looks surprisingly like yours. Mom’s laptop was having the same issue in a completely different environment, 1300km away. At first it drove me crazy, and I bought an ethernet dongle, just to get any work done. You’ll be happy to know that we all stopped experiencing the problem once we upgraded to Sierra :)
Thanks for your reply! Ok, I guess I’ll upgrade. Typically, I’ll do a backup, planning to close everything and install the updates and restart, and while the backup is running I’ll start some work, and here I am a week later, still not upgraded because I don’t want to lose my terminals and tabs :)
Well, there’s Hacker News of course, for .Net I follow Chris Alcock’s The Morning Brew and Alvin Ashcroft’s The Morning Dew. Slashdot used to be quite good, but it’s gotten worse, and while I still read it, there’s maybe one or two interesting items a week. Slightly more general IT newsy there’s The Register.
Other than that I try to regularly listen to podcasts, for a slightly more in-depth view on topics that I’d not necessarily dive into on my own, and general local news, which in my case is mostly nu.nl, geenstijl and daskapital.
speaking of local news, other than the ones you mentioned there’s De Speld!
This article still doesn’t address the fact that electronic voting is much easier to attack than paper. Electronic voting systems are hard for laypeople to inspect for tampering, which is incidentally why the Dutch government, after a brief stint with electronic voting went straight back to paper.