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Diary for Today
I tried to make a cup of tea at 1500h. I finally succeeded at 2000h. That is all.
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Puffin Rock and the New Friends review – climate peril in beloved cartoon’s movie spinoff | Film | The Guardian | from July
How did I not know there was a movie? Puffin Rock & Bluey have kept us sane this past 18 months. https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/jul/11/puffin-rock-and-the-new-friends-review-new-peril-in-beloved-cartoons-movie-spinoff
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Waiting for the dystopian remake where the Internet of Things wages war on Felinekind
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12727421/Optus-outage-cat-Sydney.html
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View older posts from other servers · Issue #17213 · mastodon/mastodon · GitHub | wow yes it really is fragile
https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/17213
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Diary for Today
Another toddler-centric day, after a medium-rough night (4 out of 10 on a scale of roughness) dealing with an occasionally squawking kid who passed out in a nest of blankets rather than be put to bed properly. Since wakeup it’s basically been a “duvet day” for the kid because the weather has been vile, and…
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Heather Burns / @webdevlaw on the new #InvestigatoryPowersAct attempt to force backdoors and bugs into everything
~10 years ago I learned from someone who knows that GCHQ asked to be spliced into the bugs database for the Tor Project, to gain prior notice of exploitable bugs. They were politely declined. It seems that they now want to formalise this approach for everyone, by force of law: https://webdevlaw.uk/2023/11/08/investigatory-powers-act-amendment-kings-speech/
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Diary for Today
Not much to tell today: up early, 1.5x loads of laundry, messed-up putting out the bins so missed this fortnight’s pickup for rubbish – but we’re at less than 50% so it’s probably okay. Took the toddler out for swings and slides and exploring woodlands and running up and down and up and down and…
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Reminder from 2021: “the World Bank has taken down its blog talking up the development and gender equality benefits of Afghanistan’s digital ID system”
It turns out that deploying Digital ID cards in a country which subsequently has a totalitarian crackdown, is a bad idea. A bit like what happened in the Netherlands in 1941, really. ID cards — and nowadays, Digital ID — is more about empowering third parties (like the state) to prevent people from doing things,…
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Prediction: One day soon there will be a clickbait piece in the media about “Regulators Angry at Nazis in Free iPhone Games and SomethingMustBeDone™” #touchHLE #Censorship #ArtificialIntelligence
It’s inevitable and it will be hysterical, destructive, and pointless other than to whip up political outrage… unless we all make fun of it now so that the story can’t take hold. There’s this guy who’s building an open-source SEGA emulator for love and is distributing it for (basically) all major platforms including iPhone. The…