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Diary for Today
It’s been a bit of a non-day, really, mostly from operating on about 4h sleep overall; woken by toddler around 02:30 and didn’t really recover from that. Still feeling washed-out and will turn-in soon. Daycare freed up the space to do household chores so I cleared and racked about 3.5x loads of laundry for the…
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Mastodon seems to be a lot more fragile than USENET; the whole PubSub thing seems to assume better connectivity than old-style distribution permits
This blog has been offline from ActivityPub / Fediverse for a few days, due to a bug in the WordPress Supercache plugin regarding (not) honouring the HTTP Accept header. Back in the days of USENET, a node going offline for that length of time would not be a huge problem; the articles would be pushed…
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Nice long-form Tweet from @rmhrisk re: the perennial FUD that {Libraries, The Internet, Search Engines, Social Networking, AI} will enable youth to access $BAD_IDEAS and cause them to {cause chaos, kill others, kill themselves, vote for change} …
What the fearmongers really desire is a firewall to keep our youth in ignorance — which makes them easier to manage, but is antithetical to “growing up.”
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Being a parent sometimes means…
Finding a crusty deposit on some toy and thinking: “I think that’s Weetabix. I hope that’s Weetabix.”
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The Eighteenth Century : Free Texts : Free Download, Borrow and Streaming : Internet Archive
So Jason Scott dropped this earlier today: 136,000 books from the 18th Century. ONE HUNDRED THIRTY SIX THOUSAND OF THEM. That would be a point of pride in any library. Making it readable from the Internet, browsable, and downloadable? A pipe dream. Anyway, here they are. https://mastodon.archive.org/@textfiles/111355884433387811 And I’ve gone to have a look at…
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Diary for Today
Getting the blog back together has been the most “tech” fun that I’ve had in the past 6 months, even though (or possibly because) it’s been on the back burner to do so for literally 2 years. The impending EOL of the old server’s WordPress software stack made it essential to update, and in the…
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Elsewhere in Climate Change
It’s November and a Red Admiral just flew past the kitchen window.
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Rishi Sunak x Elon Musk: “One of the maddest events I’ve ever covered” – Sam Coates
Holy shit. Watch the video.
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The best hostname-creation scheme, evar?
Big Unix servers and workstations (often: the same thing) used to have names – real names, geek names, like thor or elvis or liberator or anduin or theritz or (for a golf fanatic) titleist; more mundane ones also had “service”-oriented names like bagsun or uk-usenet or aberda or something like that, but they were machines…
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For people who don’t believe that #eIDAS #QWACs are primarily about creating EU-based tax revenue…
…go check this; I wonder if they realise that the goal of LetsEncrypt is basically to obviate any requirement for payment to set up a secure website, let alone that (goodbye, EV certificates) even if you’re running a dark-web onion site, people care much more about consistency than they do about attestation. https://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/ATAG/2023/739285/EPRS_ATA(2023)739285_EN.pdf [PDF]