- Blog
- Profile
- Homepage
-
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…
-
Nadine Dorries appears to be admitting to being an accessory to crime, in (I think?) a national newspaper
Quoth Heather:
-
Elsewhere in Climate Change
It’s November and a Red Admiral just flew past the kitchen window.
-
Rishi Sunak x Elon Musk: “One of the maddest events I’ve ever covered” – Sam Coates
Holy shit. Watch the video.
-
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…
-
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]
-
Today so far…
…TBC Yeaaaaah, it all gets a bit hazy after ripping up the living room rug and laundering it. Plus another two loads of laundry and serving dinner. I think I need a drink.
-
Hot on the heels of #ChatControl and in the name of “identity” and “consumer choice” the EU seeks the ability to undetectably spy on HTTPS communication; 300+ experts say “no” to #Article45 of #eIDAS #QWAC
There’s an old British political joke that goes: “Why is there only one ‘Monopolies Commission’?” The joke can be updated or localised to suit reader tastes: …etc, but the point of the joke is to poke fun at (generally) there being only one authority to oversee monopoly and competition in any given nation — and…
-
BBC to provide emergency radio service for Gaza
-
“game-changing cyber protections that will make our computers and our critical infrastructure more secure than it is today” | HEADSUP: the US Government will be rolling out the NSA A1 Labeled Security Operating System to everyone
Sigh. It’s hard for satire to beat reality.
-
Advertising™ is the worst thing which can happen to any User™ – worse than oppression, surveillance, prison, capitalism, or democracy. And the worst form of Advertising™ is “Relevant” advertising, or as SPAs call it: Targeted™
I wrote this 2 years ago and it is still massively relevant to zealots in the privacy debate. This thread is unrolled here in another post in this blog.
-
I Accidentally Saved Half A Million Dollars | from October; this sounds so familiar for no terribly explicable reason
I saved my company half a million dollars in about five minutes. This is more money than I’ve made for my employers over the course of my entire career because this industry is a sham. I clicked about five buttons. Let’s talk about why happened and why it’s a disgrace that it was even possible.…