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When the Soviet Union collapsed, the “.su” domain died not long after; if Ireland reunifies then perhaps “.uk” will go the same way, leading to the restoration of “.gb”?
There actually is a “.gb” domain, I know because I used to know some people working at the Defence Research Agency which was prettymuch the only site on the entire thing. Perhaps this is all part of the plan: for the government to garner a “Brexit Dividend” by forcing everyone to re-register under “.gb”, which…
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Z85m: a proposal for padding odd-sized inputs for the Z85 (Ascii85 / Base85) encoding system, with good space-efficiency
Possibly the most space-efficient ASCII- or text-based encodings are the Base85 or Ascii85 series of formats, as described on the Wikipedia page: Ascii85, also called Base85, is a form of binary-to-text encoding developed by Paul E. Rutter for the btoa utility. By using five ASCII characters to represent four bytes of binary data (making the…
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Today I am 3D printing my first #OpenSCAD design for a Coffee Redistributor
It’s been a learning exercise in OpenSCAD, and I’m not sure how it will perform, but once it’s tested and refined a bit, I’ll be publishing everything. The printer is currently doing the base, I have it set up to print and it’ll take about 5 hours. Update The distributor printed nicely – ColorFabb natural…
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Linux bans University of Minnesota for sending buggy patches in the name of research [Update] – Neowin
> You, and your group, have publicly admitted to sending known-buggy patches to see how the kernel community would react to them, and published a paper based on that work. Now you submit a new series of obviously-incorrect patches again, so what am I supposed to think of such a thing? https://www.neowin.net/news/linux-bans-university-of-minnesota-for-sending-buggy-patches-in-the-name-of-research/
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#Privacy Activists: please never forget that UK Gov’t, Parliamentarians, Quangos & Officials will turn and mock you for your cause if it means that they can continue to surveil the populace via social media. “The Altar of Privacy”, indeed.
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TwitterSearch #endToEndEncryption
Navigating Twitter in times of hot debate is always tricky; here’s a hyperlink to a pre-fabricated twitter search to help you find out about end-to-end encryption: CLICK HERE FOR SEARCH The search terms are as follows (I will update the search term above, and code below, if any more terms become relevant).
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I 3D-printed a small stand for my #Aeropress #coffee filter, so I can more easily rinse filter papers with boiling water
I tried uploading it to Thingiverse but that was too painful, so I posted it at https://www.prusaprinters.org/prints/63911-aeropress-filter-cap-stand-for-rinsing-filter-pape
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[stumbles across hagiography of Derrida] [skims] “…oh, okay, so, ‘Derrida’ gets uncritical hero-worship from Postmodernists the same as ‘Rand’ gets from Libertarians.”
By further comparison, for nerds, at least Tolkien’s writing has “plot” and “story arc”. It’s still difficult to get used to the idea that Derrida’s no longer alive, no longer ‘there’ as a kind of tutelary (sometimes cautionary) presence. This is only the second time I’ve given a talk about him since he died. It’s…
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FRIDAY FUN: French Data Protection Regulator @CNIL (@CNIL_en) will pursue *customers* of cloud provider @OVHcloud … because the latter had a datacenter fire
A source pointed me to this, and it’s hilarious. I am not the greatest fan of French data protection regulator CNIL, and I can kinda see what they are trying to achieve, but it’s hilariously badly done in the way that I expect of them… A few days ago there was a fire at French…
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Discovery: Campaigners for a Child-Safe Internet haven’t really thought much about what happens when a child grows up.
See also, previously.