Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Category: uncategorised

“Why Brits Love the Empire So Much, Despite Not Knowing Much About It” # fascinating, balanced (?) read from Vice on the British Empire: “The only intellectually rigorous thing to say is that it was really intense and complicated”

2021/03/17
77-Year-Old Man “Paints” Japanese Landscapes on Excel Spreadsheets # Beautiful Spreadsheet Abuse

2021/03/17
Watch “PID demo” on YouTube # As a coffee field I tend to throw the term around with no actual concept of what “PID” means. This is a cool visual explanation.

2021/03/17
BBC News: The coffee start-ups brewing up a storm in lockdown # interesting read on the Coffee Van startups

2021/03/17
BBC: “The inside story of the government’s battle against the virus” # this is worth the time to read, portrait of a PM dynamically striving for inaction

2021/03/16
I bought a new @Prusa3d MINI+ printer in January, after #Brexit; it arrived yesterday. This is what I’ve experienced so far… #prusa #prusa3d

2021/03/10
Unpicking the “making children as safe as they are offline” fallacy – Internet, telecoms, and tech law decoded # this is an exceptional blogpost by @neil_neilzone, highly recommended

2021/03/09
Rare meteorite chunk traced by scientists to Gloucestershire driveway | Science | The Guardian # why do they never fall on my driveway?

2021/03/09
“As a consequence of this directive’s quite broad definition of DNS, every organisation or individual running their own DNS will have to comply by registering their DNS service with ENISA, the EU agency for Cyber Security”

2021/03/04
I don’t know if you like either books or audiobooks, but I am listening to “The Gospel Of The Eels” on Audible, and am enjoying it thoroughly #eels

2021/03/02
What do we mean by a “backdoor” in End-To-End Encrypted Messengers or Secure Messengers? #endToEndEncryption #e2ee

2021/03/01
Watch “Why The Government Shouldn’t Break WhatsApp” on YouTube # this #endToEndEncryption explainer by @tomscott is 3 years old, but is just as relevant today

2021/03/01