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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]
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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When you are using federated social networking you start to need new tools, like “something to track whether a friend’s server has disconnected from the federation without telling you.”
Federated software is the worst of both worlds, combining what is bad about centralisation with what is bad about distribution and magnifying both: A lill while ago, I found out that I had been disconnected from a friend of mine, as the server I was on, had defederated from the server her was on. Thing