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Over Christmas I finally got to see #Ratatouille in its entirety, and it instantly became my Pixar favourite*; the best part being that the Journalist, at the end, writes the story that is *right*, and not the story that is *easy*
*and not only because I used to work in the same building as Jan Pinkava in Aberystwyth. Well told, Jan, even if it was complicated.
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Seeking Urgent Technical Review: “No Port 53, Who Dis?”; a year of DNS over HTTPS over Tor
This links to a copy of v1.0 of the DoHoT paper: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1O7dX6cBfmEBTOe-P3z472RynFotxtuZJlj9sqQ-L5VQ/edit?usp=sharing …which is (currently) open for comments. I shall be submitting it as an incomplete work-in-progress to the 2021 NDSS DNS Privacy Workshop for consideration – but since I literally am creating this paper on the fly, in response to a suggestion from a
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“The nation is now in the surreal position of having a president whom Twitter deems too dangerous to send messages, but who still is commander in chief and controls the nuclear codes.”
Don’t Let Anyone Pretend This Didn’t Happen – The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/01/dont-let-anyone-pretend-this-didnt-happen/617588/
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This is one for remembering…
As a result of the unprecedented and ongoing violent situation in Washington, D.C., we have required the removal of three @realDonaldTrump Tweets that were posted earlier today for repeated and severe violations of our Civic Integrity policy. https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/election-integrity-policy This means that the account of @realDonaldTrump will be locked for 12 hours following the removal of
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Which is worse: 2 weeks of Trump, or 2 weeks of Pence? https://twitter.com/IlhanMN/status/1346934098384793606
Honestly am not sure, but I am leaning towards getting the nuclear football away from Trump as quickly as possible.
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Xbox 20 Year Anniversary: How an American Video Game Empire Was Born – Bloomberg # This is very much worth a read, moreso if you’ve ever worked for a hardware company
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2021-01-06/xbox-the-oral-history-of-an-american-video-game-empire
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This is also the kind of scam that will leverage the legal obligations for #AgeVerification and #AgeAssurance which the #OnlineHarms bill is mooting. #UnintendedConsequences
Government plans for the “prevention of online harms” are well-intended but will perversely bring about many opportunities for greater online harm; the relentless and legally-obliged demands to know more (age, identity, credit cards, address) about the person accessing a website will train people into giving away unnecessary amounts of personal information, with a net greater
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Update: Making Porridge from Groats; or: How much Water to add to Porridge?
Previously; so the only thing wrong with the “Chow” video on how to make Porridge from Oat Groats is that in the process of talking excitedly about what you can put in it, they don’t really talk much about “how much water to put into porridge”. With standard shop-bought porridge oats, I am used to
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Dinosaur! Digger! Dinosaur! Digger!
Doing what we can to keep the #yalepeabodyrenovation on-brand in 2021. Please enjoy this #dinosaur demolition distraction and wishing everyone a happy new year! Video courtesy of Chris Meyer, Turner Construction@Yale @turner_talk pic.twitter.com/EDUXFNptdh — Yale Peabody Museum (@yalepeabody) January 5, 2021