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BBC News: Was I wrong to fall for a cheating cat? # I had this issue with one of my cats; he started staying at home a lot more after I put a ‘SPECIAL DIET, PLEASE DON’T FEED ME’ tag on his collar
BBC News – Was I wrong to fall for a cheating cat? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/stories-54710400
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“The turbine, which is capable of producing as much thrust as the four engines of a Boeing 747 jet” – Umm. I don’t think that’s how it works. Am I wrong?
Perhaps they mean torque? Or is there a reasonable way to think of wind turbines producing thrust? https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/01/business/GE-wind-turbine.html
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What’s a good title for a short paper on actually living with DNS-over-HTTPS-over-Tor? Context and explanation on my blog:
One of the chairs of DNS Privacy Workshop 2021 has reached out to me asking whether I would be interested in publishing my results of living exclusively with DNS over HTTPS over Tor, for nearly a year. As ever the most important part of any presentation is selection of an apposite pun or pop-culture reference
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I have no practical knowledge of #Manga but I think I may need to read / watch this: The Way of the Househusband
The Way of the Househusband … is a Japanese mangaseries written and illustrated by Kousuke Oono. Published in the online manga magazine KurageBunch since 2018, The Way of the Househusband follows an ex-yakuza boss who retires from crime to become a househusband. The series was adapted into a live-action television drama by Nippon TV in 2020, and will be adapted into a Netflix original net animation (ONA) anime series produced by J.C.Staffset for a 2021
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How You Can Do Something Helpful And Good : How-To Report #SMS Spam & Fraudulent Text Messages in the UK, USA, & Perhaps Other Countries, Too
I only learned this quite recently, but I have started doing it conscientiously – having previously worked at Facebook I know that one of the most important things that someone can do with spam and fraudulent content is to report it, but I had no idea that this could also work for SMS messages. The
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Random Thought: I wonder how many of the people calling for “Edit” buttons on Tweets, are also into Functional Programming?
I look at Twitter today, and think: having an Edit button would be a real hassle; not least the amount of retrospective changes that would happen to tweets after they go viral and are embedded into so many web-pages. Immutability for the win. And yes, you could work around this with “versioned tweets”, etc, but
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You ever get the feeling that Trump was hoping for more disruption to the US Postal Service than he actually managed to achieve?
AP FACT CHECK: Trump’s made-up claims of fake Georgia votes https://apnews.com/article/407d934b6649a4e4059ec28c4cb70512 Trump appears to be referring to large numbers of votes that were tabulated in the early hours of Wednesday morning after Election Day and later. The arrival of those votes was not mysterious, but expected, because many of Georgia’s 159 counties had large stacks
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Can’t help but wonder whether someone smart @GCHQ has tooled-up a password cracking farm with triple-word dictionaries
It’s not bad advice, in as much as it promotes length of passphrases and therefore entropy; but it is structured which is regrettable…
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This is a fun piece of Science Fiction which treads upon Humanities Fact #MAINCHAR #LongThread #algorithms @hondanhon
…click through the tweet for the rest. In case you aren’t familiar with the cultural reference, you may need to refer to this knowyourmeme page, afterwards.