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![Cheney told Fox… “The president…could launch a kind of devastating attack the world’s never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress [or] check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.” @Slate in 2011](https://alecmuffett.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/01/Screenshot-2021-01-09-at-11.37.58.png)
Cheney told Fox… “The president…could launch a kind of devastating attack the world’s never seen. He doesn’t have to check with anybody. He doesn’t have to call the Congress [or] check with the courts. He has that authority because of the nature of the world we live in.” @Slate in 2011
Good read: https://slate.com/human-interest/2011/02/nuclear-weapons-how-cold-war-major-harold-hering-asked-a-forbidden-question-that-cost-him-his-career.html
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If you’re new to #FreedomOfSpeech debates, here is the classical, non-extremist, non-glib #FreeSpeech way to resolve the #Trump vs: #Twitter issue…
This is off-the-cuff, so might be a bit flaky, however people have asked: It is generally wrong for the government to censor general forms of speech purely upon the grounds of the speech occurring, or its form, or its content; this goes double if and when they ignore context such as “artistic expression” It is…
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Making Coffee in a Moka Pot
I just wrote this on Reddit, and it’s basically an instant blogpost: […] I have a lot of success with a Pezzetti “6 cup” moka pot (which takes about 30g of coffee and produces about 220ml) and a Alessi 3-cup which produces about half that. Occasionally I have something go wrong like you describe, but…
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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…