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Pakistani religious body declares using VPN is against Islamic law
One must wonder whether they chose to use the same metric (key length and/or lack of escrow) as the USA once did to determine whether encryption is haram? https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistani-religious-body-declares-using-vpn-is-against-islamic-law-/7865991.html
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NMS Ceefax | …this is gloriously retro and tremendously well done
https://www.nathanmediaservices.co.uk/ceefax/
Fediverse reactions
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“The teenagers who read Foucault are in pitched battle with the teenagers who read Rand, whilst the teenagers who read Tolkien, Vonnegut or Adams watch, agog at the technical misapprehension…”
<trying to explain the world of online regulation to someone>
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UK cheeses miss out on international prize after getting stuck in customs | The Guardian
On the other hand think how cheap the cheeses will be in the UK because they cannot escape, and how many of the cheese makers will go bankrupt as a result. Oh wait, is that a Brexit dividend? Farrand pointed out that cheeses from countries that were “typically much more difficult to import for the
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I really like this apparently proposed design for the Serbian 100 dinar
It’s bold and I think it’s cool.
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3rd edition of Ross Anderson’s Security Engineering now freely available for download | Light Blue Touchpaper
Thanks, Ross. We miss you. https://www.lightbluetouchpaper.org/2024/11/12/sev3-download/
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I feel that the defining attribute of Bluesky is the number of users who follow ~10 people, are followed by ~10 people, and yet who block 1000+ people; it’s not *bad* per-se…
…but it does give me the lingering sense that the platform is largely populated by people who feel the thing social networking most lacks is a sufficiently refined echo-chamber.
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“The authors of this book met by chance on Twitter, and together launched Noticing Nature: the British microseason project (@Naturalcalendar) on which this book is based”
I just bought a book in the currently being opened Blue Bear Bookshop in Hartley Wintney, and this inscription is in the inside back cover. Unlike many folk of late I am not abandoning Twitter/X because I have a communications job to do and I’m taking it anywhere that people will listen. My content will
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Parenting…
I was kicked out of bed at 2:00 a.m. by my darling daughter who had a nightmare, or something, and crawled in with us to perform her usual trick of rotating from the “vertical” position to that of the crossbar in a capital letter “H”, then kicking me in the back repeatedly until I go
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Do you remember the days when newspapers wanted a cut of the revenue of people who linked to them? Good times… good times…
Why the Guardian is no longer posting on X | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x
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Meanwhile, back in the UK, I look forward to Jeremy Clarkson being named home secretary… oh wait, the Tories lost?
Trump names Fox News host Pete Hegseth as defence secretary pick | BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c937ndxvkggo