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Potash is a strong alkali. It can be mixed with fats to make soap, or used to reduce the temperature for glass.

Making potash: take the ash of a wood fire, mix with water. The potash leeches into the water. Strain to remove ash, boil away the water.

In HTML 4 strict, <br/ is an alias for <br> ... which means <br/> is a problem. It's all caused by HTML using (and abusing) SGML. jkorpela.fi/html/empty.html

When security vulnerabilities are found in software: in the beginning there was Full Disclosure spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=53

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ICANN Board Withholds Consent for a Change of Control of the Public Interest Registry (PIR)

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The Chain by Fleetwood Mac - it's all about the guitar 3 minutes in youtu.be/kBYHwH1Vb-c

HTTP/3 is a major change to HTTP: it switches from TCP to UDP and makes other major changes. Widespread support is years away, but limited, experimental support is available in most browsers. lwn.net/Articles/814522/

The Bechdel Test feels like a minimum requirement, but 1 in 3 movies fail bechdeltest.com/

OpenBSD is always first with new security ideas. In December, it added a check so that only libc could talk to the kernel. lwn.net/Articles/806776/

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