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Signal is a nonprofit. But what does this mean in practice? Today we do something most tech co’s avoid: talk money. What does it cost for Signal to play in a lane dominated by billion $ corporations, while rejecting the surveillance business model?

signal.org/blog/signal-is-expe

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For the first time in AGES I actually had time to do some proper transport journalism again. Which was lovely.

Here's me over on @lonrec talking about ORR data, passenger numbers UK-wide, and what it all says about the value of investing in rail. #transport #london #rail

londonreconnections.com/2023/t

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This "texture healing" technique is really impressive. It uses OpenType’s contextual alternate glyphs, usually seen in stylistic embellishments such as swash caps or ligatures. With Monaspace, they dynamically adjust the widths of characters in a MONOSPACED face, while still respecting the monospace grid. It's pretty wild. The website has a neat interactive step-by-step visualization on how it works. Also, comes in 5 faces!
monaspace.githubnext.com

via @idan & @rileycran
#Typography #FontDesign

Dengue fever: one of the vaccines only works if you've been infected before (huh!?) but there are other options, including vaccinating the mosquitoes science.org/content/blog-post/

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Working on another sticker for #37c3 - found this image a while ago, but only as a lowres jpg, so I re-did it as a vector graphic.

#infosec #devops #sticker
We do not test on animals, we test in production.

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"In Memoriam of Python 2

Today, on the Day of the Dead 2023, we at the Internet Archive honor the death of Python 2. Having mostly emerged from one of the greatest software upgrade SNAFU’s in history—the migration from Python 2 to Python 3—we now shed a tear for that old version that served us so well."

blog.archive.org/2023/11/02/in

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How publishers lobbied to abolish VAT on ebooks, costing the taxpayer £200m, but kept the benefit for themselves
taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/02/09/eb

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New legislative articles, introduced in recent closed-door meetings and not yet public, envision that all web browsers distributed in Europe will be required to trust the certificate authorities and cryptographic keys selected by EU governments

last-chance-for-eidas.org/

#EIDAS #eidas2

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Middle-of-the-night silly idea:

If Unicode had dedicated code points for hexadecimal digits, separate from the ASCII digits and letters, you could make a font in which the hex digits had width greater than the decimal ones by a factor of log(16)/log(10).

Then you could write the hex and decimal versions of a number side by side and they'd take up about the same amount of space. You could judge by eye how many digits of one base it took to match the precision of a number specified in another!

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Like Microsoft, Google really needs to get a handle on criminals paying them to spread malware disguised as legit software. These paid results are so dangerous because they show up before any organic search results. e.g., woe to those who recently searched for KeePass.

Google-hosted malvertising leads to fake Keepass site that looks genuine

arstechnica.com/security/2023/

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It's gonna be wild when discord finally runs out of VC money and 10 years of conversation history and random file uploads are lost forever.

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