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🆕 blog! “A quick look inside the HSTS file”

You type in to your browser's address bar example.com and it automatically redirects you to the https:// version. How does your browser know that it needed to request the more secure version of a website? The answer is... A big list. The HTTP Strict Transport Security (HSTS) list is a list of domain names which …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/a-qui

#CyberSecurity #dns #domains #https #security

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Mr Bates vs the Post Office is excellent. And there's a familiar voice reading the radio news just before the end of episode 2 tonight...

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Releasing videos to a schedule is one thing, but releasing videos to a weekly schedule non-stop for a decade is something else entirely.

Raise a glass to Tom Scott
Enjoy your rest, you deserve it!

youtube.com/watch?v=7DKv5H5Frt

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Can you access the somehow-still-online Godzilla movie (1998) virtual world on the Steam Deck (2023)?

Yes.

Is it an absolute pain to do?

Also yes.

Two weeks left to have your say on how council is elected - continue with 1 of 3 councillors being elected most years, or all 3 elected once every 4 years? southend.gov.uk/news/article/3

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You embarked on a journey of adventure.
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Ahead of your path, you see a 👺 Lemure
❤️ 3-24 ❕0 ✨ 10

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🆕 blog! “Tech Predictions for 2024”

Only fools try to predict the future. You can read my predictions for 2023, or dig deep into my archives and rate me on how foolish I am. So here are my five predictions for 2024 AI Genocide It is obvious that Large Language Models are based on stolen material. I suspect that a lawsuit […]

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/tech-

#future #nearfuture #predictions

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I found some certificates from Nominet for domains I no longer have registered.

Certificates

You used to get a certificate sent to you in the post!

Imagine that.

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The recording of my "Browsers biggest TLS Mistake" lightning talk at #37C3:
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Tis the season to reflect on my 20% project from my Google days!

"Santa Tracker Tales: Nearly crashing Google's servers, Leaking Santa's data, and Angering an entire country"

blog.pamelafox.org/2023/12/san

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🆕 blog! “Electricity That's Too Cheap To Meter”

Nuclear power was sold to the world as a safe, clean, and economically viable source of electricity. We were told that it would be "too cheap to meter"1. Even the most ardent proponent of nuclear power will have to admit that hasn't come to pass. Construction costs for nuclear power stations are dwarfed only by […]

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/12/elect

#electricity #environment #solar

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New boundaries have been published for the 2024 General Election. I've taken the Local Election results and applied that to the new boundaries dbatley.com/elections/2024/bce

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Well this is a mess. I'm glad I haven't used my main email address for any apple related stuff, but I'm sure I have silently lost messages from people because I don't use messages on Mac at all
maya.land/monologues/2023/12/2

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YOUR CHRISTMAS MOVIE

MY INAUGURAL LECTURE

Open Science!

Huge Patient Datasets.... but with Privacy Protected!

Vast National Infrastructure Projects... but created by a Small Squadron of Vikings!

Epic Battles for Clinical Trials Transparency... but with Happy Endings!

Data... but with Mawkish Moving Stories about Colleagues and Family!

TELL YOUR FRIENDS!

youtu.be/_-eaV8SWdjQ?si=Xwj2jQ

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