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Flash emulation has finally reached a point where we can accurately restore some of the most important cultural sites from the early days of the web, and its only going to get better.

I proudly present: welcometozombo.com

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What makes a good prophecy?

A couple of years ago, taking questions on stage in front of a live audience, I was asked to do my duty as an economist and make an economic forecast. But the questioner had a demanding benchmark for what made a good prediction, informing me that the previous keynote speaker at this conference had been a prominent scientist, who warned of a deadly global pandemic. That was i

timharford.com/2024/01/what-ma

#UndercoverEconomist

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We've a new report: the Post Office claimed £934m tax relief for its compensation payments to the postmasters it persecuted. That's outrageous. It's also unlawful - so the Post Office now faces an unexpected £100m tax bill. It may be insolvent. taxpolicy.org.uk/2024/01/12/93

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The UK government is consulting on "Street vote development orders". The proposal is to introduce a local #referendum mechanism when certain planning proposals are made for a "street area".

You can view and respond to the consultation using the link below. The consultation closes on 2 February.

gov.uk/government/consultation

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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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danlynch.org/blog/2024/01/flos - I blogged about the fate of Floss Weekly. Should you have any interest in the podcast it might be worth a read. #podcast #flossweekly

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Mickey Mouse is now in the public domain. 🥳 So what does that mean for our shared culture? Free-range archivist Jason Scott takes readers on an enlightening tour of copyright, the creative ecosystem & film preservation in a thoughtful new post: blog.archive.org/2024/01/05/mi

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I finally got my proof-of-concept (and world wide first open source) SM-DP+ for consumer eSIM to work. This is the component from which the eUICC (chip in phone) downloads encrypted eSIM profiles. Code at gerrit.osmocom.org/c/pysim/+/3 - will be merged to pysim master soon. #GSMA #3gpp

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Fabularium is another, more extensive app, also in F-Droid

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Everyone's talking about the mouse, but dozens of classic films moved into the public domain this year:
🎬 The Cameraman (Buster Keaton)
🎞️ Easy Virtue (Alfred Hitchcock)
🌆 The Lights of New York (Bryan Foy)
⚔️The Passion of Joan Of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer) ⬇️
Explore the newly unlocked works of art in our curated list: blog.archive.org/2024/01/04/th

If you have an old text adventure app ("Text Fiction" is in F-Droid), then My Name is Jack Mills is a fun noir thriller to try textfiction.onyxbits.de/storie

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🆕 blog! “What's the smallest file size for a 1 pixel image?”

There are lots of new image compression formats out there. They excel at taking large, complex pictures and algorithmically reducing them to smaller file sizes. All of the comparisons I've seen show how good they are at squashing down big files. I wanted to go the other way. How good are modern codecs at …

👀 Read more: shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/whats

#compression #images

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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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