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How to make an email signature that makes you seem like a dick
It used to be that in order to seem like a dick you had to meet people in real life and act, well, dickish. Not any more. The internet has effectively democratized the ability to annoy both friends and people you have never even met. Indeed it seems now everybody is acting like a dick these days. O …
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Obama crypto leak: no mandatory broken encryption. Yet.
A recent leak published in the Washington Times seems to point to the Obama administration backing down on recent proposals to include backdoors in encryption products following pushback from the public, crypto experts and some of the big US tech companies.The memo, which was published last week, …
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Windows 10: privacy violations, mandatory updates and bugs
The tech world has mustered a sigh of melancholic resignation along with a squeal of justifiable outrage in response to Microsoft’s new release of its bloated virus-magnet operating system, Windows. The latest incarnation is called Windows 10, not 9 as would make combinatoric sense. Perhap …
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Cameron’s turd in the encryption punchbowl
In a week when it was revealed that GCHQ was illegally spying on Amnesty International, British Prime Minister David Cameron has added yet another turd to the increasingly shitty punchbowl of his vision of the future internet by proposing a ban on effective encryption. Last time Cameron said some …
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Dear ICANN: Please don’t attack privacy, anonymity and free speech
ICANN, the not-for-profit public benefit corporation which coordinates the naming system of the internet recently announced some disturbing plans to take over the running of domain privacy services and to stop those services from providing, well, domain privacy.Here’s a good tl;dr from t …
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The word final should never appear in filenames
See if you recognize this syndrome. There is a file you need to read. Maybe it has some important stuff in it. A contract that went through a bunch of revisions. That sort of thing. Only, when you go to the directory on your company samba share there are 30 files that it could be.Inevitably at lea …
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Musings
This section contains assorted ramblings, meditations, musings, rants and op-ed type pieces that I’ve written — kind of like most people’s personal blogs. …
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Chart: Who loots more MPs or rioters?
In the followup to the riots that hit the UK earlier in the week, MPs have been trying to out-authoritarian one another. However, we should remember that many of the people doing the name calling here are guilty of some looting of their own. I thought it would be of interest to compare their loo …
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