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Dad (of humans and a canine.) Husband. Disembuggerer (and embuggerer) of IT things for almost 3 x 10^-1 centuries.

Came in drunk last night and didn’t want to wake anyone up.

I went to the kitchen and stuck two French pancakes to my feet and crêped up the stairs.

“When drivers fail to yield for pedestrians, it’s not because they can’t see them, it’s because they don’t care.” Kudos to @VisionZeroYVR for this brilliant intervention. https://momentummag.com/vision-zero-campaign-bricks-vancouver/ #TheWarOnCars
This is the way

Having trouble thinking of password security questions? Try one of these:

#infosec

How to #REGEX
i just hate computers, this is normal for anyone who likes computers
A recent European human rights court ruling that strong encryption is important for freedom might help turn the tide against on-device scanning and other efforts to stop end-to-end encryption. New by me, free with registration. https://wapo.st/48AOy4l
European court favors strong encryption, calling it key to privacy rights

The decision may ease pressure on U.S. social media companies to provide workarounds that would let law enforcement review encrypted messages.

The Washington Post

Dear developers: Please stop using random valid domains in your examples or documentation, there are dedicated domain names and IP ranges for that.

For domain names for example use: example.com

Reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc6761#section-6.5

For IP address ranges for example use: 203.0.113.0/24
or
2001:DB8::/32

Reference: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5737#section-3 [IPv4] or https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3849#section-4 [IPv6]

Thanks!
The infrastructure people.

RFC 6761: Special-Use Domain Names

This document describes what it means to say that a Domain Name (DNS name) is reserved for special use, when reserving such a name is appropriate, and the procedure for doing so. It establishes an IANA registry for such domain names, and seeds it with entries for some of the already established special domain names.

IETF Datatracker

Once I was at a small hostel in Spain, and came down with a nasty cold. I asked at the desk, and they said they had a doctor on staff. He came up to my room, wrote me a prescription, fixed me right up. Later I told the guy at the desk, I was surprised such a small hostel had a doctor on staff. He just smiled and said, "Yes, nobody expects the Spanish inn physician".

(not my joke)