Cindʎ Xiao 🍉

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It's late afternoon, and I only just realised it's I'm A Teapot Day (HTTP 418). As the writer of the tea-brewing extensions to Hypertext Coffeepot Control Protocol, I really should've picked up on that sooner...

Happy 418 though, may there be much caffeine in your future.

RE: https://mastodon.world/@cdt/116423719965641107

OpenClaw uninstallation racket... 💀

(also a good example of how ordinary and often banal the topics that are censored on the chinese internet are)

Documents Raise Fear of Further Crackdown on Great Firewall Circumvention Tools https://chinadigitaltimes.net/2026/04/documents-raise-fear-of-further-crackdown-on-great-firewall-circumvention-tools/
Documents Raise Fear of Further Crackdown on Great Firewall Circumvention Tools

A group of documents recently circulating online has stoked apprehension about a new wave of pressure on tools used to circumvent China’s Great Firewall. One memo, from online services provider Qihang CDN, warns that based on directions from its own upstream service provider, Shaanxi Telecom, business customers may not use Qihang’s infrastructure to make international […]

China Digital Times (CDT)

Via @ticky, as of 2026-Apr-16 there is now a proposed IETF draft standard for meow

https://www.ietf.org/archive/id/draft-meow-mrrp-00.html

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I thought that ClickFix was silly, but we've clearly entered the "please fire this footgun" stage of infosec.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2026/04/16/dissecting-sapphire-sleets-macos-intrusion-from-lure-to-compromise/

Towards a better ISA

Everything is contracts: https://gist.github.com/FCLC/acf60339f4d257b93c279b781318690b

Towards a better SIMD ISA - High level Contracts

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Here is your Friday fun fact: if you follow the same latitude east or west from Taiwan, you will reach the coastlines of the regions shown on this map. What surprised me most is that southern Taiwan aligns with both Hong Kong and Hawaii.

#GeographyFacts #MapLovers #DidYouKnow #PacificRegion #TravelGeography

I’ve thought about this a lot over the last few years, and I think the best response is to stop.

https://aphyr.com/posts/420-the-future-of-everything-is-lies-i-guess-where-do-we-go-from-here

The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Where Do We Go From Here?

Last week, we published a Citizen Lab report on the ad-based location surveillance system Webloc, its capabilities and its customers (https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/).

Webloc obtains data from consumer apps installed on phones. How? We don't know.

But the ad targeting segments shown in this 2021 Webloc screenshot caught my eye: