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YouTube keeps showing me ads for online casinos even though I have marked Gambling as a "don't show me this" category in my profile. There doesn't not appear to be any straight-for…

I'm old enough to remember that commercial. A true classic, that one.

I find Boing Boing ( https://boingboing.net/ ) is a good newsletter of weird stuff.

It would be very interesting to see that map for the rest of the world.

Psycho-Pass. Finish season one, which tells a complete story. There was a drop in quality in season two. Psycho-Pass is about two layers of futuristic police, "inspectors" with ful…

I'm a doctor, not a bricklayer!

Convenient for me? No, I either stand there forever or leave with semi-wet hands. Paper towels work much faster and more effective, but the decision is made by facilities.

Seriously, check out Troy Hunt's Have I Been Pwned? https://haveibeenpwned.com/PwnedWebsites

Does being clever with your money include a retirement fund that is considered absolutely vanilla in the country you are living in? Because the USA assumes that all financial servi…

I've had a quick look at the paper you reference, but my immediate question is ... this was written around 2009. If the costs and likelihood of getting hacked or phished have incre…

So much of The Psychology of Computer Programming is still relevant, and still worth reading. The title might put you off ... but this is really a great book that covers some pract…

Free books are never 100% free ... because bookcases cost money and even if you pile books up on the floor, that is expensive real estate you now can't easily use for another purpo…

Given that there will be people insisting that the main objective of the program was nuclear power, not weapons, a show like that would be risky. Does Netflix want their shows accu…

True story. Years ago, I was driving with my wife, and I was wearing an oilskin rain hat. I felt a tickle, took the hat off and looked. Dropped the hat on the floor. My wife asked …

Does anybody remember when a default install of Oracle RDBMS also installed ask.com? It was at that point that I realised that a significant part of Oracle Corporation no longer ca…

Is this now the most costly software error in history, measured in human lives lost? Imagine if the UK Parliament or the EU decides that the best response is enact laws mandating a…

I am not a crypto expert, but I thought that the idea was to produce a new more or less random salt for EACH password, store the salt with the hashed password, hashing using an exp…

Don't miss the point here. Tesla doesn't require that you be a licensed air pilot before you buy the car. It doesn't matter what pilots know about autopilots, it's about what the g…

The default setting, because 95% of the world will never change it. If Safari and Chrome and Android followed suit, the ripple effect would change a lot of things on the web. I'm n…

So does morality/ethics boil down to numbers/metrics? I'm not being sarcastic; I don't know the answer myself ... and I'm not entirely sure that I would want to "know". Humans have…

Question: if my network has a PC running coinhive on it (something I DON'T want), would it maybe connect to the Monero blockchain via a VPN, and how much network traffic would pass…

So ... why do they continue with tls_rsa? Is it required because of middleboxes lagging behind?

Oh boy did that list come out poorly, let me try again: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f) ECDH x25519 (eq. 3072 bits RSA) TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (0xc030…

I notice that ssllabs.com/ssltest lists the cipher suites uses at github engineering as: TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 (0xc02f) ECDH x25519 (eq. 3072 bits RSA) TLS_ECDHE_RS…

Investigation into calorie restriction isn't at all new. Roy Walford wrote five books about it, dating back to 1983. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Walford