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The Assistance and Access Act is completely irrelevant to Fastmail, because Fastmail doesn’t offer end-to-end encryption. Fastmail was always subject to the Telecommunications Act,…

Fastmail has never used AWS, and this article is pretty clear about how they have always used their own hardware and traditional colocation. Fastmail used to be based in Melbourne …

This only works because it’s a wildcard certificate. Since 2019, TLS certificates must not be issued for names containing underscores https://cabforum.org/2018/11/12/ballot-sc012-s…

It certainly should be. Filtering user-registrable names that will end up in host names or URL paths is table stakes. You want to block names like www, admin, root, robots.txt, .we…

Some remarks. The entire thing ends up feeling tasteless to me: it has a whole bunch of knobs (metaphorical and for a change pseudo-physical), half of which shouldn’t exist and som…

I was thinking to myself “… doesn’t it have that?” then I remembered I was thinking of the Public Transport Victoria journey planner.

I think it was a poor choice of example, because people will expect payment to be involved. They’re actually just inserting a row into a database for the order; presumably payment …

I don’t know how much a human was involved in making this, but clearly not enough. Some parts of the timing it’s talking about make no sense, the ordering of some parts is incohere…

You’re talking about writing it. The question here is reading it.

I already addressed that in this ancestor thread.

SVG is completely unsuitable for recording pen stroke data, and fairly unsuitable as a publishing format for handwriting. It’s capable of representing a technical pen/fineliner wit…

The domain has changed hands. What it was then is now at https://handwritten.danieljanus.pl/ .

You haven’t engaged with my second paragraph, or my responses to other responses in this thread. Meaningful inconsistency is already easy with just Unicode, nor does limited HTML m…

I was very disappointed, when that happened, that the paper aspect of it was purely at authoring time; that it was converted into text. This one gets it right, preserving the handw…

It’s genuinely easier to get it right than to get it wrong.

When an XML document contains HTML, the DOM representation is of elements in the http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml namespace. When you parse a document or fragment that is in HTML synta…

Here’s one verse from the Bible itself that shows that language changed: 1 Samuel 9:9: > (Formerly in Israel, when a man went to inquire of God, he said, “Come, let us go to the se…

Even the trends should be taken with caution. By the very nature of their collection methodology and Firefox’s user base, they massively undercount Firefox (almost certainly by mor…

The blocking is being done by linuxiac.com, not by the government or by your ISP. (If it were done by them, you’d get TLS connection errors over https:, and a message over http: so…

… yes? It’s simple XML parsing, and then taking it as text, serialised HTML, or an already-parsed DOM tree. You are using an actual XML parser, right? In most environments it’s no …

As far as I can ascertain, and as I described in the last section of this article, they never actually supported it meaningfully. I believe that the iTunes client got Atom support,…

> Imagine the same title in a list of post titles. Sounds wonderful. I think you aren’t realising that it’s already easy to abuse this stuff, with uppercase and exotic Unicode lett…

Here’s an example of in titles being quite valuable: https://chrismorgan.info/blog/make-and-git-diff-test-harness... . Inferior plain text: Using make and git diff for a simple and…

Consider the title of my article: “Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter ”. That emphasis belongs there, and it’s mildly bad to lose it. (For presentation on my own site, I …