GPG (GNU Privacy Guard) is better than good, it's necessary. But the gpg UI inflicts more pain than 100 Microsoft Office licences combined.

The Autocomplete Options

Typing gpg<TAB>, I get this nonsense:

1gpg                gpg-wks-client     gpgsm
2gpg-agent          gpg-wks-server     gpgsplit
3gpg-card …

• Chris on Mastodon broke the news that Meta censors #Democrat, but not #Republican.

• Hacker News starts the discussion a few hours later.

• Finally, news outlets are covering it.

• Andreas on Mastodon announces a security backdoor in xz.

• Hacker News covers it.

• ...then the news outlets.

I'd bet my SSL certs that …

A fascinating article wandered across my feed, arguing that LLMs like ChatGPT replicate the mechanisms of a psychic's con. 'Fascinating' because it's devilishly clever, and quite seductive, but seems like complete bunkum for the most part.

'People get fooled into thinking LLMs are clever', Baldur Bjarnason says, very …

RSS¹ is a magic button that lets you get the latest stuff from the web.

• Any stuff on the web.
• Any place on the web.

My RSS feed has updates for:

• Youtube channels
• Blogs
• BBC news
• Wikipedia topics
• Software changes

You can add just about anything to an RSS feed. Sometimes sites have RSS icons which look like this: …

English settlers in America once grumbled about the taxes they paid to the King of England, but now the tide has reversed, as a trickle of everything done anywhere in Europe must pay a little of the proceeds towards Microsoft, Google, Amazon, et c., for the privilege of running a computer.

When British schools need …