The Fediverse has just suffered from an all-out spam attack from some script kiddies, and the moralizing tones I've heard from some people tell me that some people have the wrong attitude about cybersecurity, and the internet. The only right attitude is that of a chess player. Chess Strategies Every few decades, …

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The Guardian informs me that Suella Braverman has resigned, stating: Earlier today, I sent an official document from my personal email to a trusted parliamentary colleague as part of policy engagement, and with the aim of garnering support for government policy on migration. This constitutes a technical infringement of …

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Any time I hear a patronizing sneer towards hopeful political thinking, I imagine just how insane representative democracy must have sounded when it first reached circulation. Oh young one! So you think you have a fun idea to bring down the king. God himself has ordained that he rule, but you disagree. And instead of a …

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I found out about the Russian invasion of Ukraine from a meme-site, where someone had cobbled together all the public footage available from the ground. The sirens, the little lights in the sky, the military aeroplanes, and the sound of bombs. Jumping to Youtube (where I watch news channels), I found they have less …

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Privacy for one makes very little sense. As individual as an individual might be, humans think in groups. We talk, research, and revise ideas together. I once had super-encrypted email with Tutanota. Nobody could see it, even with a court order, because the emails were persistently encrypted on the server's disk, and …

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