Month: August 2018
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The Mystery Button-Box
Dan finds another bit of mystery hardware, and scares some head-scratcher photos.
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How Much of My Graticule is Covered With Water?
How much of an advantage do inland geohashers have over island ones? Dan attempts to quantify the answer in the hackiest way he can think of.
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Why Are You Bothering?
Why Are You Bothering? (The Polyamorous Misanthrope) A letter I got recently and a question I was asked in another forum really got me to thinking. The question was: How did you come to realize that poly-amorous relationships were right for you? Now … A letter I got recently and a question I was asked …
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Oat the Goat
Oat the Goat (oatthegoat.co.nz) Oh my Goat! We just finished reading this awesome pick-a-path story that helps children learn the power of kindness. Have a go… #OatTheGoat
Oat the Goat
Discovered this fun interactive storybook; it tells the tale of a goat called Oat who endeavours to climb a mountain (making friends along the … -
An Oral History of Leisure Suit Larry
https://melmagazine.com/an-oral-history-of-leisure-suit-larry-ef41bc374802 (melmagazine.com) If you happened to flip through a PC gaming magazine in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you would’ve probably seen an ad for a game called Leisure Suit Larry, or one of its many sequels. It was a graphic adventure game first released in 1987 with the primary goal of helping its …
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AI Nationalism
AI Nationalism by Ian Hogarth (Ian Hogarth) For the past 9 months I have been presenting versions of this talk to AI researchers, investors, politicians and policy makers. I felt it was time to share these ideas with a wider audience. Thanks to the Ditchley conference on Machine Learning in 2017 for giving me a …
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AC/DC's littlest fan?
1¾ year-old is Thunderstruck.
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Geohashing expedition 2018-08-07 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2018-08-07 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
A field South of Oxford
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
My meeting this afternoon got cancelled and my nearest hashpoint is only 6.5km (4 miles) away from my office. I can get this!
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2018-08-07 51 -1 Geohashing Expedition
Read the full hashlog report and see photos.
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Intercepting HTTPS Traffic from Android Emulator
A brief guide to decrypting HTTPS traffic sent to/from Android apps.
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The Web That Never Was
YouTube (youtube.com)
Dylan Beattie (YouTube)
Underappreciated video presentation on how only a few small changes to the timeline of the Internet and early Web results in a completely different set of technologies and companies becoming dominant today. Thought-provoking. -
Gaia
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gaia (smbc-comics.com) Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal -
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Geohashing expedition 2018-08-04 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2018-08-04 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
Looks to be deep in the bushes alongside the unnamed road that connects Kidlington Road (to Islip), the sliproad exiting the A34 Southbound, and Bicester Road (in Kidlington).
Participants
Dan Q
Plans
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Posted a note for GC6P6WR Pub Quiz
This checkin to GC6P6WR Pub Quiz reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. I just received a message from user LesHommesSauvages who're so close to solving this puzzle. Here's hoping that the mild hint I gave them about which digit they'd gotten wrong is enough to have their "Found it" message …
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Quantum Key Distribution Whitepaper
https://www.ncsc.gov.uk/whitepaper/quantum-key-distribution (ncsc.gov.uk) This white paper describes our current position on quantum key distribution (QKD). QKD is an approach to key distribution that relies on the properties of quantum mechanics to provide security. ...
For all the practical, business and security reasons given above, at this point in time we:
do not endorse QKD for any …