Author: Dan Q
Dan Q is a software engineer, a director of a voluntary organisation, a trainee counsellor, a keen geocacher, and an amateur magician. He lives with his partner and her husband in a polyamorous triad, and occasionally finds time to blog.
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Partner's husband dropped car at garage. Garage calls me to say it's ready.
"My partner will pick it up," I say.
"The other guy said his wife would pick it up?" they reply.
Pause.
"Yeah, that's right."
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The Vintage Beauty Of Soviet Control Rooms
Design You Trust
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Dropgangs, or the future of darknet markets
The Internet is full of commercial activity and it should come at no surprise that even illegal commercial activity is widespread as well. In this article we would like to describe the current developments - from where we came, where we are now, and where it might be going - when it comes to technologies …
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Vasectomy
Oh Joy Sex Toy
This comic from the fabulous Oh Joy Sex Toy folks gives a pretty good explanation of vasectomy that mirrors my experience (part one, part two)... except for the fact that I didn't have this dude's anxiety issue and was instead (according to the surgeon) "creepily interested" in the nitty-gritty of … -
RFC-20
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The choice of this encoding has made ASCII-compatible standards the language that computers use to communicate to this day.
Even casual internet users have probably encountered a URL with “%20” in it where there logically ought to be a space character. If we look at this RFC we see this:
Column/Row Symbol Name
2/0 SP Space … -
@davejthorp the RSS feeds at dave-thorp.me.uk (e.g. for posts and comments, presumably among others) are broken
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Evaluating the GCHQ Exceptional Access Proposal
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In a blog post, cryptographer Matthew Green summarized the technical problems with this GCHQ proposal. Basically, making this backdoor work requires not only changing the cloud computers that oversee communications, but it also means changing the client program on everyone's phone and computer. And that change makes all of those systems less secure. Levy and … -
The Route of a Text Message
With each tap, a small electrical current passes from the screen to her hand. Because electricity flows easily through human bodies, sensors on the phone register a change in voltage wherever her thumb presses against the screen. But the world is messy, and the phone senses random fluctuations in voltage across the rest of the …
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CSS-driven console graphics
There's an Easter egg in danq.me which you can see in your browser's debug console.
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Security Checklist
Be safe on the internet.
An open source checklist of resources designed to improve your online privacy and security. Check things off to keep track as you go.
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SecurityCheckli.st
I'm pretty impressed with this resource. It's a little US-centric and I would have put the suggestions into a different order, … -
Posted a note for GC5J655 GO Active Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park
This checkin to GC5J655 GO Active Cutteslowe and Sunnymead Park reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs.
CO hasn't logged in in almost 3 years.
Long string of DNFs.
No finds in 8 months.
During that time I've repeatedly tried to contact CO both through this site … -
Posted a note for GC54KVD Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter
This checkin to GC54KVD Oxford Medical History #2: Grey matter reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Came past here the other day while some work was being done on the island. The entire area around the GZ has been torn-up and it seems likely that the cache has been muggled …
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The most unexpected answer to a counting puzzle
3Blue1Brown (YouTube)
Summary: if an idealised weight slides into another, bouncing it off a wall then back into itself, how many times will the two collide? If the two weights are the same then the answer is 3: the first collision imparts all of the force of the first into the second, the second … -
The Mystery
BriTANicK (YouTube)
Brian and Nick are back for the first time in, like, forever. Do you remember what happened before this? It was The Faux Pas, two years ago. And before that? And before that? And before that? The short of it is that it's been a long time since your mom's butthole was … -
Geohashing expedition 2019-01-08 51 -1
This checkin to geohash 2019-01-08 51 -1 reflects a geohashing expedition. See more of Dan's hash logs. Location
A34 near Peartree Interchange, Oxford.
Participants
Dan Q (whose birthday it is!)
Plans
It's my birthday on YYYY-01-08 (Birthday geohash achievement, here I come!), and even though I have to go into work …