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Enigma, the Bombe, and Typex
How to guides
How to encrypt/decrypt with Enigma
We'll start with a step-by-step guide to decrypting a known message. You can see the result of these steps in CyberChef here. Let's say that our message is as follows:
XTSYN WAEUG EZALY NRQIM AMLZX MFUOD AWXLY LZCUZ QOQBQ JLCPK NDDRW F
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I Used The Web For A Day On Internet Explorer 8
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Who In The World Uses IE8?
Before we start; a disclaimer: I am not about to tell you that you need to start supporting IE8.
There’s every reason to not support IE8. Microsoft officially stopped supporting IE8, IE9 and IE10 over three years ago, and the Microsoft executives are even telling you to stop using Internet Explorer … -
Mercury is the closest planet to all seven other planets
Just showing the simulation which we used to validate the Whirly Dirly Corollary. Kind of a fun fact about our Solar System and orbiting bodies in general. Check out our Physics Today article!
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Going beyond the Golden Ratio
I show that for the same reason that the golden ratio, ϕ=1.6180334.., can be considered the most irrational number, that 1 + √2 can be considered the 2nd most irrational number, and indeed why (9 + √221)/10 can be considered the 3rd most irrational number.
Let us imagine a game between two kids, Emily … -
Killed by Google - The Google Graveyard & Cemetery
Fusion Tables... Fabric... Inbox... Google+... goo.gl... Goggles... Site Search... Glass... Now... Code... Bump!... Gears... Desktop Search...
Killed by Google
Just some of the projects and services that Google has offered and then killed; this site aims to catalogue them all. Some, like Wave, were given to the community (Wave lived on for a while as … -
Review of The Vine Inn
This review of The Vine Inn originally appeared on Google Maps. See more reviews by Dan. The Vine Inn, 11 Abingdon Rd, Cumnor, Oxford OX2 9QN, United Kingdom. Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Perfectly good pub food served by friendly staff. Prices a little higher than I'd expect for what you get, but not completely unreasonable. Play equipment …
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How Can Free Porn Be Feminist?
If you search "free porn" on Google, you get 1,400,000,000 hits. That’s a lot of porn. From vanilla lovers to BBW aficionados, kink and BDSM enthusiasts, foot fetishists and golden shower fans, there’s something for everyone. All at your fingertips, and all for free.
Although free porn is an accessible way for us to explore and … -
We are actively destroying the web
One of the central themes of my talk on The Lean Web is that we as developers repeatedly take all of the great things the web and browsers give us out-of-the-box, break them, and then re-implement them poorly with JavaScript.
This point smacked me in the face hard a few weeks ago after WebAIM released their … -
#FindTheBeeGent
LRB Bookshop
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Performed maintenance for GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator
This checkin to GC7R0HB The Fairy Elevator reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Reassembled hoist mechanism. Improved route of paracord to make ascent easier but it's still a wrap-it-round-your-hand-and-heave job.
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Note OK045C The Fairy Elevator
This checkin to OK045C The Fairy Elevator reflects an opencache.uk log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Reassembled hoist mechanism. Improved route of paracord to make ascent easier but it's still a wrap-it-round-your-hand-and-heave job.
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DNA Friend
DNA Friend
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UK online pornography age block triggers privacy fears
The government will next week confirm the launch date for a UK-wide age block on online pornography as privacy campaigners continue to raise concerns about how websites and age verification companies will use the data they collect.
The plan for implementing the long-delayed age block, which has been beset by technical difficulties, is expected to be … -
Fighting uphill
As someone with a good deal of interest in the digital accessibility space, I follow WebAIM’s work closely. Their survey results are priceless insights into how disabled people actually use the web, so when the organization speaks with authority on a subject, I listen.
WebAIM’s accessibility analysis of the top 1,000,000 homepages was released … -
Kiwi flowers look exactly like you'd think they would. #woah