Category: Personal
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Posted a note for GC6K1BC Church Micro 9632...Oxford - Christadelphian
This checkin to GC6K1BC Church Micro 9632...Oxford - Christadelphian reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Flew by to collect the requisite information while on the way to IndieWebCamp Oxford this morning. So long as the rain holds off and I can solve the coordinates, I may be back at lunchtime …
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Found GC7R9VM The red cat of Marston Street
This checkin to GC7R9VM The red cat of Marston Street reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Super easy find while on my way to an IndieWebCamp event (to work on some open source geocaching tools, no less!) around the corner this Saturday morning. TFTC!
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There is no longer any such thing as Computer Security
Remember "cybersecurity"? Mysterious hooded computer guys doing mysterious hooded computer guy .. things! Who knows what kind of naughty digital mischief they might be up to? Unfortunately, we now live in a world where this kind of digital mischief is literally rewriting the world's history. For proof of that, you need look no further than…
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How do you catch a lynx?: when buying a zoo goes horribly wrong
When the Tweedys bought a zoo in Borth, west Wales, it was a dream come true. But it soon turned into a nightmare of escaped animals, deaths and family feuding.
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Simon Usborne (The Guardian)
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The Dirty Secret of the Global Plan to Avert Climate Disaster
In 2014 Henrik Karlsson, a Swedish entrepreneur whose startup was failing, was lying in bed with a bankruptcy notice when the BBC called. The reporter had a scoop: On the eve of releasing a major report, the United Nation’s climate change panel appeared to be touting an untried technology as key to keeping planetary temperatures …
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Building Geese Games
I got into a general life slump recently, and so to try and cheer myself up more, I’ve taken up building fun projects. I joined this industry because I wanted to build things, but I found that I got so carried away with organising coding events for others, I'd not made time for myself. I …
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Quantum Computing and Cryptography
Quantum computing is a new way of computing -- one that could allow humankind to perform computations that are simply impossible using today's computing technologies. It allows for very fast searching, something that would break some of the encryption algorithms we use today. And it allows us to easily factor large numbers, something that would…
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Importing Geocaching Logs into WordPress
Dan open-sources the tool he's written to synchronise his geocaching logs with his blog.
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Five-Eyes Intelligence Services Choose Surveillance Over Security
The Five Eyes -- the intelligence consortium of the rich English-speaking countries (the US, Canada, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand) -- have issued a "Statement of Principles on Access to Evidence and Encryption" where they claim their needs for surveillance outweigh everyone's needs for security and privacy. ...the increasing use and sophistication of certain…
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Nazi spies awarded fake medals after war by their MI5 controller
Two fascist spies were awarded fake Nazi medals after the end of the second world war by an MI5 officer who penetrated their secret network, a newly published book on wartime espionage has revealed.
Copies of German bronze honours for non-combat gallantry were commissioned from the Royal Mint and presented at a covert ceremony in January … -
Temporarily disabled GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One
This checkin to GC7Q9E6 Oxford's Wild Wolf One reflects a geocaching.com log entry. See more of Dan's cache logs. Checked in on it while passing by and this cache has disappeared. :-(
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What Cyber-War Will Look Like
When prompted to think about the way hackers will shape the future of great power war, we are wont to imagine grand catastrophes: F-35s grounded by onboard computer failures, Aegis BMD systems failing to launch seconds before Chinese missiles arrive, looks of shock at Space Command as American surveillance satellites start careening towards the Earth--stuff …
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Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker's 1903 lulz
A century ago, one of the world’s first hackers used Morse code insults to disrupt a public demo of Marconi's wireless telegraph
AltNevil Maskelyne – doing it for the lulz?
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This Colorful New Font Is Made Entirely of Brand Logos
If you're completely, irrevocably head-over-heels for brands, we finally have just the typeface for you.
Creatives at digital agency Hello Velocity have developed Brand New Roman, a font comprised of 76 corporate brand logos. The Idiocracy-style project is partly parody, but you can actually download the font and use it—and artists have already been playing around …