November 20, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The very bottom layers of this, at or even below DNS, are: TCP flow control (Cerf, Dala & Sunshine, 1974) and congestion control (Jacobson & Karels, 1988)
Extremely upset that a throw-away XKCD joke somehow became the organizing principle for the Internet.
November 20, 2025 at 3:28 AM
The very bottom layers of this, at or even below DNS, are: TCP flow control (Cerf, Dala & Sunshine, 1974) and congestion control (Jacobson & Karels, 1988)
Crime writers group: let’s hear your idea
Me: the investigating team are completely incompetent and routinely breach basic procedures
CWG: how do they catch the killer?
Me: one of the team accidentally explains their theory at length to them, believing they weren’t involved
Me: the investigating team are completely incompetent and routinely breach basic procedures
CWG: how do they catch the killer?
Me: one of the team accidentally explains their theory at length to them, believing they weren’t involved
November 19, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Crime writers group: let’s hear your idea
Me: the investigating team are completely incompetent and routinely breach basic procedures
CWG: how do they catch the killer?
Me: one of the team accidentally explains their theory at length to them, believing they weren’t involved
Me: the investigating team are completely incompetent and routinely breach basic procedures
CWG: how do they catch the killer?
Me: one of the team accidentally explains their theory at length to them, believing they weren’t involved
If the big downside was crashing the global economy and the small downside was an SEC penalty, I’d probably just fake the earnings report
November 19, 2025 at 6:25 PM
If the big downside was crashing the global economy and the small downside was an SEC penalty, I’d probably just fake the earnings report
Changing my name to Una Ware, running for next leader of the National Party
November 19, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Changing my name to Una Ware, running for next leader of the National Party
The Kessler Syndrome also applies to Jira tickets
November 19, 2025 at 5:05 PM
The Kessler Syndrome also applies to Jira tickets
One of the most damaging cyberattacks in history
I was just thinking the other day that it is mad that if this continues then the book I'm writing, about London 1560-1630, will contain basically no British Library manuscript material. Would have been unthinkable to me but there hasn't been a manuscript catalogue for two years now!
I’ve written a piece on the curious lack of media and political interest in the issues faced by our national @britishlibrary.bsky.social. This is strange given we live in a world where ideas, knowledge and research are a long-term source of innovation and insight
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
www.cityam.com/the-british-...
November 19, 2025 at 7:33 AM
One of the most damaging cyberattacks in history
“Vlan 10, now there’s a name I haven’t heard for some time”
November 19, 2025 at 5:15 AM
“Vlan 10, now there’s a name I haven’t heard for some time”
Fucking idiots
Hard choices lie ahead, Bishop says, as he explains funding the $56 billion in motorways promised by the Government would require a nearly 50c per litre lift in petrol taxes.
Transport Minister Chris Bishop says funding $56b in roads a 'challenge'
Hard choices lie ahead, Bishop says, as he explains funding the $56 billion in motorways promised by the Government would require a nearly 50c per litre lift in petrol taxes.
dlvr.it
November 19, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Fucking idiots
Bookshelves should be called “know ledges”
November 18, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Bookshelves should be called “know ledges”
I hope the writers of this season are not going to go for the “snatched defeat from the jaws of victory” again, that’s been done so many times
Last half hour of Scotland v Denmark on BBC Two. 1-1. Scotland must win to go through to the World Cup direct. Denmark down to ten men.
Potential for chaos: high.
#SCODEN
Potential for chaos: high.
#SCODEN
November 18, 2025 at 9:29 PM
I hope the writers of this season are not going to go for the “snatched defeat from the jaws of victory” again, that’s been done so many times
My idea for the website that I’ve never built called Willing Trader is that you could post something, people would offer what they were willing to barter for it and you made a trade
How many potatoes and bottles of limoncello or tomato sauce and fresh strawberries do I need to swap with a cray fisher for a couple crays?
November 18, 2025 at 8:39 PM
My idea for the website that I’ve never built called Willing Trader is that you could post something, people would offer what they were willing to barter for it and you made a trade
Everyone is saying Home Alone but the subtle clues in the post are clearly pointing to:
November 18, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Everyone is saying Home Alone but the subtle clues in the post are clearly pointing to:
I wrote c 2008 about the vulnerability of closed council sessions to electronic eavesdropping
Mayor Andrew Little says he and chief executive Matt Prosser have had assurances from Chung the situation was unintentional and that Chung has apologised.
Private council briefing blogged online after ‘hot mic’ moment
Wellington City councillor Ray Chung left an open phone line to a controversial social media figure for 40 minutes during a closed training session, the mayor has confirmed – the contents of which wer...
www.thepost.co.nz
November 18, 2025 at 6:03 AM
I wrote c 2008 about the vulnerability of closed council sessions to electronic eavesdropping
Lord of the Files.
This needs to be on all the morning shows on Tuesday: When asked if there was anything "incriminating" in Epstein's emails, Trump pointed a finger in a female reporter's face and snapped. 'Quiet. Quiet, Piggy.' people.com/donald-trump...
Donald Trump Snaps at Female Reporter Who Asks About Epstein Files: 'Quiet Piggy'
Donald Trump Says 'Quiet Piggy' to Female Reporter Asking About Epstein Files
people.com
November 18, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Lord of the Files.
6. Tax avoidance
Billie Eilish asked an important question: "If you’re a billionaire, why are you a billionaire?"
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
There are FIVE ways to accumulate a billion dollars:
1) Profiting from a monopoly
2) Insider-trading
3) Political payoffs
4) Fraud
5) Inheritance
Billionaires are the result of a failed system.
November 18, 2025 at 2:16 AM
6. Tax avoidance
The two worst things that you can do with BTC:
1. Couple it to capitalism
2. Increase the processing power of the network
1. Couple it to capitalism
2. Increase the processing power of the network
The people at CBECI were kind enough to send me a copy of their updated Bitcoin power consumption data
At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff ->
ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci
At the end of 2024, Bitcoin's total consumption for 2024 *did* end up matching that of Pakistan. 2024 saw the biggest jump in power consumption ever. Absolutely wild stuff ->
ccaf.io/cbnsi/cbeci
November 17, 2025 at 10:44 PM
The two worst things that you can do with BTC:
1. Couple it to capitalism
2. Increase the processing power of the network
1. Couple it to capitalism
2. Increase the processing power of the network
Reposted by Stu Fleming
"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"
November 17, 2025 at 8:19 PM
"Infamy! Infamy! They've all got it in for me!"
Man vs Wilderness (for 40 days and nights)
November 17, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Man vs Wilderness (for 40 days and nights)
I’ve made a sloping clock, so that you can have both the time and the inclination
November 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
I’ve made a sloping clock, so that you can have both the time and the inclination
Deeliveroo
Ever find yourself at home, hungry, & wishing for an eel delivery service? Well you're not alone!
In the 1580s Queen Elizabeth had cartloads of eels & pike delivered weekly to her castle at Hertford from Cambridge by a man named William Raven.
Why eel out when you can order in?
🗃️🧪
In the 1580s Queen Elizabeth had cartloads of eels & pike delivered weekly to her castle at Hertford from Cambridge by a man named William Raven.
Why eel out when you can order in?
🗃️🧪
November 17, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Deeliveroo
My top 5 movie genres:
1. A misunderstanding has occurred among British people
2. An impossible situation has occurred, but it is easily resolved towards the end
3. I forget what it's about, but it has a great soundtrack
4. Multiple perspectives each told in excruciating detail
5. The Lake House
1. A misunderstanding has occurred among British people
2. An impossible situation has occurred, but it is easily resolved towards the end
3. I forget what it's about, but it has a great soundtrack
4. Multiple perspectives each told in excruciating detail
5. The Lake House
My top 5 movie genres:
1. J&B
2. Gothic
3. Noir
4. Space!
5. Roger Corman
1. J&B
2. Gothic
3. Noir
4. Space!
5. Roger Corman
What are your top 5 movie genres? Mine are:
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
-"I got it, we'll *pretend* to be married! What could go wrong?"
-Englishmen being weird
-Ship hunted by submarine
-Submarine hunted by ship
-Submarine hunted by other submarine
(The first two can be improved by the addition of a submarine.)
November 17, 2025 at 3:49 AM
My top 5 movie genres:
1. A misunderstanding has occurred among British people
2. An impossible situation has occurred, but it is easily resolved towards the end
3. I forget what it's about, but it has a great soundtrack
4. Multiple perspectives each told in excruciating detail
5. The Lake House
1. A misunderstanding has occurred among British people
2. An impossible situation has occurred, but it is easily resolved towards the end
3. I forget what it's about, but it has a great soundtrack
4. Multiple perspectives each told in excruciating detail
5. The Lake House
NZ needs something like this too
France is worth a look here, they categorize their building stock from A to G.
F cannot increase rents, renting out a G class building is forbidden etc.
www.cec-zev.eu/de/themen/um...
F cannot increase rents, renting out a G class building is forbidden etc.
www.cec-zev.eu/de/themen/um...
Französische Förderungen für energieeffiziente Gebäude
Energetische Sanierung: Wärmedämmung, neue Heizung usw. Welche Förderungen gibt es in Frankreich? Wer hat Anspruch darauf? Wir geben Tipps.
www.cec-zev.eu
November 16, 2025 at 5:38 PM
NZ needs something like this too