Sunday, 29. July 12018
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Letter from Shenzhen.

This is the new shanzhai. It’s open-source on hyperspeed — where creators build on each other’s work, co-opt, repurpose, and remix in a decentralized way, creating original products like a cell phone with a compass that points to Mecca (selling well in Islamic countries) and simple cell phones that have modular, replaceable parts which need little equipment to open or repair.

Tuesday, 24. July 12018
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The Futility of DNSSec.

Besides this, for me it’s futile, anyway, because my domain name provider currently does not provide key upload to the parent zone.

Oh, and for some even the dnssec-tools.org documentation might appear pretty futile already.

Friday, 20. July 12018
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Nachdem Otto Waalkes am 21. August 1997 in der ZiB 2 Ingrid Thurnschuh, äh, -her »ein bisschen aus der Fassung gebracht« hatte, leitet Thurnher auf den Beitrag über die neue Website des ORF über, damals noch ORF On genannt.

#Gegenteiltiere

Thursday, 19. July 12018
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Neat: the CodeTasty IDE.

Combining fonts with CSS.

Using @font-face to replace glyphs of one font with another.

Where Lines Break is Complicated. Here's all the Related CSS and HTML.

Oboe.js is an open source Javascript library for loading JSON using streaming, combining the convenience of DOM with the speed and fluidity of SAX.

“I Was Devastated”: The Man Who Created the World Wide Web Has Some Regrets.

(…) the Web had failed instead of served humanity, as it was supposed to have done, and failed in many places (…)

Ama – a dance to celebrate women, in the deepest diving pool in the world.

In what looks like an austere, water-filled room, the French free-diver, dancer and underwater filmmaker Julie Gautier performs a breathtaking aquatic dance for several extended minutes before rising to the surface to release a blossoming bubble of air.