I'm trying to be more diligent about crossposting for people who have been kind enough to follow me here. Yesterday, some people on Twitter asked me to explain the difference between a four-in-hand and Windsor knot, and why one would be considered "better." So here's a thread. 🧵 (1/19)

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The Norwegian hacker talks about her new venture aimed at protecting journalists and critics from powerful adversaries.

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Was at a Christmas party with a load of clergy last night and as some people were leaving they found a person collapsed on the street outside so the Verger took over and called an ambulance and sent all the clergy away because "if they wake up surrounded by priests that'll just make things worse"

Got a great deal on some cheap ram for my computer

thinking about the time a cool Instagram fashion account asked me to name my favorite products and i didn't know i was supposed to name fashion products, so i said pigeon food because i like feeding pigeons and their followers were like "why the fuck do i need pigeon food for my outfit?"

Any em dash fans here? We're currently working on a Windows-wide keyboard keyboard shortcut for em dash and em dash, to make it easier to input for those that need it 😊 blogs.windows.com/windows-insi... #WindowsInsiders

Go to the mountains, finish a trail race, see some cool rocks

Does anyone have a good security analysis of Apple accessibility features? Are there for example security mechanisms which ensure that speech transcribed for accessibility reasons is instantly deleted or processed via a Secure Enclave?

Pretty big news! This week, the National Cyber Security Centre of the UK announced that it will be rolling out passkeys across the UK’s digital services later this year. The organization will also be joining the FIDO Alliance to help shape the evolution of passkeys. www.ncsc.gov.uk/news/governm...

UK pioneering global move away from passwords

Government to roll out passkey technology across digital services as an alternative to SMS-based verification.

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macOS encryption question: when do you recommend that people use FileVault in addition to the standard T2 encryption? #infosec

Hi from Pieniny National Park! (I'm on a quest to visit all of Poland's national parks)

Hi from the mountains, blessed (or cursed) by an April snowfall!

It’s kind of exhilarating to think of how, in two decades or so, we’ll be using words in everyday speech that haven’t been invented yet #langsky

The moment your train home arrives, Dvořák’s To The New World is playing on your headphones, and you see this view ❤️

Main conclusion after reading 4/5ths of One Hundred Years of Solitude: solitude involves much more socialising, chatting, and merriment than I previously assumed. Finally understand why people love it so much

Not true. I'll give you some examples of when styles crossed over from womenswear to menswear, and how men have worn straight-up womenswear or just feminine styles in cool ways. 🧵

I’m very excited to read @rondeibert.bsky.social’s new book. Ron and his team at the Citizen Lab have revolutionized the world of cybersecurity. It’s fair to say that my career would not be the same without Citizen Lab, which I have covered for more than ten years now.

So today is @scoiattolo.mountainherder.xyz and I’s TENTH anniversary - a decade! a really weird decade! - and I guess one of us should post about it

Intel's Pentium processor (1993) can compute sines, logarithms, and other special functions. To do this, it has a ROM with 304 floating-point constants. I reverse-engineered this ROM and extracted the constants. You can see pi in the ROM, binary 11.001001..., encoded in the transistor pattern. 1/n

Air Quality Stripes have long-term trends of air pollution in many cities across the world. Here is London. Nice work @jimmcquaid.bsky.social & @kirstypringle.bsky.social. airqualitystripes.info/stripes/?con... h/t @edhawkins.org

why is our dogwalker the ansel adams of dog photography

@xkcd.com tackling the important energy questions we always needed answering

If all humans died, when would the last light go out?

YouTube video by xkcd's What If?

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tired: thinking that the algorithms around here are against you wired: realising that maybe your post wasn't as good as you hoped it would be

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Don’t forget: those who think they are too smart to be socially engineered are often particularly vulnerable as they can’t recognise their own limits