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Oh Snap! Fonts in Roman Times
Those looking for cats, iot killer robot security issues, or high level society issues, avert your eyes. Fonts. There’s a lot of them. I understand people have strong emotional attachment to them, there’s the pro and con ComicSans group for example. But generally, as an end user, you just want the doc to look like…
Security of the upstream code, and, the importance of the egress firewall
We talked earlier about languages and tools like Go, Python, Docker, Nodejs, that directly import, live, their upstream. And my shock on deploying a SAST tool. Here’s a concrete example. A python package was modified on PyPi. It was reported (as below), showing how this is just on PyPi, not on github (side note: do…
Outdoor kitty update: he’s back
So a week of warm weather, no cat. Today, its 9°C, and cat. Here you can see OK being inspected by TC (The Cat, AKA my cat) as he chomps down some chow. I should start charting this, there should be some sort of Nobel prize here somewhere. The ‘friendliness’ vs ‘temperature’ of feral cats.…
Of electric bikes and cargo: 3D printers and thermos
So we talked about the bike. 120km under my belt on it now, story checks out. Go go gadget bike makes pedalling easier. But one of the sad things, cargo. I mean, I don’t take much with me. A laptop. And a thermos of iced-tea (because the local iced-tea places are too fancy and have…
For $35 how could I go wrong? drone takes flight!
OK, for this price normally you get something that lasts about 10 minutes and then heads off into the trees. But I got a DROCON X708W in some sort of flash-deal on Amazon. It came with 7 batteries and a pair of *sketchy* chargers. One of which is shown (6 x 750 mAh batteries plugged…
