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After Fernando Mendoza at No. 1, the NFL draft's QB board could go quiet fast https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/after-fernando-mendoza-at-no-1-the-nfl-drafts-qb-board-could-go-quiet-fast

from my link log —
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10

Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 hour period in order to avoid widespread disruptions. That means being prepared to issue 200 mill…

Donald Trump sued his niece Mary Trump, The New York Times, several journalists and ABC in September 2021.
The original complaint alleged the defendants engaged in an “insidious plot” that was “motivated by a personal vendetta and their desire to gain fame.”
Trump’s lawyers argued that the group of journalists from The New York Times “relentlessly sought out” his niece to persuade her to “smuggle” records to the newspaper.
A New York Supreme Court justice dismissedthe laws…

Trump Settles $100 Million Lawsuit Against His Niece
President Trump sued Mary Trump in 2021 for sharing his confidential financial documents with a group of reporters from The New York Times.

I updated my guide on how to deploy self-hosted #Discourse. The configuration of the internal nginx (inside the container) recently changed (for the better) in a way that affected my previous advice.
I seem to have been maintaining this guide for over five years now; I started in June 2021. 79 edits so far, most of which have been mine.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AstralPlane
Bardo Pond:
🎵 Sentence
#BardoPond
https://bardopondmusic.bandcamp.com/track/sentence-2021-remaster
https://open.spotify.com/track/3JLzne7Jdbkro8XoJFbwXz

from my link log —
PostgreSQL text search: balancing query time and relevancy.
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/postgres-text-search-balancing-query-time-and-relevancy/
saved 2021-10-21

🎜 How can you run when you know? 🎝
-- CSN&Y "Ohio"
‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/california-universities…

‘We will never use them’: the California universities stockpiling AR-15s, grenades and submachine guns
A 2021 state law allows campus police to own military equipment for civilian safety – students fear it may be used to quash dissent

🌱 Im Forschungsprojekt „nascent-SolaRegio“ wurde untersucht, welche landwirtschaftl. Betriebe grundsätzlich gute Voraussetzungen für eine Umstellung auf Solidarische Landwirtschaft mitbringen.
📊 Das Ergebnis: Rund 16.000 Betriebe (knapp 7 % aller landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in DE!) weisen Merkmale auf, die eine Umstellung begünstigen. Besonders häufig sind darunter kleinere Betriebe sowie ökologisch wirtschaftende und direktvermarktende Höfe.
🚜 Das Potenzial für weitere Solawis i…

Wie 2021 bei LLMs: Google-Forscher über die Zukunft der Weltmodelle
Im Interview sprechen Googles Genie-Forscher über Echtzeit-Simulation, die Integration von Street View und warum Roboter ein Weltmodell benötigen.

Wie 2021 bei LLMs: Google-Forscher über die Zukunft der Weltmodelle
Im Interview sprechen Googles Genie-Forscher über Echtzeit-Simulation, die Integration von Street View und warum Roboter ein Weltmodell benötigen.

Ex-Raiders TE Darren Waller Issues Clear Message on Jon Gruden https://heavy.com/sports/nfl/las-vegas-raiders/darren-waller-clear-message-jon-gruden/

Zum 2. Mal den Film 3 1/2 Stunden @… gesehen. Es geht um den Tag des Mauerbaus und einen Zug, der auf dem Weg in die DDR ist.
Der Plot ist gut und es gibt zahlreiche mikro-Plots, die alle noch viel besser erzählt sind.
Insgesamt ist der Film großartig, denn es stimmt alles. Tolle Schauspieler mit glaubhaften Rollen, die Tiefe haben. Wunderbare Bilder und Licht.

Filme in der ARD: 3 1/2 Stunden - hier anschauen
Spielfilm Deutschland 2021 München am 13. August 1961. Der Interzonenzug D-151 mit DDR-Bürgern als Reisegästen macht sich auf den Weg nach Ost-Berlin. Unterwegs spricht sich die Nachricht von einem Mauerbau wie ein Lauffeuer herum. Die überzeugte Kommunistin Marlies (Susanne Bormann), Tochter eines hohen NVA-Offiziers (Uwe Kockisch), erkennt sofort, welche Auswirkungen dadurch auf ihre Ehe und die beiden Kinder (Kolja Rashed, Klara Metten) drohen. Ihr Ehemann Gerd (Jan Krauter), ein regime…

Tracxn: global edtech funding fell from $16.7B in 2021 to $2.6B in 2025, while the number of startups launched dropped from 10,491 in 2021 to just 645 in 2025 (Ananya Bhattacharya/Rest of World)
https://restofworld.org/2026/edtech-funding-collapse-k12-startups…

The global edtech boom is fading as investors look elsewhere
Venture capital is moving away from K-12 edtech worldwide as investors prioritize AI tools and workforce training with clearer returns.

from my link log —
Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible.
https://blog.apnic.net/2021/11/18/vulnerabilities-show-why-starttls-should-be-avoided-if-possible/
saved 2021-11-18

Vulnerabilities show why STARTTLS should be avoided if possible | APNIC Blog
Guest Post: Study finds more than 40 STARTTLS-related security flaws in many different software products, both client-side and server-side.

from my link log —
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
saved 2021-09-05

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Midlake:
🎵 Roscoe
#Midlake
https://mommusic4.bandcamp.com/track/midlake-roscoe-mom-2021-version
https://open.spotify.com/track/01qJhVPCHFFR6wJ5ptyw17

from my link log —
Don't make my mistakes: common infrastructure errors i've made.
https://matduggan.com/mistakes/
saved 2021-12-03 https://dota…

from my link log —
Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust.
https://kerkour.com/rust-symmetric-encryption-aead-benchmark/
saved 2021-11-11

Benchmarking symmetric encryption (AEAD) in Rust
As we saw last week, when performing symmetric encryption you should use Authenticated Encryption with Additional Data (AEAD) which provides stronger guarantees than block ciphers.