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On Website Technicals (2022-08) - Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-63.html

On Website Technicals (2022-08)
Tech updates: FUELINST glitch, review pros and cons, a11y, fanlife, Save-Data, traffic nadir, JXL.

from my link log —
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.
https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/
saved 2022-04-10

Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations | APNIC Blog
By transferring pre-existing trust from the zone’s DNS operator, a new in-band solution would simplify and secure automation of DNSSEC deployment.

Lazyweb: Has anybody spotted a news article or data source that quantifies the voter composition of the new TN districts — as Harris/Trump, or 2022 House results, or whatever? I’m wondering just how far underwater each of the 9 new districts is.

The NYT says it is reviewing columnist Nick Kristof's work that favorably mentioned former donors to his 2022 Oregon governor bid, including Bill Gates (Max Tani/Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/14/2026/new-york-times-…

Exclusive: New York Times’ Kristof quoted former campaign donors in columns
The paper had promised that Nick Kristof would disclose when someone he reported on was a donor to his Oregon gubernatorial campaign.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116547833070885370
Since February 2022.
To put this into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the number of US servicemen killed AND wounded during the entirety of the Vietnam War.

Heute vor 3 Jahren: Am 14. Juni 2023 erklärte der belarussische Präsident Aleksander Lukaschenko in einem Fernsehinterview mit dem russischen Staatssender Russia-1, dass #Belarus, wie am 25.03.23 durch Putin angekündigt, #Kernwaffen von Russland erhalten habe.

from my link log —
C99 doesn't need function bodies: VLAs are Turing complete.
https://lemon.rip/w/c99-vla-tricks/
saved 2022-08-04 https://dota…

Pleased to share that my paper, "Practitioners at the Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis" is now available as a preprint on arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30667

Practitioners At The Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis
After decades in which the software industry heroized its technical employees, our current moment finds those employees in crisis. Economically, they are squeezed by a job market that has turned on them since Elon Musk gutted Twitter in 2022. Politically, their craft is continually pressed into the service of an ever tighter alliance between Big Tech and authoritarianism. Professionally, they find themselves less and less able to contribute anything good to anyone within business models that ar…

RE: #AltText.

from my link log —
jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C.
https://github.com/alandekok/jlibtool
saved 2022-08-03 https://dotat.at/:/TN3…

GitHub - alandekok/jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C
A replacement for libtool written in C. Contribute to alandekok/jlibtool development by creating an account on GitHub.