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antxxxx··on Europe wants to end its dangerous reliance on US internet technology
UK government standards say that government software should be open source by default https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/service-standard/point-12-...
antxxxx··on The British sitcom that swept through the Balkans (2023)
One of the reasons is the number of episodes in a typical UK sitcom series. Normally there are only 6 episodes which US broadcasters find difficult to schedule
antxxxx··on Bruno: Fast and Git-friendly open-source API client (Postman alternative)
I found it uncomfortable to watch it making a request once someone pointed out to me that it highlighted letters in the order SOPA when waiting for a response
antxxxx··on Reasons for servers to support IPv6
Depending on the type of connection it's fairy easy to set up squid as a proxy for outbound connections so everything appears to come from the squid box which can have a static address and can be added to an allow list
antxxxx··on Listening and building trust: starting as I mean to go on
All health and social care organizations in England must comply with this by September 2021 (delayed from original date due to the pandemic). This was based on a recommendation from the previous National Data Guardian.

Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland have different policies.

antxxxx··on Listening and building trust: starting as I mean to go on
There are strict guidelines about what data can be shared for research purposes and researchers only get access to the data they need - not your full medical history. Access is audited and you can request information on where and for what purposes your data is shared. You can also easily opt out of your data being shared for research purposes.
antxxxx··on NSW and Victoria just jumped 1.8 metres north
Does anybody know how what3words is dealing with this? Do locations suddenly have a new 3 word location, or have the words stayed the same and the location they refer to (in GPS co-ordinates) changed?
antxxxx··on How to Make a Raspberry Pi VPN Server
Its available in ports and works fine https://www.freshports.org/net/wireguard/
antxxxx··on Apple’s new APFS file system
You might want to look at http://rasteri.blogspot.co.uk/2011/03/chain-of-fools-upgradi... to see an upgrade of windows 1 through to windows 7 and see most things still working
antxxxx··on Google to acquire Apigee
Apigee provides the ability to charge the users of your APIs for API calls
antxxxx··on Introducing the LEDE project – A reboot of the OpenWrt community
FreeBSD has QoS available via PF and ALTQ. As for performance, Netflix chose FreeBSD for their CDN for the better network performance over linux. I do take your point about hardware support on consumer routers though - most of these are based on linux so its relatively easy to get linux based *wrt installed on them
antxxxx··on Illegal Math
Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman did not invent public-private-key-encryption. It was invented in secret by mathematicians working at GCHQ before Diffie and Hellman but not publicly acknowledged until 1997 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Ellis