@willpdp

Purveyor of fine stub idps he/him

Joined January 2013
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JPEG2000 xkcd.com/2254/ m.xkcd.com/2254/
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openjdk11 not working on @travisci, apparently because of a TLS cert issue. stackoverflow.com/questions/… @OpenJDK
really good days are when an astronomical discovery is made. the BEST days are when a woman is behind that discovery—and getting her due credit. this is Katie Bouman, and she created the algorithm that produced the first ever image of a black hole. #EHTBlackHole
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Would like to hear the background technical story behind why it's only just possible to change PSN handles. Guess: it's the primary key. Impact Level (PS)3
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BoringTun, a userspace @WireGuardVPN implementation in #Rust - cfl.re/2Yu91F5

BoringTun, a userspace WireGuard implementation in Rust

Today we are happy to release the source code of a project we’ve been working on for the past few months. It is called BoringTun, and is a userspace implementation of the WireGuard® protocol written...

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A massive problem for the government appears to be that there has been a shit in opinion since 2016.
Faisal Islam
@faisalislam26 Mar 2019
British Social Attitudes Survey author Prof John Curtice: its results, corroborated by polls “is enough to raise doubts about whether, two and half years after the original ballot, leaving the EU necessarily continues to represent the view of a majority of the British public”
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Now that I've left @GDSTeam it seems the traditional thing to do is declare myself a founder of GDS* *this is not true (the having left bit is) and is also a joke
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PSA: don't keep refreshing the petitions website just to see the numbers go up, it will add additional load
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For those who might, for a moment, think to complain about the Petitions site having a moment, consider this, the two next most popular petitions have 784 and 583 signatures per hour (normal load). The Article 50 revocation one had 92,688 in the last hour (abnormal load).
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Hope the e-petitions folk are alright. Site is overloaded. 🇪🇺🇪🇺🇪🇺
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Where's a good place to register a domain (and only a domain). Also might change registrar soon after
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This is how to respond to such an unspeakable act. Reaffirm the values that the terrorists hate. Tell them their victims are the heart of what is best in your country & communities, & the haters will never be. #TheyAreUs
Sky News
@SkyNews15 Mar 2019
"You may have chosen us but we utterly reject and condemn you." New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Arden is giving a press conference after shootings at two mosques in Christchurch. Follow live updates on this breaking story here: po.st/8PIXQr

'Our values can not be shaken by this attack'

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No Deal equals no EU orphan works directive equals withdrawal of Spare Rib digital archive. Thanks to @PollyRussell1 for teasing this out. So many of our rules/processes around data rely on EU legislation. I expect to see more of these stories as the precipice nears.
Helen McCarthy@HistorianHelen19 Feb 2019
My goodness - even open access to the digitized Spare Rib Archive is imperilled by No Deal: Social Science blog shar.es/ampH2V
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Maisie and I blogged about opening up the Verify source code - gdstechnology.blog.gov.uk/20…

Opening the GOV.UK Verify Hub source code

The standards that underpin GOV.UK Verify have always been open but we started coding as a private project. Here’s a recap of our journey to coding in the open.

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Shout out to all ID-KAARTS worldwide! Dutch identity card, Belgian identity card, and Estonian identity card.
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We've open sourced ClusterFuzz, the software behind OSS-Fuzz, a continuous fuzzing service we offer for free to open source projects. OSS-Fuzz has uncovered 11,000+ bugs in over 160 projects so far. Now anyone can integrate fuzzing into their workflow! opensource.googleblog.com/20…

Open sourcing ClusterFuzz

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