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"text": "Still alive, still kicking. Sorry for the radio silence, gomen.\n\n\n\nSo, what happened in the two months? I\u2019ve been feeling tired/fatigued lately, and not in a \u201coh, you\u2019re just out of shape\u201d sort of way, so I went to the doctor, who was a little alarmed at how loud my heart murmur had gotten since my physical last fall, so I got sent off to get an echocardiogram. That came back with a few things that necessitated a second echocardiogram, only this time more invasive, a transesophageal echocardiogram (where they sedate you, then shove the sensor down your throat so they can get the scan from immediately next to the heart, for higher resolution/fidelity). Long story short: \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af The murmur is loud because it\u2019s loud, I now have regurgitation on two valves, but neither severe enough to do anything about. And I\u2019m not (really) any closer to knowing why I\u2019ve been so wiped lately.\n\n\n\nSo, y\u2019know, could be worse, but it did end up eating a bunch of time and mental headspace, and writing anything here ended up falling off the priority list. (I do find it a little amusing that this escapade dovetailed into my first colonoscopy a few weeks later, so a second round of sedation, and a second time getting a camera put inside my body \u2014 you could say they got me coming AND going.)\n\n\n\nIn other news, I took an extra few days off around Labor Day and had a nice wander around northern New Hampshire and the interior of Maine. Even ended up wandering up Mt Washington, something I don\u2019t recall having ever done before, despite growing up in the general region. It\u2019s beautiful out in that neck of the woods, and even with it being Labor Day Weekend, the roads were pretty quiet and pleasant to drive.\n\n\n\nFor some personal projects, I\u2019ve been fiddling with a few things. I\u2019m taking a stab at building a family tree/genealogy site that uses json-ld and the Person schema from schema.org to create the map of people. The data side is going pretty well, the visualization is where I keep bogging down, dealing with edge cases like where someone might\u2019ve been married, divorced, and widowed, with kids from different partners, and how do you visually represent that in a tree without it turning into a mess. It\u2019s still been a good pastime \u2013 if I manage to get it to a more usable state, maybe I\u2019ll toss it online somewhere so others can use it. I\u2019ve also been experimenting with seeing how hard it\u2019d be to set up AsciiDoc support in Astro.js. Doing a full integration seemed like way too much work for my needs, but I\u2019m getting pretty far as a content loader, using Asciidoctor.js to process the files into embeddable content that Astro can work with.\n\n\n\nIt\u2019s getting to be my favorite time of the year. A friend of mine joked that I was \u201cBasic\u201d for loving autumn, but hey, I\u2019ll own it. I\u2019ve always loved the transitional seasons (fall and spring) most. They come and go fast in New England, and you can feel the change. That scratches an itch for me, probably the same one that leaves me restless when I stay put for too long.",
"html": "<span style=\"text-align:center;\"></span>\n<p>Still alive, still kicking. Sorry for the radio silence, gomen.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, what happened in the two months? I\u2019ve been feeling tired/fatigued lately, and not in a \u201coh, you\u2019re just out of shape\u201d sort of way, so I went to the doctor, who was a little alarmed at how loud my heart murmur had gotten since my physical last fall, so I got sent off to get an echocardiogram. That came back with a few things that necessitated a second echocardiogram, only this time more invasive, a transesophageal echocardiogram (where they sedate you, then shove the sensor down your throat so they can get the scan from immediately next to the heart, for higher resolution/fidelity). Long story short: \u00af\\_(\u30c4)_/\u00af The murmur is loud because it\u2019s loud, I now have regurgitation on two valves, but neither severe enough to do anything about. And I\u2019m not (really) any closer to knowing why I\u2019ve been so wiped lately.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, y\u2019know, could be worse, but it did end up eating a bunch of time and mental headspace, and writing anything here ended up falling off the priority list. (I do find it a little amusing that this escapade dovetailed into my first colonoscopy a few weeks later, so a second round of sedation, and a second time getting a camera put inside my body \u2014 you could say they got me coming AND going.)</p>\n\n\n\n<p>In other news, I took an extra few days off around Labor Day and had a nice wander around northern New Hampshire and the interior of Maine. Even ended up wandering up Mt Washington, something I don\u2019t recall having ever done before, despite growing up in the general region. It\u2019s beautiful out in that neck of the woods, and even with it being Labor Day Weekend, the roads were pretty quiet and pleasant to drive.</p>\n\n\n\n<img width=\"1024\" height=\"315\" src=\"https://nadreck.me/backend/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/mt-washington-2026-1024x315.jpeg\" alt=\"\" />\n\t\t\t<p>For some personal projects, I\u2019ve been fiddling with a few things. I\u2019m taking a stab at building a family tree/genealogy site that uses <a href=\"https://json-ld.org\">json-ld</a> and the <a href=\"https://schema.org/Person\">Person schema from schema.org</a> to create the map of people. The data side is going pretty well, the visualization is where I keep bogging down, dealing with edge cases like where someone might\u2019ve been married, divorced, <em>and</em> widowed, with kids from different partners, and how do you visually represent that in a tree without it turning into a mess. It\u2019s still been a good pastime \u2013 if I manage to get it to a more usable state, maybe I\u2019ll toss it online somewhere so others can use it. I\u2019ve also been experimenting with seeing how hard it\u2019d be to set up <a href=\"https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoc/latest/\">AsciiDoc</a> support in <a href=\"https://astro.build\">Astro.js</a>. Doing a full integration seemed like way too much work for my needs, but I\u2019m getting pretty far as a content loader, using <a href=\"https://docs.asciidoctor.org/asciidoctor.js/latest/\">Asciidoctor.js</a> to process the files into embeddable content that Astro can work with.</p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s getting to be my favorite time of the year. A friend of mine joked that I was \u201cBasic\u201d for loving autumn, but hey, I\u2019ll own it. I\u2019ve always loved the transitional seasons (fall and spring) most. They come and go fast in New England, and you can feel the change. That scratches an itch for me, probably the same one that leaves me restless when I stay put for too long.</p>"
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"url": "https://herestomwiththeweather.com/2026/09/15/too-soon/",
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"html": "<p><a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Too_Soon:_Comedy_After_9/11\">Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11</a> is an excellent documentary about comedy just after September 11, 2001.</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>There\u2019s the adage \u201cComedy equals tragedy plus time\u201d which is pretty much the Onion\u2019s operating principle but we basically skip the time part.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Comedians that genuinely wanted to do the right thing took cues from each other (including Letterman\u2019s 09/17 return) on how to navigate the very challenging new territory in the midst of intimidation and threats of violence.</p>\n\n<p>The comment that Bill Maher lost his job over:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away. That\u2019s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>\u2026was followed by the White House press secretary delivering the warning:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>all Americans\u2026that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Although not included in the documentary, it seems the press secretary strangely wrote a letter to the Washington Post to <a href=\"https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/2009/05/24/a-white-house-spokesmans-urban-myth/7ed3fc5a-6a1b-4447-92b3-10d0bbceb7d6/\">deny making those remarks</a>:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p>Ari Fleischer hasn\u2019t been seen much since he stepped down as White House press secretary in 2003 and moved out of the public spotlight. So it was a surprise when he e-mailed recently asking The Post to \u201ccorrect the record\u201d on a comment he made nearly eight years ago. Fleischer, now a sports media consultant in New York, said that Post columnist Dana Milbank was guilty of repeating an \u201cold canard\u201d that has become an \u201curban myth.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>Also not included were any conversations related to the provenance of Maher\u2019s comments. For instance, in <a href=\"https://www.usenet-rewind.com/message/QkI5RTM4Q0EuMkIxNkElY29tZWR5amNAaG90bWFpbC5ERUxFVEVUSElTLmNvbQ\">Re: Hicks, Rogan and Leary mentioned on Stern, NY Post</a>, different opinions were shared on how similar Maher\u2019s comments were to those from the November 17, 1993 performance of Bill Hicks:</p>\n\n<blockquote>\n <p><a href=\"https://wdc.contentdm.oclc.org/digital/collection/boar/id/14774/\">They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch $3 million missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away - Who are the real cowards?</a></p>\n</blockquote>\n\n<p>They seem very similar but I do not think Maher was necessarily borrowing from Hicks.</p>\n\n<p>In the end, what I learned was that there was a lot of self-censorship and we missed out on a lot of good humor that could have been helpful.</p>",
"text": "Too Soon: Comedy After 9/11 is an excellent documentary about comedy just after September 11, 2001.\n\n\n There\u2019s the adage \u201cComedy equals tragedy plus time\u201d which is pretty much the Onion\u2019s operating principle but we basically skip the time part.\n\n\nComedians that genuinely wanted to do the right thing took cues from each other (including Letterman\u2019s 09/17 return) on how to navigate the very challenging new territory in the midst of intimidation and threats of violence.\n\nThe comment that Bill Maher lost his job over:\n\n\n We have been the cowards. Lobbing cruise missiles from 2000 miles away. That\u2019s cowardly. Staying in the airplane when it hits the building. Say what you want about it. Not cowardly.\n\n\n\u2026was followed by the White House press secretary delivering the warning:\n\n\n all Americans\u2026that they need to watch what they say, watch what they do. This is not a time for remarks like that; there never is.\n\n\nAlthough not included in the documentary, it seems the press secretary strangely wrote a letter to the Washington Post to deny making those remarks:\n\n\n Ari Fleischer hasn\u2019t been seen much since he stepped down as White House press secretary in 2003 and moved out of the public spotlight. So it was a surprise when he e-mailed recently asking The Post to \u201ccorrect the record\u201d on a comment he made nearly eight years ago. Fleischer, now a sports media consultant in New York, said that Post columnist Dana Milbank was guilty of repeating an \u201cold canard\u201d that has become an \u201curban myth.\u201d\n\n\nAlso not included were any conversations related to the provenance of Maher\u2019s comments. For instance, in Re: Hicks, Rogan and Leary mentioned on Stern, NY Post, different opinions were shared on how similar Maher\u2019s comments were to those from the November 17, 1993 performance of Bill Hicks:\n\n\n They blow themselves up in order to get at us, and we launch $3 million missiles off of giant floating iron islands 2000 miles away - Who are the real cowards?\n\n\nThey seem very similar but I do not think Maher was necessarily borrowing from Hicks.\n\nIn the end, what I learned was that there was a lot of self-censorship and we missed out on a lot of good humor that could have been helpful."
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If you’re a Tailscale user with Eero mesh, you may have noticed nodes on your tailnet constantly losing contact with the Tailscale control plane. I worked with Eero to diagnose and reproduce the issue and they’ve pushed a new firmware version that fixes the problem. You’re welcome ☺️
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Turn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences. Advanced Settings. Custom: Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior. [x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn’t available.
There are both security and privacy reasons to use DoH.
Step-by-step instructions:
1. open Firefox Preferences ("Firefox" menu, "Preferences" item) 2. Type “DoH” in the auto-activated search box 3. Scroll down to where it says “DNS over HTTPS” under “Privacy and Security” 4. Click “Advanced Settings” 5. Choose the “(•) Custom” radio button that says “Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior” right under it 6. Check “[x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn’t available.”
Privacy: the domain name of every website you browse is sent to the local router (e.g. WiFi), and on up to whatever internet service provider you’re connected to. Everything along the way has the ability to track what domains / websites you are using, how often, and build a profile accordingly, perhaps even matching it with stored profiles.
The sites you use, how frequently, what time of day, may all be enough information to create a unique fingerprint of you, to uniquely identify you, and perhaps target you.
By using DoH exclusively, every one of those domain names is sent only to your DoH provider (e.g. Cloudflare or NextDNS) blocking your local router, WiFi, and internet service provider from making a list of which websites you visit, or at least making it much harder (and both privacy and security are about making it harder for adversaries). They can still track what IP addresses you access, but that‘s much less information, and much less reliable over time.
Security: if your local router, WiFi, or internet service provider is compromised by an attacker, they can theoretically pretend to be any website you are trying to access (DNS hijacking), and then capture your credential as you login (username, password, even 2FA), and instantly re-use them to pretend to be you (credential stuffing) and sign-in to that website. Once they do that, they usually get a "long-lived" session token (like a session cookie) that they can re-use to pretend to be you, repeatedly, until that session token expires. Some don't expire for months or even years.
For example, if you’re using public WiFi, at a cafe, or a hotel, or airport, you have no idea if their routers or internet service providers are secure, and increasingly, unfortunately, we know that they are often compromised by various network attackers.
“They used compromised admin credentials to modify DNS records so that they pointed to services owned by the actor (a technique known as DNS hijacking). Guests of hotels using the compromised vendors who connected to the hotel WiFi had their traffic, device identifier and IP address sent to the actor’s servers. At that point, ClickFix-style lures were staged to deliver Windows, Android and iOS malware to the victim’s device. The actor was able to use a combination of guest information stolen from the hotel management systems with the data stolen from individual guests’ devices to focus additional targeting efforts.”
And it only gets worse from there.
When you activate exclusive DoH use, Firefox skips using those local DNS services, and instead directly contacts the DoH provider for DNS queries (to connect to the websites you access).
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"text": "Today\u2019s #WASSUP tip: \n\nTurn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences. Advanced Settings. \nCustom: Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior. \n[x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn\u2019t available.\n\nThere are both security and privacy reasons to use DoH.\n\nStep-by-step instructions:\n\n1. open Firefox Preferences (\"Firefox\" menu, \"Preferences\" item)\n2. Type \u201cDoH\u201d in the auto-activated search box \n3. Scroll down to where it says \u201cDNS over HTTPS\u201d under \u201cPrivacy and Security\u201d\n4. Click \u201cAdvanced Settings\u201d\n5. Choose the \u201c(\u2022) Custom\u201d radio button that says \u201cAlways use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior\u201d right under it\n6. Check \u201c[x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn\u2019t available.\u201d\n\nPrivacy: the domain name of every website you browse is sent to the local router (e.g. WiFi), and on up to whatever internet service provider you\u2019re connected to. Everything along the way has the ability to track what domains / websites you are using, how often, and build a profile accordingly, perhaps even matching it with stored profiles. \n\nThe sites you use, how frequently, what time of day, may all be enough information to create a unique fingerprint of you, to uniquely identify you, and perhaps target you.\n\nBy using DoH exclusively, every one of those domain names is sent only to your DoH provider (e.g. Cloudflare or NextDNS) blocking your local router, WiFi, and internet service provider from making a list of which websites you visit, or at least making it much harder (and both privacy and security are about making it harder for adversaries). They can still track what IP addresses you access, but that\u2018s much less information, and much less reliable over time.\n\nSecurity: if your local router, WiFi, or internet service provider is compromised by an attacker, they can theoretically pretend to be any website you are trying to access (DNS hijacking), and then capture your credential as you login (username, password, even 2FA), and instantly re-use them to pretend to be you (credential stuffing) and sign-in to that website. Once they do that, they usually get a \"long-lived\" session token (like a session cookie) that they can re-use to pretend to be you, repeatedly, until that session token expires. Some don't expire for months or even years.\n\nFor example, if you\u2019re using public WiFi, at a cafe, or a hotel, or airport, you have no idea if their routers or internet service providers are secure, and increasingly, unfortunately, we know that they are often compromised by various network attackers.\n\nWe know this is actively happening from both frequent news reports:\n* https://news.google.com/search?q=wifi+dns+hijack\nAnd from Anthropic\u2019s report published mere days ago:\n* https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026\n* full PDF: https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a597377d3b5/Anthropic-Detecting-and-countering-091026.pdf\n\nE.g.:\n\n\u00a0 \u201cThey used compromised admin credentials to modify DNS records so that they pointed to services owned by the actor (a technique known as DNS hijacking). Guests of hotels using the compromised vendors who connected to the hotel WiFi had their traffic, device identifier and IP address sent to the actor\u2019s servers. At that point, ClickFix-style lures were staged to deliver Windows, Android and iOS malware to the victim\u2019s device. The actor was able to use a combination of guest information stolen from the hotel management systems with the data stolen from individual guests\u2019 devices to focus additional targeting efforts.\u201d\n\u00a0 \nAnd it only gets worse from there.\n\nWhen you activate exclusive DoH use, Firefox skips using those local DNS services, and instead directly contacts the DoH provider for DNS queries (to connect to the websites you access).\n\nFor more about how DoH works in Firefox, see the FAQs:\n* https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs\n\nGlossary:\n\nClickFix\n\u00a0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickFix\nCredential stuffing\n\u00a0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credential_stuffing\nDNS hijacking \u00a0\n\u00a0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking\nDNS over HTTPS (DoH)\n\u00a0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS\nReplay attack\n\u00a0 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack\n\nThis is my seventh #WASSUP2026 post, and fifth useful web tip for September.\n\u2728 Weekly Tipster (https://tantek.com/2026/244/t1/september-blogging-challenge-wassup)\n\n#DoH #DNSoverHTTPS #Firefox #tip #webTip #browserTip #webBrowserTip #security #privacy #cyberSecurity #DNS #DNShijack #DNShijacking #hotelWifi",
"html": "Today\u2019s #<span class=\"p-category\">WASSUP</span> tip: <br /><br />Turn on DNS over HTTPS (DoH) in your Firefox Preferences. Advanced Settings. <br />Custom: Always use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior. <br />[x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn\u2019t available.<br /><br />There are both security and privacy reasons to use DoH.<br /><br />Step-by-step instructions:<br /><br />1. open Firefox Preferences (\"Firefox\" menu, \"Preferences\" item)<br />2. Type \u201cDoH\u201d in the auto-activated search box <br />3. Scroll down to where it says \u201cDNS over HTTPS\u201d under \u201cPrivacy and Security\u201d<br />4. Click \u201cAdvanced Settings\u201d<br />5. Choose the \u201c(\u2022) Custom\u201d radio button that says \u201cAlways use secure DNS with control over your provider and fallback behavior\u201d right under it<br />6. Check \u201c[x] Always warn me if secure DNS isn\u2019t available.\u201d<br /><br />Privacy: the domain name of every website you browse is sent to the local router (e.g. WiFi), and on up to whatever internet service provider you\u2019re connected to. Everything along the way has the ability to track what domains / websites you are using, how often, and build a profile accordingly, perhaps even matching it with stored profiles. <br /><br />The sites you use, how frequently, what time of day, may all be enough information to create a unique fingerprint of you, to uniquely identify you, and perhaps target you.<br /><br />By using DoH exclusively, every one of those domain names is sent only to your DoH provider (e.g. Cloudflare or NextDNS) blocking your local router, WiFi, and internet service provider from making a list of which websites you visit, or at least making it much harder (and both privacy and security are about making it harder for adversaries). They can still track what IP addresses you access, but that\u2018s much less information, and much less reliable over time.<br /><br />Security: if your local router, WiFi, or internet service provider is compromised by an attacker, they can theoretically pretend to be any website you are trying to access (DNS hijacking), and then capture your credential as you login (username, password, even 2FA), and instantly re-use them to pretend to be you (credential stuffing) and sign-in to that website. Once they do that, they usually get a \"long-lived\" session token (like a session cookie) that they can re-use to pretend to be you, repeatedly, until that session token expires. Some don't expire for months or even years.<br /><br />For example, if you\u2019re using public WiFi, at a cafe, or a hotel, or airport, you have no idea if their routers or internet service providers are secure, and increasingly, unfortunately, we know that they are often compromised by various network attackers.<br /><br />We know this is actively happening from both frequent news reports:<br />* <a href=\"https://news.google.com/search?q=wifi+dns+hijack\">https://news.google.com/search?q=wifi+dns+hijack</a><br />And from Anthropic\u2019s report published mere days ago:<br />* <a href=\"https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026\">https://www.anthropic.com/threat-intelligence-report-september-2026</a><br />* full PDF: <a href=\"https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a597377d3b5/Anthropic-Detecting-and-countering-091026.pdf\">https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/e50be2e51e7695dc4b1366a37a245a597377d3b5/Anthropic-Detecting-and-countering-091026.pdf</a><br /><br />E.g.:<br /><br />\u00a0 \u201cThey used compromised admin credentials to modify DNS records so that they pointed to services owned by the actor (a technique known as DNS hijacking). Guests of hotels using the compromised vendors who connected to the hotel WiFi had their traffic, device identifier and IP address sent to the actor\u2019s servers. At that point, ClickFix-style lures were staged to deliver Windows, Android and iOS malware to the victim\u2019s device. The actor was able to use a combination of guest information stolen from the hotel management systems with the data stolen from individual guests\u2019 devices to focus additional targeting efforts.\u201d<br />\u00a0 <br />And it only gets worse from there.<br /><br />When you activate exclusive DoH use, Firefox skips using those local DNS services, and instead directly contacts the DoH provider for DNS queries (to connect to the websites you access).<br /><br />For more about how DoH works in Firefox, see the FAQs:<br />* <a href=\"https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs\">https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/dns-over-https-doh-faqs</a><br /><br />Glossary:<br /><br />ClickFix<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickFix\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ClickFix</a><br />Credential stuffing<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credential_stuffing\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Credential_stuffing</a><br />DNS hijacking \u00a0<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_hijacking</a><br />DNS over HTTPS (DoH)<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS_over_HTTPS</a><br />Replay attack<br />\u00a0 <a href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack\">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replay_attack</a><br /><br />This is my seventh #<span class=\"p-category\">WASSUP2026</span> post, and fifth useful web tip for September.<br />\u2728 Weekly Tipster (<a href=\"https://tantek.com/2026/244/t1/september-blogging-challenge-wassup\">https://tantek.com/2026/244/t1/september-blogging-challenge-wassup</a>)<br /><br />#<span class=\"p-category\">DoH</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">DNSoverHTTPS</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">Firefox</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">tip</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">webTip</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">browserTip</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">webBrowserTip</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">security</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">privacy</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">cyberSecurity</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">DNS</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">DNShijack</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">DNShijacking</span> #<span class=\"p-category\">hotelWifi</span>"
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And happy Progammer’s Day! (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programmer%27s_Day) — one of the rare annual ordinal date observations, based on the day of the year, rather than day of a specific month of the year.
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If you've been using my https://webmention.io service, you'll notice a few changes today.
Everything should be transparent from a user and API perspective, all your webmention endpoints and API queries should still be working. Please let me know if you run in to any problems!
I replaced the aging Ruby codebase so that I can more easily fix bugs and make it more secure going forward. Stay tuned for some much-needed UX improvements in the near future as well.
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#Photo#Social Stream#Typewriters#emotional support typewriters
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Yeesh, Miami’s WR room is deeeeeep. True freshman Vance Spafford with an absolutely absurd TD catch while getting mugged by two defenders. Guy is probably 8th on the depth chart.
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