Denise reports on DW that crossposting to
LiveJournal [is] silently failing, and has been for at least the last
week. This is not something that DW has any control over. Will
crossposting ever work again? Who knows? Importing from LJ is
also failing, so if you were counting on that...

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Trip Diary: Paying Calls - GoingSideways.blog.
The first visit we made today was to a nearby Zimbabwean village. But it began with a stop at the supermarket in town.
Some village tours in this area compensate their hosts by way of a ( Read more... )

The latest post on GoingSideways.blog: Trip Diary: Tenderness in Warthogs.
There’s a line in an old Robert Heinlein book, in which the main character muses about the perfections of female humans, and then adds, “No doubt a gentleman warthog feels the same way about a lady warthog. But if so, both of us are very sincere.”
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Two new posts today on GoingSideways.blog:

1. 
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For the last couple of months I've been working with
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The Facebook Logout - We're really over Facebook. Here's their sample post text:
I’m logging out of Instagram/Facebook from November 10-13 as part of a ( Read more... )

1. The entirety of Twitch has reportedly been leaked: source code, user payouts, hashed passwords. Change your password RIGHT NOW.
2. Company That Routes Billions of Text Messages Quietly Says It Was Hacked; Criminals were inside Syniverse for 5 years before anyone noticed - Malwarebytes; Syniverse responds to data breach. Good ( Read more... )

A rather mixed bag of things that, arguably, I should have written about a week ago.
1: the Let's Encrypt root certificate.
Hopefully this won't affect you, but if your browser starts complaining about websites suddenly being untrusted, you need to upgrade. The problem is that Let's Encrypt's root certificate is expiring, and ( Read more... )

By way of jesse_the_k | boost: Internet broadband subsidies in US begin 12 May 2021. What it says on the tin.
The Emergency Broadband Benefit Program is a Federal Communications Commission (FCC) program ( Read more... )

Autism friendly. And, because I can't resist a good rabbit hole, here's a link to Emotion Markup Language (EmotionML) 1.0, from the W3C Emotion Markup Language Incubator Group (by way of Emotion Markup Language - Wikipedia).
[Crossposted from mdlbear.dreamwidth.org, where it has
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