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Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 25/11/2025

In an ideal world, normal people shouldn't worry about computer security. But for now, people should focus on things that matter — like using MFA and keeping software up to date — not worrying about things like public wifi. Proud to be a signatory of this great initiative by @boblord.bsky.social

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The Onion @theonion.com · 10/11/2025

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 28/10/2025

It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption! security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...

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HTTPS by default

One year from now, with the release of Chrome 154 in October 2026, we will change the default settings of Chrome to enable “Always Use Secu...

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 29/07/2025

Somewhat ironic that this is the week I start VPNing /in/ to the UK so I can listen to BBC Sounds again.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 12/07/2025

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 22/06/2025

Another great ancillary benefit of memory safe languages: Cool infrastructure projects remain cooler for longer 😎 Library authors can provide great functionality without implicitly signing up for the slew of security bugs that are sadly the consequence of a large c/c++ project.

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Filippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 20/06/2025

Here's something I am very excited about: Photosynthesis! 🌱☀️ A proposal to have CAs run transparency logs and make X.509 certificates out of Merkle Tree inclusion proofs. This is similar to how CT would have worked in an ideal world, and it solves the problem of PQC sizes in logs and handshakes.

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[TLS] Photosynthesis, an update to Merkle Tree Certificates

Photosynthesis combines the Static CT API with the ideas in Merkle Tree Certificates.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 20/06/2025

Happy solstice! 🌞🌝

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 17/06/2025

British Airways, to give a taste of how long a transatlantic flight feels, created BA.com

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Amy @amyre.bsky.social · 16/05/2025

Behold my favorite weird Chrome security bug of 2025 so far! A jaw-dropping URL / omnibox spoof via ligatures, specifically the googlelogo ligature. issues.chromium.org/issues/39178...

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Laurence Rowe @laurencerowe.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Note that you can get a new social security card without that wording when you get a green card. I did so will double check I told them when I became a citizen!

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 20/04/2025

🗽 PSA for naturalised citizens: If you never got a new social security card when you became a citizen, and your existing card has "valid for work only with ins/dns authorization" you are likely still in the Social Security database as a non-citizen.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 13/04/2025

Just purchased a sledge hammer, and now have Peter Gabriel stuck in my head.

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Rick Byers @rbyers.net · 04/04/2025

I'm excited about this program! Chromium isn't necessarily easy, but I know there are great engineers out there who would love to get paid for improving it!

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 30/03/2025

Postcard from San Francisco

A handwritten sign on a lamppost reading “we will not let Trump dig our grave”

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 04/03/2025

🥞 Happy Pancake Day! 🥞

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 24/02/2025

We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys. We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 24/02/2025

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 17/02/2025

I think Swiss Air is saying you can smoke in the toilets, but only if you don’t get caught?

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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

These are unsophisticated actors. They use the wrong fork at dinner.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 12/02/2025

Am I allowed to feel smug about being all hip and getting the pop culture reference, if I only know about it because of @kenwhite.bsky.social ?

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Erika Hall @erikahall.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

I wish the Democrats in office demonstrated even 10% of the urgency of their fundraising texts dealing with these genuinely urgent situations.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 29/01/2025

You can increase the protection of Chrome's process isolation by using the chromeenterprise.google/policies/?po... enterprise policy, or the Strict-Origin-Isolation option on chrome://flags/

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 26/01/2025

In case of emergency, please present your yellow-tinted wine glass to have an entire bottle of wine poured directly into it.

A panel from an aircraft safety card showing a deployed oxygen mask being reached for, but rather looking like the text of the post instead. (At least to my jet lagged self)

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Matthew Riley @matt.dev · 25/01/2025

Yesterday Chromium deleted our copy of `libavif` -- the last step of a year-long project replacing it with a new Rust library! :) chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...

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Gerrit Code Review

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Ciaran Martin @ciaranm.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This is not an easy discussion to have against such a horrific backdrop. But online age restrictions on commonly available goods are unlikely to make any difference & such measures are not cost free Hope the gov’t: - focuses on real security improvements; - has a coherent approach to tech 2/2

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 17/01/2025

This is excellent news! Enigma is excellent and well worth your time.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 05/01/2025

I’ve lived in California a long time, but I’ve never got used to the fact that hummingbirds aren’t just on TV nature documentaries, but also “a few feet over there”

An Anna’s Hummingbird drinking from a feeder

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 05/01/2025

Need to check if you've got IPv6 connectivity? Love dancing turtles and 27 year old web pages? www.kame.net is for you.

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The KAME project

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 27/12/2024

Thoroughly enjoyed my first ride on a new electric Caltrain! Though slightly alarmed to see a Chrome error message that's not been shipping since 2015! I hope the systems running your infoscreens aren't connected to anything important, @gocaltrain.bsky.social ...

A Chrome error page showing a dead tab icon and the text "He's dead, Jim! Either Chrome ran out of memory or the process for the webpage was terminated for some other reason. To continue, reload or go to another page."

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 25/12/2024

Happy Christmas from Felicity.

A cat with a Father Christmas hat placed on top of her. She doesn’t look overly thrilled about it.

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Bob Lord @boblord.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

To those of you who use a consumer VPN for "security" reasons, what specific technical improvements in your browser or OS would make you change your mind and uninstall the VPN? Please be technical.

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Matthew Green @matthewdgreen.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

On first glance, the C++ 23 “assume” keyword is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. bsky.app/profile/feli...

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 04/12/2024

Giving Tuesday idea: Do you have an Amazon credit card and a decent amount of cash back? Why not convert it into real impact and warm fuzzies by buying things off amazon wish lists. e.g. see #clearthelist for those of teachers. (It's sad it's needed for classroom supplies, but here we are)

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James Munns @jamesmunns.com · 25/09/2024

> The Android team has observed that the rollback rate of Rust changes is less than half that of C++ This is a sleeper hit of a quote.

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Andrew Whalley @arw.me · 30/09/2024

First in, first out :-)

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Justin Schuh @justinschuh.com · 17/02/2024

OMG Private Network Access is finally shipping in Chrome 123. That's just shy of a decade for something I'd honestly expected to have shipped in more like a year. But I'm glad to see finally it's moving forward and the other browsers are supportive. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/...

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New Google Chrome feature blocks attacks against home networks

Google is testing a new feature to prevent malicious public websites from pivoting through a user's browser to attack devices and services on internal, private networks.

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Popehat @kenwhite.bsky.social · 05/02/2024

I get a lot of scam victims as clients and they often feel humiliated and really angry at themselves. This is what I tell them: you got taken by a professional. That’s like getting beaten up by a professional MMA fighter. It’s no reflection on you. Pros are very good at what they do.

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 21/01/2024

Ron DeSantis should be forced to carry his Presidential campaign to term.

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Zeke Hausfather @zekehausfather.com · 18/01/2024

The scale of climate change can be a bit mind-boggling at times. For example, the Greenland ice sheet has lost over 6 trillion metric tons of ice since 1970 – or more than 700 tonnes lost per person for every person on the planet today: www.carbonbrief.org/state-of-the...

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