if i thought you were listening, i'd never say a word

“Fake” means “not what it is being presented as”, and a faker is a person or institution knowingly making the false representation. A fak...

Recently a number of online mavens have been quoting this... “In 2025, approximately 63% of men aged 18–29 in the U.S. were single, and 34%...

Privacy and secrecy are different. Secrecy is me not telling you. Security is taking steps to prevent you finding out. Privacy is you not sn...

For more than a decade, there has been as much internet security as anyone would want. HTTPS means anyone wanting to read your traffic has t...

Should I sign the petition to repeal the Online Safety Act? After all, the thing was more or less written to order for the Carnegie Foundati...

(h/t Martin Howard) I mentioned a book called We know what you want by Martin Howard. It has vanished from long tail, which is kinda of a ...

(Whatever the CCP have put into the current pollen, for the last couple of weeks my brain has been mush. I can handle routine stuff, but not...

Or is that one of those things that it's best not to look at too closely? Five years after the Lockdowns started, and three years after...

My old heart fluttered when I read JD Vance's speech to the Munich Security Conference. You can find a transcript here . tl:dr As far as...

I read in our fine print media, that according to many people, the minimum age for social media use should be 16. I beg to differ. The min...

Sounds like an obvious question with an obvious answer. The customer is whoever buys it and uses it. That works in Tesco. No, wait. You g...

In Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem trilogy, sophons are neutron-sized supercomputers with a propulsion system that can whizz around t...

It's going to be a good year if you're a train driver or a civil servant, or some hack pushing AI, or anyone selling arms and ammuni...

Kier Starmer is not as other politicians. He is a trial lawyer - he was Director of Public Prosecutions for a while, and that's one of t...

  £10 for a twin-pack of Lavazza Rossa? It was £6 (on a Nectar offer, I grant) in the summer. A couple of years ago, it was less than that. ...

I am going to let this one speak for itself.     Of course, nothing like this happens in the UK. There are no universities which depend for...

Everyone who didn't vote for him, and a few who did, are now piling in on Sir Kier Starmer. At any moment, they hope, another revelation...

It’s Newton’s Third Law: a batshit-crazy policy will create a batshit-crazy response. More formally, the intensity of the reaction to a new ...

I swear if I read the phrase “according to experts” I will write a letter to the editor of the Daily Telegraph suggesting that they ban the ...

And don't vote for anyone who supported Lockdown.