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(ยท๐‘œ๐‘จ๐‘๐‘ฆ๐‘ฏ ๐‘š๐‘ฎ๐‘ฌ) DNS geek, nerd, dad. This is a personal account. https://gavinbrown.xyz

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Do these Stone Age symbols push back the origins of writing by tens of thousands of years? Nope. The real finding is even cooler.

Website: linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/stone-...
Substack: open.substack.com/pub/linguist...

10.03.2026 16:08 ๐Ÿ‘ 8 ๐Ÿ” 3 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is entertaining. We are sending someone interesting to Eurovision with an actually fun track. A small ray of sunshine.

06.03.2026 08:56 ๐Ÿ‘ 75 ๐Ÿ” 14 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 14 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran

A tweet from the Daily Mail with a headline saying "Four biblical signs the world has entered the end of days as US bombs Iran

This perfectly illustrates my point that the British tabloids are aiming at a US audience. There like 5 people in the UK who think about this. But it is huge among US evangelicals.

British politicians need to ignore UK tabloids, as UK tabloids are talking to an audience in the US for clicks.

04.03.2026 08:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 853 ๐Ÿ” 327 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 37 ๐Ÿ“Œ 41
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Olaf Kolkman (part 1) Olaf Kolkman has had a long career in open source. In this first part, we discussed his involvement with Perl, DNSSEC and NLnet Labs.

The Underbar (the #perl podcast) has an interview with Olaf Kolkman about Perl and DNS and other things pca.st/episode/042e...

#dns #dnssec #ietf #icann

03.03.2026 09:17 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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The death of the Firm The arrest of Andrew shows the end of a certain model of monarchy

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The death of the Firm

The arrest of Andrew may not show the end of the monarchy, but it may show the end of a certain model of monarchy

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

20.02.2026 10:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 200 ๐Ÿ” 53 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

love a bit of continvouclous morging

16.02.2026 17:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 832 ๐Ÿ” 231 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 39 ๐Ÿ“Œ 44
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On almost everything โ€“ fraud, polarisation, radicalisation, misinformation โ€“ evidence suggests that over 60s are in much more urgent need of online protection and education than teenagers.

But that issue gets zero political attention, and is a total non-starter. Nothing good will come of it.

29.01.2026 09:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 1689 ๐Ÿ” 598 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 73 ๐Ÿ“Œ 45
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10.02.2026 05:51 ๐Ÿ‘ 8129 ๐Ÿ” 3102 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 21 ๐Ÿ“Œ 38
Deployment Dashboard - RDAP.ORG

.AU (the ccTLD for Australia) gained an RDAP server yesterday!

More data at deployment.rdap.org

10.02.2026 10:15 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

A nice problem to have, to be sure!

10.02.2026 07:00 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

This is one of the problems of working with @proper.com

10.02.2026 06:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Deployment Dashboard - RDAP.ORG

.SG (the ccTLD for Singapore) gained an RDAP server yesterday!

More data at deployment.rdap.org

06.02.2026 14:59 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Ancient 21st century curse: may the thing you depend upon get bought by a billionaire

04.02.2026 17:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 80 ๐Ÿ” 29 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Deployment Dashboard - RDAP.ORG

My monitoring script broke and I missed it, but some time in the last 6 weeks, the .gov TLD gained an RDAP server! As did .as, .ng and .to!

More details at deployment.rdap.org

#rdap

02.02.2026 15:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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*I blame Marxist AIs

31.01.2026 08:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 80 ๐Ÿ” 27 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek written in the corner ALT: a woman in a black dress is smiling with #schitts creek written in the corner
30.01.2026 18:24 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

The pivot from 'we shouldn't bother with Net Zero 'cause China' to 'How does China have a massive lead in so many key 21st century technologies' doesn't seem to have caused any reflection at all from quite a few parties.

30.01.2026 08:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 62 ๐Ÿ” 20 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 2

How have I only learned about this story today?!

21.01.2026 13:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

100% tariff on the MM/DD/YY format.

17.01.2026 18:10 ๐Ÿ‘ 709 ๐Ÿ” 187 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 13 ๐Ÿ“Œ 7
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Dashboard totale Amerikaanse afhankelijkheden - Bert Hubert Hier een lijst organisaties die voor hun primaire missie totaal afhankelijk zijn van Amerikaanse clouds, en waarbij de maatschappij ontwricht zou worden als ze hun werk niet meer konden doen, bijvoorb...

With #Greenland raising awareness of our massive 24/7 dependence on US clouds for vital services, I made a list of what (government) stuff would break here under US sanctions. It is EXTREMELY depressing. Tip: also make a list like this one for your own country! berthub.eu/articles/pos...

19.01.2026 08:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 40 ๐Ÿ” 21 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 4 ๐Ÿ“Œ 4
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Gallโ€“Peters projection - Wikipedia

that depends on which map projection you're using!

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gall%E2...

IIRC, the topic of map projections *was* once discussed in the White House...

www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVX-...

08.01.2026 12:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

i would suggest an online safety act that canโ€™t deal with CSAM on a widely used social network frequented by most westminster public figures isnโ€™t doing a very good job of keeping anybody safe online

05.01.2026 14:55 ๐Ÿ‘ 364 ๐Ÿ” 123 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 7 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Some of us were warning about this well over a decade ago. Same with pictures of your kids.

02.01.2026 22:06 ๐Ÿ‘ 32 ๐Ÿ” 11 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.

A forlorn landscape of layered rocks in the foreground, with hills fading into the background haze. At upper top right, a small crescent moon, and a bright star.

Open up this picture fully.

Then look at the surface of Mars.

Then look up to the top right.

Spot Mars' moon Phobos high in the sky.

Then notice the bright spot beside Phobos.

That's Earth.

30.12.2025 21:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 4761 ๐Ÿ” 1873 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 76 ๐Ÿ“Œ 152
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls

27.12.2025 17:27 ๐Ÿ‘ 47046 ๐Ÿ” 14488 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 953 ๐Ÿ“Œ 3137
Types of Data

Types of Data

Data is important. Keep him safe.

20.12.2025 10:12 ๐Ÿ‘ 38 ๐Ÿ” 13 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

(The answer, for anyone blessedly too young to remember is: Yes. Yes it did.)

19.12.2025 23:48 ๐Ÿ‘ 6 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Turns out a million monkeys on a million typewriters will generate `sudo rm -rf /` quite expeditiously!

17.12.2025 06:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 2 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My family on school day mornings.

16.12.2025 08:16 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0