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Announcing readings.owlfolio.org | Owl’s Portfolio
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Announcing readings.owlfolio.org. I’d like to announce my new project,. Where I will be reading and reviewing papers from the academic literature mostly (but not exclusively) about information security. I made a false start at this near the end of 2013 (it is the same site that’s been linked under. Blog will notice that it has been redesigned and matches. I know about the pages that are still using the old style sheet.). Google Voice Search and the Appearance of Trustworthiness.
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Possibly Useful | Owl’s Portfolio
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An occasional series of items. Too large to be throwaway. Too small to be projects. Unlikely to be revised. Using GPG2 with a read-only .gnupg directory. Another bulletin funded by the I Just Blew An Entire Morning On This Foundation:. Suppose you want to encrypt and sign files using. But without giving it ownership or write access to its own keystore. For instance, this might be necessary if the. Do not do business with Northwest Talent Search. I get unwanted solicitations about once a month, and I repl...
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Operating system selection for $PROJECT, mid-2015 | Owl’s Portfolio
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Operating system selection for $PROJECT, mid-2015. Presented without context, for amusement purposes only, a page from my notes:. I can’t find any. I can’t find any. It makes sense to me, but then, I taught myself Unix system programming and administration by reading the SunOS 4 manpages. Bootstrapping trust in compilers. Google Voice Search and the Appearance of Trustworthiness. Call for Volunteers: Active Geolocation. Using GPG2 with a read-only .gnupg directory. 2016 Hugo Award nominations.
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Foliomatic | Owl’s Portfolio
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Foliomatic is a hypothetical program for generating web sites like this one. I’m currently using Pelican. Which is a vast improvement over WordPress. Which was in turn a vast improvement over Ikiwiki. But it still gets in my way enough to irritate me. Unlike the game designs I have devoted many words to, I do intend to write Foliomatic someday, but it might be a good long time. Meanwhile, here are notes. Pulling a site together from lots of little page generators. Just hit a brick wall named. Supposed to...
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The literary merit of right-wing SF | Owl’s Portfolio
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The literary merit of right-wing SF. The results are in for the 2014 Hugo Awards. I’m pleased with the results in the fiction categories a little sad that. Didn’t win its category, but it. The sort of thing that would not be to everyone’s taste. Now that it’s all over, people are chewing over the politics of this year’s shortlist, particularly the infamous. And the motivations of those who might have voted for it:. The Wheel of Time. Whose position on my ballot expresses an objection to the eligibility r...
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HTML &c | Owl’s Portfolio
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Long, chewy articles about things related to the World Wide Web. Google Voice Search and the Appearance of Trustworthiness. Last week there were several bug reports [1]. About how Chrome (the web browser), even in its fully-open-source. Incarnation, downloads a closed-source, binary extension from Google’s servers and installs it, without telling you it has done this, and moreover this extension appears to listen to your computer’s microphone. All the time,. This extension unless you turn on the. As best...
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Administrivia | Owl’s Portfolio
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Announcements relating to the site itself. Announcing readings.owlfolio.org. I’d like to announce my new project,. Where I will be reading and reviewing papers from the academic literature mostly (but not exclusively) about information security. I made a false start at this near the end of 2013 (it is the same site that’s been linked under. Blog will notice that it has been redesigned and matches. I know about the pages that are still using the old style sheet.). Crashing should be fixed now. Is already ...
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About Me | Owl’s Portfolio
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Hello, my name is Zachary Weinberg. I go by. Except on paper. Pleased to meet you. I’m about thirty-five years old, and I grew up in the suburbs of Los Angeles, California. I’m presently doing Internet security research in the ECE department of Carnegie Mellon University. Before that I worked for the Mozilla Corporation. I studied how people understand language at UC San Diego. And back when dinosaurs roamed the Earth, I was a core GCC. If you meet me in person, you may hear me say some of these things:.
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Archives, page 2 | Owl’s Portfolio
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I Will File Bugs For You. This post prompted by Aaron Klotz’s. Inessential Weirdnesses in Open Source. One of the most common ways to start interacting with a free software. As opposed to just using the. Either way, it may not be easy to find, and there’s a nonzero chance that some neckbeard with a bad attitude is going to yell at you. It shouldn’t be so, but it is. I’ve been on the Internet since not. THE FINE PRINT: If you want to take me up on this, please do so. Valid for operating system kernels or ...
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Game design | Owl’s Portfolio
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I play lots of games. Board games, video games,. Roleplaying games. I occasionally have ideas for designing my own games. It’s unlikely that I’ll ever sit down and write a complete game, so instead I write the ideas down and put them here. Sometimes I also write up critical thoughts about other people’s games. Fantasy setting without the hack-and-slash. Several months ago, LJ user fadethecat. Posted a request for help identifying a dimly-remembered video game. In passing, she mentioned that. Anymore....
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