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Slowcasting

26-Dec-17

The thing with making any podcast that involves recorded conversations is that people have to be at the same time and place. . The same things that the internet was supposed to make irrelevant in the first place. Well, other than providing cat pictures and porn. So here is an half-baked idea: Instead of splurging […]

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Retro-futurist hallucinations from 2049

15-Oct-17

Went to Bladerunner 2049 last night. And no, there won’t be spoilers in this post. Or more precisely, I am writing about things not in this sequel rather than about the things it contains. Because for all the loving care taken to it, if not the palpable fear of doing a sequel to a cult […]

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Useful idiots/so-called hackers

20-Mar-11

Last week two bits of news struck me as misguided. First there was a court in Amsterdam stating that abuse of a WiFi network, does not equal breaking into a computer system, even if such a WiFi network had some form of security measures such as password protection. Lots of geeky types, including those identify […]

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