From one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World to one of the world’s most beautiful beaches... and we’re still in our own state. Just gained a totally new appreciation for home today ❤️ 🇦🇺
Words can’t describe how amazing the reef is, it’s just totally out of this world
And Whitehaven Beach... it’s just always one of the best in the world. All national park, remote from the rest of the world and sand like talcum powder. Amazing hamiltonisland.com.au/things-to-do/w…
Saying goodbye to Hayman Island, The Whitsundays were just absolutely amazing 🤩
There are a lot of bats in Port Douglas 🦇
I mean **A LOT** of bats 🦇 😲
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The beaches here are not quite like home... 🐊
🚣♀️ 🤿 🐠 🚁
All Australian animals are soft and furry and harmless... 🦘
...ok, so there’s a few exceptions 🐊
Little girl. Big fish. 🎣
It’s almost bat o’clock (zoom in...)
Far North Queensland summer days 🥵
Problem solved 🍻
The bravest little girl I know ❤️ She wanted to bungee as well but needs another couple of years on her yet
Such diverse landscape here from reef to rain forest to white sandy beaches to this (bonus points for spotting the camouflaged child) 🪨
You might get stung, eaten or drown, but other than that it’s really nice!
But at 30C in the ocean, it’s pretty damn tempting...
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This felt... “precarious” 😬
Christmas Day here is... Nerf gun wars, drones, playing in the park and old Christmas movies. What’s it like in your part of the world?
An enormously challenging year coming to a close surrounded by a wonderful family. We’ve had amazing support from fantastic friends, neighbours and an online community that stretches further than we ever could have imagined, with thousands of messages of support. Thanks folks 🙏
The amazing @SkyrailCairns over the tropical rainforest and down to the ocean. We followed it up with a swim in the 30C ocean 🌴 🐊
Time for the next leg of the trip! We have many podcasts queued up... 🚗
There is a lot of nowhere out here. And bugs 🐜 🐛 🕷
A long day into the middle of outback Queensland, but man that drive is easy when the road is straight, flat, you can overtake anywhere and it’s either 100 or 110kph most of the way. Radar cruise control, podcasts, relax 😎
Just a little bit of this evening’s gorgeous scenery ☀️
Longest one-day leg of the trip coming up now. Go straight for 661k, get fuel at the only station along the way, turn left and go another 506k 🚗
Going straight for 633km 😳
Covered most of that already, this is the easiest big drive I’ve ever done, especially once we hit the 130 zone and the ks really started to disappear.
That’s about as tight as I want to make it range wise in the absolute middle of nowhere 😬
There’s a lot of desert out here 🐪
That’d be the most ks I’ve ever driven in a single day, but 1,169km in 9:28h was an absolute breeze 😎
Today’s first wildlife encounter 🦚
G’day! 🐪
First time I’ve had to get a key to remove a padlock from the pump before getting fuel. Also the first time I’ve paid nearly $2 a litre!
This’ll do 😎 🍺
This is just magical 🤩
G’night ✨
This is next level amazing
36 rock domes covering 22 square km up to 546m high formed 550 million years ago 😮
The last light of the year we’ll never forget. Have a great NYE friends.
Security theatre 🔓
When you can, see this. It’s magical.
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The Pornhub story regarding age verification shows just how hard privacy-preserving identifying verification is. Even when everyone agrees on the sentiment (nobody is saying kids should have access to porn), there’s no consensus on the execution. 404media.co/pornhub-is-now…
It took me a few seconds to VPN into Texas and capture these screens. It takes someone in Texas a few seconds to VPN into California and *not* see these screens! It costs a few bucks a month for a good VPN with loads of exit nodes around the world, placing you where you want.
I suspect that factored into Pornhub’s decision - the knowledge that they can satisfy a state law whilst not posing any real barrier to paying customers. If someone is willing to pay for porn, surely they’re willing to pay a lot less for a VPN to access it?
Was confused whilst doing my live stream just now why there was a sudden spike in DB usage on @haveibeenpwned. Turns out it was related to *dropping* this constraint:
ALTER TABLE [dbo].[Domain] ADD CONSTRAINT [CHK_DomainName_Pattern] CHECK (([dbo].[IsDomainValid]([DomainName])=(1)))
We'd decided a constraint that calls a function on every insert of a new domain was unnecessary; all it did was validate that the string adhered to the correct pattern, but because we controlled the upstream code, we could do that before it even hit the DB.
Hi folks, yes, I'm aware of this. I've been in communication with the Internet Archive over the last few days re the data breach, didn't know the site was defaced until people started flagging it with me just now. More soon.
This was a very uncomfortable breach to process for reasons that should be obvious from @josephfcox's article. Let me add some more "colour" based on what I found:
Ostensibly, the service enables you to create an AI "companion" (which, based on the data, is almost always a "girlfriend"), by describing how you'd like them to appear and behave:
Another cool little @Cloudflare thing that snuck out recently is this very simple security.txt creator:
It's a simple form-based configuration that takes the basics of a security.txt file in the following interface:
Because @cloudflare sits in the middle of the traffic, they can then intercept requests to the appropriate path and serve up the file. Here's one I just created: troyhuntsucks.com/.well-known/se…