Source: Absolute scale corrupts absolutely · Tailscale Blog

Tailscale is interesting.  They’re pushing auth into the networking level, using WireGuard, so all connections of any type across the net are secure and restricted (if appropriate), and identity is associated with IP.  As one of the founders says, it’s like going back to working on LAN: you can do arbitrarily insecure things, because it’s locked inside a building that only a few people can muck with.  But it’s a LAN you can get to from anywhere and anything.

They also like to build things that are simple to use, by design.

https://twitter.com/racheljulie/status/1245114069339852802?s=20

46.1% of the voting public think this government is doing a good job and should be returned to power. Meanwhile, here’s what they are actually doing.

https://e-vent.mit.edu/

from my friend Douglas, entertainment in a time of lock-down:

Some of that candor he’s known for. Discussing Democratic proposals for ensuring that the election in November goes ahead, things like universal vote-by-mail, he said

“The things they had in there were crazy. They had things, levels of voting that if you’d ever agreed to it, you’d never have a Republican elected in this country again,” Trump said during an appearance on Fox & Friends.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2020/mar/30/trump-republican-party-voting-reform-coronavirus

Source: Researchers Develop Faster Way to Replace Bad Data With Accurate Information | NC State News

YouTube found all the good ones and published them as a playlist

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCtFRv9O2AHqOZjjynzrv-xg

https://boingboing.net/2020/03/21/furloughed-sports-commentator.html

Funniest thing I’ve seen in a while. Give him a couple of pounds on buymeacoffee.com if you like it.

Football. Live. Well, a football.

New photo by Robert Marsanyi / Google Photos

Sitting by the fire at sunset is pretty nice, too … sun sparkling on the lake … this is where I’m taking meetings these days.

New photo by Robert Marsanyi / Google Photos

Back in the day, Douglas and I were speculating about password replacements (!) We ended up thinking about physical tokens that could be embedded in, say, jewelry, that could be used to authenticate you to some computer system the background, without you explicitly doing anything. Now, there’s Token, about to go mainstream (http://tokenring.com)

Another idea that we dreamed up was that of using the entire history of a person’s interaction with the web, hashed, as a way of proving who they were. Only a person who had a history of the same interactions, all performed in the same sequence over the same time, would be able to authenticate as you. And I’m reading about exactly that in a sci-fi book at the moment, The Fall, by Neal Stephenson. He calls it PURDAH, “Personal Unseperable Registered Designator for Anonymous Holography”.