Andrew Whalley

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

A perfect complement to chrome.security !

In an ideal world, normal people shouldn't worry about computer security. But for now, people should focus on things that matter — like using MFA and keeping software up to date — not worrying about things like public wifi. Proud to be a signatory of this great initiative by @boblord.bsky.social

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

It's time to make HTTPS the web's default, and reap the full security benefit from years worth of HTTPS adoption! security.googleblog.com/2025/10/http...

BECOME UNOVENABLE 🪿

Somewhat ironic that this is the week I start VPNing /in/ to the UK so I can listen to BBC Sounds again.

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Just posted a deep dive on how Chrome integrates with Advanced Protection Mode on Android. security.googleblog.com/2025/07/adva...

Another great ancillary benefit of memory safe languages: Cool infrastructure projects remain cooler for longer 😎 Library authors can provide great functionality without implicitly signing up for the slew of security bugs that are sadly the consequence of a large c/c++ project.

Here's something I am very excited about: Photosynthesis! 🌱☀️ A proposal to have CAs run transparency logs and make X.509 certificates out of Merkle Tree inclusion proofs. This is similar to how CT would have worked in an ideal world, and it solves the problem of PQC sizes in logs and handshakes.

Happy solstice! 🌞🌝

British Airways, to give a taste of how long a transatlantic flight feels, created BA.com

Ed Balls

Note that you can get a new social security card without that wording when you get a green card. I did so will double check I told them when I became a citizen!

Just purchased a sledge hammer, and now have Peter Gabriel stuck in my head.

I'm excited about this program! Chromium isn't necessarily easy, but I know there are great engineers out there who would love to get paid for improving it!

Postcard from San Francisco

Here are the project ideas and info for Chromium:

🥞 Happy Pancake Day! 🥞

We are, unequivocally, the Bad Guys. We have been before, and we will be again, no doubt, but this one is particularly repellent.

Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦

I think Swiss Air is saying you can smoke in the toilets, but only if you don’t get caught?

Am I allowed to feel smug about being all hip and getting the pop culture reference, if I only know about it because of @kenwhite.bsky.social ?

I wish the Democrats in office demonstrated even 10% of the urgency of their fundraising texts dealing with these genuinely urgent situations.

In case of emergency, please present your yellow-tinted wine glass to have an entire bottle of wine poured directly into it.

Yesterday Chromium deleted our copy of `libavif` -- the last step of a year-long project replacing it with a new Rust library! :) chromium-review.googlesource.com/c/chromium/s...

This is not an easy discussion to have against such a horrific backdrop. But online age restrictions on commonly available goods are unlikely to make any difference & such measures are not cost free Hope the gov’t: - focuses on real security improvements; - has a coherent approach to tech 2/2

This is excellent news! Enigma is excellent and well worth your time.

I’ve lived in California a long time, but I’ve never got used to the fact that hummingbirds aren’t just on TV nature documentaries, but also “a few feet over there”

Need to check if you've got IPv6 connectivity? Love dancing turtles and 27 year old web pages? www.kame.net is for you.

Happy Christmas from Felicity.

To those of you who use a consumer VPN for "security" reasons, what specific technical improvements in your browser or OS would make you change your mind and uninstall the VPN? Please be technical.

Christmas came early.

On first glance, the C++ 23 “assume” keyword is the craziest thing I’ve ever seen. bsky.app/profile/feli...

Giving Tuesday idea: Do you have an Amazon credit card and a decent amount of cash back? Why not convert it into real impact and warm fuzzies by buying things off amazon wish lists. e.g. see #clearthelist for those of teachers. (It's sad it's needed for classroom supplies, but here we are)

Precision potatoes

> The Android team has observed that the rollback rate of Rust changes is less than half that of C++ This is a sleeper hit of a quote.

First in, first out :-)

OMG Private Network Access is finally shipping in Chrome 123. That's just shy of a decade for something I'd honestly expected to have shipped in more like a year. But I'm glad to see finally it's moving forward and the other browsers are supportive. www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/google/...