Month: August 2023
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Just one thing: Suffrage
If you want a single thing to use to understand the current status of the great experiment that is the United States of America, one needs only to look at who is allowed to vote. In the beginning, voting was neither and inalienable right nor a privilege bestowed from power, being instead the consequence of…
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The Web is what is wrong with the Internet
HTTP is fantastic. HTTP is also a scourge. It is fantastic in the sense that what is does well, it does exceedingly well. But when it gets used to do those things it doesn’t do well it sows the seeds of doom. Want to move hypertext between computers? Good on you. Want to move things…
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Postel’s Triangle
Postel’s Triangle is the name for the idea that Domain Names, Certificates for those Domain Names, and the IP address allocations of the servers for those Domain Names that have the Certificates are a single information object that ought to be administered, configured, and propagated as a whole because doing that is the prerequisite for…