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Alex Honnold Climbs Yosemites El Capitan Without A Rope

“Renowned rock climber Alex Honnold on Saturday became the first person to scale the iconic nearly 3,000-foot granite wall known as El Capitan without using ropes or other safety gear, completing what may be the greatest feat of pure rock climbing in the history of the sport. He ascended the peak in 3 hours, 56 minutes, taking the final moderate pitch at a near run.” This is just bonkers! Take a look at the climbing route, it’s quite impressive.
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Changing Emails

I’ve moved a lot of my email back to my personal account. My email is now michael@runcieman.com. I’ve setup scripts so that if I drop an email into a folder, every email from that address will go to that folder in the future. The scripts will re-generate a number of sieve filters based on the list of addresses in each folder every 30 minutes (or however often I want). This way if I want to remove a particular address from that ruleset, I just need to remove all the emails from that sender from that folder and that address will be removed. I’m not entirely sure sure if I’ll keep this setup or not, but it’s been a fun experiment.
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Theresa May Wants To Deprive Extremists Of Safe Spaces Online

This kind of thing will do nothing to stop the terrorists, but will likely weaken the privacy and security of law abiding people. The technology already exists. What’s the saying, “genie bottle”, or “horse barn”, something something. This reminds me of DRM, which usually doesn’t impact those who pirate at all, but causes immense amounts of problems for those who buy their media legally. Any type of measures taken to weaken encryption, or provide backdoors, will leave everyone except the intended targets vulnerable.
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