Texas “was received as a commonwealth holding, maintaining and protecting the institution known as negro slavery-- the servitude of the African to the white race within her limits-- a relation that had existed from the first settlement of her wilderness by the white race, and which [Texas] people intended should exist in all future time”

Gee, what a hard question to figure out from historical sources, guess we’ll never know what they were thinking…

Public key in a pubic place?

English has https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gammon_(insult)

Is it maybe more about ‘work for us’? Like celebrating Christmas isn’t usually an attempt to recruit Christians, but displaying pride colors signals that you want to be seen as a safe place for people to work?

Alpha Phoenix too, if you like 3b1b

When a report came out on car security, one thing which stood out was how any technician of any of the client car manufacturers could just browse through gps data, cameras etc for millions of customers’ cars.

One of the many ways they found out was because one system accidentally gave access to customers as well as techs (pro tip: remember to check group membership when doing LDAP authorisation!)

Wasn’t there a new HTTP action recently proposed for “This is a JSON RPC request that we’ve convinced ourselves is actually REST and we’ve been using POST and someone finally pointed out that that was stupid”?

Not a new status code but still vaguely amusing.

Someone tested the evil bit and found a selection of real-world networks that react to its presence