microlog post: 2026-04-28

common/microlog/2026-04-27.gmi

@@ -19,6 +19,6 @@ Imagine a world where you can connect to the Internet, get all the gob-stopping
 
 To summarise the headlines:
 
-- No domain names, only cryptographic hashes
+* No domain names, only cryptographic hashes
-- You take your identity with you, so there is no concept of 'logging in'
+* You take your identity with you, so there is no concept of 'logging in'
-- There is no trust in the system, in contrast to the Web, which depends on total trust in invisible corporations who hold domain name databases and sign TLS certificates
+* There is no trust in the system, in contrast to the Web, which depends on total trust in invisible corporations who hold domain name databases and sign TLS certificates

common/microlog/2026-04-28.gmi

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+I picked up a random book in the New College Library, and it brought home how much tightly apocalyptic language had been tied to visions of nuclear armageddon, particularly in the 1980s.
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+Perhaps this is still shaping, and limiting, how we use apocalyptic language today, even as the subject matter has largely shifted away from nuclear weapons and towards green issues.