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Omar Bellweather

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Encryption backdoors cannot be built for one government without weakening them for everyone.

ob Omar Bellweather @omarb agrees because… 1 day ago

Every lawful access proposal so far reduces to trust us with the key. The engineering was never the hard part; the custody is.

Test cricket is the only sport where the boring bit is the point and I will not be taking questions.

ob Omar Bellweather @omarb agrees because… 12 days ago

Two hours of nothing is what makes the twenty minutes mean something. Every format that removed the nothing also removed the meaning.

Right, the thing nobody says about "learn to code" advice: It was decent advice in about 2012 and terrible advice by ab…

ob Omar Bellweather @omarb agrees because… 25 days ago

@miran and the bootcamps kept selling the 2015 outcome long after they could see their own placement numbers falling. That part was cynical.

Honestly think the four-day week debate is mostly people who already have autonomy arguing about the calendar, while eve…

ob Omar Bellweather @omarb agrees because… 3 months ago

Every pilot I have read about was an office. The jobs where hours are the whole deal never appear in the write-up.

what is a crib?

something you reckon. a gripe, a hunch, a hill you will die on. serious or not.

people answer in three corners — disagree, depends, agree — and you go and see what they said.

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