Vault has landed what always seemed to be impossible: a whole-of-government cloud deal with an Australian Government.

With Ex ASIO Boss on the board as a director with Jane Halton as Chair.

We are being databased, and profiled.

https://t.co/xi4U7U94AU https://t.co/wAMeMstvpH

2018: Vault announced the largest single cloud services arrangement sold into the Federal government. It
coincided with the hugely controversial announcement that Microsoft’s Azure had been given ‘Protected’ status by the Australian Signals Directorate.

https://t.co/fulpdWIr4o
The Microsoft Police State: Mass Surveillance, Facial Recognition, and the Azure Cloud

https://t.co/hYoIRhCmZW
Here is the kicker.

Microsoft’s Azure had been given ‘Protected’ status by the Australian Signals Directorate.

Palentir is funding the Australian Signals Directorate.
Israel-linked CIA-funded Palantir goes public, making espionage mainstream

https://t.co/LzstHtdztp

https://t.co/3cs2HPLxXV
https://t.co/LzstHtdztp
Imagine giving permission for your movements and your contacts, including those unknown to you, to be tracked via your mobile phone every time you leave the house.

It may sound more like a dystopian vision. It may also become a practical trade-off

https://t.co/xvSVACK0QR
Another possibility could be other devices like the bluetooth-enabled small “tiles” already available and useful to locate keys or wallets.
Palantir Police State Wizardry

https://t.co/WkrakvAGQ4
https://t.co/jcMd4BBSss

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Caveat: This article is sourced from @Daily_Express !!!

"End of Sturgeon?"

Frankly, an appropriate response from @NicolaSturgeon might be to quote the infamous Mark Twain response to an erroneous 'obituary' known to all...

"The reports of my demise are greatly exaggerated."

https://t.co/Ce1xVVISR2

More accurately, the media have quoted:

"Ms Sturgeon said she had a “real job to do” and was focused on guiding Scotland through the Covid-19 pandemic."

It's very reassuring to hear that @scotgov and @ScotGovFM have prioritised safeguarding lives and Scotland, above all else.

"I’ll leave others to play games or politics. I have got a real job to do and people can decide themselves whether I am doing it well or not, but I am absolutely 100 per cent focused on leading this country through a pandemic."

💯% 😀👍

Making her priorities crystal clear!

“That’s what I’ve done since this time last year and it’s what I’m going to continue to do for absolutely as long as necessary.”

And again, making it absolutely crystal clear!

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A brief analysis and comparison of the CSS for Twitter's PWA vs Twitter's legacy desktop website. The difference is dramatic and I'll touch on some reasons why.

Legacy site *downloads* ~630 KB CSS per theme and writing direction.

6,769 rules
9,252 selectors
16.7k declarations
3,370 unique declarations
44 media queries
36 unique colors
50 unique background colors
46 unique font sizes
39 unique z-indices

https://t.co/qyl4Bt1i5x


PWA *incrementally generates* ~30 KB CSS that handles all themes and writing directions.

735 rules
740 selectors
757 declarations
730 unique declarations
0 media queries
11 unique colors
32 unique background colors
15 unique font sizes
7 unique z-indices

https://t.co/w7oNG5KUkJ


The legacy site's CSS is what happens when hundreds of people directly write CSS over many years. Specificity wars, redundancy, a house of cards that can't be fixed. The result is extremely inefficient and error-prone styling that punishes users and developers.

The PWA's CSS is generated on-demand by a JS framework that manages styles and outputs "atomic CSS". The framework can enforce strict constraints and perform optimisations, which is why the CSS is so much smaller and safer. Style conflicts and unbounded CSS growth are avoided.