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Wednesday, January 31, 2024

A winter doldrums public service post

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Over at Flares Into Darkness, there is a bunch of beach paintings.  Yeah, it looks exactly like that here right now.  Here's an example:...
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Monday, January 29, 2024

Interesting Security News

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Item the first : follow the money : Trend Micro's Zero Day Initiative (ZDI) held its first-ever automotive-focused Pwn2Own event in Toky...
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Friday, January 26, 2024

Notre Dame de Paris on track for complete restoration later this year

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This video is somewhat light on details but it's impressive just how many people are involved in the project. This video is more in dept...
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The dangerous side of IT security

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Security researcher fined for revealing insecure system : After discovering and reporting a vulnerability in an e-commerce database that was...
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Thursday, January 25, 2024

Dad Joke CCCVI

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Singing in the shower is great until you get shampoo in your mouth.  The it becomes a soap opera.
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Wednesday, January 24, 2024

Constitutional Crisis

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The bustard's a fortunate fowl with almost no reason to growl. Saved from what would be illegitimacy by the grace of a fortunate vowel V...
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Tuesday, January 23, 2024

Dad Joke CCCV

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It's been a month since my last Dad Joke, where I promised to do better (after a month long joke hiatus).  The Spirit is willing, but th...
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Sunday, January 21, 2024

R.I.P. Peter Schickele

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"Professor"* Peter Schickele has passed away at the fine old age of 88.  Dwight has the obit .  I ran across his music back at Sta...
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Friday, January 19, 2024

Big 2A gun decision

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Lawrence has a good post up about the recent win (for the Good Guys) striking down firearms prohibitions in Post Offices .  This bit is they...
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Wednesday, January 17, 2024

Schadenfreude

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   The cold weather in the midwest is stranding some Tesla drivers. This article is from Chicago, but reports are coming from other cities ...
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Tuesday, January 16, 2024

10 War movie actors who served in combat

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This is pretty cool: Lots that's predictable, but a lot that's new.  Christopher Lee makes the list, but as we all know he was a bad...
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Monday, January 15, 2024

Bavid Bowe - Space Oddity

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( See what I did there? )   It's a little out of place to tag something Modern Monday when it was recorded over half a century ago, bu...
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Information Security is hiring

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The World Economic Forum (I know, I know) released a report of the fastest growing and fastest declining job fields.  Information Security i...
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Sunday, January 14, 2024

Introducing The Queen Of The World

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Michael left a comment to last night's post where I was off to sack Rome and TQOTW was a mermaid: Show us your ugly mug but keep the me...
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Saturday, January 13, 2024

Excuse me, I'm off to sack Rome

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OldAFSarge finds a fun site .  It clearly has an AI back end because there's no way I'm this good looking. Oh, and how do we get to ...
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Wednesday, January 10, 2024

Why, oh why?

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People like to (as The Queen Of The World likes to say) complicate a cornflake.  Case in point: dimmer switches.  I've been swapping dim...
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Monday, January 8, 2024

New exploits being released same day as the patch

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This isn't great : Less than one percent of vulnerabilities contributed to the highest risk and were routinely exploited in the wild. 97...
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Saturday, January 6, 2024

Nikalaus Wirth, R.I.P

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Computer scientist Nikalaus Wirth passed away on New Year's Day .  Wirth is known for creating the Pascal computer language - full discl...
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Wednesday, January 3, 2024

So which stores use facial recognition technology to track you when you shop there?

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Interesting .   There are a lot of surprises on this list, both stores I expected to use this tech who say they won't, and stores I expe...
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Tuesday, January 2, 2024

More on the Herculaneum Scrolls

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This is an excellent layman's introduction to what the big deal is about the Herculaneum Scrolls.  Short answer: it's a very big dea...
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