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Pampa • Don't look @ me…I do what he does—just slower. #rstats avuncular •👨‍🍳• ✝️ • 💤 • Varaforseti í Gögn Vísindi @ GreyNoise + Carnegie Mellon […]

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I’m not sure anyone truly knows what COVID-19 can do to an octogenarian, but as someone — MANY decades younger — who suffered gravely with long-covid for a year, and *still* has "long covid-brain”: perhaps we truly need to consider non-compromised candidates when the DNC convenes, soon.

Major updates to arquero! https://github.com/uwdata/arquero/releases/tag/v6.0.0

Just deleted the Starbucks app. Their brazen support for the RNC / GOP / MAGA / Nazis is just too much. Never really used them much (we make espresso & matcha at home) anyway, so they won't feel our loss.

Why have I not been taking at least intermittent IR thermo readings during this heatwave?

🚨 CVE-2024-20419: A vulnerability in the authentication system of Cisco Smart Software Manager On-Prem (SSM On-Prem) could allow an unauthenticated, remote attacker to change the password of any user, including administrative users. (this is not going to end well) h/t @_mattata […]

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I continue to enjoy the iPhone Mirroring feature in macOS 15/iOS 18 betas. However, I think it’s gonna be problematic for various MFA solutions (in terms of enabling attackers). Rly hope CISA or some orgs threat model that, soon.

Um… Someone shld prbly tell ZDNet that their writers may want to not have ChatGPT write their articles and that their editors might not want ChatGPT to edit their articles to avoid naming the wrong company in the headline and body text and linking to the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

WaPo did a pretty spiffy 3D reconstruction of the rally area from the incident this past weekend. https://wapo.st/3Lwyt6k (gift link shld work for all).

Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) is the methodology the determines the pathway through the internet that a user gets routed to a particular website. Threat actors/adversaries have misused #BGP to reroute internet traffic (a.k.a., #BGPHijack). In an attempt to secure this routing protocol, the […]

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[uspol] Nope. Not a cult. Definitely *not* a cult. Perfectly normal. (alt-text for all three images is that they're idiot GOP members at the RNC convention wearing bandages on their ears just like their dear leader).

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UK friends: I'm visiting in a few weeks and looking for a ~3 day walking route, less than 1/2 a day via transit from London or Cambridge, mix of country and towns, staying in shelters/pubs/inns for 2 nights along the way. Any favorites? A good stretch of a national trail? Something less […]

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Great books! https://mastodon.social/@DanielSuarez/112763692216370596

GOOGLE DOCS NOW SUPPORTS IMPORT/EXPORT OF MARKDOWN (it may take until the end of the month for it to appear as an option) https://workspaceupdates.googleblog.com/2024/07/import-and-export-markdown-in-google-docs.html […]

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I knew The Onion had new ownership and better funding, but I had no idea they now run MITRE's CVE program, too! #LOL https://mastodon.social/@CVE_Program/112798313780601890

It's good to see buildings reacting the same way I did to the broader events in the USA of the past few days. https://haunted.computer/@Dio9sys/112797841830947768

This is rly rly well done. https://www.cip.uw.edu/2024/07/15/trump-assassination-rumors-collective-sensemaking/

Drop #500 (2024-07-16): Typography Tuesday Today's Typography-centric edition of the Drop includes details about "Typeset in the Future," a website and book delving into the typography of science fiction films. It also introduces "Wordmark," a tool for visualizing and comparing fonts, and […]

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Ten tornadoes 🌪️ in *Chicago* last night. O_O

The SEC is cracking down on AI-washing (when a corporation makes misleading claims about its AI capabilities). They nailed two financial firms already. SEC: PLS DO CYBER NEXT 🙏🏽 https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/spring-cleaning-in-the-ai-space-five-9770395/?origin=CEG

If geeks of a certain age remember the “You Will" ads by AT&T (they look like the attached) you are def gonna want to tune into @greynoise Storm⚡️Watch today w/me, @MLe, @ntkramer & Himaja at 10:30 ET (http://stormwatch.ing) b/c you will *not believe* the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]@greynoise Storm⚡️Watch today w/me, @MLe, @ntkramer & Himaja at 10:30 ET (http://stormwatch.ing) b/c you will *not believe* the […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

[uspol] in case you're wondering how the “tone down the rhetoric" and "unity" stuff is going down on the alt-right / christian nationalist quarters.

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[uspol] the spouse of the bystander shot and killed at the trump rally refused to accept a call from Biden b/c "her husband would not have wanted her to talk to him”. yet, trump still has yet to reach out to her. and she's still voting for trump. it's a cult, and the kids in that family […]

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A new post with an intro on simulation escape, a review of theories of consciousness, and then a roundup of the weird & esoteric (lots of folklore refs) and games/NLP links of the past 2 weeks […] [Original post on mstdn.social]

#geology #datascience #osgeo🚨If you use OSGeo GeoServer GeoTools, it contains an improper neutralization of directives in dynamically evaluated code vulnerability due to unsafely evaluating property names as XPath expressions. This allows unauthenticated attackers to conduct remote code […]

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I don't run large models for a living but napkin'd some maths based on provider cost sheets for existing ones and *i think* Meta's forthcoming Llama 405B is gonna cost orgs (at least) $500K+ a month to run it in any type of useful hardware+data center configuration. You could do alot of good […]

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I forgot to post this Sunday. I wish we'd never have to rely on this great resource by @onthemedia ever again, but that ain't the world we live in.

TMW you see you forgot to push "publish" on two newsletters over the past cpl weeks O_O

Drop #434 (2024-03-28): The One With The JavaScript Resources WinterJS is a new serverside Javascript option developed by Winter Community Group (WinterCG). It's written in Rust, uses Mozilla's SpiderMonkey engine, and can handle over 150,000 requests-per-second. It supports various JavaScript […]

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Drop #498 (2024-07-101): HTTP Toolbox Companions It's a 🕸️🕷️-focused Drop, today, with two tools (well, one tool and one tool/library/ecosystem) for slurping content up (responsibly!), and one TUI for helping craft perfect APIs […]

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For all you Firefox fanbois, the most oppressive opt-out feature in years is fourth on the list in the release notes — https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/ — below the obvious very critical "Firefox now supports playback of protected […] [Original post on mastodon.social]https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/128.0/releasenotes/ — below the obvious very critical "Firefox now supports playback of protected […] [Original post on mastodon.social]