ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

The container I used to hold coffee beans broke, so I made this. First I cut and glued discs of alder, walnut, maple, then turned and finished. I succeeded in something I have failed at many times before -- making a tight lid.

#woodwork

Some snow and sunshine today

I love, love, love, love my friends who work in cybersecurity awareness training - and it remains a critical part of defense in depth, but imagine if (normal, not cleared) employees had to consistently and broadly take other awareness training to stop other tactics of criminals and spies all by themselves. Mandatory all-employee self-defense mat time. Mandatory annual recognizing of tampered locks. Mandatory “psychology of an insider threat” detection training.

We still put a lot on people with very little education or formal training, in cybersecurity.

It really works!

In early 2023, #Mozilla will stand up and test a publicly accessible instance in the #Fediverse at Mozilla.Social.

More info here: https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/mozilla-launch-fediverse-instance-social-media-alternative/

This is a delightful look at how practical action shots work from someone who built their own air ram and Hollywood-style explosion.

https://youtu.be/0CTUuKURCg4

Memo to @nationalreview:

1. The NOTAM system is separate from air traffic control.
2. The NOTAM system is *already* privatized. It's run by Leidos.
3. A significant portion of air traffic control is not run by the FAA. I talk to non-FAA flight controllers from the airplane every week.

Suggestion: Learn about a topic before shitposting about it.

https://www.nationalreview.com/2023/01/the-u-s-should-privatize-air-traffic-control/

What was your first modem? Mine was a 300 baud #VICMODEM for my #Commodore #VIC20 which included a type in terminal program in BASIC. You had to manually dial the number with the phone, unplug the coil cable from the handset, and plug it into the modem! #RetroComputing #VintageComputing (Edit: added missing space after VIC20 tag)

Should developers build search engines for the fediverse that reflect current community standards?

#Poll #EvanPoll

Twitter appears to have stopped third party Twitter apps from accessing their network, without any warning or explanation. The reason Twitter can do this is because they control twitter.com and there are no other servers to choose from.

This kind of instant shutdown cannot happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse, because there are thousands of independent servers running on free open software standards.

This is why third party apps are so much more widely used on Mastodon and the Fediverse.

You can walk into any room and scream. "THIS WHOLE THING IS A FARCE!", and it's entirely appropriate every time.

Something I did that I liked.

Happy 10th birthday to the strip that became the last decade's defining meme.

Flipping through work notebook, found a single word:

Simultumultuously

Yeah, that’s a good word. I need to work it into conversations more.

#WordNerd

If your firm uses Bitlocker you will need to take special efforts to apply this patch. It will need a special script.
https://msrc.microsoft.com/update-guide/vulnerability/CVE-2022-41099

Anyways back to working on this stuff.

I was just fired. If you know someone hiring staff level software engineers, preferably in a #sre, #devops, or #PlatformEngineering space, I'd love to talk.

I'm looking for US remote positions, fwiw. And I can refer some really excellent engineers at all experience levels.

Edit: thank you for the boosts. I've been interviewing and I may have offers soon. I'll follow up on leads if I need to extend my search.

I’m going to tell you the story of the man who solved a crime.

Not, like, a cop who put together the clues and got his man, but a person who took a crime as old as civilization and fixed the problem where it got you in trouble.

The man: Artur Virgílio Alves Reis.

The place: 1920s Portugal.

The crime: Counterfeiting.

The problem he fixed: That the money is counterfeit.

(This is going to be a long 🧵 . Just trust me.)

The adoption of #Bitcoin is anemic ... and has staled since 2018 to ~20M active addresses (upper bound of nb of users)

This graph (log scale) shows unique active adresses on the #bitcoin #blockchain over 6 months.

It is compared to the adoption of internet and mobile phones, shifted in time to fit 20M users adoption.

Sources :

📕 Bitcoin adresses : Glassnode [https://studio.glassnode.com/metrics?a=BTC&ema=0&m=addresses.ActiveCount&mAvg=6&mMedian=0&mScl=log&pScl=log&resolution=1month]

📕 Internet & mobile adoption : Ou World in Data [https://ourworldindata.org/technology-adoption]

#CryptoScam #CryptoSkeptic