HedgeMage @HedgeMage@maly.io
#Hacker, #SAR geek, #martialarts practitioner. More at http://security.engineering
"With the rise of self-driving vehicles, eventually there will be a country song about a truck leaving a guy, too."
I popped back onto social media after a long break, needing to touch base with some folks after my phone broke. Show more
@KindlyFire Have you a favorite Nextcloud client for Android? The official is bugging out on properly modern SSL :(
Oh come on, i a tech-savvy group of people talking about cybersecurity, can we *PLEASE* stop using the words "hack", "hacked", and "hacker" to mean "compromise", "broken-into", "cybercriminal"?
It conflates government-paid professional malicious actors with a kid in a basement somewhere building a digital clock. Doesn't seem fair to the kid.
Pretty please?
https://www.wired.com/2017/08/robots-will-not-take-your-job/?imm_mid=0f58ee&cmp=em-business-na-na-newsltr_econ_20170818 is an unusually well-thought-out piece from James Surowiecki about why the robots aren't replacing us just yet.
are never incinerated by bolts of lightning."
[Calvin, "Calvin and Hobes" strip by Bill Waterson]
Today I'm doing an experiment. I'm pointing out to people when they are engaged in behavior so crass and childish that I am unfollowing them. I have many people in my feed whose opinions I disagree with: this is an interesting learning exercise.
I'm done with toxic, childish people, of any ideology, who resort to name-calling, dominance games, or who denounce and insult people who probably love them and aren't here to defend themselves. I'm done with nominally-adult people having tantrums.
reminder that empathy only leads to compassion for members of your tribe; it leads to schadenfreude for members of other tribes
@HedgeMage Tell your kid he's fucking great. The not-having-to-replant thing really speaks to the lazy bum in me and i'd hate to see bees go extinct…
PSA from my awesome teenager, to anyone getting ready for fall planting in the US or Europe right now: early-blooming bulb flowers help #bees multiply and split off new hives. Read more at https://bloomingtonbees.com/2017/08/13/bee-gardens
Today's evil plot: convince my teenager that planting flowers for me is good for his business, and thus something he should do.
Given that he's keeping bees on our property, this should not be a hard sell, right?
Dear Universe: thank you for the kind of colleagues with whom I can clear up a two-month crypto debacle in a ten minute phone call.
I received a fountain pen in today's mail with no note. I didn't order it. The return address is what appears to be a random drop-shipping company in Hong Kong.
The mystery is driving me crazy. 🕵
Whining (or whinging, for my UK friends) Show more
Working draft of previously-mentioned page (thanks to @craigmaloney there are a couple more in my to-read list that may be added later)... https://binaryredneck.net/hacker-getting-ahead
I'm building a lending library for my mentees on stuff hacker culture doesn't generally teach well, such as organization, public speaking, business, and so on.
I'd appreciate good book/website suggestions to increase the list.
Web browsers have been developed into complete operating systems in themselves just in time for the Internet to collapse forever. Perfect.