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#introduction
Kindergarten children dropped seeds in the crack of the sidewalk to see what would happen 🤗 https://streetartutopia.com/2023/04/15/kindergarten-children-dropped-seeds-in-the-crack-of-the-sidewalk-to-see-what-would-happen/
Nature is everything 🌱
DOJ actually detected the SolarWinds hack in its network back in May 2020 and Microsoft, Mandiant, SolarWinds all looked at it at the time, but didn't grasp what they were seeing. Six months later Mandiant publicly exposed the campaign. @kimzetter back in WIRED! https://www.wired.com/story/solarwinds-hack-public-disclosure/
Here, I made you a Slack emoji for when you're talking about GenAI
back in January of 2016, we started getting reports on WordPress.com that people were publishing blog posts and the letter F was going missing. they initially thought it was a typo, but when they'd edit the post, the words would be spelled right in the post editor. but on the live site? no Fs
sounds like user error, right? but the reports kept coming in. and it wasn't just missing, sometimes it was switched, like the word "first" would become "ifrst". if you know anything about fonts maybe you can guess what was up...
Why do people remove it? Because NVD has exaggerated a curl security flaw to an inflated level, and now "security scanners" insist that the bundled curl executable has a "high severity" security flaw and scaremongers people into removing it.
And then they realize Windows update refuses to work.
Are we sure this is the best we can do?
Today is the 30th anniversary of the announcement of the Clipper Chip, an ultimately failed proposal for "key escrow" cryptography that ignited the "crypto wars" of the 1990's.
Want to get into reversing or learn new advanced topics? Here are my favorite tutorials, talks, blog posts and podcasts! #reverseengineering #reversingshorts
https://youtu.be/6N0mk9s0ylU
I finished reading World Wide Waste by Gerry McGovern. I'd consider it essential reading for anyone working with computers!
https://gerrymcgovern.com/books/world-wide-waste/
It's well cited (though I still need to check those citations) & uses maths effectively to make it's point.
That computers + (surveillance) capitalism is actually worse for the environment than the predigital era. That we can and must move slow and fix things, and fund that vital work directly.
Don't get me wrong, computers can absolutely help us regain our environmental efficiency. They just *aren't*.
Not as long as we're:
* constantly syncing everything to the cloud,
* expecting same-hour delivery,
* funding our clickbait via surveillance advertising,
* buying a new phone every year,
* using AIs because they're cool rather than useful,
* running bloated software & webpages,
* buying into "big data"
* etc
Computing is environmentally cheap, but it rapidly adds up!
Somewhere, someone finally made this and I think it's beautiful
New: Online alcohol recovery startups Monument and Tempest have confirmed they were sharing the personal information and health data of their patients, without their consent, with advertising giants for *years*.
More: https://techcrunch.com/2023/04/04/monument-tempest-alcohol-data-breach/
The Reversing Shorts video you've been waiting for: How to actually reverse engineer shorts? 🩳🧵🪡
Follow along this sewing tutorial and get to know how to copy your favorite clothes! #reverseengineering #sewing @sewing
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'Encouraging creative theft'.
Would this work in USAnian cities? Certainly in some neighborhoods.
Photo text excerpt from #BillMollison's autobiography, Travels In Dreams.
#UrbanPermaculture #fruit #UrbanFarming #Rewilding #GuerillaHorticulture
While the #CryptoWars continue, we would like to remind everyone of two very convincing facts for the pro #encryption side:
✅ 1. Encryption can't be outlawed
✅ 2. Backdoors for the good guys only are impossible
Read our position on the ongoing crypto wars: https://tutanota.com/crypto-wars/