Notices by Hal Pomeranz (hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange)

“Ahead, cat factor five, helmsman!”

#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Maddie

The Epstein files are not being held by furloughed government workers

@catsalad @rysiek Synchronized ducks!

@artemis Travel is another way to broaden your world—if you can afford it. I find it strange when people are proud of never having left the town they grew up in.

@hellomiakoda

Cute, Fluffy Evil?

Ineffectual Evil?

Southern Fried Evil?

Welp, not even one full week into the new school year and seven teachers at a local school are out with COVID. No word on the students. But yes please do tell me more about your herd immunity fantasies.

#CovidIsNotOver

I’m going to go have drinks with friends and try and forget this whole clown show for a few hours. I recommend you go to your happy place and hunker down for a bit. Peace be unto you.

@hellomiakoda Wow, I played that game compulsively until I finished it. Very fun.

@RamenCatholic

@claudiom The perspective of this article is so funny to me. It seems to be saying that X terminals were somehow the “killer app” for X Windows and the only technology to truly take advantage of X Windows’ display transparency.

Having come of age in the X10 days, I can assure you that X Windows was designed for running on workstations. X Terminals were frankly a solution in search of a problem and never achieved a fraction of the penetration of X Windows on workstations.

The best use of remote display was a virtual wind tunnel project I worked on at NASA in the early 90s. Run your fluid dynamics simulation on a supercomputer and display real-time airflow over a surface on an SGI Indy workstation. Neat stuff for the time. Now my kids’ video game console can render a thousand times faster than what we were doing back then.

@feld @garlickles I’m not sure I agree either. But this change does have an enormous impact on the high tech jobs market, and people need to prepare for this reality.

I could bemoan the lack of “research for research’s sake” that we lost when Bell Labs and similar corporate research centers went away. When the Apollo program ended and later when the space shuttles stopped flying. But that’s a whole separate conversation.

Yeah, I know it’s LinkedIn—sorry.

tl;dr Is that the high tech layoffs in the past few years have been largely driven by changes to the US tax code. These jobs may never be coming back. Prepare for an extended period of unemployment uncertainty.

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tax-consequences-hal-pomeranz-holpe

You are not an “influencer”. You are an untrained freelance marketing consultant working on spec for corporations who are monetizing your content and paying you a minuscule fraction of what you are bringing in. Good luck with that.

@azonenberg @beka_valentine @dalias The Windows 11 “hardware requirements” are a blatant lie to sell new hardware that people don’t really need. Apple obsoletes hardware by refusing to allow newer operating systems to run on perfectly functional systems. It’s a scam.

Our way of life is being burned to the ground and the media is calling it like it’s a sporting event rather than documenting the crime.

@JessTheUnstill Always SELECT before DELETE, like you “ls” before you “rm”. Let’s be careful out there!

@patrickcmiller I’ll take “Consciousness of Guilt” for $2000, Alex!

There are two types of people in the world: those who pee in the shower, and liars.

@feld Here's a tool that I wrote to do pattern matching in mbox files and return matching messages. I know this tool works. Try it on your mbox, and if it fails then you don't have a typical mbox file.

https://github.com/halpomeranz/dfis/blob/master/mgrep

@feld “\nFrom “ (newline, From, space) is the correct mbox message separator. The RFC states that this pattern appearing in the message MUST be rewritten as “\n>From “ to avoid confusion.