Notices by Hal Pomeranz (hal_pomeranz@infosec.exchange)

Weekends mean fresh baked muffins, and my recipe rules:

1/4 lb butter
1 cup honey
2 eggs
2 tsp vanilla extract
1 cup sour cream
1/2 cup milk
2 cups flour
1 tsp baking soda
pinch of salt
1 - 1.5 cups of your favorite add-in
(berries, [c]raisins, choc chips, etc)

Melt butter and stir together with honey
Mix in eggs and vanilla
Mix in sour cream and milk
Add dry ingredients and stir into an even batter (it’s ok if it’s a little lumpy)
Add your mix-ins and stir to distribute evenly throughout the batter

Spoon into greased muffin forms. This recipe makes roughly 48 mini muffins or 12 normal sized muffins. I will typically use paper baking cups for full-sized muffins.

Bake at 350F– 12-13min for mini muffins, 20-22 minutes for regular size (use wooden toothpick to test)

Usual recipes call for sugar instead of honey and this can be used, but honey adds more moisture and better flavor IMHO. Sour cream is the killer ingredient here for moistness though (you can use plain or vanilla yogurt instead of sour cream—don’t add vanilla extract if using vanilla yogurt).

@SlicerDicer @feld @jerry @Viss

I’m a believer in the “Buffett Indicator”. The market correction will be absolutely brutal.

https://www.currentmarketvaluation.com/models/buffett-indicator.php

If you have friends who are civil servants in the USA, make plans to meet up with them outside of work. Listen to them, support them—they need it right now.

“What? It’s Caturday again?”

#caturday

@hellomiakoda I’m assuming the UPS has a three prong plug? Could you be getting to ground via the outlet it’s plugged into?

@breadandcircuses @alice

“Poverty is not an accident. Like slavery and apartheid, it is man-made and can be removed by the actions of human beings.” —Nelson Mandela

If you are not seeing racism on Mastodon, be thankful you are not a target. But don’t believe it doesn’t exist.

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“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.” MLK Jr

@silverwizard I got started on this because I wanted to pick up surplus computers for a project of mine. But, heaven help me, I’ve continued to monitor the surplus equipment web sites. Hundreds of 5-10 year old computers being surplussed EVERY WEEK on these sites. Most of it likely headed for landfills. What a tragedy.

The more I study this e-waste problem, the more I see the hand of runaway capitalism. Computer manufacturers must sell an ever-increasing number of new computers. Which means that reasons—or new software and operating systems— have to be created to make old ones “obsolete”. It’s a false scarcity economy that’s filling our landfills with toxic sludge and our water and air with poisonous chemicals.

@anna Exactly this. They may not be engaging in the ways the OG want or expect them to. But you know what? The OG doesn’t get to choose.

@futurebird @wmd I wonder if you could recruit some of your students to be your own skunkworks IT department? I bet if you asked around you would find some who already have knowledge in this area. Turn it into an afterschool club for eager beavers and you could create a knowledge transfer pipeline. It won’t happen right away, and there will need to be some hardware investment (crowdfunded? grant money?), but over time I bet you could get the bespoke network of your dreams.

@futurebird I bet you have a student who has set up their own network for home use. They can help.

Setting up the network itself could be as easy as installing a consumer-grade WiFi router. The “internet side” of the router hooks up to your regular school network, and all your stuff connects to the WiFi network and the LAN ports on the router. The router will handle protocols like DNS and DHCP with little or no intervention from you.

@futurebird Ugh. Sorry your IT people are that way.

@molly0xfff An on-prem Exchange server perhaps? That’s a security incident waiting to happen.

@dalias @paninid It is sad and terrible that so much of journalism has been captured by forces interested in pushing disinformation.

@paninid I have a metric for when the stock market is due for “correction” that is based on the pace and tenor of popular press articles exhorting you to buy into the market and/or increase your retirement savings. The markets are screwed.

Don’t let other people stomp on your happiness. If it’s not hurting anybody, do the things that make you happy, even when others belittle them or say they’re uncool.

Being true to yourself is cool. Having a passion is cool. Finding joy is cool.

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#caturday

@hellomiakoda There are people alive today who remember when pink was the gendered color for boys.