blit32 @blit32@mastodon.technology

today i learned that Bob Cratchit's wages of 15 shillings a week, portrayed as poverty wages in A Christmas Carol, is the equivalent today of £40,000

i am earning less than Bob Cratchit

Black Friday?
You mean International Unsubscribe Day?

This is horrendous.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/24/several-people-dead-migrant-boat-capsizes-channel

Imagine being so desperate that you board a dinghy and brave icy cold waters to get to a country you've probably never visited.

Meanshile, instead of focusing on the situation they're fleeing, the rhetoric is about turning boats around and "reducing the pull factor".

Q: Why does a web developer choose to learn Perl and PHP instead of Python or Ruby?

A: There is no $ in Python and Ruby code.

#court : also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses

- French: cour

- German: der Hof

- Italian: taglio

- Portuguese: corte

- Spanish: corte

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#node : the joint of a stem, or the part where a leaf or several leaves are inserted

- French: nœud

- German: der Knoten

- Italian: nodo

- Portuguese: nodo

- Spanish: nodo

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Word of The Hour's Annual Survey @ https://wordofthehour.org/r/form

"Computer science education cannot make anybody an expert programmer any more than studying brushes and pigment can make somebody an expert painter."

-- Eric S. Raymond

Strong approve

https://twitter.com/MackleNG/status/1462739577626578944

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1462835086722801669

RT from aLec robBins (@alecrobbins)

this was way better than NFTs

Original tweet : https://twitter.com/alecrobbins/status/1457945205768814593

Final deprecation of v2 onion services: Last year we announced that v2 onion services would be deprecated in late 2021. That day has finally come, and v2 onion services are no longer reachable in Tor Browser 11.0. Users will receive an “Invalid Onion Site Address” error instead.

Read the full changelog here: https://blog.torproject.org/new-release-tor-browser-11-0

Today is Aaron Swartz birthday. Because of him, we have Creative Commons (development), Reddit (co-founder), Watchdog.net, Open Library, DeadDrop, Progressive Change Campaign Committee, Demand Progress (co-founder), ThoughtWorks, and Tor2web.
#AaronSwartz

Fuck the metaverse. We have the Fediverse!

Dead serious #infosec career tip: learn to read NIST security publications. They're very clearly written and authoritative. "Can we use RSA-1028 here?" "Not according to NIS 800-57 Part 1." Like, that's an argument ender.

For another example: "How often do you rotate your passwords?" "Never unless compromised." "LOL, why?" "NIST 800-63B section 5.1.1.2 says not to." Go ahead, explain why NIST is wrong.

I got zero responses last time I hit up the Fediverse offering paid creative work, but I'm not giving up!

Some #Owncast features being worked on require iconography. And while we could use an icon library or something like Fiverr it'd be nice to work with an illustrator on the Fediverse who focuses on icons to have something that is custom.

This is paid work, so please boost and tell your friends.

Feel free to message me on the fediverse or email me: gabek@real-ity.com

"The hacker decoded the HTML source code" is going to go down along side "The internet isn't a truck" and "You type tracer t and it shows you the people on google"