ischade @ischade@mastodon.technology

According to Cloudflare roughly 18% of HTTPS connections are currently being intercepted (man-in-the-middle):

https://malcolm.cloudflare.com/

on a related note, @fool is probably the finest software architect i have ever met

God: you’re black and white.

Orca: like a penguin?

God: yes but you’re not a penguin.

Orca: oh.

God: you swim in the ocean.

Orca: like a penguin!

God: you are not a penguin!

Orca: oh.

God: you eat fish.

Orca: [gasp].

God: [sigh].

Orca: i’m the chubbiest penguin!

[puts this hat on forwards, then backwards, then forwards again]

RT @PGourevitch@twitter.com
Chuck Klosterman drops the mic on the @nytimesbooks@twitter.com “By the Book” dinner party question: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/books/review/chuck-klosterman-likes-writers-who-arent-self-absorbed-sociopaths.html

Sometimes I think my life is a weird mix of duct-taping software together with deep dives into network programming, bursts of CTFs and uh applied infosec, mixed with educating my friends about outlaw biker gangs.

It's a good life.

Good thoughts from Tumblr (not by me):

"If courage isn’t the absence of fear but doing the right thing regardless of it, maybe confidence isn’t the absence of insecurity but knowing you have real worth despite it"

"By this same token, maybe goodness isn’t the absence of bad thoughts or impulses, but the conscious choice to behave according to your moral ideals in spite of them."

Source: https://randomslasher.tumblr.com/post/186220445331/if-courage-isnt-the-absence-of-fear-but-doing-the

Okay, I've tried everything else, let's see what happens here. I'm a 56yo IT professional currently facing age discrimination in the job market. My skills are proven and broad. I can do operations, project management, service delivery; am versed in multiple OSs, monitoring systems, ticketing platforms. I'm a technical writer and published author. I'm willing to relocate pretty much anywhere for a job that pays enough to cover my mortgage. I need employment by Sept 30. CV on request. #job #dayjob

The more I have to work with Windows 10 daily, the less I understand the boneheaded choices Microsoft has made and continues to make and/or not clean up.

tl;dr - Signal instead of email, Tarsnap instead of Duplicity, Signify instead of gpg --verify #pgp #cryptography https://latacora.micro.blog/2019/07/16/the-pgp-problem.html

Long ago, the four nations lived in harmony.

hmmmmm
starbuck....meets starbuck.....in a starbucks