November 14, 2022

                            November 14, 2022

                November 14, 2022

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Sorry for the abbreviated newsletter today. I have a paper due and it’s crunch time. Will be back on schedule tomorrow.

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U.S. Naval Institute @NavalInstitute
#OTD in 1970, the Oregon Highway Division consulted with the U.S. Navy and decided the best way to dispose of a whale carcass was to blow it up with a 1/2 ton of dynamite. The explosion caused blubber to rain down on spectators for over a 1/4 of a mile. The TV segment is classic. 
6:37 PM ∙ Nov 12, 2022
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mRr3b00t - staying here! 🤣 @UK_Daniel_Card
a MEME for your morning Monday! Expanding upon my friends amazing work! #Ransomware 
5:47 AM ∙ Nov 14, 2022
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Hector Martin (@marcan@treehouse.systems) @marcan42
Twitter is already slowly breaking, and it's only going to get worse.

He says that Twitter was built to be resilient, and that means the core features will continue working even with a reduced workforce.

As a former SRE, I disagree with that conclusion. 
Gergely Orosz @GergelyOroszScoop from within Twitter: small things are breaking, not enough engineers to fix them.

Noticed that notification counts are not showing? The BE service powering it is down since Thursday. A bug was filed, but the team that would fix it is full on with verification work.7:16 AM ∙ Nov 13, 2022
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Metlstorm @Metlstorm
so very deeply classified 😂 we had no idea, im shocked, SHOCKED i tell you  
Metlstorm @MetlstormEyyyyy its coming out day for the GCSB! You know we all knew, right? And we've been cool with it forever🌈

(excerpt from a speech GCSB Dir-Gen Hampton gave at the "Wairarapa Branch of the New Zealand Institute of International Affairs" -talk about a safe audience lol- last week) https://t.co/UxkCb6qVcZ5:35 AM ∙ Nov 14, 2022
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Arsenio Menendez @Ascii211
ITAR strikes again, you gotta be exceedingly careful with posting of source on projects that are under ITAR umbrella. Milosch Meriac (mastodon.social/@FoolsDelight) @FoolsDelightWow, this is crazy - the KrakenRF passive radar code was just forcibly taken down for unknown reasons:

https://t.co/2Tmi7TQoor

Why is this not all over the news @hackaday, @ctmagazin, @LaF0rge, @travisgoodspeed  ? https://t.co/60mokTfNw32:56 PM ∙ Nov 13, 2022
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Best explanation of cryptocurrency so far. Nick Weaver dropping the mic.

https://www.currentaffairs.org/2022/05/why-this-computer-scientist-says-all-cryptocurrency-should-die-in-a-fire

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Amid all the "social media are destroying a generation" claims, this study found that, during the pandemic, *lack* of access to a computer was a risk factor for mental health in adolescents.

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-23899-y

https://fediscience.org/@albertoacerbi/109341654447054390

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