Steve Zissou @SteveZissou@qoto.org

Here is my thesis on Security:

The diligent and reliable existence of locks, matters a lot more than their strength.

In trying to find how often lockpicking is a factor in burglaries, a huge number/majority of thefts were from behind no locks at all. Lockpicking is almost nonexistent.
Thieves simply try doors for being left open. Or just break a window.

This matched with my experience in Enterprise Security.
Penetrators got in through poking for trivial misconfiguration and lack of protection, not novel trespass.
They had millions of targets with a small % of success and won.

So I ask, why aren't we focusing on high assurance?

Because assurance is hard. It is not fun. It is not flashy. It fails silently. It supposes diligent attention.
Remediation is by definition beyond self-correction. The percentage of failures meets 85% SLA, even though it fails every month for three years.
Catastrophe is demure.

The modern Enterprise endpoint is almost always a massive distribution of responsibility. And in that denial of culpability, nobody is responsible for success.
The completeness of maintenance. The completeness of security configuration. The completeness of the agents that assure it.
It is the perfect failure.

Nobody owns actual success, just blame.

HOT OLDER MEN in YOUR AREA want to know if YOU have been TOUCHING the THERMOSTAT.

"The Night Sprinter network would be a European grid of night trains that would consist of 40 international long-distance lines. By 2030, it would connect more than 200 cities from #Lisbon to #Helsinki."
Part of the "flight-free movement" growing across Europe.

Aspirational map put together by Greens in#Germany. Still lots of challenges remain crossing borders!

This is De Meern 1, the most complete #Roman river #craft (in this case, a #barge) found in Northern Europe. It sank suddenly & accidentally in about 190 AD, just to the west of Utrecht - the captain may have made a mistake in taking it into a winding tributary of the #Rhine (then the Empire's northern frontier) where he was, it seems, unable to avoid some lethal obstacle. He & the crew seem to have escaped leaving personal belongings which survived with the #boat.

Here is a lazy version of the #30DayMapchallenge 2022 Days
21: @KonturInc population.
24: Fantasy: I air brushed in #Wakanda (just watched #BlackPanther). Can you find it?
25: Two colors. I remember this redish sand tint from my last trip to #Accra, Ghana.

Made w #Aerialod

Got the new Tesla phone you guys!

One week until I will be speaking at @rstatsdc on "Building an Entire City in R: Interactive 3D Data Visualization with #Rayrender"

I'll show how to build a digital replica of a city entirely in R and an example of telling a data-driven story within it!

#RStats #rayshader

One of the things I keep hearing here, over and over, is that "new" people on this platform shouldn't complain about things they find confusing or that don't meet their needs.

That's exactly wrong. New uses, who've not yet adapted themselves to possibly unworkable or inscrutable interfaces and limitations, are often in a unique position to have insights that old hands can no longer see.

Perhaps you're tired of hearing the same complaints over and over. But think about why people make them.

Free game on GOG: Terroir. Manage your own vineyard and create the finest wines.

https://www.gog.com/en/game/terroir
#Games #GOG

Seen on a Midjourney group in Zuck’s Mall: stills from Alejandro Jodorowsky’s version of TRON:
(1/?)

Crystal Tetrahedron (2020) https://www.shadertoy.com/view/WsBfWt

Goniatite fossils peeking out from pebbles- seeing daylight after being buried in layers of sediment for more than 300 million years.
Cliffs of Moher, County Clare, Ireland.

Cormacscoast.com Walking tours

#wildatlanticway #walkingtours #discoverireland #keepdiscovering #failteireland #cliffsofmoher #burrenandcliffsofmohergeopark #atlanticgeoparks #fossils #irishfossils #Goniatite #geology #Ireland #irelandtravel

This was the complete ScienceBlogs community - the first #science blogging network - as it appeared in 2007 hosted by SEED. I’m thrilled so many of us are here on #Mastodon now, still sharing science research and stories 15 years later.
How many writers do you recognize?

An #ASTER image of the Zagros Mts in Fars, #Iran, because #FridayFold and #Geology rules!

And sorry, I can't remember the band combination I used… It's an old composition, but it's false colour, that's for sure 😅

It represents shortwave #infrared and near infrared light, combined as red, green and blue. The colours highlight different rock types that would be "invisible" to the naked eye. It's perhaps 30 km wide.

Amazing #folds

#remotesensing #earthobservation #space #science #satellite

Kleiner Zwischenstand: soweit kam ich gestern im Stream. Die Bäume haben ihr Blätterkleid erhalten und der Weg ist nun auch erkennbar. Aber es fehlt noch einiges…
#pnpde #mapping #map #illustration #ttrpg #dndmap

hey did you know the roots of a cubic polynomial can be visualized using an equilateral triangle?

🔵 vertices are roots
🔴 the incenter is the inflection point
🟢 the incircle boundaries are the local minima/maxima

For today's two color #30DayMapChallenge here is "Black and Yellow", Wiz Khalifa's tribute to his hometown, Pittsburgh. Also home of #nacis 2023

STARFLEET SECURITY WARNING

Abort code exposed: Cornwell-Phi-Mu-Epsilon-Yellow-Daystar-Five-Four.

Immediate revocation required.

#StarfleetSecurity #KeepStarfleetSecure #StarfleetInfoSec #StarTrek

Happy Turkey Day, my fellow Americans! 🦃

That moment when you encounter a building that is a constant on your bucket list #brutalist #architecture