Nick @internic@qoto.org

@darkuncle I left my tech career in 1999, went back to school for an advanced degree in natural resources, and spent much of the last 20 years of my career out in nature, unplugged from tech, and often in solitude. It was a good decision.

Get out in nature while you can. At 61, I’m now disabled and spend much of my outdoor time on the porch looking at the woods I used to walk in. Don’t leave it until later. Get out there now, even if it means changing careers.

More than 100 former national security and foreign policy officials who served in the administrations of Presidents Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush, and/or Donald Trump, or as Republican Members of Congress endorse VP Kamala Harris.
https://open.substack.com/pub/rbmralumni4harris/p/over-100-republican-national-security?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

My son just got his first data breach letter. He’s 2.5 years old.

hey professor friends!
In your departments, do current graduate students ever help with graduate admissions? Does this raise concerns about applicant privacy?

This is something twitter never really took seriously. Or more fair to say they only took it seriously for celebrity or "noteworthy" accounts. Once you get to a certain follower count, your needs as a user change quite a bit. You need more tools to manage who gets access to your attention.

The reason: Router malware has grown increasingly sophisticated as nation states like China and Russia have jumped all in over the past 5 or 10 years. Actors working on behalf of these governments regularly build large IoT botnets for use in attacks against targets they want to hack. These bots are ideal because they have US-based IP addresses, which generally have good reputations.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/hacker-free-for-all-fights-for-control-of-home-and-office-routers-everywhere/

Despite the sophistication, the vast majority of router malware lacks persistence, meaning the device is disinfected each time is rebooted. Security firms have regularly advised the period rebooting of routers. So has CISA:

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2016/10/14/heightened-ddos-threat-posed-mirai-and-other-botnets

https://www.cisa.gov/news-events/alerts/2018/05/25/cyber-actors-target-home-and-office-routers-and-networked-devices

We’ve made the hard decision to end our experiment with Mozilla.social and will shut down the Mastodon instance on December 17, 2024. Thank you for being part of the Mozilla.social community and providing feedback during our closed beta. You can continue to use Mozilla.social until December 17. Before that date, you can download your data here (https://mozilla.social/settings/export), and migrate your account to another instance following these instructions (https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/mozilla-social-faq). 

#vortices and capillary waves can be seen easily thanks to light refraction on the bottom of this quiet #glacial stream in the #pyrenees.
#fluiddynamics #physics #science

My main complaints with the Change, Technically podcast are:

1. It's so well-researched and cited that I'm in for lots of paper reading 😅

2. I like listening to podcasts when walking, but I want to pause and take notes every few minutes when my mind is blown 🤯

3. I feel like I want to listen to each episode at least twice 🙌

Anyway, subscribe! It's absolutely incredible. Drs. @grimalkina & @analog_ashley have incredible podcast chemistry. Best new podcast IMO!

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/change-technically/id1764552830

Using Hubble, astronomers have found more black holes in the early universe than previously thought. They went black hole hunting in the landmark Hubble Ultra Deep Field, first taken in 2004, and in following observations to look for black holes: https://bit.ly/4efOl9Q

Over 50,000 people support @ProPublica's investigative journalism. We're a non-profit, web-first newsroom that investigates abuses of trust in the public interest.

We're beginning our fall member drive, and I want to show how vibrant and engaged the fediverse community is. If you have the means, please consider a donation.

https://give.propublica.org/give/346423/#!/donation/checkout?c_src=ben_mastodon

#journalism #fediverse

PKfail, the supply chain debacle stemming from use of non-production platform keys marked do not trust, has been found on hundreds of new devices, some used by voting machines, ATMs, and point of sale terminals.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/09/secure-boot-neutering-pkfail-debacle-is-more-prevalent-than-anyone-knew/

I've always valued having conservative friends and working through differences, but I am stunned at how much harder it has gotten since the debate. Even people I otherwise respect are rallying around Trump. Their Facebook feeds are filled with more misinformation than I could possibly counter - it overwhelms reasonable discourse. I fear the country is heading to a very dark place.

My old friend, the animator Peter Chung, has released the first of our Zoom conversations! We range over many topics: artistic, scientific and philosophical.

He writes:

John Baez is a world renowned smart guy with interest in a wide range of subjects beyond his specialties of theoretical physics and pure mathematics. We have been close friends since twelfth grade, when we were new students at Langley High School in Virginia in 1978-79. In spite of having divergent career paths, I think we shared an outsider's view of high school culture that brought us together. I've wanted to interview John for a while, and this is the first of a series of dialogues which I hope will be of interest to listeners. John has requested that our dialogues be available to everyone without paywall restrictions.

https://www.patreon.com/posts/podcast-42-john-112137861?utm_id=a172f2fd-ae12-420a-a092-18bd677d6532

How do abortion pills work? What are common side effects? Who shouldn’t take abortion medication? We answered frequently asked questions about abortion pills.

#FAQ #Abortion #Health #RoeVWade #AbortionPills #FDA

https://www.propublica.org/article/abortion-pills-safety-questions-answered

hope you're feline calm and relaxed on this lazy sunday

#Caturday #SilentSunday

Has #Rosetta touched your life?

Did it inspire you to pick up a different subject at university or made you call a pet 'Philae'? Was your research informed by Rosetta data or have you created art (or a cake!) based on Rosetta images?

My colleagues at #ESA are creating an online exhibition to showcase your stories - you can submit words, images, videos, audio files or links to published material:

▶️ https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Rosetta/Rosetta_s_legacy_how_were_you_inspired

Deadline is 12 October 2024

#astrodon

So one of the things that is important about social media is that you can use it to really broaden your exposure to lived experiences out side of your own.

One of the many reasons this is important is because sometimes your life changes. And those lived experiences that used to seem far away from you suddenly become your own actual life.

For me, this was hearing people talk about disability.