If you dig #StarCraft2, come watch the next Banshee Tournament hosted by Ragnarokette.
Banshee Tournament open to and inclusive of all women.
Sunday, 12/6 3pm Eastern
https://www.twitch.tv/ragnarokette
Use a mask, use Tor.
Today we’re launching our year-end campaign centered on the ways we can care for ourselves and our community: by masking up and using Tor. Anonymity loves company, after all.
Help resist the surveillance pandemic. #UseAMaskUseTor
Bizarre Design Choices in Zoom’s End-to-End Encryption
https://soatok.blog/2020/10/28/bizarre-design-choices-in-zooms-end-to-end-encryption/
Volunteer for phone banks, text banks, and literature drops. This can be done through individual campaigns and committees and I post information about them almost daily.
Remind people to return their ballots in person as we cannot risk GOP voter suppression efforts.
Donate to campaigns if that's a possibility for you. The final stretch can be the difference. 6/7
Not sure if anyone posted this yet, but the youtube-dl takedown also screwed over journalists who relied on it for archival and analysis purposes:
https://freedom.press/news/riaa-github-youtube-dl-journalist-tool/
uspol inequality
QOTD:
“The intellectual industry devoted to documenting and proposing schemes to ameliorate the outrageous and accelerating disparities of wealth, income and life outcomes in America relentlessly ignores the actual source of those disparities – disparities in power.”
— Michael Podhorzer, The Action Network
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Hat tip to @rysiek for sharing this link.
To any of my fellow US-ians concerned about our election going sideways, please have a look at the following.
https://choosedemocracy.us/prepare/
Let's hope all that advice becomes irrelevant soon.
Having saved credit card details in plaintext since 2015, British Airways is fined £20 million - British Airways has been fined £20 million (US $26 million) following a data breach which saw its ... https://hotforsecurity.bitdefender.com/blog/having-saved-credit-card-details-in-plaintext-since-2015-british-airways-is-fined-20-million-24340.html #britishairways #databreach #guestblog #dataloss #ico
I have data on a Linux system that I regularly have to export to a spreadsheet. Depending on a status variable, some fields have to get a background color (four different status possibilities, so max four different colors). I would like to write a script that creates the spreadsheet.
Unfortunately, perl Spreadsheet::Wright can't set background colors.
Anybody an idea?
My boss, as a way of telling me she successfully logged into our client's chat system, messaged me with "SYN."
Of course I replied "ACK."
She said she was disappointed in me since a proper TCP handshake is SYN -> SYN-ACK -> ACK.
I believe it is safe to say I am working with fellow nerds.
Just going to put this out here in case anyone might be interested:
"Thirsty Sword Lesbians" by Evil Hat is now on Kickstarter
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/evilhat/thirsty-sword-lesbians/description
Infosec, privacy tech, gaming (many flavors). Oakland, CA.
He/him