Schuyler @schuyler@mastodon.social
The one that knows about locks. π
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Being that I work every day with 16 year olds, it can occasionally slip my mind that I am more than twice their age. One of them helped me remember, though, when she told me that her aunt was asking if I was seeing anyone :P
Pretty "neat" - bleh, so many typos lately.
Years ago I started kind of a journal for the Locksport community called NDE Mag. An old friend asked if I had the back issues kicking around. Only put out 4 & a half, but pretty need looking them over again after all these years. I tossed them up here:
http://lock.gd/nde https://mastodon.social/media/AgToy5-wGnruLmw3zbU https://mastodon.social/media/lnR7Vl1VlaKILgsaW14
I believe that the end of the reign of terror is soon near -- The Anniversary
Wound up putting several lock catalogs up in one place: http://lock.gd/catalogues
They have been digitized by various folks, like archive.org or Google, and can be found elsewhere, but I figured it would be handy to have them in one place.
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Cybersecurity for the People: How to protect your privacy at a protest
Watch this video for tips on how to prepare your phone before you go to a protest, how to safely communicate with your friends and document the event, and what to do if you get detained or arrested.
(This is the first in a new video series I'm hosting!)
Daubreville had one of the patents lost to the patent office fire of 1836. After some digging, I found a French version of his patent, and the illustration reveals an AMAZING lock:
OK, first up, a Victor Safe & Lock co. catalog from 1905:
Full catalog: https://flic.kr/s/aHsjHVV6D6
Some sample images:
https://mastodon.social/media/CBVXxJOfB7prb69CJq0 https://mastodon.social/media/B5rMjPUmBYZ-w0iTB-M https://mastodon.social/media/VyQ_9t_g4gAGYydGC-g
Alright, I think today I'll toss up a few antique lock catalogs that I, or other folks, have taken the time to digitize. I'm betting there are some new ones available since the last time I went digging, too!
And this is also the first time I've been embarrassed by a grade. Just because of time constraints (and an ill-timed car accident a few weeks ago) it's looking like I'll probably end up with a B. Which is fine, this isn't my major, and I've at times sacrificed my grade in chemistry in order to maintain my A in cultural anthropology.
However, I feel so passionately about this class that I WANT to demonstrate that passion with a stronger grade. I want my teacher to know I'm not phoning it in.
This class, one of my math classes, a couple of others, have made me wish that I could just devote myself to school, instead of working full time as well. I'd love to be able to spend more time with this stuff. I'd love to have discovered, in my late teens or early twenties that maybe I have a thing for chemistry.
I'm not saying it doesn't have immense value for me as I roll into my mid-thirties, but I'm not going to take the time my younger self could have.
It's giving me the same level of excitement that learning to pick locks once did. That sort of excitement where as soon as you learn something you just want to run around and tell everyone about it. Get them to understand it like you now do.
And in being that super annoying dufus, you hopefully are introspective enough to notice those places where you no longer know what you are talking about - AND THEN YOU GO LEARN ABOUT THAT.
That said...
I know other people have heard of chemistry and whatever, but let me tell you, chemistry is hella neat.
It's like a little bit making me feel like a wizard...
This is an amazing interview with the hackers who went after "stalkerware." https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/im-going-to-burn-them-to-the-ground-hackers-explain-why-they-hit-the-stalkerware-market
Okay so @xor made a bot (@whit_whal) that posts bits of Moby Dick that don't have the letter "e" to https://oulipo.social.
Of course, I had to make a version for https://dolphin.town that only posts the letter "e" from Moby Dick.
See that first lowercase "e" in the screen cap? That's the "e" in "me" in "Call me Ishmael" Possibly the most famous "e" in all of literature. https://mastodon.social/media/TXagKq3w5eX58-dpi3E
This is possibly the best thing I have seen in a while.
I often wish that conversations with friends comprised the bulk of my intellectual output.
Like, here's a paper, here's a talk, here's a room full of incisive, kind, curious people who inhabit a broad range of non-security disciplines eating snacks and seriously considering the radiating circles of social context that inform and are affected by seemingly individual decisions about security engagement.
Because those are the places where I learn the most.
