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Tag: security
2024-06-06 06:32
In a NYT op ed, Mitch McConnell reminds us to avoid the mistakes of the 1930s:
“Of course, Americans heard much less from our disgraced isolationists after the attack on Pearl Harbor.”
Source: Mitch McConnell
Too bad he couldn’t say:
“Of course, Americans heard much less from our disgraced insurrectionists after the attack on the U.S. Capitol.”
2024-04-22 17:42
I just asked my senators and representative to oppose a law that would allow laws to be copyrighted, allowing standards bodies to control access to things like building codes—rules that we all need to follow.
Click that link to join me in doing so. (Link only useful to people who live in the U.S.)
2024-04-10 09:20
I got a phishing email that would have just been lame, except it pretended to come from a company I do business with. I wasn’t fooled, but I had to take tens of seconds out of my day to check.
Things should be better. I propose a joint FBI-NSA task force to track down phishers and render them to the US for prosecution.
2024-02-06 14:41
There’s a cybersecurity company that advertises on some podcast that I listen to. Their tagline is “We stop breaches!” My brain immediately adds, “But not culottes!”
2023-11-07 08:21
One of the great things in Illinois is the libraries are structured as taxing districts. With voter permission they can levy a property tax, and then receive the funds from that tax. So there’s no danger that the city, township, or county will decide that it needs the money more. Or, as in this case, that the library is doing something wrong, and therefore shouldn’t get any money until they toe the line.
https://literaryactivism.substack.com/p/a-pennsylvania-public-library-had
(I normally don’t link to substack posts, but this one seemed important.)
2023-07-06 06:33
It’s just a rumor (I don’t have have first-hand information), but I hear that if you create a Threads account and then delete it, Facebook deletes your Instagram account as well.
Which, you know, is probably a good thing, but probably not what most people had in mind.
2022-09-30 07:33
Every time I go to read an article at @TheNewEuropean, instead of showing me the article, they accuse me of running an ad blocker. This is false, and a little insulting. And it’s a bit annoying that I can’t read their articles. But, oh well. I’ll make do as best I can without reading the latest from @paulmasonnews.
2022-08-24 15:20
Simulating a free college education by lending students money to pay to institutions, and then forgiving (part of) that debt is second-best compared to just providing a free college education. But it is much better than trapping another generation in debt peonage.
2022-07-02 7:38
“Those applying for a gun licence must also … declare their social-media accounts for review.” http://espresso.economist.com/d66a1a0b677b9f693c310e2fb2748a54
I would support a wide variety of restrictions on gun rights, but this seems squarely to violate 1st Amendment rights.