I’m going to make another run #100DaysToOffload https://100daystooffload.com/
First attempt made it to about 40 posts. Interrupted for a year or so in part by a refusal to post anything else on github, which was where I was hosting my blog and the saga of getting a raspberry pi-based blog to my liking up-and running chronicled in part here http://curious.galthub.com/blog/no-marketing/ and here http://curious.galthub.com/blog/hugo-via-mysocket/
Pretty sure I won’t make it daily, but I’ve got a huge backlog of ideas (from my daily paper journal, email to friends, etc) and now, a place I feel good about to put them out.
These are some musings I sent to a friend who is a career counselor at
a local community college.
Short version: I’m pretty sure I could not have planned my current
career in “IT” and “Cybersecurity” when neither of those terms even
existed until well into my career.
I’m doing some of the Duolingo Latin course. Who knew you could shop, converse
and joke in Latin? Certainly not the classics professors I learned from.
Quid pudor est.
There is no reason why learners should be made
to treat every Latin text as puzzle to be deciphered into translation,
rather than a specimen of normal human communication to be understood as
such.
I sent this to my son who is on the path to being a high school socials
study teacher.
This article has me trying to project the impact today’s “social
distancing” would have had on a very messed up introverted teenager of
45 years ago. It’s not a pretty picture.
The dream is over,
what can I say?
The dream is over,
yesterday.
John Lennon, 1970
Figure 1: “Past their sell-by date.” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0, includes work by Nature Vectors by Vecteezy
Don't believe in Digital Equipment Corporation,
Don't believe in Sun Microsystems,
Don't believe in CompuServe,
Don't believe in Perl,
Don't believe in USENIX,
Don't believe in SourceForge,
Don't believe in GitHub,
Don't believe in Facebook,
Don't believe in Linked-in,
Don't believe in Google,
Don't believe in The SANS Institute,
Don't believe in The Center for Internet Security,
Don't believe in Google Plus,
Don't believe in Twitter,
Don't believe in Spotify,
Don't believe in Wikipedia,
...
I just believe in me,
human beings and me.
Me, 2021
These are a few perspectives on privacy prompted by initial
thoughts on the Usenix PEPR ‘22 Call for Participation. I may or
may not flesh this out as a submission. If I do, it might take a
totally different form, this being a first reaction.
Figure 1: “Privacy Technology for the 21st Centry” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0
“…It’s also clear you have a achieved emacs enlightenment. The state
where you see the whole world through the mind-bogglingly useful
lens of emacs and org mode and fail to see (non judgmentally) why
anything should exist outside that world. ‘Om, Om, Om, M-x find-universe’ :-)”
At work I do a lot of research around finding and understanding the capabilities of things connected to the Internet. I find that often checking Wikipedia and/or searching for the product excluding the vendor website gets to the real information fastest, e.g. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=vmware+tanzu+-vmware.com+-www.vmware.com
