Airpods are a pretty brilliant product though. Who needs planned obsolescence when people just lose and repurchase a $100 product several times a year?
— Noah Smith 🐇 (@Noahpinion) January 24, 2020
Apple has been pretty brilliant here — create a terrible product that costs $100+, and that people seem willing to lose and then purchase 2-3 times a year.
Now that’s capitalism.
Empty diner in West Virginia in 1930 pic.twitter.com/VYdgBVUFq3
— Benjamin Young Savage (แฑแแแฑแ) (@benjancewicz) January 23, 2020
Nope! That is definitely not 1930 or anywhere close to it. I’d guess 1955. (And I’d be damn close to right, as I am very good at at this.) So much about this screams mid-1950s — everything from the cold cases, the fluorescent lighting (did not become common until after WWII), the Coca-Cola logo style, the salt and pepper shakers, the machine-made typography that can be seen above the glasses case, the chairs — all of it is emblematic of the mid-1950s.
This photo was not taken in 1930. Just no way.
Use DNS over HTTPS they say. It will be better for user privacy, they say. Respects user choice.
Anything that bypasses my DNS black hole at the client level is part of my threat model, as it will bring ads, adware, and malware onto my network.
— Daniel Scarnecchia (@mountainherder) January 23, 2020
Which is the point. It’s to allow Google and Mozilla to bypass ad blocking and malware blocking and gain control of your network.
I will never allow that in any network I control. It reduces security greatly — meanwhile, as they did with Mozilla’s BS regarding Firefox, people buy the lie that it increases security. The only security it increases is that predatory orgs can securely send you adware and propaganda.
I provisionally passed the exam a long time ago, but there are endorsement requirements for this certification — so today, after much waiting on paperwork from the organizing body, I am fully and officially a Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Due to NDA, I can’t say too much about the test, but I will say it’s extremely difficult. This is one of the few tests I had to study a great deal for and though I passed the first time, it was not a cakewalk. (I am used to tests being cakewalks.) Don’t get me wrong, it’s a three hour test and I still finished in 42 minutes with the minimum number of questions*. But I usually finish three hour tests in 10 minutes.
I like this certification because it is vendor neutral and only requires ongoing education to renew, not the vast amount of studying required to do it all over again.
But glad that’s on the ol’ rรฉsumรฉ.
*It’s adaptive, so the algo will ask more questions if it’s not certain of your knowledge.
“Science is only good for repeatable phenomena. And most of life — the most interesting parts — don’t repeat.”
-David Acosta on the show Evil. Show is mediocre but great quote and framing.