@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caGoin' on a boat to The Big Smoke (Vancouver) today. Doesn't matter where or for what, I always like going places... especially on a boat. 🛥️
I'll try to remember to ask the Chief Steward how many passengers are on board so I can get an accurate CO2 number.🤓
#Unions #ClimateChange
@sycarion@dice.campI am testing something out. I found a way to post to multiple places at once and I want to see what it looks like.
@gwire@mastodon.socialObservationally it feels like places in London that sell magazines have halved their shelves in the last year.
Which is something I lament, despite having myself switched to digital subscriptions post-2020.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
@hikingdude@mastodon.socialThat's a topic for me again, #FotoVorschlag "radausflug" / "Cycling trip"
As I'm a fan of #mountainbiking my trips sometimes include quite an incline. That day it was about 1000m incline. On some parts we decided to push the bikes because we were jus…
@brian_gettler@mas.toAmong other things, I study political history. In places like North America that have had long-lasting, relatively stable states, we default to the national narrative that traces a country's origins and development to the present, while implicitly imagining it existing indefinitely. We need to think more deeply about the end of states. Otherwise, we're not studying them, we're legitimizing them, taking their ideological work as our own. Historical actors don't know how things…
@sycarion@dice.campI am testing something out. I found a way to post to multiple places at once and I want to see what it looks like.
@inthehands@hachyderm.io
@AnthonyCollette@infosec.exchange$125K stolen in 10 minutes
From Kim Komando's newsletter —
"Feb. 16 was a typical Friday night. Barry and I decided to stay home, grill chicken and make a salad for dinner. At about 6:45 p.m., we heard some loud rumbling overhead.
We walked onto the back patio, and two police helicopters were shining lights all over our property. A recording echoed, “Police. You are under arrest. Stay right there and I won’t shoot you.”
As I looked across the fence, a swarm of armed Phoenix SWAT team members with a few dogs were circling our property. One of the guys said, “Yeah, there’s a jammer right here.” He picked it up. I leaned over the patio and asked, “What’s going on?”
The police told me to go inside
When I asked again, a SWAT member said, “Ma’am, it’s a South American gang targeting homes to steal from. The jammer says you might have been next. Do we have permission to enter your property?” I said, “Yes!” and then he asked something like, “If we find anyone, will you pursue charges so we can arrest them?” I replied, “Of course!”
I opened the driveway gates to our property and the guest house while Barry tossed the police keys to open the security gates. People asked me if I was scared. How could I be? There was a team of really professional police officers protecting me from who knows what.
Turns out, when the gang saw we were home, they likely diverted their attention to the house next door. A house four doors down from us wasn’t so lucky.
The homeowner left at 5 p.m. to have dinner and got a notification his security cameras were offline at 5:05 p.m. He thought the internet went down. Nope, the gang broke in and took $25,000 in cash and valuables worth $100,000. They were in and out in under 10 minutes.
How are they getting away with this?
The gang places cellular and Wi‑Fi jammers around the homes they’re targeting. This way, security cameras and phones are useless. A Phoenix police officer told me the gang probably noticed nothing was down in our house.
We have our cameras and internet hardwired. Even when they tried to jam our signals, the red lights on the security cameras still showed they were recording everything.
But how frightening is that? Your phone doesn’t work. Your cameras aren’t recording anything. On the upside, the gang doesn’t carry guns. This way, if they get caught, they’ll spend about six months in jail before being extradited to Chile.
Nothing is random
The gang scopes out homes beforehand. They drive the neighborhood and look up houses on real estate sites to get an idea of where the primary bedroom is located. They look for dogs, too.
It’s not just in Phoenix, by the way. This is happening all over the country. A friend was robbed by this gang, and he lives in a guarded, gated community in California. Kudos to the Phoenix Police Department — they arrested three members of the gang who were in my neighborhood that night.
So, what can you do?
☑️ Wireless cameras go kaput with no signal. Try a wired camera for a backup.
☑️ A cam with SD card storage will still record if there’s no Wi‑Fi.
☑️ Put up motion-activated lights; they make it harder for anyone to sneak around.
☑️ A femtocell (think of it as a mini cell tower) could be enough to keep your connection if thieves use jammers — T‑Mobile or Verizon.
☑️ Have an Amazon Echo? Away mode lets you control your lights so it looks like someone’s home.
☑️ Make it look like someone’s watching TV at your house when you’re not there with a Television Simulator.
☑️ A University of North Carolina survey of over 400 incarcerated burglars found security system signs deter thieves.
☑️ Check Zillow, Realtor.com and Redfin for photos of your house. The more crooks know about the layout, the better for them. Ask to have them removed.
☑️ Blur your house from Google Maps and Apple Maps while you’re at it.
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.socialA photo by Paul Hiller. I can sort of imagine the photoshop (or similar software) process of making the colours so flat and unreal like this, but only sort of. Apparently he shoots in analogue. 🤪 More of his work on this website -> https://www.itsnicethat.com/articles/paul-
@aardrian@toot.cafe[1/2]
Google Maps emailed me with early access to its automated venue suggestions (branded ‘AI’).
So I asked for wheelchair accessible restaurants within a mile.
It offered four options with the nearest ~3 miles away, the fourth ~18 miles away. I know at least one of them is wrong about wheelchair access. Each is a regional / national chain.
While Google Maps supposedly tracks wheelchair access as reported by users, it seemed to go off user reviews. And it did so poor…
@aligyie@digitalcourage.socialI like stories which have been written by life:
https://nicolasboullosa.substack.com/p/the-places-weve-lived-our-proscons
I can really relate with their thoughts in the search of finding a placed called home.
@migueldeicaza@mastodon.socialThe Apple leaker wanted to destroy Journal because he didn’t like the app.
I love that app, have been journaling almost non-stop since November 27.
I have journaled in assorted places: notebooks, my own pgp-files, google docs, notes, DayOne.
Journal is my new favorite.
@frostpoem@mastodon.art#Food I really, really don't know what I would do without my dear and treasured Hearts of Space, especially on days like today that just beg for softness. I'm accompanying it with a big mug of hot chai tea and some chocolate hazelnut cookies under my fluffy weighted blanket because it's finally cold enough in here again for me to Winter right. Sometimes I wish these moments would just streeeeetch themselves long enough to touch the anxious places...but then they wouldn't be special, I suppose.
@fgraver@hcommons.social“I’m tired of these adult toddlers who need an AI to tie their shoes and make bad Pixar characters for them. Microsoft and Google keep shoving AI features into their software, and I absolutely should not have to worry about this garbage from Firefox of all places. Beyond the marginal utility of use cases like transcription and realtime voice cloning for goofy bullshit jokes, the majority of this stuff has made my experience on the internet (where I hang out a lot) measurably more unpleasant.…
@karlauerbach@sfba.socialWell, pretty soon we hop into the car for an extended trip through Arizona, New Mexico, Texas, Colorado, Utah, Nevada (and, of course, our home state, California.) We will be taking the gasoline car because we will be in places where fast charging may be scarce.
We're heading to Texas for the total solar eclipse via the fast southern routes near the border with Mexico. But then we will be heading back a bit further north, probably via Santa Fe, Chama, Pagosa Springs (I like to so…
@dr2chase@ohai.socialDear internet, any places to seek/avoid near Amsterdam Central Station for 4 nights? Looked at hotels and AirBNB, hotels looked like the better choice. I may or may not ride a bike, maybe I will just be a gawking tourist. (Will also have options few days before, spouse has work at a hotel on the edge of the city.)
@gedankenstuecke@scholar.socialThis project was/is a really fun, multimedia learning experience across the board for me:
- The immediate learning about all those places.
- The actual photography/making of the photos.
- The different analog steps, like developing the film & creating the wet prints.
- Lastly, the digital workflows, getting back into desktop publishing (last time I touched it was for my highschool year book), getting more into CSS for the web page & even doing more rayshader stuff in R.
@risottobias@tech.lgbtlike that kinda takes care of my excuses for "it's feasible for me to go most places I'd need"
@dr2chase@ohai.socialDear internet, any places to seek/avoid near Amsterdam Central Station for 4 nights? Looked at hotels and AirBNB, hotels looked like the better choice. I may or may not ride a bike, maybe I will just be a gawking tourist. (Will also have options few days before, spouse has work at a hotel on the edge of the city.)
@risottobias@tech.lgbtarg, one of the principles to handle higher than usual load is basically "the opposite of progressive enhancement"
of like "okay the backend microservice is overwhelmed, we're not doing fancy thing right now"
but I can't remember what the name of it is.
also related to AWS-ish talks about fallback vs failover (they talk about if your fallback is more reliable, why not use it as the default)
maybe it was a google paper?
gosh a lot of places just sell horizontal scaling as a panacea.
#CloudArchitecture #microservices
(it's related to circuit breakers, maybe)
@risottobias@tech.lgbtarg, one of the principles to handle higher than usual load is basically "the opposite of progressive enhancement"
of like "okay the backend microservice is overwhelmed, we're not doing fancy thing right now"
but I can't remember what the name of it is.
also related to AWS-ish talks about fallback vs failover (they talk about if your fallback is more reliable, why not use it as the default)
maybe it was a google paper?
gosh a lot of places just sell horizontal scaling as a panacea.
#CloudArchitecture #microservices
(it's related to circuit breakers, maybe)
