SolarWinds says SEC sucks: Watchdog 'lacks competence' to regulate cybersecurity https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/solarwinds_sec_filing/
‼️🇺🇦AFU’s Azov National Guard brigade destroys Russia’s Ironia-M surveillance system with FPV drones (VIDEO and more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-ato/3786084-azov-brigade-destroys-russias-ironiam-surveillance-system-with-fpv-drones.html #Ukraine #Press #News #russia #russiaUkraineWar #9yrInvasionofUkraine #BoycottMusk #AxisOfEvil
#NoEUPrezForHungary
#NoUSRepublicans2024
13th century
Germany. Appearance of Judensau: obscene and dehumanizing imagery of Jews, ranging from etchings to Cathedral ceilings. Its popularity lasted for over 600 years.
1204 CE
The papacy required Jews to segregate themselves from Christians and to wear distinctive clothing
1210 CE
King John of England imprisoned much of the Jewish population until they paid up 66,000 marks.
"Examining late medieval to early modern stone engravings created by prisoners in a castle dungeon"
https://phys.org/news/2023-11-late-medieval-early-modern-stone.html
I received the replacement mirror for my Yashica LM this weekend and decided to give all the optics a good cleaning while I had the camera disassembled. The clips that hold the ground glass in place are a pain until they're not and they just snap into place. Glad I was wearing glasses, they sprang up to attack my face, twice!
I'm excited to give the camera another spin after getting the film counter working and now with the new mirror and clean optics.
P.E.I. food banks prepare for greater need as Christmas approaches
The demand for Christmas hampers is expected to be higher this year on P.E.I.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-christmas-hampers-1.7027163?cmp=rss
#News #Canada #PEI
so much of our common #CulturalHeritage
[https://mastodon.world/tags/CulturalHeritage] is under threat. And too often,
it depends on the initiative of courageous individuals to save #traditions
[https://mastodon.world/tags/traditions] and keep heritage alive...
Saving over 1000 #music [https://mastodon.world/tags/music] tapes from
#Afghanistan [https://mastodon.world/tags/Afghanistan] before the Taliban (and
others) butchered a modern society, is no easy task, but Mohammed Hasan Zamri in
Pakis…
More bad news for Russia...
"Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan continues to remove #Armenia from #Russia and bring it closer to the West, whose recent actions are driving Russian businesses out of Armenia... the Armenian government hopes to terminate Russia's influence not just on Yerevan's political trajectory, but also on the Armenian economy as a whole..."
Donald #Trump has been fixated in public pronouncements on "retribution," and #MAGA ally Steve #Bannon has invoked a Confederate code phrase - "Come Retribution" - tied in with a plan to take hostage & assassinate Abraham #Lincoln during the #CivilWar, according to Jonathan Karl's new book:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/nov/02/steve-bannon-book-trump-speech
A 1988 review of another book on the topic touches on this, and the phrase is also mentioned in an 1896 description of a #Confederate museum in #Richmond:
Ransomware gangs have listed 348 victims on dark web leak sites in the month of October, but 2023 is still on track to be the most prolific year for ransomware operators, according to cyber insurance provider Corvus.
https://www.corvusinsurance.com/blog/key-ransomware-indicator-up-56-year-on-year-october-data
10 Worst Decisions in Tech History
Failures can often be traced back to one bad decision.
https://www.howtogeek.com/worst-decisions-in-tech-history/?utm
James Marion Sims, who died OTD in 1883, was a pioneer of gynecological surgery, thanks to his experimental operations on non-anesthetised enslaved black women; see his memorial in #Alabama https://cromwell-intl.com/travel/usa/montgomery-alabama/?s=mb #CivilRights #history
WTF. We wuz robbed of our steampunk musical future decades ago.
A Pocket-Sized Record Player Circa 1924
Before the iPod, before the Walkman, there was the Mikiphone, a portable record player that folded up into a case that you could fit in your pocket. Invented circa 1924, this portable phonograph was powered by a hand-crank and could play 10-inch records.
https://kottke.org/23/11/a-pocket-sized-record-player-circa-1924
#HashtagGames
#HappyHourForNonDrinkers
...is every hour.
#HappyHourForNonDrinkers
#HashtagGames
Getting away from the annoying drunk slobs.
G+ refugee and simply want my instance to work reliably.