Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

#ManningBooks are having a Memorial Week Sale so if you're looking for some programming books there's plenty on offer including Beyond Spreadsheets with R https://www.manning.com/books/beyond-spreadsheets-with-r

Buying the physical book (pBook) also gets you the DRM-free digital versions.

80 Percent of Shell Shareholders Vote to Let the World Burn
This is why we shouldn’t trust businesses to save the planet.

https://newrepublic.com/article/172947/80-percent-shell-shareholders-vote-let-world-burn

#ClimateCrisis #climatechange #shell

I just sat through two video interviews for our entry-level infosec position. Both were good people, but it was painful watching them struggle through our questions.

Here's some tips for anyone applying for a similar position:

1. When an interviewer asks "what makes you stand out?", have a solid response already prepared. If you say "well, I'm a hard worker" I'm going to have difficulty suppressing my eyeroll. Find something that is unique about your abilities, knowledge, personality, or experience and get us excited to hire you. Even if you're not asked something like that question, volunteer that information. Make yourself memorable.
2. Don't go into the interview cold. Do some prep. If possible, know the backgrounds of your interviewers/their company (Google, LinkedIn), dress how you expect them to appear (or better), clean up your video background. Have talking points / notes pulled up to reference key data about the company/position/interviewers/yourself. Be eager to talk at length about anything you claim to know on your resume.
3. If you tell me you're a semester shy of an Associates degree in infosec, I should be able to ask you how an IDS differs from an IPS and get a semi-coherent answer. At the very least correctly tell me what the letters stand for. Yes, this is an entry level position, but that is about the biggest softball question I can lob. After two years of study you should have familiarity with the most basic of our acronyms.
4. I don't expect entry level to do packet analysis, but at least know a few common network ports and what traffic is expected on them. Bonus if you point out it doesn't have to be the expected protocol.
5. When I ask if you've seen any infosec stories in the news lately, the answer I'm looking for is YES. Show me you're keeping an eye on what is happening in the field you say you want to work in.

Good tips? Bad tips? Am I the asshole for expecting the above from an "entry level" candidate? All feedback appreciated. #fedihired #interview

Those concerned with privacy law developments may be interested in reading Wilmer Hale's comprehensive review of recent developments in state privacy law. They list active and recently passed privacy legislation in the various states.

See: https://www.wilmerhale.com/en/insights/blogs/WilmerHale-Privacy-and-Cybersecurity-Law/20230523-state-comprehensive-privacy-law-update-may-23-2023

#privacy #law

Seeing the most disgusting media propaganda op I've ever seen in my life, going on right now around the anniversary of a mass shooting at an elementary school.

News media is literally telling you with a straight face that Uvalde happened because the cops don't have the gear to take on mass shooters and now that they do have more gear it's all fine. I wish I could tell you I'm making that up, but it's all over the place.

That is not even remotely what happened. Copaganda is all pervasive.

We don't need another hero, but the world could always use another Tina Turner: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/24/arts/music/tina-turner-dead.html

Debian Reunion Hamburg crew is pleased to announce the schedule for talks and discussions; looking forward to enjoy a marvelous Cheese and Wine party tonight. Schedule at https://wiki.debian.org/DebianEvents/de/2023/DebianReunionHamburg#Saturday_.28May_27th_2023.29

TFW your nation has so long been a white supremacist state, it doesn't have the courage or foresight to confront fascists.

I'm looking for someone who knows how to work in Matlab and Python, whether you transitioned from one to another or can work in both.

I have a opportunity to train a group going through a transition from Matlab to Python, and I would like a subject matter expert to gain perspective on Matlab.

Thank for helping me find someone.

@markigra More disciplines currently supported by the Find Academics on Mastodon (https://find.sciences.social/) tool.

#Philosophers and Philosophy Teachers
#Political Scientists
#Psychology
#Public Policy
#Science and Technology Studies (STS)
#Semantic Web+
#Sociology

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#twittermigration

@MelodyWainscott Given the size of the bribes the "justices" are receiving, I hardly think toxicology knowledge matters. The problem isn't that SCOTUS is naive, it's that they are criminally corrupt.

SCOTUS guts the Clean Water Act. Like many things done by this corrupt and illegitimate group of bribe-sucking toadies, this will kill people.

https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/25/politics/supreme-court-wetlands-authority-epa/index.html

People on twitter calling Christy Moore a traitor remind me why I don't post over there any more.

Imagine the sheer arrogance required to be a frightened keyboard warrior with no real understanding of the world beyond your cosy social-media hate group, and insulting one of our wisest artists, now into his 7th decade of social activism.

Be like Christy. Not like the bigots who are screeching at him.

#ChristyMoore #RefugeesWelcome

There are advantages to living in a smaller town, with just one gas/service station, one grocery store, etc. Unfortunately, when 12 cars have their tires slashed in one development, that advantage becomes a hindrance. We're also bumping up against a holiday and the end of the month for inspections, so I likely won't get my car back for a few days. Fortunately, my insurance allows a rental car, which should arrive tonight.

My shorthand for the approach we most need in election coberage is this:

"Not the odds, but the stakes."

How does this work in practice? Margaret Sullivan answers that in The Guardian today. "Now’s the time to think about just how bad a DeSantis presidency would be."

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/25/ron-desantis-florida-record-presidential-campaign?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Not how DeSantis plans to outwit Trump and then succeed in "the general" (itself an insidery phrase...) but what life would be like if he took power.

Not the odds, but the stakes.

#uspol #journalism

⚡️🇪🇺Russia must give ICRC access to all Ukrainian POWs - EU statement (more) https://www.ukrinform.net/rubric-polytics/3714199-russia-should-give-icrc-access-to-all-ukrainian-pows-eu-statement.html #Ukraine #NATO #Press #News #Invasion #Russia #9yearsOfWarInUkraine #WantedDeadOrAlive

Prominent #bigot and creepy sociopath Ron DeSantis hopes to cruise to the White House by blathering and blithering a bunch of #Orwellian bullshit skimmed out of the #FoxNews toilet. It won't work. #USpolitics #GOP https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/05/25/desantis-diversity-woke-campaign/

Lauren Boebert's son called 911 to report that his father was physically abusing him

What did Lauren do?

She chose the abuser over her children

Jayson Boebert’s son called 911
The dispatcher asked if the boy was harmed. He responded “Yes, he was throwing me across…there are weapons in the house…He just does this to me so much." 
While deputies were on their way Lauren jumped on the phone to say her son "doesn't need help" 

Imagine the damage to their kids lives

Party of family values.