Religion

• There is one specific spot, Temple Mount/Dome of the Rock/Mount Moriah, that is the holiest (to Jews, Muslims and Christians) place on Earth. I can’t summarize everything, go read about it, its really interesting even if you’re not religious. Once you learn about it, you’ll be “holy shit, this will never get resolved”.

Geo-strategy

• Yes. It is right in the middle of two continents, Europe and Africa, and could be considered the gateway into Asia (from the West). After WWI, the Germans were defeated but so was the Ottoman Empire. The British filled that hole but after they got kicked around in WWII, their empire crumbled too. The Brits left Palestine and turned to the United Nations to leave some sort of “Western” influence in the area. United Nations made the 1947 partition map that created Israel and here we are (after a bunch of violence since then)

BREAKING NEWS: Guy who sells AI hardware says his employees must use more AI.

To be fair, I bet there’s some lawyers that couldn’t function without a secretary.

Preface: Fuck Bezos and how he treats the workers.

Now you just need Meta to allow you on their networks to inspect packets and reverse engineer their servers because as far as I know, WhatsApp messages are not P2P.

/edit I betcha $5 that the connection from client to server is TLS(https), good luck decrypting that to see what its payload is.

Tucker & Dale vs Harold & Kumar.

Stand by Me. The movie came out in 1986 but it is set in 1959…so 40 years later, the sequel is set in 1999. If anyone could write an awesome sequel, it’d be Stephen King.

That’s where it shot itself in the foot.

It is not UNIX’s job to stop you from shooting your foot. If you so choose to do so, then it is UNIX’s job to deliver Mr. Bullet to Mr Foot in the most efficient way it knows.

s/UNIX/Linux/g

https://www.cyberciti.biz/humour/terry-lambert-quote-it-is-not-unixs-job-to-stop-you/

Classic. I haven’t seen that one in about 20 years. 💟 FreeBSD

Glenn Beck added $1000 to the price of gold in the last decade.

Security researchers are releasing password dumps? 🤔

You only need 20 watts of power. One of those dinky fold up solar panels would work. Add a USB power brick for cloudy days.

I think that middle management has more to worry about.

You probably use it everyday and didn’t know it https://github.blog/engineering/architecture-optimization/building-github-with-ruby-and-rails/

Snoop Dogg Calvin Broadus, fixed it for you.

Got a source on that? The co-founder just stepped down from the CEO role recently, due to cancer. If his replacement is shady, I’d like to know.

adjust nerd glasses technically speaking…the greek word gyro is pronounced “eeer-o” so its not that far off from “here-o”

The word “hack” is pre-internet. A “hack” journalist or a “hack job” is basically something unprofessional. It is movies that turned “hackers” into someone that gained access to the “mainframe”. In the realm of computer systems, I would argue that a “hack” is doing anything the system was not intended/designed to do. A successful DoS or DDoS needs to find some component of the system that wasn’t designed to handle the amount of traffic about to be sent to it.

There are protections for DDoS (iptables, fail2ban, Cloudflare and so on), you have to figure out a way around them, that’s a hack.

From the article https://icespy.org/

Ah, that’s right. Antipasto is Italian or something for first course.