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I look out the window and got an idea for a snow joke.
So it is shticking already.

Federal home offices in DC are CLOSED to guests (since March) and employes have the OPTION to stay home and look out the windows to see the first snow of the year. Employees must notify Slack with pictures of snow if it is A LOT. https://x.com/USOPM/status/1339037844699049984

Is AWS Cloudshell essentially a free ec2 instance? Could use it for anything?

Ah, the Security Compliance Control NIST-800-WTF-01 Do You Even Try https://x.com/zackwhittaker/status/1338934516111564805

It is nothing, but it was hard to do it. https://x.com/mistersql/status/1338964858562342918

I'd like a feature in Zoom, etc, where it tells you that no one is listening because
- you're on mute
- no bits are going across the network
- everyone has turned their volume off
- the room is empty
- you're trying, but really, you're boring.

Anyone thinking about a place to store all your latkes?

Yes, everyone: https://x.com/search?q=data%20latkes&src=typed_query&f=live

Quick people, get your piece of history before someone takes care of it. https://x.com/Andrew___Morris/status/1338614208905302021

Blast radius, infinite. Forget the auth/auth server, just let me hack into the patching server. https://x.com/apporima/status/1338522912597413889

Wow. And imagine all the other build servers that don't even sign code. (I've tried to sign code, it is so difficult I've never seen it routinely used) https://x.com/KimZetter/status/1338389130951061504

Solarwind Orion is some sort of patching server. So if you can gain control of one, you can install software all over the org. This is like a virus attacking the body's immune system.

https://www.solarwinds.com/solutions/orion

Here is the deets on the big attack on fed govt IT systems https://twitter.com/srunnels/status/1338324508604817408

Hey everyone, got any "SolarWinds Orion" products in your inventory? Federal enterprise architects, that list of all apps in the org should finally pay off. https://x.com/bsware/status/1338471238935728128

Still up:
Protonmail - https://mail.protonmail.com/
Riker Googling - https://x.com/rikergoogling
Pluralsight - https://app.pluralsight.com/paths/skill/web-scraping-with-python

It's Monday, Monday
Gotta get down on Monday,
Everybody's lookin' reloadin' the websites, websites
Tomorrow is Tuesday
And Wednesday comes afterwards
I want this web outage to end!

"The SVR, hacks for traditional espionage purposes, stealing info that might help the Kremlin understand the plans and motives of politicians, policymakers" - So much work & they hacked in when there were no plans, nor motives to steal. https://x.com/nakashimae/status/1338244109107163137

You want fish? First you need (another) msys2, so you can get pacman, then you can get fish. A pole at this juncture would not be helpful.

This future has some pros & cons. You can attend 2+ meetings at once! Yeah! You will be expected to attend 2+ meetings at once! Oh no. https://x.com/ShortJared/status/1338136453243691009

Ok, let's try that again, w/o quote tweeting a combative Dr. Title-antinomialism won't get you or anyone else anywhere if it is based in hate & disparagement. If Miss lacks respect, then moving on to Ms is a good idea. If Dr is too much respect for you to give, maybe you're wrong

Can Europeans put diacritics on emoji?

That housing boom? That is because everyone wants to get a house where they can install a room like this. https://x.com/Russia_NC/status/1337762912807624705

So if we have a 7 day CR, followed by a 3.5 day CR, followed by a 1.75 day CR... etc, will the government ever close? https://x.com/jmillerWFED/status/1337543324551557123

Measles vaccine 1st used 1968
Measles eliminated in US in 2000(!)
Measles brought back by popular demand in 2019.

This covid stuff is going to be with us for 30 years.

I paid $ for a template because
- they're cheap, ~$40
- I'm not a UI guy, so what ever mess I could make would distract from the message*
- I want a world where artist-type work gets paid.

* It creates the opposite prob tho, folk might think I hand coded the whole thing. https://x.com/engineering_bae/status/1337407845369786369

Writing skills at a blogger or amateur author is so useful... "write for your audience" "show don't tell" etc. That and the "plain english" literature... which gets too little attention, imho. https://twitter.com/krusynth/status/1337397091442843649

Counterpoint, I still think it is fair to ask a fizzbuzz level question, or expect to see sample code or to do a take-home. Any of the three. Some people don't want to do anything. The failure rate for hires in software, maybe 1 in 4 in my experience. Each failure cost $$$. https://twitter.com/krusynth/status/1337397081019969537

Especially if your check-list loving security team has taken away the "default" security group, you'll be interested in this tool for finding out why electrons aren't going from A to B. https://x.com/g_bonfiglio/status/1337313834864943104

IDEA: GheeTub. It is a shared, open place to put your clarified butters.

1973: I'm born
1977: I see Star Wars at the theater. Best movie ever.
1981: This is when Disney should have taken over from George Lucas & started the flood.
2020: Disney finally starts making the flood of movies I've been waiting for.

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