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2024 April 25... Yep, still working on it, but really am working on it / Have not forgotten about it.
Re-wrote web server / 2022-07-15 T 07:55I re-wrote my web server. Authorization software / 2022-06-10 T 22:26Possibly unique among all types of software. authorization systems prevent you from getting work done when they function as intended. 8-[ On second thought, they aren't unique. They resemble user interface “improvements”. I watched The Sweet Sound of Death / 2022-05-14 T 08:31I also reviewed it & did a little analysis. tpy75.html Overturning Roe v. Wade will damage the Democrats in elections / 2022-05-08 T 10:49The Democrat party is already planning to use the Supreme Court's draft decision to improve their performance in near-future elections. As usual, that plan will fail. iubg0.html API doesn't mean what you think it means / 2022-02-02 T 09:07People are misusing the term API. d2h10.html the most powerful tools of humans / 2022-02-01 T 07:28The two most powerful tools of humans are language and organized collective action. We invented language. Nobody in the world uses language the way we do. Be proud. These tools are so powerful that they tend to use us. old Wikipedia pages about Silent Hill / 2021-12-28 T 13:01In 2007, I printed copies of some Wikipedia pages about Silent Hill. Now I've scanned them to PDF. They are at silent_hill_wikipedia_2007.pdf I guess they are not up to the editorial standards of modern Wikipedia, but they are full of insights & are fun to read. So here they are. I realize that A.G.I. is hard / 2021-12-12 T 10:47I finally understand. fe5fb902-d2f1-47db-a5e9-d6d4ef447c98.html The security disaster that is the web these days / 2021-12-10 T 06:29You've noticed how cyber-security events are becoming more frequent & more severe? How the “cloud” could be considered part of the foundation of civilization now, & cyber-security events threaten that? What will we do? The problem is severe, but I predict it'll wash out similarly to what happened with virii & worms infecting stand-alone computers in the early 2000s. The problem got worse & worse back then until there was a period — maybe a whole year but probably less than 6 months, I don't remember for sure — when a virus of the week would take significant portions of the Internet offline for half a day or more. We solved that problem to the extent that, while virii & worms are a problem, they interfere with few of us daily. I predict that the increasingly severe & frequent security problems we see now will be solved similarly. We'll beat them down until, while the problems are there, they'll be under enough control that they won't affect few of us daily. But it sure sucks now, & it's gonna keep sucking for a while to come. Is encryption useless without authentication? / 2021-12-09 T 08:23Someone told me that encryption is “useless” without authentication. I disagree, & I wrote my thoughts in 7f1a7.html Maybe we shouldn't have called it AI / 2021-11-14 T 19:04a brief rant: 4dvts.html The Net (1995 film) / 2021-10-07 T 05:30I watched “The Net” (1995) (not for the first time). We all know that it ain't the greatest, but it doesn't suck. A few interesting things about the film this time this time include:
Brute force password attacks + your router's guest wifi / 2021-09-19 T 09:03According to Kaspersky, even as late as the year 2020, most of the incidents they ivestigated involved brute force password attacks.[kaspersky] Reminds me of telling someone to use a password manager & not to “have a system” for making memorable passwords. Even in the year 2020, they reply “I have a good system” which they then describe to you because it's so clever[sarcasm]. This is why your router offers a guest wifi network & why even your {girl, boy, whatever}friend gets that passcode, not the one to your real network. When to use the Tor browser / 2021-09-03 T 08:22Don't ask “When should I use the Tor browser?” That's the wrong question. f2byk.html another blog entry / 2021-09-02 T 20:52Nothing to see here unless it's an error message. Move along (but thank you for peeking). start a blog / 2021-09-02 T 12:24Let's reorganize this, my ancient web site. Short blog(?) entries that say short things or link to longer things. And longer things in their own files (as they already are). |
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