You may remember me posting a couple of months ago that I suddenly lost puss-cat Poppy... well, I didn't go for very long without a cat in the house. A stray was left at a local vet who asked CP to take him in. Luckily, there was room in the pen for the boy who the vets named Clive. I went to see him, to welcome him to CP and immediately fell in love. This is him in the pen: CP policy is to try and find the owner for 14 days so I had quite a wait before I could take him home. Thankfully, no-one else wanted him so he eventually came home with me and immediately settled in. He's very, very noisy - he screeches more than miaows - but so laid back. I feel as though he's been here years rather than not quite 2 months.
Lovely boy H! Here’s one of our rescued kittens, this one is Moses who’s now about 4 months: And this is his brother George with his Uncle Arthur: Their sister Ella was hiding!
Just watched the Great Hack. Scares me really as I am paranoid about the cloud & privacy and sort of know what I am doing when it comes to the internet and security and realise that even I expose myself a bit. Scares me for others that just blindly click every FaceBook link etc. EDIT: Now be honest - who here does the below: Reuses passwords Doesn't change the default password to systems (internet connection etc) Uses birthdays or names of pets as passwords Doesn't use any sort of ad blocker I could go on, but I don't and I feel exposed.
Yet another mass shooting in the US.... 20 dead this time https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-49221936
None of the above. I'm paranoid. Typical password length in our house is 20 or so characters that are easy to remember but complex and randomly generated, all with uppercase, numbers and non-alphanumeric characters. Except on the government websites (several, including HMRC) that restrict you to 16 characters with no non-alphanumeric: madness. Killer password tip: If you want a good to great password that's long but easy to type (because it's made up of words), try https://www.rempe.us/diceware/#eff - Capitalise a random letter, use an alphanumeric character between (say) the second and third word, ditto with a number and your adversary will move on to easier prey. I use a version of this of my own creation. Unless you think a government's after you, you will get away with the first three words. That is all a great deal simpler than it looks at first reading. However, give thought to who's after you. Someone trying to defraud you is looking for profit. They aren't going to spend a month of computer time cracking your 90% OK password when the person next door has chosen "password" as their password. If MI5 is after you, you have larger problems in your life than your password. Vin
Cloning the source from GitHub and going to change the code to do exactly what you suggest. Then I'll run it locally .
The Great Hack is worrying, and there must be more than Cambridge analytica at it. I recommend people watch it. Interested as to what people think.
It really is just mad. Fortunately I’m a live my life anyway kind of person or you might just decide to hide in your house and not leave. Any public gathering of people is open season now.
There was a mass shooting at a Garlic/Food festival in the States earlier in the week. The police shot the gunman. So we have the third mass shooting in the States in less than 7 days. It has become normalised behaviour in the USA. Individual killings don't count for much there. You have to bump off a fair number of people before others become appalled now. That doesn't help the innocent individual that gets shot or the people that knew and loved them. That's how ****ed-up that country is. I'm afraid that I am all out of sympathy for the USA. They know how to solve it. You change the 2nd Amendment of the US Constitution to remove the automatic right to bear arms. And reduce it to highly specialised licences. They won't do it, because truth gets buried under vested interests.
By the way. Regarding the post above. I am not an unfeeling git. But I am impatient with ignorance. Especially when a child of five could work out the solution. Anyway, another topic... How aware are you of the spread of Automation and Artificial Intelligence? Do you work in marketing, administration, insurance, law, banking, call centre, warehouse, retail, driving, large-scale manufacturing, construction, or any number of jobs? They are set to disappear within 10 years. Of course, if you work in small scale repairs, or rare skills like being a thatcher, blacksmith, farrier, wheelwright, and any number of those things, you're probably ok. You may run low on work at times, but there will still be work for you in your lifetime. Odd isn't it, that it's the old skills/cottage industries that might end up saving our bacon. Because even doctors and surgeons' jobs are under threat. And teachers too. I think there will be plenty of work for social workers, physchiatrists, etc, because some people only find self worth through work. At the moment, they're telling coal miners, truck drivers, and such, to learn to program software. Like that's going to work. Already ArtificiaI Intelligence can program quite well. We're in the early stages of an evolution of ultra intelligent machines. Right in the middle of mass employment. Something is going to give.
Such gorgeous cats - love Moses' ears I've never had a ginger before, they certainly have a certain personality, don't they Rusty will do anything for food but I think he's partly deaf so "training" is a bit difficult...
The only one of those I sometimes do is to reuse passwords but I'm starting to use unique(ish) ones for every site. The one thing that really, really bugs me is sites which won't work with adblockers. Tough luck, but I immediately turn back if anyone asks me to not run adblockers on their pages.
Pretty much anecdotal, but I've gleaned a lot of information from reading, listening watching. So much so that I felt that it was worth saying. What do you think? I'm interested to read people's opinions. The last thing I want on this stuff is a like or no comment.
