estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
The password problem is getting worse. The average user has nearly 200 passwords to remember, which means that they’re frequently reused, changes have become a nightmare, and password managers are having a hard time keeping up. Unfortunately, it’s only going to get worse. The solution is to get rid of most passwords and use some other means of authentication. #cososec
Greensboro Man Creates Dating App Where He's the Only Guy Allowed https://www.wfmynews2.com/article/news/local/2-wants-to-know/greensboro-dating-app-online-dating-singularity/83-de8a5d3a-dea6-4a71-8da0-f2394f071cdc
I already need a bigger fridge.
Or to clean out the old one, but we both know that's not gonna happen. #ThanksgivingCooking
Look out for Junk Sources in Google News, warns Tara Calishain. "I don’t know how these sites got indexed in Google News because they don’t appear to meet the quality standards for the platform. But there they are." https://researchbuzz.me/2019/11/24/look-out-for-junk-sources-in-google-news/
Why students persist in studying English lit in a tech world
https://montrealgazette.com/opinion/opinion-why-students-persist-in-studying-english-lit-in-a-tech-world
Why was Paula Deen allowed to be the authority on Southern cooking for over a decade?
https://www.eater.com/2019/11/7/20951397/paula-deen-racism-career-rise-fall-white-negroes-book-excerpt
The Library of Congress will house the archives of the famous AIDS quilt. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/the-library-of-congress-will-house-the-archives-of-the-famous-aids-quilt/2019/11/20/9f05e29c-0bc1-11ea-bd9d-c628fd48b3a0_story.html
The Icelandic word GLUGGAVEÐUR means ‘weather that looks appealing from inside, but would be unpleasant to be outside in’. It literally means ‘window-weather’.
https://twitter.com/HaggardHawks/status/1198388257483976704
6 Fancy Ways to Fold a Napkin https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlfiI0rNjsE&feature=youtu.be
In case you're shopping for luggage... I gave this American Tourister Carry-On 4 stars.
But more because of "value for the money" rather than because I think it's a superb suitcase.
"Ethical human hackers supported by machine learning and artificial intelligence are 73 percent more efficient at identifying and evaluating cyber risks and threats according to a new report." #cososec https://betanews.com/2019/11/22/ai-improves-human-cyber-risk-spotting/
The technology used by IBM System/360 mainframes for storing microcode (the kind of code which instructs the CPU's inner sequencing) before there was semiconductor memory. http://www.righto.com/2019/11/tros-how-ibm-mainframes-stored.html
Surely #cososec has discovered this thread?
https://twitter.com/nicoleperlroth/status/1198045410314473472
Researchers have created an AI that draws what a person in looking at in real time just by reading and decoding their brain waves. https://futurism.com/the-byte/ai-draws-decodes-brainwaves
Mesmerizing Compilation of Mushroom Bloom Timelapses https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=b-nJ0ROGD14&feature=emb_logo
The Typography of Blade Runner https://typesetinthefuture.com/2016/06/19/bladerunner/
"It takes a village," they say. You can buy one.
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20191121-can-tiny-abandoned-towns-put-galicia-on-the-map
10 lovely Scottish locations that inspired the settings of well-known novels. https://www.scotsman.com/news/people/10-stunning-scottish-literary-locations-from-famous-novels-1-5046201
My Amazon review of _How to Embroider Almost Everything: A Sourcebook of 500+ Modern Motifs + Easy Stitch Tutorials_: 4 stars
A useful collection with LOTS of designs. More designs than tutorial, though. #embroidery #cosobookclub
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017