Overheard: TIL CISO does not stand for Corporate Incident Sacrificial Offering.

Inside Your OS: What is a Process Scheduler, and How Does it Work?
(2008)
https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx

Trying to decide if it's time to abandon #Terraform? A lead contributor to #OpenTofu answers the (truly) frequently asked questions about the open source project.

https://devops.com/mind-the-shift-answering-common-questions-about-opentofu/

TYPE WARS!

A little over a century ago, the printer T.J. Cobden-Sanderson took it upon himself to surreptitiously dump every piece of this carefully honed metal letterpress type into the river. It was an act of retribution against his business partner, Emery Walker, whom he believed was attempting to swindle him.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/doves-typeface-2454807

One in Four Tech #CISOs Unhappy with Compensation

Show me the money! (Average total compensation for tech CISOs is $710k.)
https://securityboulevard.com/2024/05/one-in-four-tech-cisos-unhappy-with-compensation

Prepare to get upset.

"We spent months investigating AdVon by interviewing its current and former workers, obtaining its internal documentation, and searching for more of its fake writers across the web. What we found should alarm anyone who cares about a trustworthy and ethical media industry." https://futurism.com/advon-ai-content

Some days, this song is entirely too relevant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GyV_UG60dD4

33% of content writers updated their LinkedIn profile to add AI to their skills, per new data from Microsoft. https://sherwood.news/business/creative-professionals-gen-ai-skills-linkedin-learning/

Mood

How Ben Franklin Invented the Library as We Know It
Books were rare and expensive in colonial America, but the founding father had an idea https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-ben-franklin-invented-library-as-we-know-it-180983983/

Yeah, but you're going to say it still doesn't belong on a pizza. https://www.axios.com/2024/05/07/pineapple-fruit-avocado-blackberry-del-monte

Nearly two years into the “genAI” revolution, is there proof that the tech is actually paying dividends for large businesses? If Air India and Bayer AG are any indication, John Battelle says, the AI revolution has a good chance of living up to its hype. https://pgsignal.com/2024/05/06/working-with-ai-in-the-enterprise

Presidential hopefuls were sending people a link to a page where they could be endorsed, but instead of endorsing the candidate, some people accidentally registered to be a candidate. https://uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-accidentally-run-for-president-of-iceland-0d71a4785a1e

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"One of Beethoven’s locks had 258 micrograms of lead per gram of hair and the other had 380 micrograms. A normal level in hair is less than 4 micrograms of lead per gram." (gift article) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/health/beethoven-deaf-lead-hair.html

Don't end your essay with a section called Conclusion. We can tell it's concluding; we see your prose end two paragraphs later.

Every subheading should contribute to the message. What's the takeaway? Worst case use "Looking forward." #AmEditing

North Yorkshire Council to phase out apostrophe use on street signs
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-68942321

In a response to a troubled friend, I wrote, “sending hubs” instead of "hugs." Perhaps they also need random network infrastructure, so I'm not apologizing.

So what are the biggest stories coming out of #rsa2024?

(I'm asked to write a short blog post about it.)