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Insured up to $250k. No guarantee there won't be a delay in withdrawing your funds once the Fed takes over.

Right, Talking to some people in the banking industry and the fear is no one know which other banks are in similar situation.

If you are interested in seeing Uranium news from around the world every day and there is a lot happening in the space follow @quakes99 on twitter.

Was on a call with a bank VP that had moved to AWS. Asked how it was going. Said it was going great after six months but just learning about availability zones so they were going to have to rework a bunch of things.

Astonishing how our important infrastructure is moved to AWS with zero knowledge of how AWS works.

"likely" "some", weasel words. Corporate marketing speak for we have no idea what happened so dream up some scenario that sounds plausible and do a press release.

Our services in AWS East are down.

If anyone ever attempts to acquire your company they'll hire a third party to do a software composition analysis audit and look for improperly licensed code reuse.

And you'll be screwed.

Definitely beta.

I installed using dotnet tool install -g --version 2.3.141-beta-g9aa8b4e9b5 Microsoft.CST.AttackSurfaceAnalyzer.CLI

None of the CSS components load when launch with asa gui.

This one needs to bake a few more months.

Companies purchase cyber insurance for a small fee and avoid risk of paying ransoms directly.

Make cyber insurance paying ransoms illegal and you'll see boards start funding IT security.

Is there any evidence that people who live in areas with better air have better health outcomes overall?

Hong Kong average life expectancy is 85. Iceland is 83. Hong Kong has poor air quality and Iceland has some of the best.

I'm for better air quality but it's just part of the puzzle.

High availability? Certainly. Elasticity? Not as well.

The right lesson is "Be a person that strives for excellence in all spheres of life".

I've been doing "Local IT" since '96 and I spun up an EC2 instance the day I saw it announced on slashdot and have been using both ever since. Both excel in some ways in the hands of good people.

Anyone thinking "I'll move to the cloud (or to on-prem) and all my problems will magically go away" is fooling themselves. If you suck at on-prem those underlying issues will carry into the cloud. If you have excellence in a well run on-prem install you'll experience great benefits leveraging the cloud.

For instance, Last month I was discussing a "move to the cloud" with a bank CTO. They had an unreliable on-prem network and moved to the cloud.. and they just discovered after suffering an outage in the cloud what an "availability zone" was. The same attitudes that made their on-prem unreliable, insecure, expensive will make the cloud the same way for them.

What I truly don't get is everyone compares piss poor on-prem servers with premium cloud offerings.

Sure, you can screw up on prem. But if you are only marginally competent spinning up services/servers/clusters takes but an instant, it's dirt cheap, and vastly more reliable.

Our only significant outages in the past 10 years have been our services dependent on big clouds. Including the Pre-Thanksgiving AWS one last year.

AWS outage history here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Amazon_Web_Service...

There are lots of dumb reasons but there are also things like we require Fire Extinguishers in our data centers to get a certificate of occupancy.

This explains why zoom and powerpoint presentations numb your grey matter.

A lot of zoom calls don't show hand gestures. PowerPoint is always turning your attention away from the speaker.

It's bee a couple years but the web browser plugins for BitWarden were unreliable. Our power users made it work but our average office user complained non-stop and moved back to using notepad. Maybe BitWarden has improved since then but it was too immature to rollout to the average office user.

If the primary purpose was to funnel money from you -> .mil -> military industrial complex it succeed wildly beyond all expectations. Otherwise not so much.

I lived and worked very close to Eglin Air Force base where all the initial F35's went. Many Air Force people thought the primary design decisions were to spend money and little else.

A contrary perspective... It could be they are using fake numbers but also are effective for some small businesses. I used it for a business and it drove tremendous sales. Everyone in the town that we inquired of had seen at least one ad on their facebook feed in a very short amount of time. All of this for a couple hundred $$.

Im a fb hater too. But it works for some small businesses.

It seems the older generation is so much more tolerant of toxins than us younger ones. For instance, at company lunches it seems at least 50%+ of the 25-45yrs have allergies/glucose issues while the older generation pounds down whatever they want. I have so many friends that have crazy allergies and sensitivities to toxins and almost no boomers that do. Maybe all the weak boomers were weeded out in their youth with lawn darts and no bike helmets or something? Or more likely not exposed to so many toxins when younger?

Might want to look at https://attack.mitre.org/matrices/enterprise/

I have health issues and I try to correlate cause and effect.

I use a rower several times a day, it sits next to my desk. One thing I would love is an API that enables download of key stats like watts, times, etc.

I value raw data over slick apps. I have my own data sources for heart rate, glucose and a few other things. It would be great to integrate this into my home brew system.

Dexcom has a decent API for instance https://developer.dexcom.com

Or start a line of exercise/health equipment that features integrations with fitness watches, indoor air quality monitors(VOC's), blood pressure, glucose, blood oxygen, weather(smog, pollen) etc etc.

It should help answer questions like Does my blood pressure/glucose behave different when: * row for 10 minutes and generate _x_ watts * pollen is high, smog is dense * use a standing desk vs sitting

So far it seems that busting out 10 minutes on a rower seems to have positive effects for at least 24hrs unlike moderate running. I would love to get the actual data on a chart.

Wyoming has one of the highest gun ownership rates 59% and one of the lowest murder rates 1 in 100k in the country. Maryland has 21% gun ownership rates, one of the lowest, and the fourth highest rate of homicides 9 per 100k.

oh com'n. As if twitter doesn't allow people to post stupid junk? Multiple accounts that posted "Kill all white women" "Today seems like a good day for another reminder that all republicans deserve to die" are still active along with plenty of other insane things. You can cherry pick bad stuff from any social media site.

The key here is that iMessage collects a device identifier. Apple will cross reference this with everything else on your phone and know more than all the other apps put together.

SemiAccurate thinks no where on the horizon. They have a good track record on these things. See this for example. https://www.semiaccurate.com/2020/11/12/intel-delays-a-mains...

Also this --> Security researcher Vinoth Kumar told Reuters that, last year, he alerted the company that anyone could access SolarWinds’ update server by using the password “solarwinds123” https://www.reuters.com/article/global-cyber-solarwinds/hack...

* Significantly, the computer system shows vote adjudication logs for prior years; but all adjudication log entries for the 2020 election cycle are missing.

*Likewise, all server security logs prior to 11:03 pm on November 4, 2020 are missing. This means that all security logs for the day after the election, on election day, and prior to election day are gone

I know six people that lost their jobs and were not looking for new ones because they were making more money on unemployment than employed. That is a perverse incentive.

I work in the credit card industry. It's more complicated then that. Depending on who has EMV enabled correctly greatly shifts the fraud load. But banks can and do pay a huge part of the fraud which is passed on to consumers in higher interest rates. Merchants pay "cashback" by some definition but it's fungible. If there were no cashback that money would go directly to the banks and the end user would have lower interest rates.

Only way I know to get any COVID19 antibody test is through this study https://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT04334954?term=serosur... and the result may be inconclusive or take months.

There are a lot of amazing fancy services available... for a fee. We log billions of lines a year and use GrayLog because the other services are cost prohibitive.