"Over 800 were based upon the dictionary word 'password', 4k based on this year as in 2019, we even saw passwords based on 2009 with the password of 'Sep-09'."
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/10/10/nsa_ncsc_vpn_warnings/
This is pretty handy if you want HW accel rather than letting your browser eat significant CPU time.
Josh Steffen doing Lars Ulrich doing Duran Duran is strangely compelling: https://youtu.be/hSTQhz5XNQU
Have you heard of this game where you play as a horrible goose that wreaks mischief on the mild-mannered inhabitants of a small English village?
This neural net certainly hadn't.
https://aiweirdness.com/post/188214106227/ai-versus-confusing-goose-game
Taking a distributed system like DNS and collapsing it down to "Google and CloudFlare" is a huge downgrade.
There are certainly other factors to take into account, but "letting two companies handle all DNS" is just a bad idea.
https://www.zdnet.com/article/dns-over-https-causes-more-problems-than-it-solves-experts-say/
If reports of Turkish armour stacking at the border are true, I do wonder if they're intending to go further than their 'safety area'.
As the Middle East appears ready to boil over, I'm curious about some things:
i) What are Turkey's objectives in Syria? Really just a 'buffer zone'?
ii) What is Russia's thinking on i)
iii) Where does Iran fit into all of this?
#syria
Le Carre and the BBC mini-series were my introduction to the genre, so I have fairly high standards.
I really want to love #Deutschland83 but the plotting is pretty shaky. It's flawed, but still great TV. Similar to Engrenages in many ways.
FOSS, motorbikes, and photography.