Just sit right back and you'll hear a tale,
a tale of a fateful trip.
It's Sunday Night on #monsterdon, aboard a tiny ship.
The mate was a might sailing man
The skipper wore his shades
If not for the film from Toho Scope
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Alrighty folks it is an hour until #MONSTERDON your weekly monster movie watch party!
This week is MATANGO (1963), aka Attack of the Mushroom People! A classic by Ishiro Honda of Godzilla fame :D
If you want to mute the hashtag, now's a good time to turn 'em on. If you want to join in, the film's available ad free and gratis over here: https://archive.org/details/1963-matango-anslyn
I’m currently a custodian of a 20+ year old forum that serves a niche community (#sci spinal cord injury and #tbi traumatic brain injury people and their loved ones). Everything @Daojoan says here is spot on.
Still learning #bass guitar. One year in (started when I was 50). Today I discovered that there’s an infinite number of 12-bar #blues tracks on YouTube minus the bass. Perfect for riffing on and practicing scales and stuff.
You should also never charge your device at a public USB port. That same port that charges your gadget can also infect it.
Is there actually a case where a public #USB port infected some random device with #malware? I mean we all know it's theoretically possible. But does it actually happen at all in the way this is written? Some bad guy sticks a malicious charger in a random public place like an airport or coffee shop, and they infect random people? I'm not saying it doesn't happen, just that I can't bring to mind many instances of it. The opposite of confirmation bias: I can't bring to mind any examples, so it probably never happens. 😜 I know people do targeted infections via USB. But random? #infosec#security
So #Trump has lost his appeal that somehow he has a get-out-of-jail-free card for all criminal acts committed while President. The incredible irony there being that if the court somehow agreed with him, that Presidents cannot be prosecuted for crimes committed while president, then #Biden could just go assassinate Trump with impunity. After all, that's literally one of the questions put to Trump's lawyers in the appeal. I'm glad sanity prevailed, instead.
This is a fascinating story but I struggle to keep reading it. They keep writing “an Euler walk”. It should be “a Euler walk”. The a/an rule isn’t about spelling (words starting with vowels). The rule is about sound. We don’t write “an European country”, we write “a European country” for the same reason.
Similarly I dislike silly people who write “an historic event”. If you’re not pronouncing it “‘istoric” then it should be “a”, not “an”.
@BradRubenstein@datawrapper I don’t know the correct pronunciation. Is it “oiler”? In my head I say “yoo ler”. This might be a case of my not knowing the pronunciation, so I’m wrong about the grammar.
@jamigibbs I’ve been happily using #Tidal for a couple years. I’ve done “the Pepsi challenge” with lots of people and it always sounds better than Spotify. I see someone recommended YouTube music. We did the Pepsi challenge with that and YouTube sounded great. So those would be my top 2 recs.
@patrickcmiller Did you read this one? The “6 vulnerabilities” are revealed halfway through. After a long word salad of security truisms. The 6 “vulnerabilities” are
lack of policies
deficiencies in monitoring
inadequate testing
training and awareness
Etc.
This kind of thing leaves the reader knowing less than before they read it
This was a #dall-e suggestion from #openai. I think it's perfect because it shows how the #AI is like the guards scene from Monty Python and the Holy Grail. The prompt was (emphasis mine):
A 3D render of AN ASTRONAUT walking in a GREEN DESERT.
Read carefully. What they received was:
A 3D render of A GREEN ASTRONAUT walking in a NORMAL-COLOURED DESERT
That is not even close to what they asked for. Both the desert and the astronaut are the wrong colours, based on what they asked for, and colour was a really important part of the prompt.