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Geewhizpat mastodon (AP)
From #kamalahq “JD Vance is weird and creepy” #kamalaharris #kamalaharris2024

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7 password rules to live by in 2024, according to security experts – No, frequent changes not one of the rules

Side view of a laptop keyboard, with a hand hovering over the keyboard.
If you really want to get deep into the details of digital security, read the four-volume Digital Identity Guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It’s a massive document, and much of it is aimed at Federal agencies that need extremely robust security. There’s plenty of practical, easy-to-read information there as well, such as the discussion of how long and complex passwords really need to be. You’ll find those details in the short appendix titled “Strength of Memorized Secrets.”

The folks at NIST have created a simple Cybersecurity Basics page that boils all that technical information down to a set of crisp guidelines for small business owners and managers.

Experts agree that changing passwords regularly isn’t necessary, and that organizations requiring users to change their password for no reason are actually making their networks less secure.

Why? Because people who are forced to change passwords regularly are likely to choose a weak, easy-to-guess password. If you’ve done a solid job of choosing a strong and unique password, there’s no need to change it under normal circumstances.

They’re all very sensible rules, and changing a well-chosen unique password every month, is not one of the recommendations. I recall making a post about this a year or two back, where the originator of that idea of monthly changes had explained where he came up with that idea, and it had no basis on any fact at all. And yet to this day most IT departments still require such changes, and of course users just tack on a number they keep changing (defeating the whole objective of that idea anyway).

See https://www.zdnet.com/article/7-password-rules-to-live-by-in-2024-according-to-security-experts
#Blog, #passwords, #security, #technology
Danie friendica
@Greg A. Woods ah OK, well longer is always going to be better, but I think this guide was basically saying 12 should be the minimum to be secure. It will be secure enough and basically take 1.7 centuries to crack at a hundred trillion guesses per second. 32 characters will be better and take a good 6.2 thousand trillion trillion trillion centuries to crack. Both are secure enough, but this is mainly why they said 12 as a minimum.
Danie friendica (via ActivityPub)
@Greg A. Woods I was using https://www.grc.com/haystack.htm to get a guess on the possible combinations.

Harvey Weinstein in hospital after testing positive for Covid-19 and contracting double pneumonia


https://www.yahoo.com/news/harvey-weinstein-hospital-testing-positive-024808640.html
Now that's a bit of a whammy - Covid AND double pneumonia. One of my favorite puppeteers died of double pneumonia.
Jess Nut diaspora
I hope he gets the care he deserves.

libramoon diaspora
TRANSFORMATION #poem

Transformation is not about butterflies
flitting about, capturing our awe.
It is the heart of pain
you cannot feel for me.
Searing cauterization,
what would be condemned
as unethical treatment
of secret wounds
bound up in tattered consciousness.
Bit by bit, then all at once
losing the thread,
spacing out the conversation,
not quite catching the gist of
why I am here and now.
Did it ever make sense?
How could I believe my lies?
That papier-mache world
I gave my soul
sucked dry
in enduring service
was never true.
I would cry
but that would be too easy.
The pain would dribble down;
fascinated by the rainbow glisten
I would count my misfortunes
watch them spin
pennies falling into a rose-glass jar.
Filled with resolve,
I would go back out into the fray,
fight another day, and another
until by decimating degrees
I might fall defeated, dead and gone.
But death is only an act
of transformation.
The whole play depends upon
the spinning out of the tale.
First you love, then you lose,
then you do hard labor
stoking the fires of Hell,
breaking the rocks of Eternity,
cleaning the rotting sewers
of collective untreated waste.
Stench, pain, nausea
beyond bearability
wrenches, renders, discorporates
transforms.
Not like changing
into a bright, enchanting costume.
Changing utterly
because no other choice
exists.
#poem

RealFinoxy mastodon (AP)
yes, new goverment is ruining everything

looks like Felon Husk had at least one good sperm... GO VIVIAN!

Elon Musk’s Daughter Fires Back After He Says She Was ‘Killed’ By ‘Woke Mind Virus’


In a subsequent post, Wilson wrote: “I want to make one thing absolutely clear. I disowned him, not the other way around.” Indeed, when legally changing her name and gender in 2022, she told a California court that she no longer wished to be related to Musk “in any way, shape or form.” By that point, Musk had already tweeted criticism of preferred pronouns and said he might support Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, who had signed the state’s controversial “Don’t Say Gay” law that year, if he ran for president in 2024.

As for Musk’s claims that she demonstrated passions for musicals and fashion as a child, Wilson went on to say that her father’s account made no sense, since four-year-olds aren’t aware of such concepts. “This entire thing is completely made up and there’s a reason for this,” she wrote. “He doesn’t know what I was like as a child because he quite simply wasn’t there, and in the little time that he was I was relentlessly harassed for my femininity and queerness.” Wilson then brushed aside Musk’s insistence that she’s not a woman, noting that she’s legally recognized as female. Musk himself, she said, is lost “in a ketamine-fueled haze, desperate for attention and validation from an army of degenerate red-pilled incels and pick-mes who are quick to give it to him.” (Musk has talked openly about taking ketamine for therapeutic purposes.)

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/elon-musk-daughter-fires-back-175616294.html

Viss mastodon (AP)
oh i cant wait for malicious "influencers" to add people to photos using this to create accusations that damage reputations and careers
That is worse than Microsoft's CoPilot.

Did their Product Managers even think about this and the implications?

This is going to bomb and fall flat the moment it's released AND it will make anyone that uses it look like a pathetic loser.

M.S. Bellows, Jr. mastodon (AP)
To me, the female Secret Service agent looks like the Statue of Liberty being beaten into submission by a tyrant. But hey, nice meme, my guy.
A meme taken from Truth Social. On the left, The statue of Liberty with the words land of the Free. On the right, the words home of the brave with a photo taken right after the recent shooting, was Trump holding his right fist in the air and a woman's head who appears to be cowering under his upraised arm (but actually is a secret service agent trying to pull him to the ground for his own safety).
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Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Alabama man pleads guilty to threatening Arizona election workers with execution - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/alabama-man-pleads-guilty-to-threatening-arizona-election-workers-with-execution/

he's gonna need some aloe for that one

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Puts Elon Musk In His Place With Perfectly Patronizing Reminder


“Just so we’re clear, Netanyahu has lost so many people that he is addressing just a fraction of Congress,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote in response to an X post from Axios reporter Andrew Solender, which tallied how many Democrats skipped the speech.

Musk, who was one of the non-legislators who was invited to attend Netanyahu’s speech on Wednesday, then found his way into AOC’s replies.

“The Democratic Party has become openly & boldly antisemitic,” he alleged.

The progressive lawmaker thought Musk’s accusation was rich, considering the billionaire’s well-documented history of bigoted remarks.

Clapping back, she posted a screenshot of a Wall Street Journal article about Musk defending an antisemitic social media post he once made, claiming Jewish people have a “dialectical hatred” of white people, as “the truth.”

“Hmm,” she wrote, along with a thinking face emoji. “Sometimes being quiet is free and good for you.”

https://www.yahoo.com/news/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-puts-elon-005518684.html

frater chaos diaspora
ya know... the fur...
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JustAFrog mastodon (AP)
For professional musketeers, these people sure don't use them a whole lot.

Victoria Venery mastodon (AP)
Go home, Wonder Woman, you're drunk. #wonderwoman #sdcc
a Wonder Woman action figure who fell over

Mastodon Statistics hubzilla (AP)
#Mastodon #Statistics 2024-07-26 18:00 CEST
Number of active instances: 11 987
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#Fediverse

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1362852/ Schwäbische augmended reality #DeutscheMemes #Memes
Schwäbische augmended reality

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
Stark contrast between Harris' husband and Trump's wife called out on CNN - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/doug-emhoff-melania-trump/

spaceinfo hubzilla (via ActivityPub)

A moon of Uranus could have a hidden ocean, James Webb Space Telescope finds



Astronomers have found that Ariel, a moon of Uranus, has some of the most carbon dioxide-rich deposits in the solar system, hinting at a buried water ocean.
A large glowing blue sphere next to an overlapping smaller grey sphere with a craggy texture

@Hans van Zijst Thanks. I did notice it but thought it was just that someone did some bad and lazy image cropping...
'eres a fresh mug of coffee.

One of the most disappointing sequels @Birne Helene. I refuse to watch it.
It may be our only chance @frater chaos 👍

SATELLITE LOVERS - SONS OF 1973 (Full Album, 1996) https://youtu.be/tARPWiuCQ6U?si=bFnaqcLYLJI6Oyue @wmnf

✌️ ✌️ ✌️ 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 🇵🇸 #palestine #olympics

Bill Jorth mastodon (AP)
How awesome! To have the beautiful backstory makes the performance all the more wonderful.

Honor to the people of France and to the athletes of every nation participating in this year’s Olympic competitions. https://fosstodon.org/@AkaSci/112854607945130180

me·ta·phil, der mastodon (AP)
Meine Lieblings-Position im Betriebssport-Yoga ist ja der herablässig schauende Hund.

Bubba Harrison mastodon (AP)
The stripped down version of "Mind Games" is an ear worm that will attack your neural net and replicate in your synapses until you're humming it in your sleep.

Click for missing link:
https://youtu.be/KN0iIhjfXbQ?si=DbUOXldaAGtNl_xk

Sue Stone mastodon (AP)
'Tighty-whities in a twist': The View laughs at effect Harris is having on Trump - Raw Story

https://www.rawstory.com/kamala-harris-donald-trump-triggered/

Lauren Weinstein mastodon (AP)
Responding to concerns about his "cat lady" comments, Vance "apologizes" to cats but continues to insist that people who choose not to have children are inferior.

redj 18 diaspora

Ah yes, Brave Sir Robin..😁
#Montyphyton https://youtu.be/jYFefppqEtE

Tony diaspora
Merci 😁

Matthew Durst mastodon (AP)
What an amazing celebration of art across the spectrum of dance, music, fashion, and video for the #Olympics2024 ceremony. What an amazing concept to use the river as the centerpiece. Definitely broke out of the stadium presentation model. Fantastic.


Low Quality Facts mastodon (AP)
She means it too, I can see it in her eyes.
"If I ever encountered Bigfoot I would kill him on sight."
-Emma Stone
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libramoon diaspora


Roger Taylor/Date of birth
July 26, 1949

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1362838/ IDF hat seit Kriegsbeginn im Norden 500 Terroristen getötet, sagt ein hochrangiger Offizier #Nachrichten #News #WorldNews
IDF hat seit Kriegsbeginn im Norden 500 Terroristen getötet, sagt ein hochrangiger Offizier

Samuel Proulx pleroma (AP)
Grabbed myself some #meshtastic hardware. Looks like a neat project! Hopefully it arrives soon.
Finn mastodon (AP)
Sounds great.. I live in North Germany, far away from any big cities.
Samuel Proulx pleroma (AP)
@finn Well, I doubt I’ll be messaging your node any time soon lol
@Finn

Here's FBI Director Wray testing the waters for the DOJ's never-ending anti-encryption campaign. They already have the would-be assassin's phone, giving access to conversations and passwords.

https://therecord.media/encrypted-apps-a-challenge-trump-assassination-attempt-wray-fbi
But because the guy used encrypted messaging, Wray complains "some places we may never be able to see, no matter how good our legal process is.”

For eons, people talked and no one could know what was said. Ephemerality is the norm, not the exception.

https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/if-government-had-its-way-everything-could-be-wiretapped

Europe Says mastodon (AP)
https://www.europesays.com/1362835/ Buttigieg: Trump’s Debate Snub Is An ‘Extraordinary Show Of Weakness’ #Politics #U.S.Politics #UnitedStates
Buttigieg: Trump’s Debate Snub Is An 'Extraordinary Show Of Weakness'

Now this is disappointing: legendary electronic music composer/producer who made countless groundbreaking albums from the '90s onward insists on performing in Russia despite the war. Then when people (rightly!) call him out on that, he starts whining about it on his website🤷‍♂️:

https://atom-tm.com/blog/2024/07/26/entry-27-statement/
Misty hometown (AP)
Whoof.
Yeah, didn't see that one coming either. Also that whole statement is just 🤦‍♂️

The curious case of 1,400 pieces of African art, once in the possession of Harris County Commissioner Rodney Ellis and twice ordered to be auctioned off by a judge, took another turn this week.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/2024/07/26/494906/auction-of-controversial-african-art-collection-in-houston-again-halted-by-11th-hour-court-filing/

#ArtsCulture #Court #HarrisCounty #Houston #Local #News #AfricanArt #ArtAuctions #Auction #CommissionerRodneyEllis #SamNjunuri #TemporaryRestrainingOrder
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