I've been laid off and need a new job. Maybe game journalism, maybe something else in games, maybe not games at all. Entertaining all possibilities at this point, so please reach out if you think I might be a good fit for you.
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I am going to spend the next 6 months getting yelled at by "leftists" for speaking bold truths like "if you don't like Trump, you should vote for Biden." This is apparently highly triggering and causes them to lash out. But someone has to do it.
I've been drawing strips for years about attacks on students' right to protest, yet strangely I've never been invited to give a TED Talk, speak at an "ideas festival," or pen a column for the Atlantic.
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44 years ago today
Los Angeles is the debut studio album by American Punk rock band X, released on this day in 1980 by Slash Records and produced by ex-Doors keyboard player Ray Manzarek
Mike Pinder has died at age 82. He was one of the founding members of the Moody Blues.
It was my late cousin, David, who introduced me to the Moodys. He had an impressive record collection. One day, he pulled out "In Search of the Lost Chord" and played it for me. It was as if somebody had opened this door to a whole new universe for me. I still consider Chord to be the most important album I ever heard.
There was just so much going on. The layers of arrangements, the use of the mellotron, the lyrics...the sheer magnitude of the whole thing. It wasn't just a rock album. It was theater. It was poetry. It was connecting with something so big you felt you couldn't adequately describe it to anyone. To this day, I just tell people to listen to the album. Really listen to it. Give it your full attention. It can take you places.
Of Mike Pinder, I think the most apropos homage to him is..
"He'll take you up, he'll bring you down,
He'll plant your feet back firmly on the ground.
He flies so high, he swoops so low,
He knows exactly which way he's gonna go....."
#Apple fired me in a blatant & egregious act of retaliation for reporting real safety issues; yet Apple's so powerful, they were able to avoid putting anything on the record about it with the government for years, even with #NLRB & #DOL charges filed before I was fired.
If you've ever looked at SSH server logs you know what I'm about to say: Any SSH server connected to the public Internet is getting bombarded by constant attempts to log in. Not just a few of them. A lot of them. Sometimes even dozens per second. And this problem is not going away; it is, in fact, getting worse. And attackers' behavior is changing.
The graph attached to this post shows the number of attempted SSH logins per day to one of @cloudlab s clusters over a four-year period. It peaks at about 3.4 million login attempts per day.
This is part of a study we did on our production system, using logs of more than 640 million login attempts, covering more than 1,500 hosts on our side and observing more than 840 thousand incoming IP addresses.
A paper presenting our analysis and a new, highly effective means to block SSH brute force attacks ("Where The Wild Things Are: Brute-Force SSH Attacks In The Wild And How To Stop Them") will be presented next week at #NSDI24 by @sachindhke . The full paper is at https://www.flux.utah.edu/paper/singh-nsdi24
I actually think that any county where 2 adults working full-time minimum wage can't afford a place to rent should ban short-term housing. (Right now, I'm assuming that's most counties - it certainly includes where I live.)
I like AirBnBs mostly, but I think it's time to force the hotel industry to compete with places to stay that have some of the same amenities.