Alex Palermo

A couple weeks ago I decided I wasn’t going to touch my dotfiles for a few months because I’ve been spending too much time tweaking them.

I had a few days off work this week so I decided to learn nix.

I think I’ve made a mistake.

“SSL is a joke I know the guy who built the backdoor”

“WHAT?”

“What?”

Is an exchange that lives rent free in my head

Opt out tomorrow!

😂

“For the CS majors, SWE is -not it- for immigration. Nor is Analytics. The market is way too competitive. Too many young and hungry people already constantly immigrating with CS degrees. Specialize. Do it smartly. Legacy. COBOL. ICS. The niches that aren’t sexy that half the planet runs on and the people who installed and maintained them are retiring or dead. Get good at being a computer janitor keeping SCADA and mainframes running. Banking. Hospital tech. Same with cybersecurity. Entry level analyst market is saturated. Specialize! Cloud certs to fix all the poorly implemented buckets. Dull international GRC. Security engineering for obnoxious and finicky products like legacy SIEMs and forensic suites. Get certs in those, not just Sec+ or CISSP. The sexy jobs got pitched and sold by too many opportunist universities. Be an IT janitor and be damn good at it.”

On immigration as American IT people

Signals of Trouble: Multiple Russia-Aligned Threat Actors Actively Targeting Signal Messenger | Google Cloud Blog Russia state-aligned threat actors target Signal Messenger accounts used by individuals of interest to Russia's intelligence services.

Today, Google Threat Intelligence is alerting the community to increasing efforts from several Russia state-aligned threat actors (GRU, FSB, etc.) to compromise Signal Messenger accounts.

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Maybe I wasn’t clear about this. I wanted more egg and no plane crash, not many plane crash and no egg.

Y’all need to start masking again like…. Yesterday

Excerpt from a public letter Roald Dahl wrote encouraging people to vaccinate their children. Olivia, my eldest daughter, caught measles when she was seven years old. As the illness took its usual course I can remember reading to her often in bed and not feeling particularly alarmed about it. Then one morning, when she was well on the road to recovery, I was sitting on her bed showing her how to fashion little animals out of coloured pipe-cleaners, and when it came to her turn to make one herself, I noticed that her fingers and her mind were not working together and she couldn’t do anything. “Are you feeling all right?” I asked her. “I feel all sleepy,” she said. In an hour, she was unconscious. In twelve hours she was dead. The measles had turned into a terrible thing called measles encephalitis and there was nothing the doctors could do to save her. That was twenty-four years ago in 1962, but even now, if a child with measles happens to develop the same deadly reaction from measles as Olivia did, there would still be nothing the doctors could do to help her. On the other hand, there is today something that parents can do to make sure that this sort of tragedy does not happen to a child of theirs. They can insist that their child is immunized against measles. I was unable to do that for Olivia in 1962 because in those days a reliable measles vaccine had not been discovered. Today a good and safe vaccine is available to every family and all you have to do is to ask your doctor to administer it.

The measles outbreak in Texas is reminding me of the public letter Roald Dahl wrote about losing his daughter to measles in 1962, just before the vaccine was publicly available.

Establishing the President's Make America Healthy Again Commission By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.

Are you talking about this executive order or is there one I missed?

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I met a guy a the farmers market who spent 3 decades in tech then retired to be a goat farmer

If you wanted to decrease the cost of homes, one thing you wouldn’t do is put a flat tariff on your main source of timber.

Progress update: A tracker is now live at tracker.archiveteam.org/usgovernment/

Sir this is a Wendy’s

Haskell is down the road

it says a lot about an industry if a free and open source alternative to every product on the market can destroy 1 trillion dollars of “value” in one day lol

Friendly reminder to always always ALWAYS use your right to remain silent

YouTube video by Lawful Masses with Leonard French Microsoft Copilot Manager roasted, doesn't understand Confidentiality

Microsoft is making ads for FOSS alternatives again

“It’s not spyware, it’s a feature!”

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#linux #foss #opensource

Forget the Eiffel Tower, this penguin's love is for the command line. He'd rather 'rm -rf /*' his computer than install proprietary OS. He's got a baguette in one hand and a bash script in the other. Don't mess with him. 😌

This week the Trump administration took offline the climate and economic justice mapping tool CEJST.

We, as part of the Public Environmental Data Project, have recreated it.

Here’s our unofficial but functional copy: digitalhistory.github.io/j40-pages/en...

I do all my stuff in obsidian / vim (markdown FTW) and back everything up on gitlab and proton drive

Ok #booksky, let’s talk.

👎🏼Goodreads, owned by Amazon, fuels its monopoly on books.

👍🏼StoryGraph, a Black woman-owned platform, offers an ethical, ad-free alternative with mood-based recommendations, user control over data, and a focus on inclusivity. Support diversity over corporate power!

Yesterday I put out a blog post (medium.com/p/22a489d34ee1) saying "it doesn't have to be pretty" about AoC solutions. I then spent 2 hours trying to come up with an "elegant" solution that I thought simplified the problem. I really need to follow my own advice.

I just completed "Disk Fragmenter" - Day 9 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/9

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I just completed "Resonant Collinearity" - Day 8 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/8

hint: make sure you don't end up with a blank line at the bottom of the puzzle input.

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I just put up my first blog post!

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I just completed "Print Queue" - Day 5 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/5

skipping day 4 since I'm still stuck dealing with edge cases. Apologies for the messy code if you look at it. I wanted to quickly pound out a quick win.

I lost #whamageddon while getting Greek food

I just completed "Mull It Over" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2024 #AdventOfCode adventofcode.com/2024/day/3

This was my first time doing regular expressions in C- I definitely feel like python has spoiled me

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