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This is from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Just thought I'd post it here for no particular or current reason.
@malwaretech For someone who knows nothing about this- how can you spot a rip current? What can you see in this video that my untrained eye doesn't?
@PogoWasRight What is a ToxID?

The broadband labels require "typical latency" and I wondered how that was figured. At one point, it was: "SamKnows test servers are hosted at 10 major public interconnects (IXPs) in or near major metropolitan areas. The use of these servers for measurements provides a consistent and objective basis of comparison across all ISPs for the MBA metrics specified in the Technical Appendix." [1]
But that partnership has ended [2], so I wonder how they calculate what number is used for "typical latency"

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/reports-research/reports/measuring-broadband-america/measuring-fixed-broadband-twelfth-report
[2] https://www.fcc.gov/general/measuring-broadband-america

Measuring Fixed Broadband - Twelfth Report

Twelfth Measuring Broadband America Fixed Broadband Report A Report on Consumer Fixed Broadband Performance

Just to be clear: I didn't mean that I didn't do good - I did. I mean that we got unreasonably lucky here, and that we can't just bank on that going forward.

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility breaks encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/backdoor-found-in-widely-used-linux-utility-breaks-encrypted-ssh-connections/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Backdoor found in widely used Linux utility targets encrypted SSH connections

Malicious code planted in xz Utils has been circulating for more than a month.

Ars Technica

Windows’ current disk formatting UI is a 30-year-old placeholder from Windows NT

"It wasn't elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived." It never did.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/03/windows-current-disk-formatting-ui-is-a-30-year-old-placeholder-from-windows-nt/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“Temporary” disk formatting UI from 1994 still lives on in Windows 11

“It wasn’t elegant, but it would do until the elegant UI arrived.” It never did.

Ars Technica
They said use Let's encrypt 😂👇
The story of the SSH port is 22.

The SSH port is 22. This is the story of how it got that port number. And practical configuration instructions.

“A 44-year-old man accused of violently attacking and killing his father Sunday night was deemed by a longtime family friend as a "delusional conspiracy theorist”…[who] recently learned his father had received the vaccine.”

Someone should tally up the #QAnon/#antivaxx death toll during the Trump era. It’s high, with a number of cases involving people murdering family members.

https://www.wptv.com/news/palm-beach-county/region-c-palm-beach-county/stop-you-are-killing-me-dad-pleas-during-sons-fatal-attack-deputies-say

'Stop, you are killing me,' dad pleads during Wellington son's fatal attack, deputies say

A 44-year-old man accused of violently attacking and killing his father was deemed by a longtime family friend as a "delusional conspiracy theorist," according to a probable cause affidavit.

WPTV News Channel 5 West Palm