Kevin Hardiman

@kevin_hardiman
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Data and analytics; business intelligence; software solutions for the large enterprise (and more). System V init was perfectly fine.

#OTD in 1951.

J. D. Salinger publishes his popular yet controversial novel, The Catcher in the Rye.

Between 1961 and 1982, The Catcher in the Rye was the most censored book in high schools and libraries in the United States. According to the American Library Association, The Catcher in the Rye was the 10th most frequently challenged book from 1990 to 1999.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Catcher_in_the_Rye

#books #literature

The Catcher in the Rye - Wikipedia

Youtuber Bank Wont Let You Withdraw Money

The no-lose "bank" turned out to be a lie. It’s now a casino you cant withdraw from. I’m making this video in the hopes of accelerating people getting their money back.

#Yotta #scam

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBUkajbg688

Youtuber Bank Wont Let You Withdraw Money

YouTube

Just published the second-longest blog post in my 14 year career as an independent reporter.

This story is the result of a ridiculous amount of research. I hope you like it, because I learned tons reporting this, and there needs to be a broader conversation about some of the issues raised by this research. The lede:

Two weeks before Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, a large, mysterious new Internet hosting firm called Stark Industries Solutions materialized and quickly became the epicenter of massive distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks on government and commercial targets in Ukraine and Europe. An investigation into Stark Industries reveals it is being used as a global proxy network that conceals the true source of cyberattacks and disinformation campaigns against enemies of Russia.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/05/stark-industries-solutions-an-iron-hammer-in-the-cloud/

Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud – Krebs on Security

The Prentiss brothers, died hours apart in the same Civil War battle on opposing sides.
Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn, NY, USA.

Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit physicist, inventor and scientific instrument maker was born #OTD in 1686.

He created the temperature scale that bears his name in 1724. He set the zero point of his scale at the temperature of a mixture of ice, water, and ammonium chloride, a freezing brine solution. He established 32°F as the freezing point of water and 212°F as the boiling point of water at standard atmospheric pressure. He also invented the mercury-in-glass thermometer.

#science #thermometry

“I make my cars to go, not to stop!” -Bugatti

RE: https://mastodon.social/@MissingThePt/112393903752904980

Moon.
<Personal comment> I know this has been obvious for a while, but tonight I'm finding few credible and reliable real-time sources of news left on Twitter/X. Those few are being overwhelmed in timelines by bad actors pushing info/misinfo or clickbating self-proclaimed OSINT accounts with unattributed reports.