Monty Williams

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Retired software geek.

Interests: food/wine, technology, foreign language detective shows (watch.mhzchoice.com/acorn.tv)

I think Tatort is the best dramatic series on TV. Diverse (often dysfunctional) characters, investigative styles, and locales. Episodes deal with social issues such as immigration, poverty, drugs, and child pornography.

#mhzchoice #tatort

Here is an AI generated description:
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/describe-the-tv-show-tatort-4nMi25mmTPOJOk_Ukl64lA

I'm on a history rant today.

History I was taught in school was primarily names, dates, and places of major historical events. There was almost no context to help understand how and why things unfolded the way they did. Nothing that would yield insights like these:

https://collabfund.com/blog/five-lessons-from-history/

Five Lessons from History

The most important lessons from history are the takeaways that are so broad they can apply to other fields, other…

Collaborative Fund

In the field of information security, there’s a kind of vulnerability known as the evil maid attack whereby an untrusted party gains physical access to important hardware, such as the housekeeping staff coming into your hotel room when you’ve left your laptop unattended, thereby compromising it.

Github is immune to the current "A billionaire bought Twitter" nonsense. Code stored in Git has no canonical location, so it can relocate freely.

https://www.wired.com/story/twitter-elon-musk-open-source-platforms/

Billionaires Are A Security Threat

Elon Musk’s Twitter takeover is a case study in destruction. It doesn’t have to be this way.

WIRED

There's lots more to the Fediverse than just Mastodon..

https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

- Fediverse.Party - explore federated networks

Let's make social media free, federated and fun! Fediverse.Party is your guide into the world of decentralized, autonomous networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. No ads and no algorithms. Join Fediverse and become part of the new interconnected Web!

“They are like the Orcs of Mordor,” Blankenship says of her mélange of predatory birds. “They let the target birds know, ‘Thou shalt not pass.’”.

https://punchdrink.com/articles/vineyard-falconry-wine/

The Vineyard Falcon Does Not Suffer Fools

At top Oregon vineyards, falcons protect grape harvests and support local regenerative agriculture. Alina Blankenship leads the flocks.

PUNCH