NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)

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Retired CISSP. Reformed former CISO. Also an architect, strategist, and risk manager. Radio nut and font fanatic.

I don't do LinkedIn or most other social media. I am on Bluesky, same handle. I might mention my website occasionally.

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)3d ago
Glenn Fleishman4d ago
I’ve launched the standalone site for purchasing Six Centuries of Type & Printing, a cloth-bound hardcover book, which is paired with the ebook edition. You can also buy the ebook by itself, snag the unabridged audio edition, and add letterpress-printed bookmarks. (Digital and physical items ship around July 20.) https://sixcent.info/
Six Centuries of Type & Printing: Book, Ebook, and Audiobook

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)4d ago
Paul Chambers🚧4d ago

I found my stomach laugh of the day.

"Usenet, I have never heard of that VPN provider"

LOL

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 9
Ryan PollardJul 8

My daughter just asked me "Why would they call it 'sweet n low' and use a treble clef instead of bass?"

🤯

Decades. I've ignored this glaring #marketing fail for decades.

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 6
Bob YoungJul 6

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 6
AppleInsiderJul 5
Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.
https://appleinsider.com/inside/mac/tips/how-to-stop-your-lg-or-samsung-smart-tv-from-tracking-you?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon
How to stop your LG or Samsung smart TV from tracking you

Even when used as a monitor for your Mac, an LG or Samsung smart TV will periodically capture what's on screen and send it to company servers. Here's how to stop that terrible behavior.

AppleInsider
NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
Mike ShewardJul 4
Pretty sure thats some fellas chin rather than his bollocks, BBC journalist.
NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
On The MediaJul 5
Rural radio stations are most at risk from CPB funding cuts. Hear from Tom Michael about how @marfapublicradio helped warn locals and save lives during an outbreak of grassland fire in far West Texas in 2011. https://bit.ly/3ZFixXu
On the Media

The Peabody Award-winning On the Media podcast is your guide to examining how the media sausage is made. Hosts Brooke Gladstone and Micah Loewinger examine threats to free speech and government transparency, cast a skeptical eye on media coverage of the week’s big stories and unravel hidden political narratives in everything we read, watch and hear.

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
Tom Lyon ✅Jul 5

Just finished "Making Silicon Valley"

This is a great book! Connects the dots starting with amateur radio nuts in the 1910s, and carries through into the 1970s.

Highly recommended. Thanks to whoever pointed me to this, I can't seem to find that now.

https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262622110/making-silicon-valley/

NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
J. Nathan Matias 🦣Jul 5
A small business I know and admire, facing the tariff squeeze, has started to use an AI assistant to manage and engage with their online community rather than staff, and it all just makes me sad.
NewsGoth Condensed (if you know you know)Jul 5
Show threadabadideaMar 23, 2024

I told my husband that posting this could literally take down the instance and he is insisting I post it

#dogsofmastodon #dogs

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Mike ShewardJul 4
Pretty sure thats some fellas chin rather than his bollocks, BBC journalist.
Show threadMike ShewardJul 4
And i get that you can’t really use a stock image of balls in your story about balls, so you’d just use tennis balls or a couple of scotch eggs or something
Show threadcR0w Jul 4
@SecureOwl Did... Did the testicles take that picture?
Show threadTim LavoieJul 4

@SecureOwl What about Ballchinians?

https://meninblack.fandom.com/wiki/Ballchinian

Ballchinian

Ballchinian is a race of "unique" aliens. They have human appearances with long sagging faces. They (males at least) have genitalia on their chin (which explains their name). This is their weak spot, as they are fairly strong against other hits, which may be why they wear large ballsacks. In Men in Black II, Serleena enlists a series of aliens to stop Kay and Jay. Kay kicks one alien's crotch to no avail, when Jay reminds him he is a Ballchinian. Kay exposes his "balls" and kicks him there...

Men in Black Wiki
Show threadJim FlanaganJul 4
@tim_lavoie @SecureOwl I’m glad I didn’t have to post this
Show threadLogan FickJul 4
@SecureOwl Maybe that image is a hyper-realistic photo of Peter Griffin?