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God loves atheists. Their skepticism and search for truth shows a deep respect for the gift of reason.
Nikhil 🧐
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tech-geek, observer of the world and the people in it. Views my own.
Missing The PointThe difference between NPR and Twitter is that NPR is intentionally a non-profit.
#NPR
#NPR
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/lessons-from-a-professional-password-cracker
“This website stored all its users’ passwords in plain text, and all the passwords were leaked. That gave us the single biggest insight into how humans construct passwords globally. It was unprecedented.”
Still reading through this, but the two ideas so far are worth pondering if not entirely accepting. (The other one being uniqueness across passwords and not just password entropy is what we want).
Sheril KirshenbaumI bet you’ve heard of Galileo & Hubble, but what about Henrietta Swan Leavitt?
Leavitt changed astronomy. She figured out new ways to measure a star’s distance from Earth & her work helped determine the universe is expanding.
Her boss, Edward Pickering, published her findings UNDER HIS NAME. Later, Shapley used her findings to determine distances around the Milky Way w/o credit.
Leavitt’s work is still used today. Next time you hear about famous men in #science share her story. #HistoryRemix
Richard LittlerPeople grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration
#TwitterMigration
PwnallthethingsOne thing that's getting a little lost in this mix, is that some of the people desperately holding on at Twitter are because they are trapped by either healthcare or visas.
That there are systemic traps that trap workers in America so they feel unable to move freely to new employers who want them and would have better pay or conditions is *nuts* and deserves a lot more attention than it gets.