MRU 0001 (Sean) @freakazoid@retro.social

Woot! Here's a PDF of the original HAM paper!

http://csis.pace.edu/~marchese/CS835/Lec3/p856-campbell.pdf

Aww man a super weird unfolding drama in the physics community, as yet unresolved and involving :

* very surprising claims of room temperature superconductivity!
* datasets that look super faked!!
* some hacker spoofing emails from respected scientists telling investigators to lay off investigating the research group with the super dodgy looking data!!!

You want cyberpunk? Here's cyberpunk!

https://mobile.twitter.com/gravity_levity/status/1027717419400392705

A Dynamic Forth Compiler for WebAssembly

https://el-tramo.be/blog/waforth/

Californians: call your assemblymembers and tell them to vote yes on SB 822 and SB 460. #NetNeutrality https://act.eff.org/action/help-california-secure-net-neutrality-protections-support-s-b-822-and-s-b-460

Everybody enjoy this brautiful image of a solar flare captured at different wavelengths

Take me down to the paradox city where the grass is green and the grass isn’t green

New section on switching.social, for blogging alternatives. First entry is @write_as :

https://switching.social/ethical-alternatives-to-medium/

It would be nice to have a wider range of blogging alternatives too, perhaps alternatives to Tumblr, Blogger and Livejournal?

If you have any suggestions, let me know.

(#Plume is still in alpha testing)

#Blogs #Blogging #Bloggers #Writing #Publishing #Macroblogging #ActivityPub #Federation #Fediverse

I compose choral music, and put it online under a CC by-SA license so choirs can sing it for free!

Publishers won't touch my work because I won't let them prohibit photocopying, so I need support from people like you.

My Patreon is http://www.patreon.com/artsyhonker

I have other options for people who prefer them:
http://www.artsyhonker.net/support

Thanks so much!

#MastoMusic
#CreativeCommons
#choir
#acappella
#choral
#sacred
#OneDollarPatreon
#CreativeToots
#Introduction
#Introductions

I'm looking for #work.

I'm a #Python developer with experience in QA Automation using #pandas.

Mostly looking in the #NYC area, but would relocate for the right #job.

Contact email: public@zacharyspector.com

"Together with its inner circle of unshakable English-speaking allies, the United States possesses near-total control of the world’s seas, skies, airwaves and cyberspace, while American universities, think tanks and journals dominate the world of ideas."

Reading this, written before the 2016 election, just 3 years later has a somber Ozymandias vibe. Empires seem eternal, until they aren't. The Cornell West / Chris Hedges crowd was so right, so early.

https://nationalinterest.org/feature/american-hegemony-here-stay-13089

if Mastodon doesn’t work out I’m just going to start posting markdown files to a static site running on a Raspberry Pi and call it a day. to reply, you have to send me an email.

something very common in (free) software that I hate is the "I made it first therefore you owe it to me/us"

like, buddy,, i had all the shitty ideas you can come up with, better, someday when i was 15 while bored in math class, and i'm sure many did. sometimes you're not the hero you just happen to have money or time and energy to spend. fix your ego it's leaking everywhere

New week, new speculative execution attack variants. They are called #Foreshadow and Foreshadow-NG. Intel calls the attacks L1 Terminal Fault.

Quote from the NG paper:
“Foreshadow-NG attacks completely bypass the virtual memory abstraction by directly exposing cached physical memory contents to unprivileged applications and guest virtual machines.”

Papers:
https://foreshadowattack.eu/foreshadow.pdf
https://foreshadowattack.eu/foreshadow-NG.pdf

Intel:
https://software.intel.com/security-software-guidance/software-guidance/l1-terminal-fault

Further info:
https://foreshadowattack.eu/

Wondering what to put in the description field on an image? A quick guide:
1. Just say what's in the image--you don't need to say it's an image.
2. Describe only what's relevant to the conversation. "Annalee writing in a notebook" or "An example of candid portraiture" or "A person using a fountain pen" are all good captions of the same image, in different contexts.
3. All text that's meant to be read should be transcribed. Screencap? Transcribe. Sign in background of selfie? Don't transcribe.

"Foreshadow is an attack on Intel SGX technology which allows an attacker to steal sensitive information stored inside personal computers or third party clouds.

"Foreshadow demonstrates how speculative execution can be exploited for reading the contents of SGX-protected memory. Making things worse, due to SGX’s design, it only takes a single compromised SGX machine in order to erode trust in the entire SGX ecosystem."

https://foreshadowattack.eu/

#infosec