@8bf54812@90657cc1
Is credential stuffing considered a "data breach"? This seems like the blame is more on the users for reusing passwords than on the company, no?
Related: I would love to have this testing done, but only under the condition that I could get my results and then the data would be deleted immediately and entirely from their system.
@56db12d0
This is like an earworm for the eyes, except the difference is that I can actually look away from this and turn it off 😂
Too much time with this could drive a person mad.
@872ab8e1
And this is why we need well funded regulatory agencies. These snake oil sellers should've been required to have the product tested *before* being allowed to take it to market. The fine is some pale consolation to people whose kids ended up in the hospital with liver failure.
Looking at the eclipse map, the shadow goes right over Monument Valley which will be saturated with tourists, no doubt. Also goes over Chaco Canyon, which will likely also be a zoo. Shiprock could be an amazing photo op, but unless you have permission from tribal members, you'd have to stay on the road to the NW. The wackiest place will probably be Roswell, NM. I hadn't paid attention to the fact that Roswell will be near the center of totality.
I'm seriously tempted to go there just for the human zoo of alien watchers that will inevitably descend on the place.
Whose going to be #Eclipse watching in a week?
I had been planning to go back to the #ColoradoPlateau #CanyonCountry
In the last couple weeks I was scouting photo op sites, ideally where the sun would appear over the edge of a slot canyon, begin the eclipse and then un-eclipse as it goes over the opposite canyon wall. That would make a cool timelapse, right? But now I'm honestly wondering if I shouldn't go somewhere nice and...just watch it?
Looking at the eclipse map, the shadow goes right over Monument Valley which will be saturated with tourists, no doubt. Also goes over Chaco Canyon, which will likely also be a zoo. Shiprock could be an amazing photo op, but unless you have permission from tribal members, you'd have to stay on the road to the NW. The wackiest place will probably be Roswell, NM. I hadn't paid attention to the fact that Roswell will be near the center of totality.
I'm seriously tempted to go there just for the human zoo of alien watchers that will inevitably descend on the place.
@cd7fb4c8
Oh, I might have to change that. The tail isn't as dark as the blacktails. I hadn't noticed the horns last night because I was concentrating on holding my phone with one hand, the light with the other, and keeping out of a striking range. Usually, sidewinders are so distinct by the way they move, but this one was moving more like a "regular" snake.
@cd7fb4c8
I think you're totally right. I looked at my other photos of sidewinders. I was trying to keep far enough away and still get a photo while holding the phone and the light so I didn't take a super good look at it. It didn't immediately move like a sidewinder, so it didn't register as one. It was big for a sidewinder! All the others have seen have been dinky.
By the way, I made a "snake stick" out of a $2 golf club from a thrift store. Saw the club off and put a flat wad of tape on the end to make it easy to scoop under snakes to move them off the road. I'm going to jam-in and epoxy a metal hook on the end when I get around to it.
Well, got skunked #BikeHerping tonight. So far I have found all the reptiles well after dark, so I went out later tonight. Short ride, only 8 or 9 miles. It's plenty warm enough for them, being in the high 90s during the day and probably 80 outside right now. Maybe they're all at the bar?
#herps #Snakes #NoSnakesInSight
Just finished Brave The Wild River, about two botanists, Elzada Clover and Lois Jotter, who did the first complete botanizing of the Colorado River including Cataract, Glen and Grand Canyon on a boat trip in 1938, when very few people had ever completed the then-dangerous descent.
They were also the first *women* to run the river. At the time, their gender got all the attention, the press ignoring their important scientific work in just one example of the pervasive sexism they faced as scientists.
Author Melissa L. Sevigny does an excellent job of bringing the story of their epic lives together. It had me teary at the end.
I started the (audio)book on the drive to a 6-day Cataract Canyon raft trip last month. As mentioned in the book, two previously unnamed canyons, tributaries of the Colorado in Cataract Canyon, are now informally called "Jotter" and "Clover" canyons by river guides who hope the names will stick. They pointed them out as we floated by.
https://melissasevigny.com/books/brave-the-wild-river/
By the way, I made a "snake stick" out of a $2 golf club from a thrift store. Saw the club off and put a flat wad of tape on the end to make it easy to scoop under snakes to move them off the road. I'm going to jam-in and epoxy a metal hook on the end when I get around to it.
@a4f1847d
Um, it's mostly been built.
And, yeah, there is a term that even some in law enforcement I've spoken with use: Border Industrial Complex. They all know it's a big joke, but a very lucrative one for many.
@9d06aba0
Thanks. Yeah, this place is just...weird. I'm spending today offloading and sorting all my cards from my good camera, so will post better pics later.
@a4f1847d
Back last winter when I was photographing the #ContainerWall in southern Arizona, most conversations about the future or the San Rafael Valley section of the border seemed pretty unanimous that Biden would try to build more wall there at some point. Or, if not Biden, whoever the next president is, R or D. They all want it.
@b9482105
No, it's just a somewhat predictable perverse incentive created by cutting off access to legal entry which then leaves limited chokepoints to undocumented entry that can easily be controlled by cartels.
As someone who spends a good portion of the year living a short distance from the southern border in Arizona and doing humanitarian aid work here, I promise you that walls and fences do not stop undocumented immigration. They do not even slow it down by very much.
What walls and fences do is force people into the hands of the cartels and help maintain the border industrial complex.
It's also really important to keep two things in mind when you read these numbers coming out of the Border Patrol: one is that many of these "apprehensions" are repeats. In other words, the same person was caught several times and therefore counted several times. The second is that many if not most of these people are asylum-seekers, crossing the border and turning themselves in. This is legal, other than not crossing at a port of entry.
We need to start calling it Biden's Wall. Lay responsibility where it belongs. This will also piss off Trump and his supporters, who want to claim credit.
Here is the department of homeland security document unilaterally waving all local state and federal environmental laws to build more ineffective, boondoggle, racist, destructive border fence.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-22176.pdf
As someone who spends a good portion of the year living a short distance from the southern border in Arizona and doing humanitarian aid work here, I promise you that walls and fences do not stop undocumented immigration. They do not even slow it down by very much.
What walls and fences do is force people into the hands of the cartels and help maintain the border industrial complex.
It's also really important to keep two things in mind when you read these numbers coming out of the Border Patrol: one is that many of these "apprehensions" are repeats. In other words, the same person was caught several times and therefore counted several times. The second is that many if not most of these people are asylum-seekers, crossing the border and turning themselves in. This is legal, other than not crossing at a port of entry.
At first I thought this was old news. When it comes to the southern border, the main difference between the parties and their policies is that one is loud and belligerent and the other is sneaky and gaslighty.
After protesters' experience successfully stopping the "shipping container wall" through the San Rafael Valley in Arizona last year, it's likely that any attempts by the Biden administration to build that wall will be met with direct action protests. Hopefully Texans will feel the same way about this gross violation.
#Border #BorderWall #FuckTheBorderWall
https://biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-releases/biden-administration-waives-laws-to-rush-border-wall-construction-through-texas-wildlife-refuge-2023-10-04/
Here is the department of homeland security document unilaterally waving all local state and federal environmental laws to build more ineffective, boondoggle, racist, destructive border fence.
https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2023-22176.pdf
@d4d25d16
Yeah, I was out river rafting and slot canyoneering around Moab a week ago and every time I got back to town I checked to see if they had come in yet. Got it first thing in the morning when they did. Other than a sore arm, no side effects.
So grateful.
@45fa203e
Thing is, *they all know very, very well* that this stupid wall/fence does not "work", other than to drive migrants and asylum seekers into the hands of traffickers who control the easy-to-create access points. I spend much of the year near the border in AZ, doing humanitarian aid and the wall is a very sad joke. Trivial to bypass. THEY KNOW THIS, so the only explanation is a backroom compromise with some Rs or a performative attempt to woo the white center? FFS I have no idea at this point.
@f1c6c5c3
Oh, that is a very good thing to know. I got the alert, but for part of the year I'm at a place where Wi-Fi calling is the only option. That area is highly prone earthquakes, floods and wildfires, so it's kind of significant. Seems like there should be some kind of workaround, no? (The workaround is to mandate that cellular providers build out infrastructure in rural areas, but, well...)
Well, dang. 15 mile #BikeHerping ride tonight and not so much as a gecko. No snakes at all. I hope it isn't too cold for them already. This is the same road I was riding in May and always found somebody hanging out on the warm asphalt. 🦎🐍 #herps #herping
@7dd9aeac
This funky little wannabe art town where I spend the winters in the desert has everything I need within a five minute *walk*: two coffee shops, two restaurants, bar, library, gym, post office, two thrift stores, not to mention hanging out and watching whatever is happening on the plaza (usually just the javelinas grazing on the lawn, but whatever). Hardware stores and grocery store are a 10 minute bicycle ride on 25 mph streets.
This is what Joe Biden's fascism looks like! The horror.
@d486c1f7
This and CAN attacks are a perfect illustration of "blue team has to be perfect every time, red team only needs to find one mistake." Until car manufacturers become liable for the thefts, they have little incentive to find and fix the vulnerabilities they've created. Being perfect is expensive.
Pro tip: drive an older car and put in a hidden fuel pump cut off switch. (I'm guessing that's probably too complicated in motorized computers.)
I recently crossed paths with an acquaintance in the parking lot who pointed to her new truck and excitedly told me how cool it was that she can control the entire thing with her phone... 😱🤦♂️
@9c039ef1
Thanks. Everything I'm posting here are unedited phone snaps. I'm out shooting with my 'spensive camera and high end lenses, so once I get back home, I'll put a little story and a gallery up on my website with even better pics.
There are dense clouds on the horizon, so I think the sun is done for today. But now I'm tempted to spend the night and see what the morning brings. I'm tired but, ya know, I'm already here and it's a 7 hour drive back 🤷♂️
I was feeling tired and it seemed like the rest of the afternoon/evening would be dull and cloudy, so I packed up, intending to start heading back. I've been on the road sleeping in my truck for a while, low on food and out of clean socks and shirts. But I thought, well, maybe there will be one last sun break for some dramatic afternoon light, so I grabbed my camera a couple of lenses and a tripod and headed back out…
https://files.sfba.social/media_attachments/files/111/162/674/464/217/897/original/05b0e7d99f801491.jpeg
There are dense clouds on the horizon, so I think the sun is done for today. But now I'm tempted to spend the night and see what the morning brings. I'm tired but, ya know, I'm already here and it's a 7 hour drive back 🤷♂️
@903478da
Are you familiar with John McPhee's five part series called Annals of the Former World? Hiiiighly recommended! He really makes plate tectonics and the specific forces that shaped the continent accessible and easy to visualize, especially when you are on site and can see these places.
@0969c0d4
Yes! That's it. Wikipedia has a great write up on them. They're pretty amazing and I can't believe I've never seen them or heard of them before.
@e2371465
Grrrrr this grates on me. Many places in the Bay Area won't let you order or pay except by QR. I've walked out more than once. There are the usual data and security issues, but what a lot of people don't consider is that mandatory QR scanning discriminates against people who, for whatever reason, don't have smart phones or credit cards. My elderly parents couldn't eat at those places. Seriously fuck that.
@98042630
I mean, I really hope this works better than the first vaccines in 2021 that have Bill Gates' microchip in them. I'm not sure what's worse, Covid or Win 95.
@5a3ce16e
When you control that much money, who cares if you lose some of it? Meanwhile, if you can buy a powerful global communication platform and twist it to to serve your ideological ends while still remaining a *billionaire*? Priceless.
That seems to be his point, not making money off of it.
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