Russell
@RussellMayEta
Author. My first book series is Christian, sci-fi, and horror.
Why are Liberals unwilling and unable to have an honest conversation? Conversation with a Liberal eventually devolves into the Liberal assigning a mental illness to his opponent. The very idea of an honest difference of opinion is impossible for them: there is no category in…
The Holy Trinity Church in Hrastovlje in Slovenia. Fortified in late 15th century due to the danger of Ottoman raids!
Work-in-progress cutaway drawing of a dungeon with a nasty trap and a hidden treasure chamber. ”Oh, a rope ladder! How convinient!” #dnd #dungeonsanddragons #ttrpg #osr
Pioneering several innovations in siege warfare by the 12th century master himself.. Chateau Galliard was so well designed, Richard the Lionheart was said to have said nobody could take it from him even if the walls were made of butter.
What’s an architectural masterpiece you feel is underrated?
Thanks to all our backers! & heads up to everyone who missed the deadline: Like any good editor, I am offering an extension. You have 4 more days to get the Nethereal Special Edition & the limited Kairosis novella. No 3rd chances, so late pledge now: 👉kickstarter.com/projects/brian…
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The guy-doxing app, Tea App, put everything in publicly accessible URLs. Now the women who signed up are doxed themselves, complete with gov IDs and geolocation. This is beyond being hacked, it’s incompetency. Still, such an app deserves to be sued and closed. It was a…
Calling the Tea hack a "hack" is honestly a stretch. They put everything in a publicly accessible DB. Not in the "they didn't encrypt" sense, in the "literally publicly accessible URL" sense. The "hack" is downloading the .jpg files from a publicly accessible URL.
It's considered a successful compromise because individuals were able to successfully retrieve data they were not authorized to possess The security, or lack there of, does not delegitimize the compromise. Unfortunately, most compromises are not ultra 1337 0day hazzors stuff
Calling the Tea hack a "hack" is honestly a stretch. They put everything in a publicly accessible DB. Not in the "they didn't encrypt" sense, in the "literally publicly accessible URL" sense. The "hack" is downloading the .jpg files from a publicly accessible URL.
“The Argonath, the Pillars of the Kings, stood before them, silent and terrible, hewn out of the mountain-side in days long past by the ancient craft of Númenor. Awe and fear fell upon Frodo, and he cowered down in the boat, shutting his eyes. But Aragorn sat upright, and his…
how amazing it must have been seeing this scene for the first time in theaters
Tried to use /robots.txt to tell bots to stay out. The bots' response: "Your rules are adorable. Now, where's the content? Hmm, what's this 'disallow' thing? Looks like a suggestion for a really fast crawl!" *om nom om nom*
The UK Online Safety act is out and causing havoc. The privacy and self doxing laws always claim they are about protecting children, but what it’s really doing is building a database of users personal info in a country that wants to arrest you for online speech. The Tea app…
daily reminder that htmx (& the hypermedia model more generally) does NOT require a server round trip for every interaction & in many cases can be *more* efficient than a chatty JSON API by encouraging the single-request-for-a-UI pattern easy when the request response IS the UI!
26 months into 6 months away from AI stealing yo jerbs - End of April CEO of replit has announced that it's 6-18 months before no more engineers are needed - replit ai deleted someone's start up. It was saved by engineers
23 months into 6 months away from AI stealing your jobs