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[sherbetlemonsandshuriken]

I am in the weeds of querying literary agents again, and I just despair at how demotivating it is. I started querying when agents still wanted postal submissions (this makes me sound ancient; I am not) and I got more responses through post than I do now through email.

Maybe I am just a bad writer.

[sherbetlemonsandshuriken]

Absolutely to all of this!

I only really started to learn about colonialism and its impacts once I got to university - and that’s too late for so many people, and only because I did a social sciences degree.

It’s also a wider problem than just our school curriculums - our museums, public broadcasting and even our public monuments don’t mention them either.

Real talk, as a teacher in England I can confirm that the British government does everything and anything to avoid teaching the true extent of colonial history to English kids. 

You ask a modern English teenager about Northern Ireland and they probably can’t tell you about fucking anything currently going on there bar ‘I think we weren’t nice to them’, and that’s the country next fucking door so you know they don’t know shit about India or the Middle East.

The English government PURPOSEFULLY does not teach English children the real in’s and out’s of the British Empire despite a recent call to ‘widen the breadth of our curriculum’ because then where would our football hooligans who defend statues come from? 

Have a good conversation with any bald headed English bloke wearing an England football shirt with an EDL tattoo and test his knowledge of the Empire he loves so much. 100 quid he knows fuck all beyond ‘we civilized those people!’

And this is why no one fucking likes us, because there’s no active effort to teach our younger generations why we were wrong or how to make things better, but there’s a clear educational agenda to shield young English children from any extensive criticism of England.

[terabitweb]

Original Post from Security Affairs Author: Pierluigi Paganini

Cyber security expert Marco Ramilli explains the difficulties for scraping the ‘TOR networks’ and how to enumerate hidden-services with scrapers.

Scraping the “TOR hidden world” is a quite complex topic. First of all you need an exceptional computational power (RAM mostly) for letting multiple runners grab web-pages, extracting new links and re-run the scraping-code against the just extracted links. Plus a queue manager system to manage scrapers conflicts and a database to store scraped data need to be consistent. Second, you need great starting points. In other words you need the .onion addresses where your scrapers start from. You might decide to begin from common and well-known onion links such as The TOR-hidden-wiki or to start from great reddit threads such this one, but seldom those approaches bring you to what I refer as “interesting links”. For this post “interesting links” means specific links that are rare or not very widespread and mostly focused on cyber-attacks and/or cyber-espionage. Another approach needs be used in order to reach better results. One of the most profitable way to search for “interesting links” is to look for .onion addresses in temporal and up-to-date spots such as: temporal pasties, IRC chats, slack or telegram groups, and so on and so forth. In there you might find links that bring you to more rare contents and to less spread information.

Today I want to start from here by showing some simple stats about scraped .onion links in my domestic scraping cluster. From the following graph you might appreciate some statistics of active-and-inactive scraped hidden services. The represented week is actually a great stereotype of what I’ve got in the last whole quarter. What is interesting, at least in my personal point of view, is the percentage of offline (green) onion services versus the percentage of online (yellow) onion services.

This scenario changed dramatically in the past few months. While during Q1 (2019) most of the scraped websites were absolutely up-and-running on Q2 (2019) I see, most of the scraped hidden services, dismissed and/or closed even if they persists in the communication channels (IRC chat, Pasties, Telegram, etc.).

I think there are dual factors that so much affected last quarter in spotting active hidden service. (1) Old content revamping. For example bots pushing “interesting links” back online even after months of inactivity. This activity is not new at all, but during the past quarter has been abused too many time respect to previous quarters. (2) Hidden services are changing address much more fast respect to few months ago. In order to make hard to spot malicious actors, they might decide to keep up-and-running their hidden services only for few hours and then change address/location. Is that way to enumerate hidden-services passing away or is it a simple weird time-frame? We will see it during the next “Scraping” months, stay tuned !

About the author: Marco Ramilli, Founder of Yoroi

I am a computer security scientist with an intensive hacking background. I do have a MD in computer engineering and a PhD on computer security from University of Bologna. During my PhD program I worked for US Government (@ National Institute of Standards and Technology, Security Division) where I did intensive researches in Malware evasion techniques and penetration testing of electronic voting systems.

I do have experience on security testing since I have been performing penetration testing on several US electronic voting systems. I’ve also been encharged of testing uVote voting system from the Italian Minister of homeland security. I met Palantir Technologies where I was introduced to the Intelligence Ecosystem. I decided to amplify my cybersecurity experiences by diving into SCADA security issues with some of the biggest industrial aglomerates in Italy. I finally decided to found Yoroi: an innovative Managed Cyber Security Service Provider developing some of the most amazing cybersecuritydefencecenter I’ve ever experienced! Now I technically lead Yoroi defending our customers strongly believing in: Defence Belongs To Humans.

This analysis and many other studies and tools are available on Marco Ramilli’s blog:

https://marcoramilli.com/2019/07/18/scraping-the-tor-for-rare-contents/

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The warehouse that Mars Company was based in was quite a distance away. David took a taxi cab to pick up Kat, and then pretty much had the driver go back the entire way and then some. When they arrived, David was down close to 50��. After paying the driver the pair had decided to scout the area. There was almost nothing around, the warehouse itself sat in a small valley created by the soft rises of hills all around it. There was a dirt road leading to a loading area that was locked up tight. Despite looking dilapidated and abandoned the numerous tire tracks in the dirt around the building showed that it was being regularly used.

“Think anyone’s home?” Kat asked.

“As soon as I unlock my latent psychic powers, I’ll let you know,” David replied, a hint of irritation in his voice.

“Are you in a bad mood?”

“Not at all. I love being covered in dirt.”

Just before they’d arrived, so they could approach the warehouse undetected Kat had pushed David into a ditch and kicked a thick cloud of dirt on him. She hadn’t done anything similar to herself, stating simply that since her clothes and skin were already stained by a layer of mud, dirt and unidentifiable stains it would be unnecessary.

After a couple of seconds Kat asked, “… Was that sarcasm?”

“Yes, it was!” David snapped at her.

“It’s just hard to tell. You don’t emote enough. It’s like usual you is this…” she pulled a serious, glum face. “…and grumpy you is this,” her face twitched but there was no noticeable difference between the two expressions.

His temper running thin David was about to retort when he noticed Kat’s expression. She was trying to appear jokey like normal but deep in her eyes was not quite fear… maybe it was apprehension. As usual the nuances of human expressions was foreign to him but he knew enough to realise that the girl was not herself.

He looked back at the warehouse. If their information was right, somewhere in there were the members of Kat’s band of waifs. As the man called Angel had attempted to point out, the chances of them all being alive at this point was slim. For all they knew this might just be a home for mercenaries and the kids were somewhere else entirely. The boy surmised that this uncertainty may be the cause for his companion’s odd mood.

“… Listen… Kat… I think we should talk about what we could-” David began saying trying his best to be tactful.

He was cut off though by the girl beside him though. “Don’t say another word. If you do I’ll break your legs and leave you here to rot.”

He gulped. While he doubted she would actually do it there was still a little voice warning him that she might. After all she had almost suffocated him.

“Fine…” he eventually said.

“Yeah. Fine.”

They stared silently at the warehouse for a while, David unsure of the protocol for moving a conversation along after what basically amounted to a death threat and Kat lost in her own musings. Eventually though he found the silence to be as suffocating as her arm on his throat so he asked meekly, “What now?”

“We break in,” Kat replied.

“Ah, right… How?”

“…”

Remembering the last time they’d had this conversation when sneaking into his Grandfather’s lab David warned her, “I don’t think walking through the front door and pretending to be a couple will work this time.”

“Shut up. I’m thinking.” He obeyed immediately.

This espionage stuff wasn’t his forte. Now that he thought of it, why had he come? He wasn’t athletic. He couldn’t fight. He wasn’t good at thinking on his feet. All he was good at was learning and analysing. Basically, wasn’t David being here a huge waste of time? Then again he did have something he wanted to investigate, something he couldn’t leave up to the girl beside him. Perhaps that selfish reason wasn’t enough for him to stay but that wouldn’t stop him. Not where daddy dearest was involved…

“Alright. I have an idea!” Kat declared suddenly. “We will sneak down and go in through the front door.”

He let out an exasperated sigh. “… I think this just the couple plan again? Or, what? We’re going to be door to warehouse door salesmen this time.”

“We’ll sneak in.”

“And they will shoot us or capture us or maybe both. On second thoughts I think this is even worse than the couple plan. At least it didn’t end with our brain matter splattered across a warehouse wall.”

“It will work. They won’t be expecting people to just walk in through the front door,” Kat nodded sagely.

“Whatever happened to sneaking?” David let out another sigh. A common saying was that when you sighed you chased away your happiness. If so David had probably chased his off the planet by now. “Just a reminder, if they do expect people to ‘just walk in through the front door’ we’ll be dead in a second.”

Kat froze. After further thought she replied, “Well do you have a better idea?”

It was David’s turn to freeze. He didn’t have a better idea. In fact he had no idea. Even if he tried to formulate an idea now it probably would make about as much sense as going in through the front door. Picturing his inevitable death, he agreed by saying, “Objection retracted.”

They waited for a little more and then on Kat’s queue they stood up and ran down the hill. While she was quick and lithe keeping close to the ground like a predator, David couldn’t have been called stealthy, bumbling forwards with all the grace of drugged giraffe.

When they reached the door Kat began examining it while David knelt down trying to get air into his lungs. He hadn’t run more than twenty metres but that had been enough to make him short of breath. “I really… need to… exercise more…”

“I’ll say. What part of that was supposed to be stealthy?” Kat muttered as she pulled a pair of bobby pins out of her coat and began picking the door’s lock. After a few seconds, she cursed. “Damn it! What the hell!?”

“What’s the problem?” David asked.

She pointed at the lock on the door. Rather than the traditional pin tumbler lock, it was a combination electronic and pin tumbler lock. There was a digital display with room to input four numbers, below that a keypad and finally at the bottom the keyway. Unlike the rest of the building this lock was shiny and new.

“Making it one or the other would be too bloody easy wouldn’t it,” she spat. She stepped back from the door a bit. Then she spun on her heel and kicked out, delivering a solid blow to the door.

David figuratively leapt out of his skin. “Are you out of your mind!” he hissed. “What happened to stealthy?” Kat wasn’t listening to him though, she walked off grumbling and swearing. He called out after her, “Hey, where are you going?”

“To find another entrance!” she shouted back.

Holding in the sigh trying to escape him, David turned back to face the door. From the way she was acting, clearly just picking the pin tumbler lock wasn’t going to get the job done. They’d need to crack the keycode to get in. Something was off though…

Confirming that the digital display was off, David reached forward and gave the keypad a poke. However nothing happened. “Hmm…” He shut his eyes. According to his grandfather the only problems that didn’t have a solution were ones designed to trick people. Assuming this lock wasn’t a trick then there had to be a way to open it. “If you can’t solve a problem think about it in reverse. Look at your facts. Collect assumptions. Analyse then theorise. That’s the trick to solving any problem,” he said quoting his grandfather.  

‘Problem: Keeping people out of a facility,’ David thought, his brain running into high gear.

“Facts: Combination electronic and tumbler lock. Tumbler lock will not turn. Keypad unresponsive.”

‘Assumptions: Electronic look is working as intended. Electronic and tumbler lock linked in some manner. Kat can actually pick locks.’

“Possibility: Scans fingerprints?”

‘Viability... improbable. There is no sign some kind of scanner.’

“Possibility: The digital display lights up when the correct code has been entered.”

‘Viability… implausible. Ease of use poor.’

“Possibility: Electronic lock is not receiving power.”

‘Viability… high. Problem: How is the lock supplied power?’

“… The key.”

‘… Most likely answer.’

“Therefore…”

“What are you doing?” asked Kat. David leapt to attention. He’d been focusing so much he hadn’t noticed her approaching.

Clearing his throat, he said, “I, uh… Think I know how the lock works. Basically, unlocking the door is a three-step process. Step 1: You insert the key. This completes a circuit supplying power to the electronic lock. Step 2: Without removing the key, enter the correct code. This will deactivate some kind of mechanism preventing the key from being turned. Step 3: Turn the key, unlocking the door and entering.”

Kat nodded, listening to his explanation. When he finished she asked, “So? What’s the code?”

“I’m still figuring that out. Give me a minute…”

He turned back to the lock and focused on the keypad. This electronic lock was laid out like mobile phone number pad with 1 in the top left corner, 9 at the bottom right and below 9 in a row all its own, the number 0. As he’d noted before the digital screen only had room for four digits.

Locks like these were essentially a math problem. You have four slots, each slot must be filled with a number and in total you have ten numbers, it was possible for numbers to be repeated. If each space can be filled with one of ten numbers, then there were 10x10x10x10 or 10,000 possible combination of numbers. Since there was only one correct answer your odds of getting the combination right is 1/10000.

One solution to the problem would be to brute force it, entering every possible combination until he hit the right answer. If he was unlucky though the last combination, he tried would be the correct one meaning he’d have to enter all 10,000 combinations. That would clearly take too long. So, he had to narrow down his choices.

The easiest way to do that would be wear. The oils in a person’s finger would polish buttons when they were pressed, the more the button was pressed or the earlier it was in the combination the shinier the button would be. Due to the lock being new it was hard to tell unless you were looking closely but the 2 was the slightest bit shinier then the rest of the buttons. The code probably started with 2. That was about all he could discern examining the lock. At least he’d narrowed down his choices considerably, from 10,000 to 1,000.

Next, people usually used easily remembered numbers for their passwords. He had to hope his father had set the code on the lock and not anyone else. What were the easiest four digit numbers to remember? PIN codes, post codes and dates, a memorable or important one.

“Important dates…” David muttered. Fortunately, there were not many important dates his father may have used as a code that began with 2. In fact he could only think of three.

He grit his teeth as he started to get a headache. He wasn’t thinking that hard was he or was this just his chronic headache choosing now to flare up? He hadn’t thought to bring his headache tablets with him today so he had to push through it.

Three dates. Which was the most likely? Two of them he was sure he could write off; they were the day he was born and the day his mother died.

He flinched at the sudden lance of pain that went through him. This headache was one of the worst he’d had…

“He wouldn’t use those,” David said. To his father both those days were probably the last thing he wanted to think about it. That left only one more option.

“I have the code,” he declared. “We can unlock it now.”

“I’m doubtful but fine, let’s give it a whirl. Taking out her pins again she set to work on the lock. When the digital display lit up David leaned over her and entered 2-4-0-9 on the keypad. The digital display flashed green and Kat turned the lock and opened the door.

Pushing down the pain he moved to enter the final date, the day his mother was born. 2-4-0-9.

Kat stood up dusted herself off. Then, overflowing with pride she said, “Wow, I’m a genius. I knew there was a reason I brought you along.”

“Just get in would you,” David growled. By this point he knew better then to take her seriously. Kat shrugged and cautiously pushed the door open, slipping through it when she could just fit through. David followed close behind her.

Inside was a long empty corridor, it wasn’t just long though but also wide. The nearly 190cm tall boy estimated it would take him six steps to get from one side of the corridor to the other. The floor was a solid concrete slab while the roof, also concrete was domed joining seamlessly with the walls, he felt like he was standing in a concrete half-cylinder. Along the walls every couple of paces were metal beams, acting as buttresses. Apart from that though the corridor was empty.

Kat had already gone ahead, she was standing near the end of the corridor. She appeared to be peeking furtively around a corner. Although from David’s perspective it just looked like she was pressed up against the wall admiring the other end of the half-cylinder. As David was about to call out and ask her what she saw, she hurried back a terrified look on her face.

“No questions. Wrap this around yourself and then hide,” she ordered throwing her coat at him.

“Why? What’s-”  David started to say but Kat snapped at him.

“Shut up and get in that corner!” she pointed at the darkest spot in the corridor, the corner beside the door that just entered through.

Before he could attempt to ask her anything else Kat ran over to one of the buttresses and began climbing it. When she was hanging from the ceiling she pulled herself over and lay flat in the lip of the metal beam. If someone was walking down the corridor towards the exist as long as they didn’t look back she’d be invisible.

Realising with a start what was going on David ran to the corner Kat had indicated. Curling up and making himself as small as possible he wrapped the coat around himself, hoping it would work as camouflage. His heart was thudding in his ears and he thought his breathing was loud. When he heard the sound of people talking both those noises disappeared.

Whoever was coming, they were wearing heavy boots, the thudding as their soles hit the floor replacing the sound of David’s frozen heart. There appeared to be two people talking but they weren’t speaking English. In fact they were speaking different languages. The two speakers were male but despite hearing two voices speaking and two sets of footsteps only one of the people talking was actually there. The one there was talking in French which David knew pretty well. The other, which appeared to be emanating from some kind of walkie talkie spoke in German. David only knew bits and pieces of German but he could tell that the two people speaking different languages understood each other.

The two voices got closer and pushing down the fear that he would hear shouts of alarm or feel a hand coming down on his shoulder, he listened intently to the conversation. He translated what he could and made educated guesses to the bits he couldn’t understand. Before he knew it the voices were coming from right beside him.

Then the door was opened, light from outside spilled in but hidden behind the now open doorway it didn’t illuminate David. The two people went outside and the door swung shut.

David remained frozen for a while but when he heard the soft thump of Kat dropping to the ground he let out the breath he hadn’t realised he’d been holding and his heart began beating again. He stood up and turned to Kat. Without her bulky coat on she looked a lot slimmer. He could see her small chest rising and falling, the exertion of climbing the buttress had left her short of breath.

David took off her coat and handed it to her. Whipping it back on she smiled. Not a friendly smile but the feral smile of a cat that had found its prey. “Well we’re in the right place. I recognised one of them, he was the guy I kicked in the nuts back when they tried to take me.” He decided to ignore the note of satisfaction in her voice as she remembered that event. “Man, though, I can’t tell if we were lucky or unlucky. If we’d been out there even one more minute those guys would have run right into us.”

“It wasn’t luck, they wouldn’t have come,” David corrected her absentmindedly still busy translating what he’d heard in his head.

“Huh?”

“By the sounds of it there was some kind of device on the door that alerts a control room whenever the door is opened. Since the door opened those to came to investigate who had entered.”

Coming back to himself David noticed Kat staring at him in shock, “You understood that?”

David gave a noncommittal grunt. “I understood the French pretty well but the German was a lot of guesswork.”

“What did they say?” Kat demanded.

David closed his eyes and replayed the conversation in his head before translating, “The one who was actually here was saying… That he couldn’t see anyone. Then… the one on the radio, the one speaking German said… It might have been break out not a break in. The French one questioned if it was possible for the guineas to break out, but he said that they… what did they call themselves… Right, Charlie Team. They said they would go outside and look for any signs of the runaway. Then the German guy said, he’d send another group to check if… the rats were still in their cages?”

A hopeful light glimmered in Kat’s eyes. “You don’t mean…”

David nodded, “I think your family might be here.”

[sherbetlemonsandshuriken]

I miss home. Never thought I would, but I do.

Haunted Meayll Hill Stone Circle, Isle of Man

Meayll Hill (Mull Hill) is not a true stone circle, but a unique group of Neolithic chambered tombs built around 3500 BC. These tombs are characteristic for Neolithic farmers in the British Isles, but the arrangement of 12 of them in ring formation is very unusual and no one knows why they were arranged this way. A group of stone foundations of Neolithic huts can be found nearby to the east with an ancient pathway running between the two sites.

According to local lore, some visitors have had unpleasant paranormal experiences at Meayll Hill, including the feeling of sudden disorientation. Others have seen unexplained moving lights and heard strange sounds, like the cadence of invisible horses trotting or galloping by. One tale says that a phantom army of horsemen has been seen riding along the circle.

The site is located just outside the village of Cregneash at the southern end of the Isle of Man, in the Irish Sea between England and Ireland.

Click here to aerial video of Meayll Hill.

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How to protect you pc from spammers, spam web pages.

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How to protect you pc from spammers, spam web pages.

Preserve a “smooth” deal with.

While emailing to unknown events; posting to newsgroups, emailing lists, chat rooms and different public areas on the internet; or publishing a Web page that mentions your address,  it is nice to try this from a “aspect” account, a few pseudonymous or simply exchange address, and to apply your essential or desired deal with only on small, participants-best lists and with regarded, trusted people. Addresses which are posted (at the same time as a part of message headers) in public spaces can be without problems discovered through spammers (on-line junk e mailers), spam web pages and brought to their listing of targets. If your public “throw away” deal with receives spammed enough to end up disturbing, you could without a doubt kill it off, and begin a brand new one. Your buddies, boss, and so forth., will still understand your “actual” cope with. you may use a free (advertising and marketing-supported) provider company like Yahoo Mail or Hotelectronic mail for such “side” accounts. it’s miles fine to use a “real” net carrier provider in your fundamental account, and to study their privateness guidelines and phrases of service, as some “freee mail” offerings may additionally have poor privateness track facts. you may discover it works pleasant to use an package that allows mulitiple consumer IDs and addresses (a.okay.A. “personalities”, “aliases”) so that you do no longer need to switch between more than one packages to manange and use multiple cope with

(although you may have to use an internet browser in preference to an application to read your electronic mail On your “throw away” money owed – many freee mail vendors do not allow POP or IMAP connections). In case you are “required” to present an cope with to use a domain (however will not be required to check your e-mail for a few kind of get right of entry to code they send you), you may use “someuser@example.Com” (example.Com is a non-existent site, Installation by the internet requirements for use as an instance with a view to by no means by chance coincide with every person’s actual cope with, which is always a hazard In case you just make up one off the top of your head.)

4) Do not reveal personal info to strangers or simply-met “pals”.

  The speed of internet communication is regularly

mirrored

in fast on-line acquaintanceships and friendships. but it’s miles essential to realize that you Do not in reality recognize who these humans are or what they may be like in real lifestyles. 1000 miles away, you Do not have pals-of-friends or other references approximately this man or woman. Be Also wary of face-to-face meetings. In case you and your new e-friend want to fulfill in character, do it in a public region. Bringing a pal alongside also can be a good concept. One needn’t be paranoid, however one have to not be an easy mark, both. some non-public facts you may wish to withhold till you recognize a person an awful lot higher might encompass your Complete name, vicinity of employment, cellphone quantity, and avenue cope with (amongst greater obvious things like credit card numbers, and many others.) Needless to mention, such data should no longer be placed on private home pages. (If you have a piece home web page, it may additionally properly have paintings touch information on it, but you needn’t screen this page to everyone you meet in a talk room.)

web

For this and other reasons, many humans hold non-public home pages, a work-associated one, and an “off responsibility” version. inside the commercial quarter, too, beware “fast-met buddies”. A commonplace

“social engineering”

form of business espionage is to befriend a person online just long enough to get them to reveal insider information.

five) understand You may be monitored at paintings, Keep away from sending enormously personal to emailing lists, and Preserve touchy files in your home pc.

In Most US states and many if not Most international locations, personnel have little if any privateness safety from tracking by employers. Whilst discussing touchy matters inor other on line media, be certain

with whom you’re communicating

. If you replied to a emailing listing post, check the headers – is your reply going to the person you observed it is, or to the whole list? Also be aware that an increasing number of employers are monitoring and recording employee Internet usage, as well as This will compromise domestic banking passwords and other sensitive information. Hold private facts and personal internet usage

non-public

, at domestic.

See this CNN/IDG article on “snoopware” (which might not be constrained for your workplace…):

http://www.Cnn.Com/2001/TECH/ptech/eleven/07/snoopware.Idg/

6) watch out sites that provide some type of praise or prize in trade for your

contact facts or other personal details

.

There’s a very high chance that they may be gathering this facts for direct marketing functions. In many cases your call and address are well worth a whole lot greater to them due to the fact they are able to sell it to different entrepreneurs (who can do the equal in turn…) than what you’re (supposedly) getting from them. Be particularly cautious of sweepstakes and contests. You in all likelihood may not win, however the marketer sure will In case you deliver them your facts.

7) Do now not respond to spammers, for any purpose.

  spam

“electronic mailemail”, or unsolicited bulk , is something you’re in all likelihood already acquainted with (and uninterested in). If you get a spammed advertisment, surely Do not take the sender up on whatever provide they’re making, however Additionally Don’t bother replying with “cast off” within the challenge line, or whatever (possibly bogus) unsubscribe instructions you’ve been given). This really confirms that your deal with is being read by using a actual character, and you may find yourself on dozens more spammers’ lists right away. In case you open the message, watch your outgoing e-mail queue to make certain that a “return receipt” message turned into not generated to be despatched Back to the spammer robotically. (it is pleasant to queue your email and ship manually, rather than send straight away, so you can see what’s approximately to exit earlier than it is genuinely despatched. You should Also turn off your emailer’s automated honoring of return receipt requests, if any.) When you have a terrific internet service provider, you may be able to forward copies of spam to the device administrators who can course a complaint to the ISP of the spammer (or In case you realize a lot about e-mail headers and DNS gear, you may probable contact those ISPs yourself to bitch about the spammer.) In case you are getting spammed a lot, there are a ramification of filters and anti-unsolicited eemail services available, such as:

junk eemail Hater ( http://www.Cix.Co.united kingdom/~internet-services/electronic mail/spam_hater.Htm ) for Windows users;

TAG ( http://alcor.Concordia.Ca/topics/e-mail/car/proce-mail/spam ) for experienced Unix customers;

SpamBouncer ( http://www.Spambouncer.Org ) for experienced Unix customers (works nicely with TAG);

BrightMail ( http://www.Brighte-mail.Com/ ) for ISPs;

SpamCop ( http://spamcop.net/ ) for all of us;

greater statistics on fighting junk eemail is to be had at:

Elsop’s Anti-unsolicited eemail web page ( http://www.Elsop.Com/wrc/nospam.Htm );

MaximumDownforce’s information-n-links web page( http://www.Maximumdownforce.Com/hotlinks.Html );

Whew’s Anti-e mail Campaign ( http://www.Whew.Com/Spammers/ ).

Many of those are tough to use for novices, and a few require Unix information. Others are services that address ISPs best, no longer quit customers.

8) Take heed to Web security.

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I am re-watching Don’t Look Up and I think Randall got off way too lightly for how much of a dick he was. This is not my only takeaway, but w/ever, no one on Tumblr wants to hear about the ~trenches~ of counter-mis and disinformation during Covid and the Russian invasion of Ukraine.

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2022 Reading

Following the unmitigated, entirely unanticipated but also completely predictable 102 books I read in 2021, after aiming to read 30, I have set my sights somewhat higher this year. I'm aiming for 80.

Also, as a classic Zillenial, I'm probably going to have to job hunt again this year (already started once!) and many of these will likely reflect jobs I'm applying for in some way.

I will, however, never read a corporate leadership/communications book.

1. Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse - Shane Burley

2. Europe at Midnight - Dave Hutchinson

3. The Shadow Master - Craig Cormick

4. Flowers for Algernon -

5. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

6. The Grace Year - Kim Liggett

7. An Easy Death - Charlaine Harris

8. Goldenhand - Garth Nix

9. A Gathering of Shadows - V. E. Schwab

10. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima

11. Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right - Hsiao-Hung Pai

12. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook - Mark Bray

13. North Korea: State of Paranoia: A Modern History - Paul French

14. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS - Joby Warrick

15. My Year of Rest and Relaxation- Otessa Moshfegh

16. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

17. A Conjuring of Light - V. E. Schwab

18. Guards, Guards - Terry Pratchett

19. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Leyla Saad

20. Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

21. The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick

22. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

23. Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response - John Feffer

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I wish we were taught about these things at achool... there was one of these like fifteen minutes walk fro my house.

A fulacht fiadh is a type of archaeological site. While not specific to Ireland, exactly, the name is decidedly Irish Gaelic. They are essentially simple hot water systems common to the Bronze Age, though some examples from the Neolithic age exist.

These systems are generally made up of 3 main elements: a mound of stones, a fire hearth to heat the stones, and a trough filled with water. It worked quite simply: the stones would be heated in the hearth, then moved into the trough filled with water, and the heat from the stones would heat the water. It was convection heating before humans even had a word for it.

While the purpose of this system is pretty obvious, it seems archaeologists are hung up on why our ancestors needed to use hot water, which strikes me as a bit of a silly problem to latch onto. That said theories vary. Some say it was only used as a primitive meat cooking kitchen, others say it was strictly for bathing, and others still say it was for washing and dyeing clothes. Admittedly part of the complication is that there aren’t always buildings nearby or close to the fulacht fiadh, so it does beg the question why someone would have hot water located so far away from where they might conceivably need it.

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I’m watching the girlboss cinderella and I have never been more glad that I pirated a film lmao

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I’ve been missing the coast and the countryside so much during lockdown. It was so nice to get back away from the buildings and the concrete. This is a small village in North Devon called Coombe Martin.

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Some updates!

I am indeed on the job hunt once again, as the British government has decided it no longer requires the skills I possess.

It is June and I am just a few books off my target. This bodes poorly for my bookshelves, bank account and space in my flat, but well for my brain!

so:

24. Wanderers - Chuck Wendig

25. The Left Hand of Darkness - Ursula K. Le Guin

26. Sovietistan: Travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan - Erica Fatland

27. Alpha City: How London Was Captured by the Super-Rich - Rowland Atkinson

28. Everybody Lies: What the Internet can tell us about who we really are - Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

29. We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families - Philip Gourevitch

30. October: The Story of the Russian Revolution - China Mieville

31. Seven Mercies - Laura Lam & Elizabeth May

32. Guns, Germs and Steel: A Short History of Everybody for the Last 13,000 Years - Jared Diamond

33. Fake Accounts - Lauren Oyler

34. The Left-Handed Booksellers of London - Garth Nix

35. Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi

36. Putin's People: How the KGB Took Back Russia and then Took On The West - Catherine Belton

37. Time of Contempt - Andrzej Sapkowski

38. Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey from the End of the World and Back - Mark O'Connell

39. A Crown for Cold Silver - Alex Marshall

40. The Ministry of Nostalgia - Owen Hatherly

41. Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty - Patrick Radden Keefe

42. Burning Questions: Essays and Occasional Pieces, 2004 - 2021 - Margaret Atwood

43. How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy - Jenny Odell

44. If We Were Villains - M.L. Rio

45. The Devil's Long Tail - David Stephens

46. Redshirts - John Scalzi

47. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

48. Parasite - Mira Grant

49. Jade City - Fonda Lee

50. Jade War - Fonda Lee

51. The Politics of Bitcoin: Software as Right-Wing Extremism - David Golumbia

52. Conspiracies Uncovered: Discover the World's Biggest Secrets - Lee Mellor

53. Stuff They Don't Want You To Know - David Southwell

54. The Lost Empire of Atlantis: History's Greatest Mystery Revealed - Gavin Menzies

55. Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mantel

56. The Ruin of Kings - Jenn Lyons

57. A Fire Upon the Deep - Vernon Vinge

58. Ancillary Justice - Ann Leckie

59. American War - Omar El Akkad

60. The Republic of False Truths - Alaa Al Aswany

61. Red Sands: Dispatches and Recipes from Unsung Cities and Open Steppes - Caroline Eden

62. They: A Sequence of Unease - Kay Dick

63. The Bleeding Edge: Why Technology Turns Toxic in an Unequal World - Bob Hughes

64. Skyward - Brandon Sanderson

65. Starsight - Brandon Sanderson

66. Serve the People! - Yan Lianke

67. Platform Socialism: How to Reclaim our Digital Future from Big Tech - James Muldoon

68. The Radetzky March - Joseph Roth

69. Three Daughters of Eve - Elif Shafak

70. Conspiracy Theories - Igloo Books

71. A Deepness in the Sky - Vernon Vinge

72. Parable of the Talents - Octavia E. Butler

73. Gideon the Ninth - Tamsyn Muir

74. The Court of Broken Knives - Anna Smith Spark

75. Halting States - Charles Stross

76. Steal As Much As You Can - Nathalie Olah

77. Betting the House: The Inside Story of the 2017 Election - time Ross and Tom McTague

2022 Reading

Following the unmitigated, entirely unanticipated but also completely predictable 102 books I read in 2021, after aiming to read 30, I have set my sights somewhat higher this year. I'm aiming for 80.

Also, as a classic Zillenial, I'm probably going to have to job hunt again this year (already started once!) and many of these will likely reflect jobs I'm applying for in some way.

I will, however, never read a corporate leadership/communications book.

1. Why We Fight: Essays on Fascism, Resistance, and Surviving the Apocalypse - Shane Burley

2. Europe at Midnight - Dave Hutchinson

3. The Shadow Master - Craig Cormick

4. Flowers for Algernon -

5. The Starless Sea - Erin Morgenstern

6. The Grace Year - Kim Liggett

7. An Easy Death - Charlaine Harris

8. Goldenhand - Garth Nix

9. A Gathering of Shadows - V. E. Schwab

10. The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea - Yukio Mishima

11. Angry White People: Coming Face-to-Face with the British Far Right - Hsiao-Hung Pai

12. Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Handbook - Mark Bray

13. North Korea: State of Paranoia: A Modern History - Paul French

14. Black Flags: The Rise of ISIS - Joby Warrick

15. My Year of Rest and Relaxation- Otessa Moshfegh

16. Purple Hibiscus - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

17. A Conjuring of Light - V. E. Schwab

18. Guards, Guards - Terry Pratchett

19. Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor - Leyla Saad

20. Blood of Elves - Andrzej Sapkowski

21. The Man in the High Castle - Phillip K. Dick

22. Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson

23. Right Across the World: The Global Networking of the Far-Right and the Left Response - John Feffer