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Outreachy - Internerships for Underrrepresented People in Tech
by Cecilia Tanaka 24 Sep '17

24 Sep '17

Much love and good luck! <3 Ceci, late, always late... Sorry, I was invited to be the next Alice's White Rabbit and I am trying... :P PS: - Same-Sex Marriage in Australia, woohoo!!! ;D ========== Outreachy internships are open internationally to women (cis and trans), trans men, and genderqueer people. Internships are also open to residents and nationals of the United States of any gender who are Black/African American, Hispanic/Latin@, Native American/American Indian, Alaska Native, Native Hawaiian, or Pacific Islander. We are planning to expand the program to more participants from underrepresented backgrounds in the future. # https://www.outreachy.org Outreachy provides three-month internships for people from groups traditionally underrepresented in tech. Interns are paid a stipend of $5,500 and have a $500 travel stipend available to them. Interns work remotely with mentors from Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) communities on projects ranging from programming, user experience, documentation, illustration and graphical design, to data science. Interns often find employment after their internship with Outreachy sponsors or in jobs that use the FOSS skills they learned during their internship. ------- "Don't let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It's your place in the world; it's your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live." - Mae Jemison

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Thu Sep 21 20:05:07 PDT 2017 > > > I don't see how the pic is related > My sides, from laughing, pic is of robot laughing. Lol. > I would appreciate it if you didn't send megabytes > of retarded spam like you do. > The pic is 170KB, modanon. I do not enjoy spam, even though I live in Hawaii. > sorry you are babbling nonsense. > intellectual 'property' is not a right > privileges Are Not Rights > gtfoh. You are asserting that only others can grant a person something, you authoritarian swine. A single and self governing person, or animal, can rightfully defend the possession of something it created. As is the creature's self-granted right. Using the word "privilege" only shows you support giving authority to others. > bullshit > What a well thought rebuttal to my claims. Maybe you forgot that you aren't posting as the Rayzer or jnn but as Juan. > nazi > I am not Jewish. > you should stop saying stupid things? > Like "things I cannot see are not real, aylmao". > this isn't even half entertaining anymore. > [I Quit!] > I get it. You are pic related. Well played, sir.

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by Zenaan Harkness 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

> grarpamp grarpamp at gmail.com > Fri Sep 22 12:31:22 PDT 2017 > > It was shy of 166KiB in proper data storage context > Proper ? Please explain. > unfit context > Please explain why. > "K" isn't valid > You are (((correct))). 170kB is most (((proper))). > prefix > The first letter of a word is not a prefix, modanon. Kilo is the prefix. > lern2units > Learn to think for yourself instead of letting others think for you. Kilo is a word. Byte is a word. Kilobyte is an endocentric or copulative compound word. Compound words are abbreviated as initialisms. KB is thus the most suitable abbreviation. > punkanons > Here's some news: To address this confusion, a new set of binary prefixes have been introduced which are based on powers of 2. In that system, 1024 bytes are called a kibibyte or 1 KiB."" A new set of binary prefixes...sounds familiar.

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Rob Reiner Cucks the Tuck! (<ahem>) - was Re: The Triggering -- [MINISTRY] - that which you may not say - those whom you may not criticize
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

FINALLY, SOMEone cucks the Tuck! I never thought I'd see this day - Rob Reiner shall forever be a hero of the Neo-cons and the Hillery 2020 wanna be's like Mark ¿uckerberg¡ "somewhat suspect circumstances" (Also: brunette alert near end of Tucker's 'tube - gaze into those deep, green eyes and embrace your inner hissing weasel.) On some day, some Fuggum wrote: >On 09/22/2017 07:30 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 22, 2017 at 05:11:04PM -0400, Fuggum wrote: >> > On 09/19/2017 09:08 PM, Zenaan Harkness wrote: >> > > Hey guys, you might enjoy this one :) >> > >> > Heh, check this out. Tucker Carlson debates Rob Reiner on Russia hypocrisy. Riener tap-dances like Al Jolson. This is >> > inline with the entirety of your post. Ric >> >> Cool - can you send me the link please? >> >> I enjoy watching "the Tuck" :) >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jf36Ntksk8Y > >Sorry! >Here's what we could do to these people. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bKYCwtnLj_8 ><cackles> Ric

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[POLITICS] [WAR] - an anxious moron in the making
by Zenaan Harkness 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

The land of the free continues to descend: http://russia-insider.com/en/politics/breaking-zuckerberg-seems-be-announci…

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Social Engineering: YANSS 093 – The neuroscience of changing your mind
by Razer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

Jan '17, from youarenotsosmart.com (YANSS), a 'celebration of self-delusion': > We don’t treat all of our beliefs the same. > > If you learn that the Great Wall of China isn’t the only man-made > object visible from space, and that, in fact, it’s actually very > difficult to see the Wall compared to other landmarks, you update your > model of reality without much fuss. Some misconceptions we give up > readily, replacing them with better information when alerted to our > ignorance. > > For others constructs though, for your most cherished beliefs about > things like climate change or vaccines or Republicans, instead of > changing your mind in the face of challenging evidence or compelling > counterarguments, you resist. Not only do you fight belief change for > some things and not others, but if you successfully deflect such > attacks, your challenged beliefs then grow stronger. > > The research shows that when a strong-yet-erroneous belief is > challenged, yes, you might experience some temporary weakening of your > convictions, some softening of your certainty, but most people rebound > and not only reassert their original belief at its original strength, > but go beyond that and dig in their heels, deepening their resolve > over the long run. > > Psychologists call this the backfire effect, and this episode is the > first of three shows exploring this well-documented and much-studied > psychological phenomenon, one that you’ve likely encountered quite a > bit lately. > > In this episode, we explore its neurological underpinning as two > neuroscientists at the University of Southern California’s Brain and > Creativity Institute explain how their latest research sheds new light > on how the brain reacts when its deepest beliefs are challenged. > > By placing subjects in an MRI machine and then asking them to consider > counterarguments to their strongly held political beliefs, Jonas > Kaplan’s and Sarah Gimbel’s research, conducted along with > neuroscientist Sam Harris, revealed that when people were presented > with evidence that alerted them to the possibility that their > political beliefs might be incorrect, they reacted with the same brain > regions that would come online if they were responding to a physical > threat. > > “The response in the brain that we see is very similar to what would > happen if, say, you were walking through the forest and came across a > bear,” explains Gimbel in the episode. “Your brain would have this > automatic fight-or-flight [response]…and your body prepares to protect > itself.” > > According to the researchers, some values are apparently so crucial to > your identity, that the brain treats a threat to those ideas as if > they were a threat to your very existence. > > “Remember that the brain’s first and primary job is to protect > ourselves,” explains Kaplan in the show. “The brain is basically a > big, complicated, sophisticated machine for self-protection, and that > extends beyond our physical self, to our psychological self. Once > these things become part of our psychological self, I think they are > then afforded all the same protections that the brain gives to the body.” > > How does the brain take something that is previously neutral and > transmutate it into a value that it then protects as if it were flesh > and bone? How do neutral, empirical facts about temperature and carbon > emissions become politicized? How does an ideological stance on > immigration reform become blended with personal identity? We explore > those questions and more on this episode of the You Are Not So Smart > Podcast. > > (This episode’s cookie is Sugar Mint Cookies sent in by Haley Martin.) > > In full with links and podcast: https://youarenotsosmart.com/2017/01/13/yanss-093-the-neuroscience-of-chang…

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 23 Sep '17

23 Sep '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Fri Sep 22 12:13:41 PDT 2017 > > [do not] infringe other people's rights > Ack. > the moment you publish them they are not > 'yours' anymore. > they come from other people. > So ideas are not the property of someone, unless it is a new idea, then it belongs to all those who thought before it, because it's 99.99999999% theirs. Do you even read before you post ? > privilege: a non-right > So we are in agreement. > copyright and patents > The legal terms are what we disagree on. The right to ownership is not. I concede to your argument against my defense of laws to defend things, seeable or not. > And you are accusing me of doing what *you* do? please. > If you think that the right to ownership can only be granted by others, which is what you argue when you say that the right to copy can only be granted as a privilege by some external authority. > at some point the cost of writing a full > counterargument to a piece of bullshit is too high. > Budget limits. Request more money for the next fiscal quarter, fbianon. > United States of America was founded in 1776 > as a slave society/concentration camp? > The United States is “a farce controlled by dirty, hook-nosed, circumcised Jew bastards". -Bobby Fischer Prove Jews didn't own all the slave ships. Prove Jews didn't own most of the slaves. Prove slavery isn't a semitic tradition. Pro-tip: **You can't.** > national borders > I never argued for "national" borders. I tried to overstand your position on what defines a border and how these "imaginary" lines, physical or not, differ from those drawn in sovereignty of one's body ? You offered nothing but "not valid". Just like your "bullshit" argument; why ? > cheaters > I do not cheat, sir. How dare you. =)

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More #$%& from #$%&#$ %&#$%&#$ Re: [ PFIR ] Netanyahu's son removes anti-Semitic meme from Facebook following outcry
by Hollow Domer 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

> juan juan.g71 at gmail.com > Fri Sep 22 13:15:23 PDT 2017 > > actually there was another > coming from the same redchan domain. > Yeah, and juan.g71[at]gmail[dot]com and grarpamp[at]gmail[dot]com are the same person because they both use jewgle mail and work for the feds. It must be true because it's on the internet.

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Google are Data Sheiks and how to secure things without their budget
by Ryan Carboni 22 Sep '17

22 Sep '17

In the Middle East, a few lucky families control the nation, and thus the oil wealth, thus perpetuating their rule. The Middle East isn't known for contributing much to the world's infrastructure or science. The same goes for Google. Mentioned in the past that Google doesn't ban having "noreply" in username, allowing for phishing accounts to be used on their service. You have to be some kind of sociopath to see something terrible happening and not trying to at least think of something that could be done. They have immense amounts of money, so their contributions to cybersecurity rank from (in monetary value), SHA-1 collision search (a million GPU hours), $200,000 for Android exploits, and $1,000 to fuzz browser DOMs for only ten seconds per attempt. They did discover numerous "security-related" crashes. Don't know if they decided to check for memory bound errors that didn't cause a crash. That might take more than ten seconds though. Twenty? Will they offer $200,000 for Chromium OS exploits? If they can't do it, shouldn't they cut back on Chromium OS and put everything behind Android? Or rework Xen-ARM to replace Chrome OS and Android? Corporations brag about smartphone resolution, but they should brag about security. Maybe force them to? Of course, McAfee got rich selling snake oil, by being alarmist. Fortunately there are real reasons to be alarmist nowadays! Or just do what puri.sm is doing and mumble... privacy... security... something. Does one really lose that much privacy with a smartphone with the default apps and settings? (you do have to set-up the backup) But the EFF quit W3C after DRM (surely there is a middle ground that makes DRM unviable on any slow computer). What is anyone going to do about webrtc? Anyway, here's a spin on an old saying, demand a mile, get an inch, demand it again, (and listen to them complain that they give you an inch and you want a mile). Allegedly some people have complained of various leftist nonprofits as being shake down organizations. Raise a fuss over insecurity, demand proportionate funding from corporations, name and shame, etc etc. Democracy is numerous people shouting over each other for what they want. Ideally though, one would have a low performance computer with high volatile memory, Qubes-style separation. AVOID COMPRESSING MEMORY. Local attestation, hash the loaded instructions, and induce a fault if the instructions change (thus causing any insecurity to be limited to improperly coded APIs). Integrate ClamAV, and harden it's sandbox? Computers should be separated into hobbyist (for learning and experimentation) and production computers (for anything actually important). Motherboards with soldered chips, and integrated SSD for the operating system. Shorting a fuse will disable updating the operating system for those activists. I mean... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instructions_per_second#Timeline_of_instructi… Computers are fast. Transistors are small. Whatever you people think you're doing, it is not happening. It is not going to happen. What does it say that Zuckerberg owns a Macbook, and tapes over the speaker jack? Soghoian also criticises Google for failing to step up to the plate. > "Google could pay for the development of Grsecurity using the money found > between the cushions of their sofa," he insists. "This is not a big-ticket > item in the grand scheme of Google's budget." What is cheaper? A Pinebook with Android or a Librem 5? Probably unfair, the pixels per inch for the pinebook is a lot lower.

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