Notices by Michela Marie 🏳️‍🌈 (michelamarie@mastodon.social), page 17

@jonw oh. For sure! Sorry. I'm kind bad at detecting tongue-in-cheek comments. 🙃

@hcs If another referendum happens, I think the pound would rally, and go up again if remain wins.

Of course, all we can do is speculate on this. :)

@hcs I'm not a currency expert, though I know a little bit about this sort of stuff.

It appears sterling will go down further, quite a bit from here -- if Brexit happens (especially a "hard Brexit," with no alternative trade / work / travel / shipping, etc. arrangements in place) -- or seems like it will happen. The currency will *probably* eventually recover from that, but you would probably have to hold on to it for quite some time to turn a profit.

@lroop @phessler @tastymochafox Well, I think they believe that they have obfuscated the sources of the queries enough such that Cloudflare can't easily enough associate DNS requests with users, while it is trivial for ISPs (or Google) to do that if you use their DNS.

@loke @solene @phessler Yah. That does make some sense, though Cloudflare and others like them probably should not be trusted with the task.

It would be a lot better if they made it easier to change how DNS is resolved through a tick box in the settings panel.

@florian @rugk @lastfuture @loke @phessler

It wasn't directed at me, though I feel obligated to mention I don't think your previous comment is a very nice or reasonable thing to say.

You are talking on a completely public forum, which is meant for sharing and group discussion, and your "joke between friends" went into lots of other people's feeds (Iike mine too).

If you don't want others to see or participate in your discussions, you should choose a private method of communication.

@wilkie It was the boomers (and their parents' generation) who called the gen-xers slackers.

Honestly, as a member of gen-x (just barely), I am offended to hear that millenials are being called slackers. That's OUR thing!

@jonw Good point -- physical security should get more attention -- although I see some good reasons for emphasis on code, procedures, controls, infrastructure, and configuration / implementation.

Many, many attacks and threats are remote. Almost every (maybe all) device and application connected to the Internet, for example, has been probed or attacked in some way -- probably many times -- while physical attacks are less common (though they definitely happen).

@grufwub How are things today? Better? 🙂

I just discovered Petal and really like their sound! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5oqeDUEEZY

@Gargron You are getting verrry sleeepy.

If that didn't work, try taking half a melatonin pill and relaxing in bed without screens. That's what I'm going to do in a few minutes. :P

@Gargron Nicely done as always! Thank you for all your hard work!! 🙂

@Sommer I imagine some San Francisco-area universities and colleges must have some quality CS continuing studies courses that one could find by searching for them online or by phoning their continuing studies offices. No? They probably also have paper course catalogues you could check.

If not, open (free) online courses at MIT and such might be a good bet.

Otherwise, you could always move to Vancouver and take courses at one of our many outstanding colleges and universities. 😄

@Sommer I prefer taking courses at universities and colleges too. I find the quality better. Moreover, they focus on education and research, rather than making money.

@Sommer I don't think this is useful in your case, since you're not in Vancouver, though I just finished a CS continuing education course in #Python programming at #Vancouver Community College (not a university either, but it was the closest I could find).

The course was very good! I feel, finally, that I now have a solid foundation in Python to build on. It was harder to do that with self-study.

With a good base of knowledge, self-study is more productive, and a lot less tedious. :)