David F ⁽²⁰³¹⁾

This article in Ravishly by Ijeoma Oluo caught my eye, because really, just feeling bad about racist policing is not doing anything about it.  Even writing distressed-sounding social media posts about it isn't quite up to the bar.  So what, what can we do?  I read the article…

​This June 20, I am participating in the Ride for Pride, a major annual fundraiser for the Gay Alliance of Genesee Valley. I started volunteering with the GAGV in 2011, and it has been an enormous help to me in understanding how our nation must…

We're in training, if you can call it that, to ride in the Ride for Pride in four weeks. To that end we participated in a 17- or 25-mile (route options) training ride last week. We did the shorter ride, and were still wiped out at the…

We website developers put up with a lot from those security folks.  We're constantly hearing them nag us to do boring things like scrub inputs to prevent SQL injection flaws.  Enforce up-to-date encryption standards.  Quit putting auth tokens into URLs.  All of these things would…

Today in Stupid Extensions of Biometric Authentication: this item from Sophos. Brainprints will apparently be the new fingerprints. Here is what the press (and from the looks of it, half the security industry) seems unable or unwilling to get: you cannot change your biometrics. You…