Remembering Martin Luther King Jr. as His Movement Lives On
“We honor the memory of Martin Luther King Jr. and his legacy in the civil rights movement. Dr. King’s work is not yet finished, and it is up to us to continue marching toward progress and a more just and inclusive society.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERCWitk0dwkAstronomy Picture of the Day
“Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.”
Astronomy Picture of the Day has been around since 1995 and you can see the full archive here (https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/archivepixFull.html)
Did you know there is water on Mars ?
The site is updated daily at https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/astropix.html and a lot of the image are high resolution.
Makes for a good Speed Dial in Vivaldi 😉
Old CSS, new CSS
This is a great read https://eev.ee/blog/2020/02/01/old-css-new-css/
Did you know that both Opera & Webkit were created in the same building?
2019’s only total lunar eclipse
This was live on January 20, 2019 but you can still watch it again.
“Blood moon. Supermoon. Wolf moon. The lunar eclipse, beginning the night of Jan. 20, has garnered plenty of descriptors. But the gist is that this Sunday, the Earth will block the sun’s rays from reaching the moon, and it’s likely to look pretty awesome.”
#BlueBeanieDay 2018
Why Open the Web?
Despite the connecting purpose of the Web, it is not entirely open to all of its users.
When used correctly, HTML documents can be displayed across platforms and devices.
However, many devices are excluded access to Web content.
#a11y is Code for “Love Your Neighbor”
From bbd16 http://bluebeanieday.tumblr.com
WHAT ARE WEB STANDARDS?
Some insight on Insight by The Oatmeal
On November 26th, a mole will land on Mars
https://theoatmeal.com/comics/insight
It is a great comic explaining the event and what will be going on.
The event will be live streamed on https://www.nasa.gov/nasalive
@NASAInSight for the mission on Twitter
Softwares loss of efficiency & simplicity
Nikita makes a lot of great points with examples
“I’ve been programming for 15 years now. Recently our industry’s lack of care for efficiency, simplicity, and excellence started really getting to me, to the point of me getting depressed by my own career and the IT in general.”
Even modems & routers have to be patched
Ars Technica has a post about some recent news regarding over 7,500 unpatched routers:
Unpatched routers being used to build vast proxy army, spy on networks
“According to a report by Netlab 360’s Genshen Ye, more than 7,500 of them are actively being spied on by attackers, who are actively forwarding full captures of their network traffic to a number of remote servers.”
From earlier this year in May 2018:
New VPNFilter malware targets at least 500K networking devices worldwide
You can use localrouter.net to find your local router’s web interface.
Before starting the firmware update on a router or modem (many ISPs control the firmware updates to modems) it is a good idea to back up the configuration settings incase things get reset etc. Firmware updates can also have bug fixes as well as security updates.
