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Defensive Security Podcasts - Riverside Video Edition

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Patreon is not doing them any favors: see  https://www.patreon.com/defensivesec If you click membership options: I had essential and functional cookies enabled. Maybe it's just my phone is hacked though. See  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer .

Captain Dan Gryder with a Theory About Air India Flight 171

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If you assume the EADR data is absolutely correct then this is the sort of explanation that you need. I guess they will have to try to identify the voices on the cockpit voice recorder and do an investigation into the private lives of both pilots. See  Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report  and  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer .  Subscribe to Probable Cause . 

Guatemala: Under the Mayan Sky

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Another Tony Comiti production. See https://javafilms.fr/film/dicing-with-death-guatemala-under-the-mayan-sky/ I made this today: and this yesterday   See  Carl Popper on Induction and Knowledge as a Greatest Fixpoint . See also Documentary - The face of the Southern Border that nobody shows: Chiapas and Guatemala . Subscribe to Best Documentary .

Karl Popper on Induction and Knowledge as a Greatest Fixpoint

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Well, that's how I take his idea of the falsifiability criterion of Scientific Knowledge . Maybe that's shooting from the hip a bit, ...     It's is as if he's responding to this: see Curt Jaimungal Intervew with Jenann Ismael . Subscribe to Philosophy Overdose .  And after making that I was reading Wade Davis ' book One River and I read this description of Richard Evans Schultes ' in Oaxaca, Mexico , looking for the original "Magic Mushrooms" teonanácatl . It's a really superb book. For the first time in ages I am getting into trouble staying up too late because I can't stop reading. He is a really great writer.  See  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel  and  Documentary - Narco Jungle: The Darien Gap .

Testing Blogger's Automatic Google Search Term Insertion Option

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Compare with the original  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer . This is about Computer Security and large tech companies.  Made in the USA. Broadcom still make these 8 character displays and you can get them here for £47.35 each. They draw 250mA per display and have 16 user-definable characters stored in flash memory . This is the programmer for them, so the military can hack their own fonts, I guess. The datasheet has the built-in character definitions, artistically laid out: See  Hitachi HD44780U LCD Display Fonts . Here's their HP 9825 Repairathon . Subscribe to Curious Marc . I've been thinking a lot about abstraction in documentation recently. It is really frustrating to me that companies like Intel and ARM insist on producing typeset PDF files of their manuals. These are all in some metalanguage that has to be translated. The metalanguage is English because these were originally American and British companies,  respectively, but the act...

Documentary - Narco Jungle: The Darien Gap

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This is by far the best such documentary about this that I've seen, and I have seen quite a few. Some are filmed from a different perspective though. There is one by some young men that looks interesting, but I haven't seen it all yet. Subscribe to Official W5 . Yesterday I did a walk-and-talk about this:  See  Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer . Lissie - America See  Lissie - America (Simon & Garfunkel) . I found America, ... See  Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel .

Curious Marc - HP LED Display Programmer

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Made in the USA. Broadcom still make these 8 character displays and you can get them here for £47.35 each. They draw 250mA per display and have 16 user-definable characters stored in flash memory. This is the programmer for them, so the military can hack their own fonts, I guess.. The datasheet has the built-in character definitions, artistically laid out: See Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report  and  Hitachi HD44780U LCD Display Fonts . Here's their HP 9825 Repairathon . Subscribe to Curious Marc . I've been thinking a lot about abstraction in documentation recently. It is really frustrating to me that companies like Intel and ARM insist on producing typeset PDF files of their manuals. These are all in some metalanguage that has to be translated. The metalanguage is English because these were originally American and British companies,  respectively, but the actual data the manuals contain is language-neutral. The task of the technical...

Documentary - The face of the Southern Border that nobody shows: Chiapas and Guatemala

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I learned from this that in the state of Chiapas alone there are 12 different languages spoken. I tried to get Union Juarez once. I only made it as far as Rosario Ixtal, near Cacahuatan but I found a place to live there, so it was a success. I didn't realize I was only 1.75 Km away from the frontier with Guatemala though. I met some girls working in a restaurant in Cacahuatan once who were from Guatemala, so I think the frontier is fairly permeable around there. Subscribe to  Jorge De León .

Cochalawood Imillaskate Sizzle-reel

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This is some classy film-making going on (especially the deja vu at 2:42 ). It was filmed 14 Sept 2020, after I left for La Paz. See  Yet Another Blog  (15 Sept 2020).  The skate park is Parque Urbano Ollantay , not too far from the place where I got bitten by a dog  in April 2011. Nearby there is a long avenue called 27 de mayo  which is lined with busts of Bolivia's military heroes through history, though many of them have been partly destroyed and many are missing. It was not lit at night, and there were dogs and homeless encampments in the bushes. At the top is a monument to Las Heroinas de la Coronilla : Las "Heroínas de la Coronilla" fueron un grupo de mujeres bolivianas que lucharon contra las fuerzas realistas en Cochabamba el 27 de mayo de 1812, durante la Guerra de la Independencia de Bolivia. Lideradas por Manuela Gandarillas, se enfrentaron al ejército español en la colina de San Sebastián, conocida como La Coronilla, mostrando un gran valor y sacr...

Juan Browne on the Air India 787 Preliminary Accident Report

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See  Juan Browne, Stig Aviation and Taking Off on the Air India 787 Crash . You can download the report from  https://aaib.gov.in/What's%20New%20Assets/Preliminary%20Report%20VT-ANB.pdf . It does, perhaps, explain why the flight recorder was located 1,000 feet away, because the wreckage was spread over a distance of 1,000 feet: "The wreckage, from the first impact point till the last identified aircraft item, was distributed in [sic] an area of approx. 1000 ft x 400 ft". So the tail section impacted first and that's where they found the aft EAFR. Subscribe to Blancolirio .  Subscribe to Al Jazeera English . Now the Internet of Experts is speculating that it was pilot error/insanity, but there is going to have to be a long and very difficult cyber-forensic investigation of the software systems in the switch sensors and the cockpit data recorders, because they have to rule out sabotage. There's a company in Israel that are experts in this kind of whole-system se...