I apologize up-front for using bad words in this post. Said bad words include “Facebook”, “Mark Zuckerberg” and many referrals to entities within the U.S. Government. Given the topic, it cannot be helped. I’ve also left the R tag on this despite only showing some ggplot2 plots and Markdown tables. See the end of the… Continue reading
The 2018 IEEE Security & Privacy Conference is in May but they’ve posted their full proceedings and it’s better to grab them early than to wait for it to become part of a paid journal offering. There are alot of papers. Not all match my interests but (fortunately?) many did and I’ve filtered down a… Continue reading
What’s Up? The NPR Visuals Team created and maintains a javascript library that makes it super easy to embed iframes on web pages and have said documents still be responsive. The widgetframe R htmlwidget uses pym.js to bring this (much needed) functionality into widgets and (eventually) shiny apps. NPR reported a critical vulnerability in this… Continue reading
NOTE: This is mainly for those of us in the Colonies, but some tips apply globally. Black Friday / Cyber Monday / Cyber November / Holiday 💲hopping is upon us. You’re going to buy stuff. You’re going to use digital transactions to do so. Here are some tips in a semi-coherent order: Sign up for… Continue reading
insert(post, “{ ‘standard_disclaimer’ : ‘My opinion, not my employer\’s’ }”) This is a post about the fictional company FredCo. If the context or details presented by the post seem familiar, it’s purely coincidental. This is, again, a fictional story. Let’s say FredCo had a pretty big breach that (fictionally) garnered media, Twitterverse, tech-world and Government-level… Continue reading
I was about to embark on setting up a background task to sift through R package PDFs for traces of functions that “omit NA values” as a surprise present for Colin Fay and Sir Tierney: [Please RT]#RStats folks, @nj_tierney & I need your help for {naniar}!When does R silently drop/omit NA? https://t.co/V5elyGcG8Z pic.twitter.com/VScLXFCl2n — Colin… Continue reading
I listen to @NPR throughout the day (on most days) and a story on Ohmconnect piqued my interest (it aired 5 days prior to this post). The TLDR on Ohmconnect is that it ostensibly helps you save energy by making you more aware of consumption and can be enabled to control various bits of IoT… Continue reading
First it was OpenDNS selling their souls (and, [y]our data) to Cisco (whom I don’t trust at all with my data). Now, it’s Dyn — — doing something even worse (purely my own opinion). I’m currently evaluating offerings by [FoolDNS](http://www.fooldns.com/fooldns-community/english-version/) & [GreenTeam](http://members.greentm.co.uk/) as alternatives and I’ll post updates as I review & test them. I’m… Continue reading