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TIL two Navajo women served as scouts with the Army’s 20th Infantry Regiment in the summer of 1886. They may have been the first women to enlist as combatants with the US Army.
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Forwarded from Eastern European insider
Legal Cybersecurity advices (offensive/defensive)

The name of this field is extremely broad, the realm of cybersecurity is just as large as any other in tech but tends to be even more dynamic and fast paced. For those willing to study and learn cybersecurity, there are several paths you can choose from and several places to learn

Today, we're going through two of what are considered some of the biggest CyberSec platforms. Hack The Box and Try Hack Me. The reason being these two are the best entry-level to advanced platforms that provide several different modules and courses as well as virtual machines for you to practice while learning. The platforms are also very affordable compared to other options (NEITHER IS FREE, how to get discounts bellow)

Both platforms have modules covering basic to advanced techniques of both offense and defense, which you can choose freely from, some modules about specific things might not be available at a 'pro' level of knowledge but provide a reasonable understanding of most topics

Hack The Box - The platform has 3 main 'services' or sub-platforms if you will.
Academy: which has courses that are rated by difficulty, proficiency and type. The modules are very well built with good explanations and most will not be too difficult, if they are, HTB also has a forum where users can seek help.
Students can apply for student subnoscriptions which are cheaper and will give you access to modules up to 'Tier 2' (there are 5 tiers, from 0 to 4) as well as unlimited uses of their virtual machine used for practice (called 'attack box')

Labs: Labs is the competitive/practical side of the platform, more specifically CTFs and 'Boxes' which are virtual machines meant for you to attack and find the flags to prove your progress. Soma companies keep an eye on Labs and also create their own challenges in order to find people with the skills they seek and get them familiarized with their systems in some cases. You can form teams and create your own boxes if you have a rank that's high enough

CTF: As the name suggests its a competition-oriented sub-platform, some of these CTFs will be restricted to college students only, others are open or private, you can form teams and do everything else as in Labs, the main difference being prizes in money for the CTFs among other perks

ATTENTION: None of these three above are free, but considering the alternatives which will sometimes charge you for 100 USD/mo, HTB is very cheap

Try Hack Me - A platform with just as much to offer but in a small package
— THM has a simpler User Interface and offers both courses and practice in the same place, just as Hack The Box, Try Hack Me has modules that approach different fields and techniques while also allowing for practical learning with their Virtual Machines

— The platform has two main learning methods, being those the modules and the practical ones which are VMs with varying difficulty that will test what you have learned in specific modules or several at once. The competitions are CTFs and King Of The Hill, the same as HTB, meaning you have to attack and defend against other people

— THM also offers student subnoscriptions which allow you to have full access to its content

Both platforms have its pros and cons, but nothing too expressive in regards to capabilities. Both platforms teach things ranging from OSINT and Social Engineering all the way to actual 'blue team' (defensive) and 'red team' (offensive) skills that can both range from specific tools all the way to techniques for specific systems or attacks

You can get student subnoscriptions in both platforms

Both platforms are also good ways to prepare for real Cybersecurity Certifications if you intend to get a job in this area since the difficulty of their VMs vary and some might be harder than the ones in certification tests
A platform worth noting is Virtual Hacking Labs, which costs 100 USD/mo as cited above, most other alternatives will not be as cheap as HTM or THM
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Forwarded from Keith Woods
🇮🇱🇺🇸 Jews in the United States strongly support America's policy of blanket support for Israel. 85% supported sending aircraft carriers to the Mediterranean to defend Israel.

In contrast, only 32% of the American public said "The US should support Israel" when polled by Reuters.

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"Radio Fatigue is the latest U.S. disease... It is produced by too much listening to emotional broadcasts of war news and the ranting of misguided propagandists who stir up emotions... It merely produced headaches, stomachaches, loss of sleep and wastage of our most precious national resource — emotional drive." (Daily Mirror, 1942)
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"There has been a lot of talk in the German press about the need for an appraisal of pandemic policies. This talk has flowed in directly inverse proportion to anybody’s willingness to actually appraise anything."

https://eugyppius.com/p/why-were-german-politicians-so-eager?publication_id=268621&post_id=138966310&isFreemail=true&r=lp6h7
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Forwarded from Intel Slava
🇱🇻🏳️‍🌈 Remember when people were like "Eastern Europe is really conservative and will totally remain like that, despite being politically, culturally and economically dominated by the liberal west".

📎 Baron of the Taiga
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Forwarded from James Delingpole Channel
“Delingpole is an interesting creature. He is all at once cantankerous, sweet, vitriolic, witty, mean, snobbish, naughty, naive, fun, cocky, and petulant. All this contradictory complexity is housed in a puckish, jockeylike frame, topped with a big, toothy smile, and dolorous, equine eyes. We get on very well, when he’s not testing me on my knowledge of Russian literature and classical music like an irascible, pompous school master.
I want to both cuddle him, and punch him repeatedly.”

Abi is SO right. https://abiroberts.substack.com/p/forgive-me-mr-icke-for-i-have-sinned?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
Meta Instagram users accuse platform of censoring posts supporting Palestine - Kari Paul

"Meta made similar excuses in May 2021, during a separate series of escalations in Palestine during which Facebook and Instagram users posting about Palestine reported a similar reduction in the reach of their posts. Those incidents prompted a letter signed by more than 200 Meta employees demanding the company address such shortcomings. A subsequent independent analysis commissioned by Meta found that the social networks had violated Palestinian human rights by censoring content related to Israel’s attacks on Gaza."

In addition to allegations of shadow banning and outright censorship, Meta was under fire this week after users documented a glitch that translated “Palestinian” followed by the Arabic phrase “Praise be to Allah” to “Palestinian terrorists” in multiple profiles. A former Facebook employee with access to discussions among current Meta employees said the issue “really pushed a lot of people over the edge” – internally and externally.

“You cannot keep blaming it on glitches when it’s spreading misinformation and dehumanizing Palestinians by feeding into the narrative that all Palestinians are terrorists,” said the former employee, who spoke anonymously for fear of retaliation. “It’s very overwhelming for a lot of the employees of the company.”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/oct/18/instagram-palestine-posts-censorship-accusations

t.me/robinmg
Forwarded from James Delingpole Channel
“Delingpole is an interesting creature. He is all at once cantankerous, sweet, vitriolic, witty, mean, snobbish, naughty, naive, fun, cocky, and petulant. All this contradictory complexity is housed in a puckish, jockeylike frame, topped with a big, toothy smile, and dolorous, equine eyes. We get on very well, when he’s not testing me on my knowledge of Russian literature and classical music like an irascible, pompous school master.
I want to both cuddle him, and punch him repeatedly.”

Abi is SO right. https://abiroberts.substack.com/p/forgive-me-mr-icke-for-i-have-sinned?utm_source=profile&utm_medium=reader2
"Already, even in the late 40s, the women of science fiction were trying to demasculinize sci-fi adventures and try to push their whole “science men with magic screwdrivers” type of beta male they wanted to shape the culture to be. Heinlein was rightly offended... “If she thinks Red Planet is a fairy tale, or a fantasy, but gripping (as she says) to read, let her label it as such and peddle it as such. I don’t give a damn. She should concern herself with whether boys will like it.”

"And that’s where trad pub failed Heinlein and male readers who were the target audience in this book. She started nitpicking “offensive” passages, many having to deal with the use or talk of firearms, in order to dumb down and remove the good action from the book because of her “literary sensibilities”. Eventually, she removed several of those passages from the book. They were never restored to what they were intended to be until Heinlein became a legend in a 1992 Del Rey edition of the book."

https://delarroz.com/2020/07/07/if-trad-pub-did-it-to-heinlein-what-will-they-do-to-you/
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Forwarded from Vox Day
The Invasion of Britain

The Conservative Party has completely failed to conserve Great Britain. Net migration could hit 700,000 in new figures this week, the Mail understands, opening a new front for attacks on Rishi Sunak by the Tory Right. Internal Home Office forecasts suggest the official net migration estimate – to be published on Thursday – will rise […]

https://voxday.net/2023/11/20/the-invasion-of-britain/
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Robert Frederick's podcast on Francis Bacon is excellent.

https://thehiddenlifeisbest.com/
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You're Paying for the Israel War. You'll Also Pay for the Refugees.

"By employing what is essentially the carpet-bombing approach, Tel Aviv has made the choice of adopting a policy that is sure to produce hundreds of thousands of refugees—or perhaps even more than a million. Indeed, many in the Israeli regime are motivated to maximize refugees, and push Gazans out of the country altogether using the Orwellian phrase "voluntary migration." "

https://mises.org/wire/youre-paying-israel-war-youll-also-pay-refugees

t.me/robinmg
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Forwarded from Today I Learned
TIL the 1928 Steamboat Willie rendition of Mickey Mouse will become available for public use in 2024, so anyone will be able to utilize or modify this Mickey Mouse version without worrying about violating copyright law.
https://ift.tt/xrlOQzP
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