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Monday, February 19, 2024

Capital One Could Buy Discover In Major Credit Card Merger

https://www.forbes.com/sites/caileygleeson/2024/02/19/capital-one-could-buy-discover-in-major-credit-card-merger-reports-say/

Friday, February 16, 2024

Cloud FinOps, 2nd Edition [Book]

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cloud-finops-2nd/9781492098348/

Thursday, February 15, 2024

NYTimes: Ex-F.B.I. Informant Is Charged With Lying Over Bidens’ Role in Ukraine Business

Hunter Biden promised to protect the company "through his dad, from all kinds of problems," Mr. Smirnov falsely claimed to the bureau in 2020, according to Mr. Weiss, the special counsel who has charged the president's son twice over the past year on tax and gun charges.

Mr. Smirnov, prosecutors working for Mr. Weiss said, was only in contact with Burisma executives in 2017, after Mr. Biden left office — when he "had no ability to influence U.S. policy."

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/15/us/politics/fbi-informant-bidens-ukraine.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

Tuesday, January 16, 2024

Renew AWS Cloud Practitioner Certification by completing the 3D "Cloud Quest" for free | Post by Ian Mckay on X

Ian Mckay

⁦‪@iann0036‬⁩

⁦‪@QuinnyPig‬⁩ ⁦‪@awscloud‬⁩ TIL you can renew Practitioner by completing the 3D "Cloud Quest" for free: https://explore.skillbuilder.aws/learn/course/external/view/elearning/17623/aws-cloud-quest-recertify-cloud-practitioner

1/16/24, 8:30 PM

Friday, January 12, 2024

Raspberry Pi 5 - HDMI Woes & Solution

How to fix it:

https://sheffuslinks.blogspot.com/2024/01/raspberry-pi-5-hdmi-woes-solution.html

Raspberry Pi 5 - HDMI Woes & Solution

TL;DR

Problem: New Raspberry Pi 5 boots, but no HDMI

Solution: Add "video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D" to your /boot/cmdline.txt

How to get it done

Boot your device and SSH to it.

If you can't SSH, follow instructions here

Once logged in:
Become root

sudo su -

Change to the boot directory

cd /boot

Edit the cmdline.txt file. (vi is always there, but use whatever editor you like)

vi cmdline.txt

Add

video=HDMI-A-1:1920x1080M@60D

to the beginning of your /boot/cmdline.txt file.

cmdline.txt is a (long) single line file, so DON'T HIT RETURN.

Save the file. (:wq in vi)

Reboot your device

reboot

Done!

Note: 1920x1080M@60D is a pretty standard setting for most monitors.

If it doesn't work for you, you may need to adjust.

There are lots of details here, which is how I got this far.

Atty. Ben Crump Demands Investigation Into the Discovery of 215 bodies Buried in a Pauper's Grave Behind Mississippi jail | BET

https://www.bet.com/article/unidbz/atty-ben-crump-demands-investigation-into-the-discovery-of-215-bodies-buried-in-a-paupers-grave-behind-mississippi-jail

Wednesday, January 10, 2024

An example repo to track your resume and application history using git

rothgar/track-your-resume-in-git:

https://github.com/rothgar/track-your-resume-in-git

Tuesday, January 9, 2024

PartyRock | Resume Optimizer

https://partyrock.aws/u/viktoria/0P8VymYdp/Resume-Optimizer?sc_campaign=Machine_Learning&sc_publisher=LINKEDIN&sc_geo=GLOBAL&sc_outcome=awareness&trkCampaign=generative_ai&linkId=259720468

Sunday, January 7, 2024

StingBox | Network HoneyPot

This is an interesting approach.

It certainly looks easy to deploy and try out.

https://www.stingbox.com/

Friday, January 5, 2024

NYTimes: Keeping Track of the Trump Investigations

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/us/trump-investigations-charges-indictments.html

Sunday, December 10, 2023

Texas Supreme Court temporarily halts abortion in Cox case

From the article:

Four of the women traveled out of state to have abortions; the fifth, whose fetus did not have a chance of surviving, was allowed to deliver only after she became septic, leaving her with permanent physical damage.

This is not acceptable. Not in any way.

This is NOT an attempt to protect life.

This is an attempt to Control Women. Period.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/08/texas-abortion-ruling-kate-cox-supreme-court/