Approximately 8000 women worked at #BletchleyPark during WW2.
One codebreaker I can quickly look up is #JaneFawcett MBE.
“In 1940, at the age of 18, she was interviewed by senior #codebreaker #StuartMilnerBarry, and joined the secret codebreaking project at Bletchley Park. She joined a group of women known as the "#Debs of Bletchley Park",
… “Hughes was assigned to Hut 6 a "Decoding Room" of women only”.
“On 25 May 1941, Hughes and several other women were briefed on the search for the German battleship #Bismarck. Shortly thereafter, she decoded a message referring to the Bismarck that detailed its current position and destination in France.“
“Her work did not come to light until decades later, during the 1990s, as it had been classified under Britain's Official Secrets Act”.
Jane passed away in 2016.
#OSA / #WW2 / #CodeBreaker / #personal <https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fawcett>
Documenting what you're willing to support (and not)
https://www.europesays.com/2228691/ Fashion Designer Rory William Docherty’s Royal New Zealand Ballet Costumes Are Woven With Threads Of Emotion #are #ballet #chrysalis #Costumes #dance #deeply #designer #docherty #dochertys #emotion #express #fashion #Movement #new #NewZealand #of #Personal #rory #royal #Runway #stage #threads #through #traded #William #with #work #woven #zealand
Switching from Windows 11 to Linux: My Journey
Two weeks ago, I decided to change the operating system on my gaming laptop from Windows 11 to Linux. Here’s what I did, the problems I encountered, and what I eventually settled on.
Why the change.
Why change to Linux from a very stable Windows 11 installation? Well I don’t like the direction Microsoft is taking Windows. Here are the reasons why.
AI. Microsoft is adding a lot of AI to Windows, like Windows Recall and Co-Pilot, which I don’t want on my system.
Telemetry. While […]
https://kiraherdman.co.uk/2025/07/04/switching-from-windows-11-to-linux-my-journey/
La catenaria al suelo, otra vez
https://brucknerite.net/2025/07/la-catenaria-al-suelo-otra-vez.html
La protagonista de la última crisis ferroviaria vuelve a ser la catenaria, que tiene, obviamente, un problema de mantenimiento. Los que trabajamos en el negociado ferroviario solemos ser de natural prudente al valorar los sucesos en nuestro campo, pero ya no es tiempo de quizás y de tal vez. Las imágenes lo muestran con claridad.
Trauma Is Insidious and Will Wreck You - And You Will Get Through It - Content warning: a detailed look at trauma, both technically and personally. https://kattni.com/trauma-is-insidious-and-will-wreck-you-and-you-will-get-through-it #Personal
It seems that the last remaining provider of Free personal S/MIME certificates (Actalis) has now left that space.
Are there any others left that I don't know about?
curious psych, dreams #personal #random
(26 Jun) A Publicly Posted Private Message
This is a message to one person.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/3sfyq
Archive: ais: https://archive.md/wip/C0zYc ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/x63i9
Hello, my name is Christoff.
I live in Illinois, USA, outside the St. Louis area. Below I'll talk about my technology and creative interests, and a bit about me personally. I'm going to hashtag the heck out of this post.
the whole "deadbeef" thing is the magic number from #Solaris for freed memory. I simply chose .monster TLD because it seemed cool and I like "extended" TLDs.
I have been using a OpenBSD, #NetBSD, or #GNU/#Linux since the late 1990s as a primary workstation. I used macOS from 2020 to 2025, switching to the #KDE neon distro (KDE plasma is amazing and KDE isn't bloated anymore, yay!).
My current career is as a #pentester where I break into web applications, IP networks, mobile applications (especially #Android), and people to their face or over the phone; code #malware; write documentation; and enjoy helping clients in a third party contractor/consultant role. I started that job change in 2020, when I earned the #OSCP certification at the height of "#infosec twitter" when I did well there.
Previously I worked for about 20 years as a senior-level programmer, and systems, infrastructure, and database administrator. Burnout was very real and I was extremely bored/unfulfilled.
Now that programming and sysadmin stuff isn't my career, I find I enjoy programming and tinkering again.
I am a big fan of NetBSD and always have been. I am not a huge fan of GNU/Linux but I do appreciate things "just working", even if it is full of closed-source binary blobs and other garbage. It was fun in the 1990s.
I know many programming languages but have been paid professionally to code in #C, #Perl, #Python, #PHP, #Java, and #Groovy for big commercial entities like eBay, small companies, and the US government.
I've maintained 99.99% uptime for a 60MM+ platform for years, including failover and backups (that were regularly tested... you test your failover and backups, right?!).
I always wanted to be a cool C and low-level programmer, which I thought for the longest time was being a kernel programmer, but now I know that isn't the life for me.
Emacs is something I've enjoyed since the beginning and I still can't code a #Lisp well. I'd love to be a cool #lisper with #CommonLisp, but haven't gotten there yet. I'm on the #c64 and #embedded #retrocomputing train now.
For creative stuff, I aim to do a lot but tend to hop around as interests take me. I could use some discipline there (someday?).
For #music, I have an electric #bass (Fender Jazz) and electric #guitar. I love #jambands (#GratefulDead, #Phish, #Goose) and that's the type of music I like to play along to.
For #art, I like #acrylic and #watercolor painting. I rarely do it, but think about it a lot and love it when I do it. I don't have any skill or talent, but that's not the point. It's for me and no one else.
For #computing, I am venturing into #C64 #demoscene programming and exploration. Not only was I too poor to get one when I was little but I sorta forgot about it over time. The desire to do cool things in a restricted environment where folks are playing in the sandbox, too, is very exciting and attractive to me. I don't know how to code the #Commodore64 stuff yet, but will! Learning the assembly language (I have zero desire to code in BASIC again and I can just code assembly).
I live with my soulmate and our five amazing cats in a small town outside St. Louis living a quiet life. Just doing our jobs, taking care of daily life stuff, and enjoying each other and life as much as we can. Ups and downs of life chaos, like anyone else, but we're doing alright!
We enjoy exploring places within driving distance and there are a lot of places to go to.
Currently, we're really into playing two-player games together and just started collecting #boardgames. Right now, we're really digging #SkyTeam, #RoyalGameOfUr, #ForrestShuffle, #SentinelsOfTheMultiverse, and this magnet game I don't know the name of. We have #SpiritIsland and #ArcNova to unwrap and learn. We tried really really hard to get into #ArkhamHorrorTheCardGame but the rules are too complicated and confusing, where it felt like we were doing the wrong thing all the time.
I am 46. I grew up loving Star Wars, Star Trek, #SciFi, reading novels non-stop, horror, and watching movies. I collect classic SciFi books from 1960s and 1970s.
I would perhaps describe myself as an extremely curious person, that loves #puzzles and #mysteries, #exploration, figuring out #HumanBehavior like I'm an alien studying humans (I'm good at it, it turns out), that has a keen eye for detail, remembering random little things, and a good listener. I'm fairly adaptable and fluid in most things, which works well for me. My brain works differently than a lot of people, and while frustrating a lot of the time for things I don't understand fully, it is me and serves me well in niches.
Making people laugh makes me happy. I am a #hacker and #tinkerer.
#Doctors at the #VA can now deny care to #veterans based on #personal #opinion ..
Now : Disagree with your #Supreme #Leader guys ?
#NoKings #NoSupremeLeaders
in #democracy
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DK9-y8aRNfE/?igsh=MXZzNW54aG8weTdvOQ==
Family/ Eye contact
Entre ayer y hoy, pasada la medianoche, terminé un proyecto de trabajo.
No puedo contarles nada sobre él todavía.
Pero puedo compartir con ustedes la #música que usé de fondo para escribirlo.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4xFJjYuh0rLqBS9jOxNK8r?si=_AJ7VydOQOuo5P-HglZj4Q
#playlist #ListaDeReproducción #music #MúsicaParaEscribir #MusicForWriting #personal #streaming #spotify
My latest blog post: Migrating my Mastodon server to Masto.host
https://mikecoats.com/migrating-to-masto-host/
I migrated my Mastodon server from a self-hosted DigitalOcean droplet to an instance provided by Masto.host. The process was straightforward and took less than an hour.
Not photography-related but it's a pretty special moment for me. I'm excited to share that I achieved a Shodan-Ho black belt in GKR karate this weekend
#karate #achivement #personal
https://www.europesays.com/2161178/ We’re saving almost enough in our 401(k)s. Here’s the magic number. #401(k)Plan #401k #administration #business #Donald #DonaldTrump #Modular #ModularStory #Negative #Overall #OverallNegative #pension #Personal #PersonalFinance #PersonalSavings #Plan #retirement #RetirementU0026Pension #savings #security #social #SocialSecurityAdministration #story #trump #u0026
Personal life
In 2009, Murray released her autobiography, All of Me, and embarked on a 15-city book signing tour, starting in Nashville on October 27, 2009, and ending in Ottawa on November 24, 2009. The tour also included a special In Conversation interview with Michael Posner at the International Festival of Authors in Toronto on October 30, 2009
She is Catholic.
Her nephew Paul Murray was lead singer of the 1990
Anne Murray - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Murray
https://www.europesays.com/2148055/ Princess Eugenie echoes Prince William’s mission in personal statement #BritishRoyalFamily #catherine #CatherineMiddleton #echoes #Eugenie #in #KateMiddleton #mission #Personal #prince #PrinceOfWales #PrinceWilliam #Princess #PrincessOfWales #RoyalFamilies #RoyalFamily #statement #William #Williams