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  1. Is anyone associated with PyPI that can help me acquire an abandoned package name? I submitted an issue (see link below) to get the name but there are over 1,000 pending issues so I don't expect a response on GitHub any time soon. Maybe someone involved with PyPI can expedite a response.

    github.com/pypi/support/issues

  2. Wyndham acknowledged a cybersecurity incident after researcher Robert Wiggins discovered a hardcoded password inside the source code of the company's Android app.

    The exposed credential granted access to an internal Salesforce-hosted database containing customer names, email addresses, member numbers, and login tokens.

    Wyndham revoked the credential promptly after being contacted, and stated it has no evidence of unauthorized ac…

    en.hacks.gr/xechasmenos-kodiko

    #Wyndham #Android #Salesforce #Privacy

  3. Oh gee (wrong?)!

    I’ve had an interest in Qigong for a long time. Not enough to have ever done anything about it, but an interest, nonetheless. Last night I thought, because last week was so busy for me, that today would be a good day to let myself take an hour and try something fun, so I registered for a free Qigong class this afternoon at a local club I belong to courtesy of Silver Sneakers.

    I’m rarely comfortable doing new things and this wasn’t any different. And there were about 30 people in the room which didn’t make anything any less uncomfortable. But what wasn’t uncomfortable was the class itself and that’s because it was kind of just plain goofy fun. We were bouncing, swinging and swaying, and reaching, and twisting, and tapping, and it was all sort of cool. But it was also kind of boring because I didn’t know any of the why behind the movements we were doing. You know, what’s the purpose, what’s the goal, what are we practicing toward, where does the medicine and the energy part fit in? I had done a little reading on Qigong in the past so I knew there wasn’t just one type or form, or one singular goal, but what were we doing? The acoustics were bad in the room, and the instructor spoke softly into a too-quiet PA system, so pretty much all I got were random words here and there.

    The class was 50 minutes, and I made it about halfway – which was good for me – before my mind started to wander and pretty soon I was thinking about a new Netflix sitcom I started watching (did you hear the one about the rabbi who falls in love with a gentile woman?), and about dinner, and at that point I was really bored and just wanted to leave but that wasn’t possible unless I wanted about 30 people gasping and turning to watch me leave while whispering unkind and unflattering things and no one wants that. But it turned out to be ok that I stayed because toward the end of the class, we were doing all kinds of weird stuff like running our tongues in circles around the outside of our teeth with our mouths closed and then around the inside of our teeth. I don’t know why we did that, but I just had a cleaning last Thursday, so I was proudly thinking about how remarkably clean my teeth were and I wondered who else in the room believed in dental hygiene like I do. I knew there was at least one person in the room who didn’t because there was the vague unpleasant smell of body odor that I picked up periodically. Although it’s not fair of me to say that. Just because someone might have a little body odor in a warm room doesn’t mean they ignore their teeth, right? Anyway, then we swallowed the saliva we generated with the tongue circling thing and we were supposed to pay attention to the saliva on its way down, but I didn’t hear why.

    Then we started tugging on our ears. The tops, the middles, the lobes. One, two, three, four. And again. And again. And again. We stuck our middle fingers in our ears but I didn’t hear why we were doing that. Only that it can help tinnitus (it didn’t). Then we got really goofy and were gently tapping ourselves on the tops of our heads and down our neck to our shoulders, up and down, up and down, over and over, and at some point the t-shirt the woman standing in front of me was wearing untucked itself from her one size does not fit all tights and I saw a part of her lower back that I shouldn’t have been seeing and it was obvious every time she reached up to tap the top of her head. Then we started patting ourselves on our thighs and on our knees and on our shins (which surprisingly didn’t hurt my back so maybe there’s something to all the oddness after all?) and then we tapped our shoulders and then our chest and then our hips and then we stood on tiptoes for a few seconds before dropping our feet halfway down to the floor and then plopping them the rest of the way down. I stole a look around me, and everyone looked… odd, and I vaguely wondered if this wasn’t some prelude to an orgy or something? Which would have been unfortunate because since we’re making our way into cold and flu season right now, an orgy is the last thing I’m interested in. Well that’s not altogether true. It’s the last thing I’d be interested in taking part in. Although I would have watched and that would have been cool. Anyway, we finally finished and I only knew that we finished because the instructor put her hands in the prayer position in front of her chest and bowed. Everyone else in the room did the same thing. I didn’t. I was too busy wondering why it all ended abruptly. Plus that just felt like an odd posture to take.

    I left being no less confused about Qigong than when I entered the room.

    I don’t want to quit after just one time, so I’ll probably go back. Overall it was an ok experience (minus the BO wafting around from time to time) and I’d put the experience at a 6/10. The bouncing and arm wiggling and tapping and ear poking was kind of fun even though I don’t know why, so I might try a different session next week with a different instructor and see what happens.

    I don’t know. For some reason this song just seems to fit.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btPJPFnesV4&list=RDbtPJPFnesV4&start_radio=1

    #Fitness #Health #Life #MentalHealth #Qigong #Sitcoms #Survivor #wellness #Writing
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