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Taken this day, 2019, pirate raiders off the shores of Porty!!
https://www.flickr.com/photos/woolamaloo_gazette/48618591148/in/photostream/lightbox/

Stand by to repel boarders!!

#PortobelloEdinburgh
#Edinburgh #Edimbourg #photography #photographie #Portobello #ship #bateau #TallShip #FirthOfForth #Sea #mer #BlackAndWhitePhotography #Pirates

@dilmandila

Since you're an author who seems to insist on No DRM (that's a good thing, too), Have you considered:

1. ) Smashwords
2. ) Draft2Digital

I believe these may be the two resources that enable you to deliver your works to the reader at the most affordable prices.

On the other hand, if I'm mistaken and you (or anyone else) knows of better resources that handle publishing & distribution at better price points please do let me know.

#tallship #publishing #Smashwords #epub

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Assholes Will Always Exist

Over the years they've been called a lot of things. Some of the terms, these miscreants actually donned like a cape or wore the disparaging noun as a badge of honor:

- #cracker
- #list_bully
- #foreign_agent
- #incel
- #phishermen
- #spammer
- #blackhat

The list is truly, much too long to collate in a single fly by topical mention; and that's really not the point of what I'm writing about here either. What is absolutely pernicious, is the #MiTM style attack on software distribution rising to a level where even the source cannot be held in high confidence.

When these atrocious acts become the commonplace verbs to the infamous nouns above it is time that each and every one of us stand vigil and at the ready to come to the aid of our community members. Here's one such place where we can begin - the #AUR: https://archlinux.org/news/active-aur-malicious-packages-incident/

#tallship #FOSS #malware

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@tedu

Yup. And some time ago too, I might add. The ability to take what works so well and complicate it to the point of absurdity never ceases to amaze.

#Margaret_Hamilton put two men on the moon with 4K of memory. 8K if you're counting the additional RAM on the Columbia's #AGC.

Well if you ever figure out how to lookup your NIC-HANDLE, as they're officially called (or rather, were), I'm BT-74 👋🤠

Yeah, that goes back to the days of "Direct Assignment" when #SRI also operated under the auspices of NIC.DDN.MIL.

Welcome to the club of unhappilly disenfranchised #NIC_handles 😥

#tallship #Apollo #software_engineer #NIC #NetSol #WHOIS