The ToleranUX page is chock full of exaggerated portrayals of feminism, both in describing the project's inspirations and in trying to apply fake feminist philosophy to the nuts and bolts of Linux development. (To wit: "ToleranUX is created to revolutionize the Toxic Meritocracy that permeates the FLOSS world that has proved itself to be the crux of divisiveness, the cause of the gender imbalance in IT, and the bane of True Equality.") We've picked a few of the page's most mocking sections to illustrate the fake project's viewpoint.
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Without any official group taking responsibility for this page, and with imageboard screengrabs showing jokes about its creation, we believe FSF is as much of a mean-spirited joke as media critic Shanley Kane says it is.
It may be mean-spirited, and I may even agree with some of Ms. Kane's goals, but honestly this is one of the funniest things I have read in a long long time. Last night on Facebook I posted a link to Valleywag's take. It was just a tad angrier but I couldn't quite tell at who -
Valleywag - Now Some Assholes Are Taunting The Pro-Diversity People -
It is a nasty anti-female rip on people like ModelViewCulture co-founder and CEO Shanley Kane who have been criticizing Linux for being a boy's club. I honestly don't know why anyone, male or female, wants to belong to the Linux community, but maybe the issue is just that when some group, any group, says certain people aren't welcome, that's bound to piss people off.Is he made at the Linux community, the people who made the site, #gamergate or just everyone in general?
Dark Reading - A Lot of Security Purchases Remain Shelfware -
Companies may be investing more in security, but many are either underutilizing their new purchases or not using them at all, an Osterman Research survey shows.
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Osterman surveyed 172 small, midsized, and large enterprises from multiple industries and found this to be true with at least 30% of the respondents. In some companies, survey respondents said nearly 30% of all new security investments were not being used at all or were underutilized. One company surveyed said 60% of its security software was shelfware.
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The most common causes for shelfware were all tied to a lack of IT resources, Shaul said. When asked to identify why they were not using their security controls more fully, respondents blamed IT for not setting aside enough time to implement security software properly. They also blamed the situation on a lack of people and an insufficient understanding of some security tools within IT.
I can empathize, but the problem goes deeper in my opinion. The products are too damn complex and in most cases poorly designed so there is a huge learning curve and no time for it so you get it up and running as best you can and pray. Then later when something fails the company may kick up some money for training or a consultant but at that point you are throwing good money after bad. My philosophy is that if a reasonable person (me) with a reasonable amount of knowledge (again me) can't sit down and look at your product for 5 minutes and have a basic - BASIC- understanding of how it works and how to configure it then it is too fucking complicated and poorly designed. I am not saying I should be able to master it at that point but I shouldn't have to read an 832 page manual or watch 27 videos to be able to get a basic configuration up and running. Also companies need to quit hiding their training behind paywalls
Gizmodo - The NSA Saw Signs That the Sony Hacks Were Coming -
When the FBI blamed North Korea for the Sony Pictures hacks, some wondered how that finding had been made so quickly. Now, new interviews and documents reveal that the NSA had tapped into North Korean networks years before the attacks, and saw indications that such an attack may be imminent.And once again when something appears in the news there is a convenient new Snowden document that just happens to be on point and links the NSA to whatever nefarious activity is occurring that day, and in a way that makes them look incompetent.
The New Yorker - Pets Allowed -
An alpaca looks so much like a big stuffed animal that if you walked around F.A.O. Schwarz with one nobody would notice. What if you tried to buy a ticket for one on an Amtrak train? The alpaca in question was four and a half feet tall, weighed a hundred and five pounds, and had a Don King haircut. My mission: to take her on a train trip from Hudson, New York, to Niagara Falls.
“Ma’am, you can’t take that,” a ticket agent at the Hudson station drawled, in the casual manner in which you might say, “No flip-flops on the tennis court.”
“It’s a therapy animal. I have a letter.”
“O.K.,” she said flatly. “That’s a first.”I honestly don't really know what to say.
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