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Sun May 30 06:00:01 EDT 2021 ======================================== Slept from midnight to eight without waking. Sunny. Highs in the upper 60s. Northeast winds 5 to 10 mph becoming up to 10 mph in the late morning and afternoon. Had enough of Gnome. Spending time with CWM. Guess I'm just in a stacking mood. Sticking with my new terminal color theme for the moment (Solarized palette, Vim peachpuff, #FFD2D2 pink background, Ubunti Mono). https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/article/new-elephant-library-reveals-communication-mysteries > In 1975, 19-year-old Joyce Poole was offered the chance of a lifetime: To study elephants in Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. > Now, drawing on data and videos accumulated during decades of study in Amboseli, Kenya’s Masai Mara National Reserve, and Mozambique’s Gorongosa National Park, Poole and Granli have created the African Elephant Ethogram—the most comprehensive audiovisual library ever made of African savanna elephant behavior. > JP: I want to know what elephants are saying to each other. I know they say really complicated things, and I think they “talk” a lot about us—about humans—and how they should respond to us. They’re afraid of people in some places because of what has been done to them. For instance, in Gorongosa, because of the long civil war [from 1972 to 1992] the elephants are very frightened of and aggressive toward people. > In Gorongosa, at times elephants gave a call I’d never heard before. It was very low in frequency, flat and throbbing. I don’t have enough examples of it to say more, but I felt that it was a comment to family members about us being dangerous. And everywhere, elephants are under a lot of stress from having to listen for and monitor us all the time. https://elephantvoices.org/elephant-ethogram.html https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2021/05/the-solarwinds-hackers-arent-back-they-never-went-away/ > Russia's latest campaign is certainly worth calling out. Nobelium compromised legitimate accounts from the bulk email service Constant Contact, including that of the United States Agency for International Development. From there the hackers, reportedly members of Russia's SVR foreign intelligence agency, could send out specially crafted spear-phishing emails that genuinely came from the email accounts of the organization they were impersonating. The emails included legitimate links that then redirected to malicious Nobelium infrastructure and installed malware to take control of target devices. > Especially compared to the scope and sophistication of the SolarWinds breach, a widespread phishing campaign feels almost like a downshift. It's also important to remember that the impacts of SolarWinds remain ongoing; even after months of publicity about the incident, it's likely that Nobelium still haunts at least some of the systems it compromised during that effort. > “I’m sure that they’ve still got accesses in some places from the SolarWinds campaign,” FireEye’s Hultquist says. “The main thrust of the activity has been diminished, but they’re very likely lingering on in several places.” Worked on Torch & Sword a bit. Watched episodes of Rose and Maloney. Phil Davis is alwasy great. Servings: grains 8/6, fruit 1/4, vegetables 2/4, dairy 4/2, meat 3/3, nuts 0/0.5 Brunch: macaroni and cheese with sausage and broccoli Afternoon snack: cheese curls Dinner: banana, green tea, two hot dogs, carrots

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