by Greg Scott | May 31, 2021 | Cybersecurity, Slice of Life
It seems my comments in the April 30, 2021 The Verge story about the Linux kernel banning the University of Minnesota made some anonymous knucklehead mad enough to send me hate mail via my website. The author went to great pains to stay hidden. Congratulations. Nobody...
by Greg Scott | Nov 3, 2020 | Slice of Life
10 AM Monday morning, Nov. 2, 2020. We, the people waiting to vote at the lower level of the Eagan, MN. City Hall. Based on my experience, the last person in this line would have waited around 90 minutes. After voting back in 2012, I commented about the peaceful...
by Greg Scott | Aug 25, 2020 | Slice of Life
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; Warren K. Leffler (digital file: cph ppmsca 03128)https://www.britannica.com/topic/civil-rights#/media/1/119317/123264 Long before the Black Lives Matter movement, Civil rights was the popular phrase in the 1960s. And just like...
by Greg Scott | Aug 5, 2020 | Slice of Life
Writing a blog post about social media mobs is bound to make people mad. But we’re tearing ourselves apart and somebody needs to call it out. May as well be me. Let’s start with COVID-19. Forget the epidemiologists who say it started in that meat market in...
by Greg Scott | May 30, 2020 | Slice of Life
A protestor takes a picture of a demonstration from the roof of the Minneapolis 3rd Police Precinct, Thursday, May 28, 2020, in Minneapolis. Protests over the death of George Floyd, a black man who died in police custody Monday, broke out in Minneapolis for a third...
by Greg Scott | May 23, 2020 | Slice of Life, Technology
If I catch COVID-19, somebody needs to contact everyone I’ve contacted over the prior couple weeks so they can take appropriate action. This is called contact tracing, and we have 21st century technology to help. As we emerge from our global pandemic shelters, I...
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