@HenryAWallace
liked the Arabic musical influences and nuances in Spanish music, as well as the Gypsy/Romani inclusions and influences. So, thanks again for the great testimonial to the US getting partially out of Cuba.

Bilk's birth name was Bernard Stanley Bilk. Acker is a nickname. I checked because I had trouble imagining who would name their son "Acker.

I don't know if any of the songs on this album go back as far as 1909, but, what the heck.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_0NWwAslbi8]

In Cuban music, we can echoes of Spanish music and, in Spanish music, we can hear echoes of Arabic music.

I hope those lab tests go well for you, el.

@The Aspie Corner
I'll have to watch the video a bit later once I'm a bit more squared away here.

[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98pBLXe7Bmk]

@detroitmechworks
writing too. Have a great day.

I've noticed that when I don't write, I get depressed.

It's not always the best stuff, but it's always something, and I have to remember that something is better than nothing, because nothing I can do any day.

Those that say that nothing is better, don't do anything anyway.

@Lookout @Lookout
encryption that provides a negligible level of security except that it forces snoops to take the trouble to decrypt it. If we all littered our communications with such, it just might wear the bastids out.

If you plug that text into the "cyphertext" box at: https://cryptii.com/pipes/rot13-decoder

the plaintext box will read:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

Thanks for the lesson in speaking in tongues all the same.

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(2.7 min lesson)
[video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt0tKyBDqcc]

@eyo

In another comment I confused breaches, because it rhymes with sneetches. That's my excuse. heh
Double exposure: 24 million loan records also exposed on open Amazon S3 bucket

The original mortgage and credit documents involved in the 24 million Elasticsearch data breach that was revealed earlier this week also have been found residing in an open Amazon S3 bucket by the cyber researcher behind the original discovery.

Bob Diachenko told TechCrunch, which worked with him on the original investigation, that more digging was done after hearing from Ascension Data & Analytics that the original breach was actually the fault of its vendor OpticsML. Diachenko then found open to the public an S3 server containing 21 files with 23,000 pages of PDFs, TechCrunch reported.

Unlike the documents found on Elasticsearch, these were the original bank documents on which the exposed Elasticsearch data was based. These included W-2 forms and others needed to obtain loans, TechCrunch said.

chop chop

The Dark Side of the Kremlin collection was taken off archive.org already.
Also Russia has its “WikiLeaks” earthquake, and could be worst than US one

Russia has its “WikiLeaks”: it’s called Distributed Denial of Secrets (DDOS), and it’s an activists site recently born. It has published a compilation of hundreds of thousands of hacked emails and gigabytes of leaked documents.

Inside it, there are emails, Skype and Facebook messages, along with lots of files by politicians, journalists, bankers, oligarchs, religious figures, nationalists and separatists. Hacker groups like Shaltai Boltai, Ukrainian Cyber Alliance, and CyberHunta have been penetrating and exposing Russian secrets for years. Then, DDOS started publishing batches of archives until arriving to the Russia Collection

Obviously the Kremlin denounced the leak as a fake, but several independent forensics examiners analyzed the collection and agreed the files were real. Moreover, the big archive could not be the only one. DDOS posted on it’s Twitter page that “We’ll be responding to messages and issuing an update ASAP. (A lot’s happening)”.

https://twitter.com/DDoSecrets/status/1088768450460336136
mir

@smiley7
ASAP, and have a gret one.

your daily wit, thought of you enjoying the Mexican sea.

Not much on the local front; still taking antibiotics and suffering cabin fever. I look like a grisly bear as i haven't shaved or had a haircut in weeks, but on the positive side, i think this drug is working; most likely fighting a pneumonia bug of some kind.

Hoping you a great afternoon and evening.