Here are the PDF slides from the talk I gave on Saturday, August 2 at the amazing and wonderful FOSSY Conference in Portland, Oregon.
Decentralized Project Management
It was definitely worth it for me to drive two hours and stay at a hotel, just to be there! Will update this post when streaming video is available.
And by the way, this goes for (Multi Factor Authentication) MFA as well as 2FA.
So many reasons, honestly… should I just start with the obvious?
Truthfully, I do not even wish to discuss it. It is such a gigantic, gaping, and obvious blind spot that it has implications for national security. As in, this information probably should not be on a site accessible to all nations who participate in the ICANN protocol. Which are those nations?
Don’t have the list right in front of me. Not that important.
Keep your vulnerabilities hidden.
The thing about probiotics is that they are very popular right now, and also very heavily marketed. You see them on the labels of everything from soft drinks to cereal. I kid you not!
I do have some concerns that not all probiotics are as safe as people are led to believe. Everyone has a different immune system and a different digestive profile. It’s impossible to know how food allergies play out on the microbial scale.
More to the point, a little known fact is that probiotics can affect appetite and weight. I’m not saying that they are a substitute for the new anti-weight loss drugs–and please don’t use them that way–but I have noticed some effects. To many these would be welcome, but I happen to have a positive body image so I found it more than a bit perturbing. More to the point, there might in fact be some danger here. Especially for people who don’t have a lot of food in the house, whether due to food security issues — despite all the jokes about fat Americans, hunger is far more prevalent in this country than people realize — or because when you are sick, it is difficult and expensive to shop for yourself.
As far as what I came down with at the beginning of the year, I’m still not sure that my current diagnosis (chronic sinusitis) conveys the full picture. I don’t think it’s bird flu, although it does fit the symptom list. It is almost certainly a bacterial infection. I say this because getting prescribed antibiotics at the beginning of April made a huge difference in my health. I still had to be on them for over a month. The good news is that as of my last doctor’s visit, I was told that I did not need to quarantine or social distance. That is a huge and welcome change.
Just kidding. I feel slightly sheepish actually hawking a product so blatantly.
Southern Cross, by Tess Gadwa: True stories of miracles, visions, voodoo, snake handling, civil disobedience, and my search for existential answers along the back roads of the Bible Belt.
I’m going to add the link here for the free PDF download of Southern Cross, the book I researched and wrote whilst a bored housewife seeking truth and meaning in the Bible Belt. You can also buy a copy on Amazon (Kindle or print). The free version of the book is older and less edited — I’m sure it has a lot of typos. It also has some of the original line drawings that accompanied the project.
You don’t need to sign up for a mailing list to download it. No strings attached whatsoever.
I need to emphasize that this book was written for Christians seeking to find common ground with other Christians. If you are not Christian and are seeking the right spiritual home, please know that finding “a good church” can be difficult. I left organized religion about 12 years ago. I sort of know what the right faith community would look like for me and it would be a place without walls, paid staff, or dogma. Built on friendship, good intention, and mutual support.