I’ve been to Venezuela twice for some extended stays. First time when Chavez was still around. Second time when Maduro was a couple years in office. I can still remember listening to his radio addresses. I remember feeling the heat off the asphalt in the city, the crazy traffic, the beautiful beaches.

Looking down from the hills onto the canopy below and seeing fireworks at midnight Christmas Eve into Christmas. I knew id never be back as it was dangerous AF then (2013 last time).

We would say it was once a beautiful country but now it’s just a beautiful land.

You go to Aldi for the staples to save a ton of money. Supplement elsewhere for other things. I used to live in Chicago and there was a Trader Joe’s on top of an Aldi on the same building (same ownership in believe). It was glorious.

My daily drivers in 1994 <3

I remember in the mid 90s I was looking at Linux World’s website and they had just implemented account registrations that same day. I was fuzzing the website and they had left directory browsing enabled and the users, passwords, and email was sitting in a plain text flat file that was world readable.

I emailed them, didn’t get a response but within the hour the registration/login was disabled along with no more directory browsing.

Be sure to*

Amazon Warehouse I believe is open box and returns. It also gets confusing that marketplace sellers are mostly outside of Amazon’s control

Jewish man here. Our Rabbi left our (mostly) progressive Temple to form his own so he could be a leader in the Jewish space to advocate for Gazans/Palestinian civilians and speak out against the fascist Likuds.

I am so proud of him.

There are many of us, also inside of Israel, that condemn all genocides, including the one in Gaza.