#Meaning

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2025-12-11

Is this "HackerOne" site, StackOverflow/StackExchange for security hackers?? Maybe not... but it has reputation and a users' leader-board! It is a #tech "developer" platform. The X.com security team uses it - help.x.com/en/rules-and-polici - I re-posted this from there.

#security #research , #hacking #cybersecurity , #safe #internet
hackerone.com/leaderboard?year

... and a screenshot image to help people know, not all computer users with advanced skills ("hackers") are crackers! (people who hack system or network security weaknesses). Not to be confused with Hacker culture ["cyber-rights" activism - Free and Open Source Software and open-source freely used hardware design]. #foss #open #culture , #system

Some people also have written that security hacking is a spectrum of classifications: white hat ethical testers, black hat malicious people, grey hat defect notifiers, skilled "elite" hackers, "script (s)kiddie" hacking tool low-skilled people, "neophyte" newbie people without much knowledge, "blue hat" system bug-testers.
#spectrum #ethical #tools , #digitaltools , #definition of #meaning

Wikipedia, Tuesday 5th of March 2024 screenshot, 6 cite references: A security hacker [or researcher] is someone who explores methods for breaching [or bypassing] defenses and exploiting weaknesses in a computer system or network. Hackers may be motivated by a multitude of reasons, such as profit, protest, [sabotage,] information gathering, challenge, recreation, or evaluation of system weaknesses to assist in formulating defenses against [other] potential hackers. Longstanding controversy surrounds the meaning of the term "hacker". In this controversy, computer programmers reclaim the term hacker, arguing that it refers simply to someone with an advanced understanding of computers and computer networks and that cracker is the more appropriate term for those who break into computers, whether computer criminals (black hats) or computer security experts (white hats). [...] Not to be confused with "Hacker" or "Hacker culture".
Ron PiggottRon_Piggott
2025-12-11

Thought Of The Day #42: One of the challenges in life is finding a sense of satisfaction in life while still maintaining the ability to be happy for others. [ December 11th 2025 ] rons-home.net/en/living-life-l

”Modern civilization has learned to value only what can be measured, predicted, and controlled. …nature appears as mere stuff, …while value and meaning are reduced to the private property of (an increasingly privileged few) individual human subjects. The result is … a world where nature, along with poor and working people, is thought to have … only instrumental use-value.”
—Matthew Segall, Romantic Imagination and the Recovery of Nature’s Intrinsic Value
#value #meaning #property #control #utility
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2025-12-10

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2025-12-09

Will You Change Your Life Tomorrow, The Quiet-Part 3

Part-2: https://wp.me/p84YjG-9YE

Will You Change Your Life Tomorrow

After reading the first part and the second part, the question becomes simple. If tomorrow arrived with a clean slate, would you change how you live? Not someday. Not when things calm down. Tomorrow.

Most people say yes. Then they wait. They keep routines that drain them. They keep people who hurt them. They keep silence where truth should be. They tell themselves they need more time. They do not. They need courage.

What stops you from changing now?

You know the answer. It is not a lack of information. It is not a lack of opportunity. It is the fear of discomfort. Changing your life means breaking habits that feel safe, even when they hurt you. It means facing conversations you avoided for years. It means leaving roles that made you small.

You can name exactly what you should do. You can feel the truth sitting in your chest. You still delay it.

What you already know but avoid

You know who you should call

You know which apology you owe

You know what you should stop doing

You know who drains you

You know who you failed to appreciate

You know the version of yourself you want to grow into

None of this is a mystery. The only mystery is why you wait for a crisis to act on it.

The cost of waiting

Waiting costs you years. It costs you a connection. It costs you health. It costs you the life you could have lived if you stopped carrying the same old fear.

Regret grows in silence. It grows in the gap between who you are and who you know you should be. That gap does not close by accident. It closes when you stop postponing the changes that matter.

One choice you can make today

If you were to change your life tomorrow, you can change one part of it today. You do not need a dramatic shift. You need one action that proves you are not trapped in the same cycle.

Send the message

Make the call

End the habit

Start the habit

Tell the truth

Ask the question

Let someone in

Act like you already used up your first life and woke up with a second. Because in a way, you did. Every morning is the return you keep overlooking.

If tomorrow were guaranteed as a fresh start, what would you do differently? And if you can name it, why not start it now?

#change #meaning #purpose #regret #secondchance #ZsoltZsemba

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2025-12-09

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2025-12-08

Second Chance After the Quiet- Part 2

Part-1: https://wp.me/p84YjG-9YD

What a second chance forces you to face

Picture this. You die. You see your life with perfect clarity. Then you wake up again in your own bed with a second chance. No warning. No explanation. Just another shot.

The shock would hit fast. The details of your days would look smaller. Your excuses would feel thin. You would see how much time you gave to things that never fed you.

What a second chance forces you to face

You would notice who you hurt by staying silent. You would notice who you ignored while chasing goals that never mattered. You would see how often fear guided your choices. Fear of being rejected. Fear of looking weak. Fear of being honest.

A second chance strips away that fear. You know how the story ends. You know what you lost. You know what you wasted. It turns your priorities into simple truths.

What would you change first

You would pick up the phone. You would fix one relationship instead of letting pride win. You would set healthier boundaries at work so you stop trading your life for tasks that mean nothing. You would speak your feelings without waiting for the perfect moment that never comes.

You would protect your health. You would sleep more. You would stop numbing yourself with habits that stole years.

You would choose presence. Real presence.

Why does regret feel different the second time

Regret hits harder when you return aware of every moment you misused. It is not sadness. It is clarity. You remember the exact faces that needed you. You remember the exact words you failed to say. You remember the chances to be kind that you let pass.

The pain is sharp because you know you can change it now.

How to use this second chance today

Act like you already died once. Treat today as the unexpected return.

Tell the truth you hid.

Ask for help.

Repair one strained connection.

Say I love you without waiting for safety.

Give attention to the people who showed up for you.

Release grudges that kept you stuck.

Build habits that make you feel alive.

You do not need a near-death moment to live with this urgency. You only need to decide that the second chance starts now.

If you got it, what would you change first?

#lifelessons #meaning #purpose #regret #secondchance #ZsoltZsemba

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2025-12-08

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2025-12-07

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2025-12-06

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2025-12-06
The things we say don’t only convey what we mean to communicate, they also convey things we don’t even know we’re saying. I dive into some language to try to make sense of THAT can of worms. http://www.martinbihl.com/business-thinking/you-know-i-mean #language #meaning #discoursemarkers
Martin Bihlmartinbihl
2025-12-06

The things we say don’t only convey what we mean to communicate, they also convey things we don’t even know we’re saying. I dive into some language to try to make sense of THAT can of worms. martinbihl.com/business-thinki

WIST Quotationswist@my-place.social
2025-12-05

A quotation from Ursula K. Le Guin

It’s like all the time I was working keeping house and raising the kids and making love and earning our keep I thought there was going to come a time or there would be some place where all of it came together. Like it was words I was saying, all my life, all the kinds of work, just a word here and a word there, but finally all the words would make a sentence, and I could read the sentence. I would have made my soul and know what it was for. But I have made my soul and I don’t know what to do with it. Who wants it?

Ursula K. Le Guin (1929-2018) American writer
Story (1995-11), “Ether, OR,” Isaac Asimov’s Science Fiction, Vol. 19

More about this quote: wist.info/leguin-ursula-k/8061…

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #ursulaleguin #ursulakleguin #gettingold #growingold #meaning #meaningoflife #memory #oldage #retrospect #selfactualization #soul

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2025-12-05

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2025-12-02

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