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Every Surprise Standout From Dallas Cowboys' Preseason Week 1 Win https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/every-surprise-standout-from-dallas-cowboys-preseason-week-1-win

Two truths and a lie: Ben Johnson is the new Bill Walsh, while John Harbaugh has revived the Giants https://www.nfl.com/news/two-truths-and-a-lie-ben-johnson-is-the-new-bill-walsh-while-john-harbaugh-has-revived-the-giants

This is obviously (to put it extremely mildly) a very disappointing event. However, it is NOT at all surprising. AI companies, and their leaders, have shown us time and time again that they are willing to do whatever it takes to further their own interests and desires. This is obviously much bigger than the mathematical community. The number of communities ruined and people displaced by the construction of data centers, the environmental tolls caused as a result of huge energy ex…

Trump’s administration is suspected of withholding intelligence from Ukraine on incoming Russian ballistic missile strikes,
and of throttling Starshield, the military version of the Starlink satellite internet network, to prevent it from being used on drones flying faster than 100mph.
Neither has officially been confirmed.

Starlink access still not fully restored for Ukraine’s military, says Zelenskyy
Ukrainian president says US limiting access was a ‘dangerous and unpleasant surprise’, amid reports the order came from inside White House

The new Twitter successor "Tweet" is up (no affiliation with the old one, or he-who-must-not-be-named).
#netthierankhmorpork

A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease #environment

A plastic once thought harmless may be fueling fatty liver disease
One of the world's most common plastics may pose a hidden threat to liver health. Texas A&M researchers discovered that polyethylene microplastics can contribute to fatty liver disease, with potentially worse effects when combined with an unhealthy diet. Even more surprising, this widely used plastic was previously considered relatively harmless.

➡️ www.marginalia.nu
#bookmarks

Coming up to my 4 year anniversary on Mastodon (28 Oct 2022). Sitting & feeling that I've never been comfy here. I don't hold any anti-Fedi views, I don't prefer corporate social media, but this still isn't *home*.
I know I'm quieter than advisable on social media. Should I push myself to be more outgoing?
I sometimes look at other servers (instances) that seem more mutually supportive ... beige.party & corteximplant.com, maybe also wandering.shop come to mind.
Would I be happier elsewhere?
Or do I just know some of the more prominent members, so the support I see is just popularity?
Or should I move to where my interests lie, a gamedev-focused server?
I'm still sad mastodon.lol closed ...

Had a bit of an unpleasant surprise on Saturday. Luckily the disk is still in warranty, and UPS picked it up this morning. Let's see how well Toshiba's RMA process performs.
No smart warnings or other signs, though, it just fell off the bus, started making weird noises and never came back. And it's the newest of the 4 disks in my NAS, too. Really glad I bought this model from two different vendors now to avoid clustering risks.

🥳 Just released: Auto Encrypt¹ version 6.2.0
If at first you don’t succeed…
• Transient ACME server failures are now retried up to four times and obey the Retry-After header, falling back to exponential back-off if one isn’t provided.
• Vastly improved error handling.
• Some bug fixes.
Basically, Auto Encrypt now does its very best to provision you that certificate even when things go wrong.
Full change log:

auto-encrypt/CHANGELOG.md at main
auto-encrypt - Automatically-provisioned TLS certificates for Node.js servers using Let’s Encrypt.