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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

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…

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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.

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.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/117275765080108299
Anyway the last 5 or so trolling and dogpiling attempts towards me all came from beige.party so I will domain-block that server shortly.
If you’re on beige.party and want to keep following me, I would highly suggest moving servers or have an alt somewhere.

🥳 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.

Yep, summer is over. Just got a $889.30 power bill for 4.077 MWh for an effective price of $0.218/kWh.
Solar production for last month was only 0.77 MWh and it's gonna keep falling for the rest of the year.
This comes out to an average continuous consumption of about 5.66 kW. Of this, about 1.5 are accounted for by the managed PDUs on the lab IT racks, which now feed all of the servers, switches, and devkits. (Breaking down further: 334W for storage cluster, 355W for VM serve…

How Trump and Musk made the Nepal disaster worse, by glaciologist dr Heïdi Sevestre:
"What about early warning systems?"
SERVIR Hindu Kush Himalaya, a joint initiative by NASA, USAID and ICIMOD monitoring, had mapped landslide and flood hazard in these valleys since 2010.
The Trump administration’s aid freeze cut it in January 2025."
https…

I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At… | Dr. Heïdi Sevestre | 62 comments
I spent the entire summer worrying about glaciers collapsing. With the crazy temperature records everywhere I knewit was only a question of time. On August 26th, all these fears came true. At 8:37AM, Nepal time, 100 to 200 million cubic metres of rock and ice detached from the north flank of Langtang Lirung at 5200m high, the equivalent of 90 to 175 Wembley stadiums, on Mohd. Farooq Azam's estimate at ICIMOD. Dan Shugar in Calgary and Jakob Steiner in Graz find from the satellite imagery that…

In Texas governor’s race, Abbott spends big to try to stay in office
In a surprisingly competitive race,
new filings reveal that Texas Gov.
Greg Abbott (R) has spent down the majority of his war chest
in an effort to preserve his position,
while Democratic challenger
Gina Hinojosa’s fundraising has ramped up.

In a New York Times-Siena poll conducted in late September,
Hinojosa received support from
49 percent of likely voters,
ver…

In Texas governor’s race, Abbott spends big to try to stay in office
Democratic challenger Gina Hinojosa has ramped up her fundraising.