@Techmeme@techhub.socialA US judge sentences ex-Amazon security engineer Shakeeb Ahmed to three years in prison for stealing $12.3M from Nirvana and another crypto exchange in 2022 (Chris Dolmetsch/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@benb@osintua.euUkraine-UNESCO: 70 years together: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/13/ukraineunesco-years-together.html
@servelan@newsie.social4 years ago today: Trump claims 'ultimate' and 'total' authority
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/4/13/2234910/-4-years-ago-today-Trump-claims-ultimate-and-total-authority
@luca@social.luca.runAfter two years and three months my Backspin Popsocket broke.
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoI'm 65 years old today.
In the olden days, you retired at this age.
Not me. I'm just starting! (-;
Every day on my birthday, I have my first swim of the year - a 30-year tradition. Some years, it's been in snow or ice; in other years, it's been sunny and warm.
And this morning at 525AM, it was dark and rainy but glorious. I've arrived here in pretty good shape!
@losttourist@social.chatty.monsterFifty years young, Waterloo is still a banger.
Not sure about the girls in the audience moshing to it, though! #TOTP
@memeorandum@universeodon.comHow 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage Changed America (Molly Ball/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-20-years-of-same-sex-marriage-changed-america-670758bd
http://www.memeorandum.com/240513/p4#a240513p4
@selea@social.linux.pizzaStolen from Slashdot:
"AI is a marketing term. Like 3D was 20 years ago, and 32-bit was 30 years ago. Everything is AI because if it isn't, it's no longer sexy."
@ErikUden@mastodon.deOn this day two years ago, three weeks into the invasion of Ukraine, I have sent the result of a multiple month long investigation in a data carrier containing recently leaked documents by the Russian government backed hacking group "Free Civilian", and information about them, to the Ukrainian embassy of Germany after being advised to do so in various phone calls with them.
My files also contained the IP addresses of the hacking group I gathered from TOX, their onion, and later their…
@nemobis@mamot.frMy desktop PC's CPU/APU soon turns 10. Can I reduce my energy use with a new one? Turns out, probably not.
I'm only ever starved for CPU when Thunderbird is busy.
A newer APU has about twice the single-threaded speed for the same TDP of 65 W (downclockable to 45 W), for an upfront cost about 50 % higher than in 2015. It makes sense if I can save an average of 10 W for 10 years. I'd confirm with plug-in power meter over a few days.
Will the shop accept my returns…
@wmclark@publishing.socialA century of monochrome magic – in pictures | Art and design | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/13/a-century-of-monochrome-magic-in-pictures
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSquare Enix falls 16%, the biggest decline in 13 years, after President Takashi Kiryu said sales of its big-budget games, exclusive to PlayStation, fell short (Takashi Mochizuki/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20
@privacity@social.linux.pizzaIRCB S73-7 Satellite Found After Going Untracked For 25 Years
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-8068bff6-368cffc897e12cf2
IRCB S73-7 Satellite Found After Going Untracked For 25 Years When the United States launched the KH-9 Hexagon spy satelli…
@poppastring@dotnet.socialIf "they" are 6 light years away, and it takes 400 years to get here how fast are "they" going?
#3bodyproblem
@knurd42@social.linux.pizza"'"A four-day forecast today is as accurate as a one-day forecast 30 years ago."'"
https://ourworldindata.org/weather-forecasts
@scott@social.linux.pizzaa real good overview of the state of COVID and the human response
https://erictopol.substack.com/p/covid-4-years-on
@kcarruthers@mastodon.socialOh goody! Could Donald Trump cause a market collapse? It might really happen: “I was a market-beating money manager for 15 years — and I anticipate a massive market crash under Trump 2.0”
https://www.salon.com/2024/04/14/could-donald-c…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyBanking to Green - Becoming an Energy Efficiency Nerd (2017) - Learn how I got from Lehman Brothers investment banking IT to solar PV and storage bothering, 10 years in... #lifeStory #optimisation -
@theendupdates@podvibes.coTorchwood: Missing Molly - complete series 👧🏼🔄🕰️
Dramatized scifi thriller | Total listening time: 1h 12m
Molly went missing from the estate 12 years ago. Ianto remembers it because he lived just round the corner. Only, Molly’s come back. Ianto’s just as interested as her parents in what happened to her.
#AudioFiction
@shriramk@mastodon.socialBREAKING NEWS!!! For only the second time in 24 years, I found that I needed a book from the science library at Brown. (This is like the fifth or sixth time I've been in there.)
@rae@bne.socialI've been following this story for a while. Oddly interesting yarn since it's been about 100 years since there was movement of a state border.
Housing development that could house 30,000 people may see NSW-ACT border moved - ABC News https://www.abc…
@seeingwithsound@mas.toOn #AR/#VR/#XR: No one really knows how the next ten years are going to play out https://skarredghost.com/2024/03/10/predictions-vr-10-years/ "Always ask yourself how you can…
@rasterweb@mastodon.socialAlso yesterday, while people were mocking gender reveal parties...
Family Member: "What's the point of it anyway? It's either going to be a boy or a girl."
Me: "Well, actually..."
Me: "Gender is not binary, it's fluid, and you might not even know the gender your child identifies with for years or decades after their birth, if they even feel comfortable talking to you about it..."
(I am the "crazy uncle" but so far le…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzShort video celebration of (a mere fraction of) the large optical telescopes in Chile: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ge4wHmmzk-M - five years ago I visited (or saw from a distance) quite a number of them as documented in https://bonnstern.wordpress.com/2019/09/12/sternwarten-in-chile-vlt-elt-alma and https://bonnstern.wordpress.com/2019/09/14/sternwarten-in-chile-las-campanas-la-silla-cerro-tololo-cerro-pachon
@MediaActivist@todon.euExperts demand safe routes to UK after 400 people die at the border https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/beyond-trafficking-and-slavery/migrants-cross-channel-small-boats-deaths-border-need-safe-routes…
@seav@en.osm.town
@vrandecic@mas.toGreat story about how YouTube helped with moving away from IE6.
"Our most renegade web developer, an otherwise soft-spoken Croatian guy, insisted on checking in the code under his name, as a badge of personal honor, and the rest of us leveraged our OldTuber status to approve the code review."
I swear that wasn't me. Although I would have loved to do it.
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoI'm 65 years old today.
In the olden days, you retired at this age.
Not me. I'm just starting! (-;
Every day on my birthday, I have my first swim of the year - a 30-year tradition. Some years, it's been in snow or ice; in other years, it's been sunny and warm.
And this morning at 525AM, it was dark and rainy but glorious. I've arrived here in pretty good shape!
@KingShawn@mastodon.social“Digital photo manipulation is now mainstream”
“Now”? Pull your head out of your ass, AP. It’s been mainstream for 20 years.
https://apnews.com/article/photos-technology-filters-manipulation-princess-kate-183d…
@wraithe@mastodon.social5 years and still kickin’ https://fedi.lynnesbian.space/@lynnesbian/101418079532140692
@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.pageFrom Files to Streams: Revisiting Web History and Exploring Potentials for Future Prospects
Lucas Vogel, Thomas Springer, Matthias W\"ahlisch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07828
@ripienaar@devco.socialBoo but its my choice what I install on my phone. Yes also my choice to buy into a closed eco system which have resulted in me having zero worries about virii etc for 20 years for me and the 6 people I buy phones for.
@arXiv_astrophHE_bot@mastoxiv.pageHigh-cadence Timing of Binary Pulsars with CHIME
Chia Min Tan, Emmanuel Fonseca, Kathryn Crowter, Fengqiu Adam Dong, Victoria M. Kaspi, Kiyoshi W. Masui, James W. McKee, Bradley W. Meyers, Scott M. Ransom, Ingrid H. Stairs
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.08188
@jswright61@ruby.socialI have been using computers for 50 years, coding for 45 (10 professionally over that span), and coding Ruby for 10. I would rate myself as an accomplished hack - I get stuff done, not always the most elegant or efficient way, but it works.
I’ve found @…’s video tutorials to be very useful and insigthful:
@davej@dice.camp#Hobart just endured its #hottest night since 1912—with a low #temperature of 24.3℃:
@hex@strangeobject.spaceBoris Johnson spent £350m of London money on Thomas Heatherwick-designed buses with aircon that didn't work (needing £3m of retrofitted windows) and back doors that now never open. Now they're being taken off the street. A classic addition to his legacy
https://www.timeout.com/london/news/londons-boris-buses-are-being-taken-off-the-streets-after-just-12-years-051224
@al3x@hachyderm.ioVery nice story! Can you imagine how the speaker felt?!?! https://mastodon.social/@stuartmarks/112256769090630624
@leodurruti@puntarella.partyCioè, gli Uncle Acid & The Deadbeats tornano con un nuovo disco dopo sei anni di silenzio e cos'è? La colonna sonora di un immaginario film poliziottesco/giallo italiano degli anni Settanta con dialoghi originali di Edwige Fenech e Franco Nero :0520:
Mannaggia alle fisse
http…
@primonatura@mstdn.social
@AimeeMaroux@mastodon.social#WritersCoffeeClub 10 March: Do you want to write full time or are you happy for it to be a hobby?
I did it full time for a while, then had to get back into employment because the rates were just too fucking low. I worked towards going back to writing full time for a few years but Twitter was my most important platform and now my reach is gone so I can kiss that goal goodbye.
@wyliesau@noauthority.social10 years 🫣
@benb@osintua.euMunich Security Conference – Key Takeaways from Ukrainian MPs The annual security conference in Munich has become one of the most intense in recent years because, in the 3rd year of Russia’s full-scal Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ukraine-in-flames-582
@BBC2MusicBot@mastodonapp.uk🔊 #NowPlaying on #BBCRadio2:
#VernonKay
- Neil Finn chooses his Tracks Of My Years
Crowded House frontman Neil Finn chooses Tracks Of My Years all this week with Vernon.
Relisten now 👇
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001yzb7
@cdarwin@c.im
@tokensane@mastodon.me.ukThe darker side of being a doctor.
https://drericlevi.substack.com/p/the-darker-side-of-being-a-doctor
@kennysmith@mstdn.social"Debate has raged for years over more revealing outfits for women Olympians in disciplines from beach volleyball to gymnastics, and some rules on competition wear are changing."
For more on this, we go to renowned sports media scholar @… ...
#ESPN
@publicvoit@graz.social
@kctipton@mas.toNearly one in four Americans believe political violence justified to ‘save’ US
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/oct/25/us-political-violence-justified-survey
@sofia@chaos.socialthinking about the rise in authoritarianism in the hast 10-15 years again, and just what is actually happening in people's minds.
and part of it seems that people seem just more willing to assume that government can or will solve their problems.
like as silly and unhelpful the whole rugged-individualism-american-dream-bootstraps ideology may be, it's probably better than praying to the violence fairy to make everything right for you.
@roland@devdilettante.comi love the game of ice hockey! i played it for 10 years. But i really dislike the business of the NHL: B*ttman, the fighting (ban fighting and contact in general), the officiating; call all the penalties i don't care if that means special teams all night!
@burger_jaap@mastodon.social📷#OTD 10 years ago I visited the ruins of the Dutch pavilion on the Expo 2000 site in Hanover🇩🇪. I remember visiting Expo 2000 twice (on the then brand-new DB ICE trains from the Netherlands). This building by MVRDV architects, representing stacked landscapes and dealing with limited space, stood out for its optimistic view of tackling climate change (consequences), with the Dutch - real or not - pr…
@carstingaxion@dewp.spaceWhat are the #RSS feeds you regularly read and have subscribed to for years, even the content is 90% crap?
One of mine is
https://wordpress.org/plugins/browse/new/
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineI'd like to thank #DHL for bringing me back to 15 years ago, when every package was a new adventure in "Will it take 5 days or 20? Will I even ever receive my package"
It's great to feel young again!
@laf0rge@chaos.socialshort video clip on 125 years of TELENORMA (historical German telecommunications manufacturer): #retronetworking
@carl@heath.socialThis is very problematic. Alarming data from 1979 to 2024 shows sea surface temperatures reaching historic highs. Recent years have shattered all previous records, indicating a dire escalation in our climate crisis. This threatens vital marine ecosystems and our global climate stability. We need leadership in action now.
#ClimateCrisis
@anders@mastodon.cyborch.comI saw this episode and he started out funny but at some point he just became too cringe.
I think Conan may have peaked 10 years ago.
At this point I’m wondering what cocktail of drugs he was on when he was in Hot Ones. His eyes were red like he just aimed a lot but he was hyper like he’d had quite a few uppers.
From: @…
@yaxu@post.lurk.org"the biggest 6-month fall in NHS waiting lists in over 10 years" say the Tories. This is plain untrue, and the graphs are the clearest demonstration of how voting does actually matter. This stuff is killing us
@servelan@newsie.socialSorry, folks (I'm in WA)
Maria Cantwell wants a privacy law. She’s been one of its biggest obstacles. - The Washington Post
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/04/13/congress-maria-cantwell-online-privacy/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialGerman companies are increasingly experimenting with AI tools to become more productive and efficient, but some say the gains AI promises could be years away (Nina Kienle/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.…
@malwaremedusa@social.linux.pizzaAlso, we're the closest to nuclear war than we've been since the 1960s, the worst genocide since the 20th century is underway, we just had the first pandemic since 1915, and the global economy has crashed almost as hard as it did in the 1930s 2 times in the last 16 years.
@arXiv_hepex_bot@mastoxiv.page
@albatrossity@lor.shMy weekly photo-essay at the Balloon Juice site.
https://balloon-juice.com/2024/03/11/on-the-road-albatrossity-westward-2015-week-1/
@soc_i_ety@mstdn.caAfter 8 years in power, what is Justin Trudeau’s legacy — and how will he cement it?
https://theconversation.com/after-8-years-in-power-what-is-justin-trudeaus-legacy-and-how-will-he-cement-it-217639
@anildash@me.dmOn this night 15 years ago, I was on my way to Prince’s Oscars party — thanks to having asked him for a “purple raincheck” when I wasn’t able to take him up on an invitation to go to his house. Here’s the absurd story of how it all went down, complete with getting the chance to walk the purple carpet. https://
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.ioRemember 10 years ago when the tech industry promised we’ll “3D print everything from food to houses”?
Now think about the promises about AI.
@gray17@mastodon.socialOne of my reliable turnons is the idea of torturing someone until they're terrified of me. This desire is extremely dissonant with my sense of self.
When desires like that emerged during puberty, it made my teen years miserable with self-hate. It took a long time to get to where I am now, where these desires are just oddities in the museum of me
(continued at retrospring)
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energyAfter 123 years of measurements at the Netherlands' main meteorological station De Bilt, the past three days all feature in the top-10 of the warmest days in the first part of April, as #1, #3, and #10 out of 1238. Pretty extreme.
@jae@mastodon.me.ukBrady Bunch missed a moment.
Jan: Boys, who needs them?
Marsha: I guess we do if we are ever going to get married.
If only this had been years later, Marsha could’ve been a lesbian icon in that moment!
@tezoatlipoca@mas.toOk well, #hardboiling two #Eggs in the #microwave in a mug of water will leave u with zero eggs and a microwave to clean, good to know, good to know.
In my years of cooking I'd never thought of trying that. News; it&…
@hllizi@hespere.deNo idea, does pgp.mit.edu still reside on an old 386 that has never even been dusted after it was started a million years ago?
@arXiv_csCV_bot@mastoxiv.pageThis https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.06056 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCV_…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzTHE ANCIENT EGYPTIAN PERSONIFICATION OF THE MILKY WAY AS THE SKY-GODDESS #NUT - AN ASTRONOMICAL AND CROSS-CULTURAL ANALYSIS: #Egyptians May Have Seen the #MilkyWay as a Celestial Deity: https://gizmodo.com/ancient-egyptians-milky-way-celestial-deity-nut-1851403086 - an astrophysicist has simulated the appearance of our galaxy as it would have been seen from Egypt 4,000 years ago.
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoDaily Inspiration: "Disruptors value defiance over blind obedience!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Be like Chuck House.
In a world in which you are surrounded by yes-men, be the person who is willing to say no since sometimes following the lead is exactly the wrong thing to do.
Years ago, the book The Intrapreneurs, by Clifford Pinchoot III, defined The Intrapreneur’s Ten Commandments. Numbers 8, 9, and 10 are notable.
8. Come to work each day willing to be fired.<…
@KingShawn@mastodon.socialAw…shit…
“What Is Shawn King Scheming to Do With His Alleged Conversion to Islam?”
(HTF do you get the guy’s name wrong in the headline but right in the *first* line of the story? Dumb asses)
https://www.theroot.com/what-is-shawn-king
@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.pageFrom Files to Streams: Revisiting Web History and Exploring Potentials for Future Prospects
Lucas Vogel, Thomas Springer, Matthias W\"ahlisch
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.07828
@memeorandum@universeodon.comMali talks propose junta rule for three more years (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/mali-talks-propose-junta-rule-three-more-years-2024-05-10/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240510/p55#a240510p55
@roland@devdilettante.comi love the game of ice hockey! i played it for 10 years. But i really dislike the business of the NHL: B*ttman, the fighting (ban fighting and contact in general), the officiating; call all the penalties i don't care if that means special teams all night!
@benb@osintua.euAfter 10 years of war, Krasnohorivka in new danger as Russia advances in the east: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/09/after-years-of.html
@Techmeme@techhub.socialByteDance investors reassessing what the company's value would be without TikTok, estimate that TikTok lost several billion dollars in 2023 on revenue of ~$20B (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/tiktok-ban-b…
@kennysmith@mstdn.socialIt gets fascinating from here.
“Lamont’s team evaluated coral reef restoration efforts done through the MARS Coral Reef Restoration Program on the coast of Indonesia and found that planting corals on a network of sand-coated steel frames brought a completely dead reef back to life in just four years.“
htt…
@cdarwin@c.imThe conservative justices appear to #selectively #apply the legal methodology known as #originalism, which focuses on the original meaning of the law at the time it was written.
The court, which has a 6-3 conservative majori…
@primonatura@mstdn.social @EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energyWater Music: In The House - Sonification: nearly 15 years of data as a house track #podcast #audification #house -
@servelan@newsie.socialExecutor of O.J. Simpson's estate plans to fight payout to the families of Brown and Goldman | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/ap-nicole-brown-simpson-california-nevada-cla…
@jimcarroll@futurist.info"World class innovators continually reinvent their revenue- Futurist Jim Carroll
Futurist Jim Carroll is running his Daily Inspiration series for the weeks of March 11/18 on the theme of "What is it that World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?" The leadership ideas are based on an original keynote he gave early in 2009 after a client asked him to identify these issues. He developed this carefully curated list based on 15 years of observations of how his globa…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialKaiko: trading volume for the top crypto memecoins reached ~$80B in the past week, the highest since October 2021; total market value of memecoins topped $60B (Muyao Shen/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20<…
@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io“Unlike Google which took years to make its search really shitty, OpenAI plans to have outright false search results and dangerous answers to health questions from day one.”
https://www.reuters.com/technology/openai-…
@memeorandum@universeodon.comIslamic State Stages Boldest Attack in Mozambique in Three Years (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-05-10/islamic-state-stages-boldest-attack-in-mozambique-in-three-years
http://www.memeorandum.com/240510/p15#a240510p15
@benb@osintua.euEvgeny Polovodov: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/10/evgeny-polovodov.html
@jimcarroll@futurist.info"World class innovators continually reinvent their revenue- Futurist Jim Carroll
Futurist Jim Carroll is running his Daily Inspiration series for the weeks of March 11/18 on the theme of "What is it that World Class Innovators Do That Others Don't Do?" The leadership ideas are based on an original keynote he gave early in 2009 after a client asked him to identify these issues. He developed this carefully curated list based on 15 years of observations of how his globa…
@cosmos4u@scicomm.xyzJPL’s #Voyager team ‘extremely hopeful’ after ailing, faraway craft shows signs of former self: #Voyager1 is finally transmitting patterns of 1’s and 0’s that look familiar to the engineers, so "the FDS is at least partially working." Oh, and 45 years ago Linda Morabito discovered the first two active volcanos on #Io in a picture taken by Voyager 1 at high phase angle: here is a screenshot of Mor. & al., Science 204, 972 (1 June 1979) . yep, it's nor even one page long.
@servelan@newsie.socialDems open the door for expanding judicial blue slips after years of partisanship | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/dems-open-the-door-for-expanding-judicial-blue-slips-after-years-of-partisansh…
@arXiv_csNI_bot@mastoxiv.pageEnabling 5G QoS configuration capabilities for IoT applications on container orchestration platform
Yu Liu, Aitor Hernandez Herranz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05686
@Techmeme@techhub.socialHow Google rolled out Street View in Germany after 10 years of resistance, as Street View's utility trumped privacy concerns in Europe's most private country (Jeremy Gray/PetaPixel)
https://petapixel.com/2024/03/08/germa<…
@servelan@newsie.socialDOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/03/10/doj-inspector-general-exposes-critical-f…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialA profile of food delivery app Wonder, led by Diapers.com and Jet.com founder Marc Lore, who invested $200M and targets a $30B IPO in three to five years (Elizabeth G. Dunn/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2…
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoDaily Inspiration: "Today? It's business as unusual!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Today's photo is from an event I did a few years ago for a group called Havi International - which represents a massive number of companies that are suppliers of products to McDonald's. The theme of their event was, if it is not obvious, "Partnering for Growth" - the key idea being that an organization can best move forward when a group of companies can move together as one with…
@jimcarroll@futurist.infoDaily Inspiration: "Today? It's business as unusual!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
Today's photo is from an event I did a few years ago for a group called Havi International - which represents a massive number of companies that are suppliers of products to McDonald's. The theme of their event was, if it is not obvious, "Partnering for Growth" - the key idea being that an organization can best move forward when a group of companies can move together as one with…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialIndia approves a ~$1.25B investment in AI projects over five years, including for optimizing compute infrastructure, LLM development, and education in AI (The Economic Times)
https://economictimes.indiati…
