2026-01-02 19:00:05
"Solar-Powered Fishing Nets Cut Sea Turtle Bycatch by 63%"
#Fishing #SolarPower #Turtles
"Solar-Powered Fishing Nets Cut Sea Turtle Bycatch by 63%"
#Fishing #SolarPower #Turtles
Sharif Shaker will speak on 'Extending Cloud-Native Postgres with CNPG-I Plugins' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Kat Morgan will speak on 'Cloud Taming - A Human Friendly DevOps Experience' on the Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/cloud-taming-human-friendly-devops-experience<…
ESA astronomers say they used AI model AnomalyMatch to scan 100M image cutouts from the Hubble Legacy Archive in 2.5 days, finding ~1,400 "anomalous objects" (Robert Hart/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/news/869182/astronomers-ai-di…
49ers' Brandon Aiyuk apologizes after driving over 100 mph in video https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6918239/2025/12/24/49ers-brandon-aiyuk-apology-driving-over-100-mph/
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Low:
🎵 Days Like These
#Low
https://lowlily.bandcamp.com/album/10000-days-like-these
https://open.spotify.com/track/6KVjO1Wye1FuNdYx0keRkP
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100 days of Kavanaugh stops and the justices who silently allowed them -- and a bill to change that (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/100-days-of-kavanaugh-stops-shadow-docket-bill
http://www.memeorandum.com/251217/p123#a251217p123
Engin Diri will speak on 'Building AI Platforms Without Losing Your Engineering Principles' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
sp_high_school_new: High school dynamic contacts (2011-2012)
These datasets contain the temporal network of contacts between students in a high school in Marseilles, France. The first dataset gives the contacts of the students of three classes during 4 days in Dec. 2011, and the second corresponds to the contacts of the students of 5 classes during 7 days (from a Monday to the Tuesday of the following week) in Nov. 2012.
This network has 180 nodes and 45047 edges.
Tags: Soc…
"Study finds global increase in hot, dry days ideal for wildfires"
#Wildfires #Climate #ClimateChange
Dave Neary will speak on 'Multi-architecture applications on Kubernetes and ArgoCD: Why and How' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Good Morning #Canada
Apparently the earth moved last night but I didn't feel a thing. An earthquake, a magnitude 3.7 to 4.1 depending on different reports, was reported in my neighbourhood near Orilla Ontario last night. The epicenter was across Lake Simcoe, approximately 35km away from my home and 5km deep. Maybe the lake reduced the impact and we do have a pretty good mattress.
There are 4,000 ish earthquakes measured in Canada annually but most are minor. Perhaps 40 might be large enough or not remote, and people will feel the ground shaking. That's about 1 every 8 days. Most of our earthquakes occur along the West Coast, the High Arctic, and lower frequency along the eastern seaboard. Earthquakes are monitored by the National Seismograph Network with approximately 100 seismographs distributed across Canada.
I know you're wondering about the 10 largest earthquakes ever felt in Canada. I got you covered...
#CanadaIsAwesome #Seismology
https://www.earthquakescanada.nrcan.gc.ca/pprs-pprp/pubs/GF-GI/GEOFACT_largest-earthquakes_e.pdf
Today for the first time ever I added fake film grain in post while editing my photos.
I reached the point where noise reduction in low light situations makes my photos look noticeably worse, especially when people are involved. They start looking like wax figures and I hate that.
At the same time, as a digital kid, I wasn't a fan of adding fake grain to my photos. Everyone and their dog knows I don't shoot film. And what's the point of making my photos look worse.
Today something clicked in my brain and I decided I'd rather have some texture and deliberate imperfection in my pictures.
Especially when all this generative AI bullshit these days is about making things look so smooth and perfect it hurts.
Where do y'all get your random SMT breakouts from? I'm running low on SOIC8 to DIP8 ones and adafruit seems like they're no longer a good option. And I'm not in the mood to DIY every variant I need in kicad and send to oshpark.
There's a ton on aliexpress but I'm not sure how bad the tariff situation is for random one-off small items from China to the US these days... I know at one point there were threats of like $100 per low-value shipment once de minimis was …
So, 11 out of 12 days completed for #AdventofCode and my thoughts for this year:
- `nim` is probably the language I've enjoyed coding the most in.
- `python`'s whole ecosystem of libraries just makes things so much easier. Day 10 and `scipy` just destroyed that solution (part 2 specifically)
- `rust` annoys me, but I 100% admit that it's a skill issue on my pa…
On Monday, Nov. 24,
after more than 1,100 days on strike,
Newspaper Guild of Pittsburgh members were cheered on by supporters
at a rally in downtown Pittsburgh
before returning to work at the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
Even though strikers have returned to work, however,
many issues at the center of the strike are still in legal limbo
—and their fight for a fair contract is not over.
In this episode of Working People, we speak with three Newspap…
John Harbaugh's first 100 days: The blueprint to rebuild the Giants
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/nfl-giants-john-harbaugh-first-90-days-blueprint/
Matthias Crauwels will speak on 'Data on Kubernetes / stateless storage' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Eric Ernst will speak on 'The -ization of Containerization' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/presentations/ization-containerization
I love how simple Kitten’s Streaming HTML workflow makes building features like this, especially when using class-based Kitten pages and components :)
#Kitten
100 of the ~280 linden trees of #Mäkelänkatu in #Helsinki have been cut. Some of the last trunks are being removed right now.
Judging from the growth rings, some of these trees were about 50 years old and had their best days a few decades ago, but also some good summers recently. Trees rarely…
"Misery for many as rain falls for 40 days in some parts of UK"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Weather
100 Days Out | Cowboys Draft Show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IC37VDLgZ1c
Ram Mohan Rao Chukka will speak on 'Who broke the build? Using Kuttl to improve E2E testing and release faster' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
My neighbor has a dog that barks constantly day and night.
They leave it in their back patio which faces the side of our house.
Day and night I get to hear the high pitch constant barking. Occasionally I sic the county on them who tells them they cannot leave it back there yipping.
They bring it inside for a few days then its back out again as they can't stand it barking either but he is attached to the damn thing.
One should not piss off nerds. Here are the parts …
Michael Stahnke will speak on 'When Everything Looks Like a Container: Rethinking 15 Years of Cloud-Native Defaults' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
"New calculator shows exactly how much environmental damage is behind your internet searches"
#Technology #Internet #Emissions
When Immigration and Customs Enforcement pulled all of its detainees out of the Cumberland County Jail,
many of them were moved to a field office in Burlington, Massachusetts,
about 100 miles from Portland, Maine.
The facility is designed for administrative processing,
but immigration attorneys say it has been holding some people for more than 10 days
-- raising concerns about due process and access to legal counsel.
Lisa Parisio,
policy director at…
Jussi Nummelin will speak on 'Pushing Kubernetes to the Far Edge: IoT, AI Workloads, and Evolving Architectural Patterns' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x/p
"Kenyan woman hugs a tree for 3 days and inspires a movement"
#Kenya #Trees #Environment
@… will speak on 'HowTo Provision Your Hardware With ... a Container?' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.
"China has slashed air pollution, but the 'war' isn't over"
#China #Pollution #AirPollution
Fabrizio Sgura will speak on 'Platform Engineering Starts at the Node: The Power of Immutable Operating Systems' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
"Amazon deforestation raises surface temperature by 3°C during dry season, satellite data show"
#AmazonRainforest #Deforestation
"World’s richest 1% have already used fair share of emissions for 2026, says Oxfam"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Emissions
"Climate whiplash by 2064: Study projects extreme swings in rainfall and drought for Asia"
#Asia #Climate #ClimateChange
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #RileyAndCoe
Niney the Observer:
🎵 Christmas 100
#NineytheObserver
(There are still 14 days until 🎄 #Christmas)
"Study: UK extreme heat days to more than double by 2050"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange
Naresh Kumar Amrutham will speak on 'Demystifying Kubernetes API Priority and Fairness' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Good Morning #Canada
Prior to #Retirement, my last decade in business was spent in #ReverseLogistics managing major retail and manufacturer clients. Reverse logistics is the process of managing customer returns with the objective of recapturing value or ensure proper disposal. It covers activities like processing, restocking where possible, repairs, recycling, refurbishing, and resale. This company in Mississauga is relatively small in comparison to a Costco or Walmart reverse logistics warehouse but it provides a glimpse at a little known industry that deals with $880B USD in annual returns worldwide. The industry is about to enter its busiest period as consumers will return over 10% of Christmas purchases, close to 30% for clothing. In the 1st 3 months of 2026 some remarketing B2B auction sites (representing Costco, Walmart, Home Depot, Target, etc) will be liquidating 100 tractor trailer loads per day, including stuff you're about to unwrap in a few days.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://www.orilliamatters.com/ontario-news/inside-the-warehouse-poised-to-process-your-unwanted-gifts-this-holiday-11646891
Sajal Nigam will speak on 'Guardon: Bringing Kubernetes Guardrails Directly to the Developer’s Browser' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Joshua Lee will speak on 'Magical Mystery Tour: A Roundup of Observability Datastores' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Nathaniel Moore will speak on 'Running Containers with Open Source Akash Network, a Blockchain-based Distributed Computing Platform' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Allen Jones will speak on 'Drasi- A New Take on Change-Driven Architectures' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
Maya Singh will speak on 'Ask and You Shall Debug: Conversational Troubleshooting for Kubernetes' as part of our Cloud Native Days track at SCaLE 23x. Full details: https://www.socallinuxexpo.org/scale/23x
"Coffee-growing countries becoming too hot to cultivate beans, analysis finds"
#Coffee #Food #Climate #ClimateChange
"Meta Wants Data Center in Sunny El Paso to Rely on Natural Gas"
#Meta #Facebook #Technology #Emissions
"France, Germany, Italy break solar records in December"
#France #Germany #Italy #SolarPower