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The Declarative configuration journey: Why it took 5 years to ignore health check endpoints in tracing
#OpenTelemetry

Thoma Bravo acquires a majority stake in Java platform Azul, which received a $340M majority investment from Vitruvian Partners and Lead Edge Capital in 2020 (Chris Metinko/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/pro/enterprise-software-deals/2025/11/18/tho…

Exclusive: Thoma Bravo buys Java platform Azul
Azul battles Oracle in the Java marketplace.

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The quest for very wide outlines: optimized GPU silhouettes.
https://medium.com/@bgolus/the-quest-for-very-wide-outlines-ba82ed442cd9
saved 2020-07-20

Rand Paul, the Senate homeland security committee's chair has requested that multiple academic research centers focused on political extremism
hand over years worth of documentation on
federal watch list programs,
the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol,
vaccine mandates,
the 2020 election,
and Trump supporters,
according to information obtained by WIRED.

Senators Want Extremism Researchers to Surrender Documents Linked to Right-Wing Grudges
The Senate homeland security committee's chair has asked researchers to turn over troves of documents related to the January 6 attack, vaccines, and more, according to a letter reviewed by WIRED.

Dark-eyed juncos living in urbanized Los Angeles have shorter bills than juncos in nearby natural areas— but while UCLA was closed for COVID-19 safety, campus juncos evolved longer bills again
https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2520996122

Olipa kyllä mielenkiintoinen aikaleima kännykällä tallennetussa träkissä. (mökin koordinaatit anonymisoitu). Ekaksi ajattelin, että olisi bitti nyrjähtänyt mutta pikaisesti katsottuna 12 bittiä olisi pitänyt kääntyä mikä ei tunnu todennäköiseltä.
Muuten kyllä selvisi, että olen vapusta 2019 lähtien viettänyt eniten aikaa kotona, sitten töissä ja mökillä. Olisiko tuon selvittämiseksi todella tarvinnut ajaa läppirllä postgresql:lää reilut 20 tuntia? Tuskin saamme koskaan tietää.

Falcons hiring Kevin Stefanski as head coach: Source https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6978950/2026/01/17/kevin-stefanski-falcons-head-coach/

1997-2016 Instruction ⚖️
2016 : premier procès.
2017 : Spatz condamné Š 4 ans avec sursis. Les cadres sont déclarés « sous emprise ».
2020 : deuxième procès, 8 mois d’audiences. Verdict : Spatz coupable d’emprise, violences et abus sur mineurs, mais seulement 5 ans avec sursis.

"In 2020, Berlin passed a law that resulted in a five-year rent freeze [...] for 90% of the flats in the city. While the law offered relief to about 1.5 million households who had seen rents rise by an estimated third in the six years prior, it was ruled as unconstitutional in 2021 after Germany’s highest court sided with landlords and property investment lobbyists who had argued it was inappropriate and illegal for the state to meddle with the private market."

Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given

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The Arm64 memory tagging extension in Linux.
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/834289/a8f6c7c67ccca2c3/
saved 2020-10-19 https…

@… Awww. So sorry.
As you requested, here's Izzy. We adopted her in 2020. She had been taken to a high kill shelter in South Carolina with four very young puppies. She had to raise them in the shelter for about 10 weeks, then was spayed and had heartworm treatment. When she came to us, she was terrified of everything. In 5 1/2 years, she's come …

GWI: LinkedIn's 2025 revenue rose to $17B from $7B in 2020 as users doubled to 1.3B; 4.7% of US users checked more than once per day in 2025, from 3.9% in 2020 (Stu Woo/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-te…

I finally got around to adding the Narrator speech recap feature to my 2020 post “Speech Viewer Logs of Lies”:
https://adrianroselli.com/2020/08/speech-viewer-logs-of-lies.html#Update07
Video! We like video! 323kb of video! Big fat video!

Speech Viewer Logs of Lies
The headline is intentional hyperbole, chosen mostly for the sloppy alliteration. When sighted users test with a screen reader it is common to rely on the visual output — checking to see where focus goes, confirming that controls behave, watching the spoken output in a text log. The problem is…

LŠ, je suis tout Š fait d’accord avec M. Ganzer: «Ce que je constate, ce sont des manquements. Et des manquements ne doivent pas arriver dans un pays tel que le nôtre.»
https://www.rts.ch/info/regions/valais/202

sp_baboons: Baboons' interactions (2020)
Network of interactions between a group of 20 Guinea baboons living in an enclosure of a Primate Center in France, between June 13th 2019 and July 10th 2019. The data set contains observational and wearable sensors data.
This network has 13 nodes and 63095 edges.
Tags: Social, Animal, Offline, Unweighted, Weighted, Temporal, Metadata

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sed-bin: a sed to C translator written in sed.
https://github.com/lhoursquentin/sed-bin
saved 2020-07-12 https://dot…

GitHub - lhoursquentin/sed-bin: sed to C translator written in sed
sed to C translator written in sed. Contribute to lhoursquentin/sed-bin development by creating an account on GitHub.

Jährlicher Zubau und Rückbau von #Balkonsolarleistung in Deutschland mit Stand vom 22.12.2025.
Unplausible Inbetriebnahmedaten von 1900 bis 2017 wurden durch das Registrierungsdatum der #Steckersolaranlage ersetzt.
👉 Zusatzlesestoff:

San Franciscans! Here's a petition you can sign asking Mayor Lurie and the board of supervisors to fund social housing. You might have seen the flyers around the city.
We voted to fund it with 2020's Prop I, but for obscure reasons of state law, the use of the revenue wasn't legally binding, only intended. And then-Mayor Breed refused to do it. But we can fund it now!

Fund San Francisco's Social Housing Program with Prop I Property Transfer Tax Revenue, as Promised!
In 2020, San Francisco voters passed Prop I which levied a transfer tax on properties worth over $10 million dollars. The Board of Supervisors unanimously passed a resolution assuring voters it was their intention to spend the revenue from the new tax on a Social Housing Program. Social Housing is housing that is municipally-owned (or non-profit owned), permanently affordable, and available to a wider mix income than traditional public housing. Mayor Breed overruled the Board of Supervisors a…

from my link log —
DDR5 memory specification released.
https://www.anandtech.com/show/15912/ddr5-specification-released-setting-the-stage-for-ddr56400-and-beyond
saved 2020-07-17

faculty_hiring_us: Faculty hiring networks in the US (2022)
Networks of faculty hiring for all PhD-granting US universities over the decade 2011–2020. Each node is a PhD-granting institution, and a directed edge (i,j) indicates that a person received their PhD from node i and was tenure-track faculty at node j during time of collection (2011-2020). This dataset is divided into separate networks for all 107 fields, as well as aggregate networks for 8 domains, and an overall network for …

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An entomologist rates emoji ants.
https://curlicuecal.tumblr.com/post/175362924100/an-entomologist-rates-ant-emojis
saved 2020-01-03

an entomologist rates ant emojis
Beautiful big almond eye, realistic and full of expression as she gazes gently at you. Elbowed antennae and delicately segmented legs and body. Gorgeous pearlescent sheen like she is glowing. This...

fly_hemibrain: Fly hemibrain (2020)
A synaptic map of the hemibrain connectome of fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster. Nodes are neurons, and edges are synaptic connections, traced individually from brain image sections using EM reconstruction techniques. Neurons are labeled by their type. Edges are annotated by the connection strength between the neurons.
This network has 21739 nodes and 4259624 edges.
Tags: Biological, Connectome, Weighted, Metadata

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libcpu: a library to emulate several CPU architectures using LLVM.
https://github.com/libcpu/libcpu
saved 2020-04-14 https://dotat.a…

GitHub - libcpu/libcpu: "libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures
"libcpu" is an open source library that emulates several CPU architectures - libcpu/libcpu

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A PostgreSQL developer's .psqlrc
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23826037
saved 2020-07-13 https://dot…

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Mapping a universe of open source software: the Nixpkgs dependency graph.
https://www.tweag.io/blog/2019-02-06-mapping-open-source/
saved 2020-07-28

Mapping a Universe of Open Source Software
The repositories of distributions such as Debian and Nixpkgs are among the largest collections of open source (and some unfree) software. They are complex systems that connect and organize many interdependent packages. In this blog post I'll try to shed some light on them from the perspective of Nixpkgs, mostly with visualizations of its complete dependency graph.