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from my link log —
How GitLab.com upgraded PostgreSQL.
https://about.gitlab.com/blog/2020/09/11/gitlab-pg-upgrade/
saved 2020-09-12 https:…

How we upgraded PostgreSQL at GitLab.com
We explain the precise maintenance process to execute a major version upgrade of PostgreSQL.

Trump: I'll "Strongly Endorse Against" GOP Reps Who Oppose Redistricting, The 2020 Census Was "Rigged" - Joe.My.God.
https://www.joemygod.com/2025/11/trump-ill-strongly-endorse-against-gop-reps-who-oppose-redistricting-the-2020-census-was-rigged/

Remind me, who was president in 2020?
Oh, the *same* Donald J. Trump who is president during this *other* worst year for job growth, you say?
-- Mrs Betty Bowers
https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3ma5p47h6k22g

Mrs. Betty Bowers (@mrsbettybowers.bsky.social)
Remind me, who was president in 2020? Oh, the *same* Donald J. Trump who is president during this *other* worst year for job growth, you say?

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

In der heute zu Ende gehenden Woche hier bei mir auf heavy rotation: das Album »Panther« der Schweden Pain of Salvation, erschienen 2020. Wer Pain of Salvation kennt, wird von dem Album wenig überrascht sein. Wem die Band nichts sagt: Progmetal ohne selbstgefälliges Gefrickel des Gefrickels wegen. #rocknroll

You know what they say about Stupid Games...
#Sysadminnery https://infosec.exchange/@atax1a/115385546828585134

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

from my link log —
dnstap-receiver: a dnstap streams receiver in Python.
https://github.com/dmachard/dnstap-receiver
saved 2020-11-09 https://

GitHub - dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver: Dnstap streams receiver in Python
Dnstap streams receiver in Python. Contribute to dmachard/python-dnstap-receiver development by creating an account on GitHub.

psi: Plant Photosystem I excitation energy transfer network (2020)
Weighted directed network of the light-harvesting Photosystem Ι (PSI) of the plant Pisum sativum. The nodes represent chromophores with different identities (i.e. chlorophyll a, chlorophyll b, β-carotene and derivates, lutein, violaxanthin), while edges represent FRET transfer between chromophores. The link directionality connecting nodes in the PSI network depends on the energy levels of the connected chromophores. The…

Druckereiwarm: höchste Zeit für die diesjährige Weihnachtedition meiner Kartenaktion (die ich seit 2020 unverändert durchzieh) Jetzt neu bei den Klextras dabei - wie immer kann meine Kunstdruck-Postkarten niemand kaufen sondern nur von mir zur Bestellung dazugeschenkt bekommen, (Mehr dazu auf https://wandklex.art/klextras-10148)

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 …

"‘Eat out to help out’ scheme added to air pollution in London, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #London #AirPollution

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Della Reese:
🎵 Come On, A My House
#NowPlaying #DellaReese
#radioeins gespielten Titel als #Spotify Playliste: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/3hdH98B6uyXilhcWxCA6nv

"Converting debts into income streams for third parties is the true basis of the finance industry. It's the means by which socially useless intermediaries extract ever-mounting rents from the productive economy" -- @…

Our wonderful dog, Izzy (the brown and white dog) was taken to a shelter in March 2020 with four very young puppies. One, Star (the black and white dog), lives nearby and he and his human often stop by on their walks. Even after 5 1/2 years, Izzy gets more excited to see Star than any other dog or person, except maybe me. #MonDog

Apple iMac product page viewed by Safari 13 (2020). Apple website does not target customers of older Macs wanting to buy a new one.

Longtime NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue dies at 84, leaving behind legacy of reshaping the game

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/paul-tagliabue-dies-nfl-commissioner/

From The Conversation
Mark Carney’s climate inaction is at odds with his awareness of climate change’s existential threat
Mark Carney has long been recognized as an authority on climate change. In 2015, as the governor of the Bank of England, he gave his famous “tragedy of the horizon” speech that introduced climate change to bankers as a threat to international financial stability.
🧵1/4
#canpoli

Smartmatic and Fox News ask a judge to rule in their favor in a $2.7B defamation case over Fox's 2020 election claims; a ruling is expected in the coming weeks (Katie Robertson/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/business/media/sm…

Smartmatic and Fox Urge Judge to Decide Defamation Case
The case centers on false vote-rigging claims broadcast by Fox News during the 2020 U.S. presidential election.

Filing: Meta axed research based on a Nielsen survey in 2020 that found evidence of social media harms, claiming the survey was tainted by the "media narrative" (Jeff Horwitz/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustain…

I have owned my 2016 EV since 2020. (I like buying my cars four and a half years old because four years is the length of a typical lease and when supply goes up, price goes down). I like the fact that (because it's an EV), beyond tire rotations, it's only been in the shop once. That one time, was due to the fact that the start button got stuck in and wouldn't come out again. The car is nearing ten years old, and I think that I might need to take it to the shop for new tires. ...

The annual "throwing chocolates and biscuits out that have been opened but sitting there for the last 5 years with the Best Before date being before 2020" has happened.
Some much space now.
#noxp

#Tatort: Siebte Etage • #ARD #WDR
#crimi #krimi

This book, "Last Boat from Tangier" by James von Leyden, published in 2020, seems nevertheless more relevant year after year. You'll know why when you follow the news.

Zhu on AI/AGI: 'A sign of true intelligence... is the ability to reason towards a goal with minimal inputs ... a “small data, big task” approach, compared with the “big data, small task” approach employed by large language models like ChatGPT. AGI... is characterised by qualities such as resourcefulness in novel situations, social and physical intuition, and an understanding of cause and effect. Large language models... will never achieve this.'

"The student’s education then becomes not a victory for their own self-improvement or -enrichment, but rather that the teacher conquered the student’s presumed inherent laziness, shiftiness, etc. to instill some kernel of a lesson."
#FediLZ
@…

After the 2020 Alameda fire that that destroyed thousands of homes and businesses in southern Oregon, locals, Tribal leaders, and restoration experts uncovered—and revived—a network of hidden springs.
From The Oregonian
via Sightline
https://sig…

Oregon’s Miracle Mile: How a devastating wildfire led to environmental restoration
A wildfire burned away invasive blackberry bushes and revealed 16 streams that benefit wildlife.

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Jian Luo
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05629 https://arxiv.org/pdf/251…

From High-Entropy Ceramics (HECs) to Compositionally Complex Ceramics (CCCs) and Beyond
Over the past decade, the field of high-entropy ceramics (HECs) has rapidly expanded to encompass a wide range of oxides, borides, silicides, and other ceramic solid solutions. In 2020, we proposed extending the concept of HECs to compositionally complex ceramics (CCCs), in which non-equimolar compositions and the presence of long- or short-range order reduce entropy while offering new opportunities to tailor and enhance properties, often beyond those of higher-entropy counterparts. Here, funda…

It's hard to overstate Nvidia’s AI dominance.
Founded in 1993, Nvidia first made its mark in the then-new field of graphics processing units (GPUs) for personal computers.
But it’s the company’s AI chips,
not PC graphics hardware,
that vaulted Nvidia into the ranks of the world’s most valuable companies.
It turns out that Nvidia’s GPUs are also excellent for AI.
As a result, its stock is more than 15 times as valuable as it was at the start of 2020;

Nvidia AI: Challengers Are Coming for Nvidia’s Crown
In AI’s game of thrones, don’t count out the upstarts

Tree prep done - decorations to follow…
Past me & my daughter’s advice always welcome 😂
Cc: @…

Bengals tried to hire Bears coach Ben Johnson for a unique job after 2020 NFL season

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/bengals-tried-to-hire-bears-coa…

The destruction of our country has gone even faster than I had known as El Cheeto makes us bend even more to our corporate, especially AI corporate, masters who want to access all data, all information, everywhere and anywhere, without permission and without paying anything.
"The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office"

The May Massacre: Firings, AI, and Constitutional Crisis at the Copyright Office (via Passle)
These are extraordinary times. And this is an extraordinary case. In 2020, Shira Perlmutter was appointed Register of Copyrights by Dr. Carla D. Hayden,...

Paranoid shooter named Nigel Max Edge is in custody for firing upon crowded #CapeFear Carolina shore bar , apparently under his #MarineCorps era moniker Sean William DeBevoise also had self published a book avail on AMZ called #Headshot

A federal appeals court upholds a lower court's 2023 dismissal of Trump's defamation suit against CNN for calling his 2020 stolen election claims the "Big Lie" (Ted Johnson/Deadline)
https://deadline.com/2025/11/trump-cnn-lawsuit-dismissed…

Appeals Court Rejects Donald Trump’s Attempt To Revive Lawsuit Against CNN
Trump had sued the network over the use of the term "The Big Lie."

from my link log —
Search and replace tricks with ripgrep.
https://learnbyexample.github.io/substitution-with-ripgrep/
saved 2020-09-17 ht…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #PositiveVibrations
Big Youth & Brain Damage:
🎵 2020 I Pray Thee
#BigYouth #BrainDamage
https://braindamagedub.bandcamp.com/track/2020-i-pray-thee
https://open.spotify.com/track/5xSQvtNCyGXvCda2FDW052

Meta’s 2020 research project, Project Mercury,
measured the effect of ‘deactivating’ Facebook & Instagram
According to Meta docs obtained via discovery…
’people who stopped using Facebook for a week reported lower feelings of depression, anxiety, loneliness & social comparison’
https://

Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Lawrence Obiuwevwi, Krzysztof J. Rechowicz, Vikas Ashok, Sampath Jayarathna
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.17842

Toward Affordable and Non-Invasive Detection of Hypoglycemia: A Machine Learning Approach
Diabetes mellitus is a growing global health issue, with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D) requiring constant monitoring to avoid hypoglycemia. Although Continuous Glucose Monitors (CGMs) are effective, their cost and invasiveness limit access, particularly in low-resource settings. This paper proposes a non-invasive method to classify glycemic states using Galvanic Skin Response (GSR), a biosignal commonly captured by wearable sensors. We use the merged OhioT1DM 2018 and 2020 datasets to build a machine l…

Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://

Court Filings Allege Meta Downplayed Risks to Children and Misled the Public
Newly unsealed court filings allege Meta tolerated sex trafficking, hid harms to teens, and prioritized growth over user safety for years.

from my link log —
Getting started with Rust and Rocket for http services.
https://christine.website/blog/how-i-start-rust-2020-03-15
saved 2020-03-16

wiki_science: Wikipedia Map of Science (2020)
A network of scientific fields, extracted from the English Wikipedia in early 2020. Nodes are wikipedia pages representing natural, formal, social and applied sciences, and two nodes are linked if the cosine similarity of the page content is above a threshold. See <http://www.s…

from my link log —
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

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 …