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Great Lakes Food Webs Science: WinterGrab II 2024
Great Lakes Food Webs Science: WinterGrab II 2024
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck
This past week our lab once again sampled sites around Burlington Ontario in February for the WinterGrab II. In the Fall of 2021, a grass-roots group of US and Canadian Great Lakes scientists met to plan a set of standardized sam…

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Great Lakes Food Webs Science: WinterGrab II 2024 “What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” – John Steinbeck This past week our lab once again sampled sites around Burlington Ontario in February for the WinterGrab II. In the Fall of 2021, a grass-roots group of US and Canadian Great Lakes scientists met to plan a set of standardized sampling for mid-winter across all of the Great Lakes.

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.

A look at XZ Utils attacker "Jia Tan", a persona experts say was used by a nation state group and that left little trace after working on the project since 2021 (Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/jia-tan-xz-backdoor/

The Mystery of ‘Jia Tan,’ the XZ Backdoor Mastermind
The thwarted XZ Utils supply chain attack was years in the making. Now, clues suggest nation-state hackers were behind the persona that inserted the malicious code.

The underlings and stooges continue to be imprisoned while the crime boss roams free.
https://apnews.com/article/taylor-johnatakis-capitol-riot-sentencing-f97acd68b8860d36b212e408ac80abd4

Man who used megaphone to lead attack on police during Capitol riot gets more than 7 years in prison
A Washington state man who used a megaphone to orchestrate a mob’s attack on police officers guarding the U.S. Capitol has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison. U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth on Wednesday said videos captured Taylor James Johnatakis playing a leadership role during the Jan. 6, 2021, attack. The judge sentenced him to seven years and three months behind bars. Johnatakis represented himself with an attorney on standby. He has repeatedly expressed rhetoric that …

2021 retro-link! https://furbo.org/2021/08/25/jsc-my-new-best-friend/ - jsc: JavaScript on the macOS command line.

I recognize this tactic — drown the one you are suing in overly-broad discovery requests. It's combination fishing exercise, financial burden, and scare tactic to others. #AudioEye tried the same shit in its SLAPP against me (thankfully NY stays discovery when there is a motion to dismiss, not like AudioEye’s attorneys honored that).
“X filing ‘thermonuclear lawsuit’ in Texas should be ‘fat…

X filing “thermonuclear lawsuit” in Texas should be “fatal,” Media Matters says
Musk’s attempt to venue-shop Media Matters lawsuit is not likely to end well.

"In der Freigabebegründung heißt es, der junge Adelsspross eigne sich als Identifikationsfigur für junge Zuschauer, die zahlreichen intensiven Kampf- und Kriegsszenen könnten Kinder unter 12 Jahren jedoch emotional überfordern und ängstigen."
https://de.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dune_(

I've have been very proud to have been invited to do the keynote at the SANER conference in 2021 - even if it was initially planned in Hawai 🏄‍♂️☀️🏖️🕶️🍸 and it got moved online 📺 because of Covid.
Tomorrow, I'm equally proud to do a talk at CERN.
For somebody with no degree in computer science, it makes me feel very warm inside 💗

NFL fifth-year player options: Tracking team decisions for 2021 first-rounders https://theathletic.com/5426637/2024/04/30/2021-nfl-draft-fifth-year-options/

NFL fifth-year player options: Tracking team decisions for 2021 first-rounders
A look at how each 2021 first-round draft pick has performed, as Thursday's deadline for teams to pick up or decline the option looms.

Does *this* Java SE runtime license (emphasis mine) mean *I* am prohibited from installing it on a *personal-use VM* in a commercial cloud? 🤔
"This version of the Java Runtime is licensed only for your personal (non-commercial) *desktop and laptop use*"
(IIUC running on local VM is OK because that'd be on my own desktop, laptop.)
PS: This part of Oracle license is not new; I just had not needed to question it.