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from my link log —
How to draw ugly lines really fast.
https://cohost.org/tomforsyth/post/648716-how-to-draw-ugly-lin
saved 2022-12-20 …

All the talks from rstudio::conf 2022: https://www.rstudio.com/conference/2022/2022-conf-talks/ 👩‍🏫 Keynotes: https://www.

Over the past couple of nights I've been setting up my Mastodon server on a new Ubuntu 26.04 VM (The original server was set up using Digital Ocean's "One click install" on 20.04 back in 2022).
I feel like a teenager again, in a good way. I haven't had this much fun messing with computers in a long time.

Study: off-balance sheet debt at Alphabet, Microsoft, Amazon, Meta, and Oracle grew an est. ~8x since 2022 to ~$1.65T, eclipsing ~$1.35T in balance sheet debt (Kohei Yamada/Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/business/technolo…

Five US tech giants' hidden debts soar to $1.65tn on opaque AI funding
Data center leases, GPU supply contracts raise liabilities at Meta, Oracle, Nikkei study shows

Nakakahinayang na hindi nahalal na senador si Chel Diokno noong 2019 o 2022. Pero buti na lang nasa lupon siya ng mga taga-usig kasi nilampaso niya ang magkapatid.
#phpol #impeachment #DuterteImpeachment

POL-VER: Polizei bittet um Mithilfe - Öffentlichkeitsfahndung nach schwerem Raub Landkreis Verden (ots) - Verden. Am 18.06.2022 gegen 20.00 Uhr kam es zu einem Raub mit einer Waffe auf einen Verbrauchermarkt am Holzmarkt (wir berichteten am 20.06.2022). Der Zentrale Kriminaldienst Verden wendet sich nun mit einem Video und Fotos ... https://www.

I appreciate Ukraine's continued employment of video game marketing aesthetics.
(Not so much this one, but many of the post-2022 Ukrainian websites evoke the visual style of Cyberpunk 2077 - a game that got its PS5 release around the same time as the Russian invasion.)
https://trophylab.mod.gov.ua/en/

TrophyLab
Access to aggressor equipment and its analysis — a platform for those working on defense solutions.

from my link log —
LEGO rolling ball clock.
https://jkbrickworks.com/rolling-ball-clock/
saved 2022-11-18 https://dotat.at/:/RBDH9.…

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 16. Juli 1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Bye". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

In the Summer of 2022, Greek politician Stelios Kouloglou was investigating how intrusive spyware had been used to hack business leaders, law enforcement officials, and politicians.
As part of the European Parliament’s PEGA Committee,
set up to investigate the use of the notorious Pegasus spyware and other variants,
Kouloglou travelled to interview spyware victims and probe high-profile cases.
That fall, according to a new forensic analysis,
💥Kouloglou’s iPhone …

EU Politicians Investigated Pegasus Spyware. Then It Ended Up on One of Their Phones
“It is a direct attack on the rule of law,” says one European Parliament member of the new findings from Citizen Lab.

WIZO - "Quadrat Im Kreis" - live @ Ruhrpott Rodeo 2022
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGNxGVsITII
Das Lied ist in über 30 Jahren gut gealtert. Normalerweise bin ich kein Fan von Live-Versionen, aber die hat was.
Ansonsten isses Abi-Zeit und (trotzdem) unter der Woche au…

RE: https://mastodon.social/@hanse_mina/116547833070885370
Since February 2022.
To put this into perspective, that’s roughly equivalent to the number of US servicemen killed AND wounded during the entirety of the Vietnam War.

Elon Musk petitioned the FTC in May to end its 2022 order restricting Twitter's data use, claiming Twitter no longer exists as X merged with xAI and then SpaceX (Ashley Belanger/Ars Technica)
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20

Elon Musk tries again to escape FTC audits of X data handling
Musk can't be trusted to protect X user privacy, public commenters warn FTC.

from my link log —
Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations.
https://blog.apnic.net/2022/03/08/authenticated-bootstrapping-of-dnssec-delegations/
saved 2022-04-10

Authenticated bootstrapping of DNSSEC delegations | APNIC Blog
By transferring pre-existing trust from the zone’s DNS operator, a new in-band solution would simplify and secure automation of DNSSEC deployment.

Pleased to share that my paper, "Practitioners at the Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis" is now available as a preprint on arxiv. https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.30667

Practitioners At The Limit: Bereavement, Mockery and Ideology in Response to Crisis
After decades in which the software industry heroized its technical employees, our current moment finds those employees in crisis. Economically, they are squeezed by a job market that has turned on them since Elon Musk gutted Twitter in 2022. Politically, their craft is continually pressed into the service of an ever tighter alliance between Big Tech and authoritarianism. Professionally, they find themselves less and less able to contribute anything good to anyone within business models that ar…

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Organdy". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

Bitcoin fell as much as 7% over 24 hours to below $67K on Tuesday for the first time since April, following Strategy's first BTC sale since 2022; MSTR fell 9% (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-02/bitco…

Heute vor 61 Jahren: Am 11.06.1965 zündeten die #USA im Rahmen von Operation Whetstone die Atombombe "Petrel". Whetstone war eine Serie von #Kernwaffentests bei der 1964/65 insgesamt 46 Bomben größtenteils im Testgebiet in

from my link log —
jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C.
https://github.com/alandekok/jlibtool
saved 2022-08-03 https://dotat.at/:/TN3…

GitHub - alandekok/jlibtool: A replacement for libtool written in C
A replacement for libtool written in C. Contribute to alandekok/jlibtool development by creating an account on GitHub.