2024-04-29 08:03:00
It’s amazing to me that folks have such a hard time with the very basic concept of “follow the money.”
This isn’t rocket science, people. Where/who you get your money from matters. The people who you surround yourself with matters. The success criteria you adopt matters.
At least 2 dead after Russian missile strike on Odesa: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/at-least-dead.html
Cloaked Influence: Opus Dei’s Push for Project 2025 to create a Christian dictatorship
https://thedemlabs.org/2024/04/29/william-barr-leonard-leo-opus-dei-push-project-2025/
Diphylla ecaudata – Guardabosques Via https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2024/04/guardabosques-paper-bat-sculptures/
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I AM SO DISAPPOINTED WITH UBUNTU 24.04 😡
#Ubuntu (actually
Even With Gaza Under Siege, Some Are Imagining Its Reconstruction
-- Thinking of Jared Kushner
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/28/business/gaza-economy-rebuilding.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&…
Meta confirms it has started testing a limited-time invite-only bonus program for creators on Threads in the US (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/29/meta-confirms-launch-of-a-bonus-program-for-creators-on-thre…
OpenAI debuts Voice Engine that lets users generate synthetic copy of a voice from a 15-second voice sample, available to a small group of partners like HeyGen (Kyle Wiggers/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/29/openai-custom-voice-engine-preview/
That’s because he doesn’t believe climate change is real. Instead he will be fighting the right wing culture wars. It will be a war on woke and women and abortion and LGBTQI folks. https://queerfedi.com/notes/9snki3eza723275e
When you see podcast charts and Lex Fridman's Tech Sycophant Hour is in the top slots and maybe we should just hope the aliens nuke us from orbit.
The enigmatic abundance of atomic hydrogen in #Saturn's upper atmosphere: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14191 -> Saturn’s Lyman-alpha Tutu: https://astrobites.org/2024/04/29/saturns-tutu/
Le copertine uguali (suppergiù), ovvero tarallucci e vino (suppergiù)
#AcqueAgitate
one of these days I'll take an evening or two to implement a real instant messaging system and then it's all over for Matrix
Astros To Promote Joey Loperfido
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors
@… please not the svg!! 😅😅
Questions arise with @…'s #IPv6 stats.
1.Share of IPv4 traffic decreases in 2023-11, but has recently recovered.
2. IPv4 and IPv6 is roughly 50/50 in last year's (day-over-day) view. In a weekly (hour-over-hour) view, it is roughly 63/37 in IPv4's favor (pick any week in the past year).
Some differences may be explained by artifacts of how things are counted and measured I presume, but these are not small anomalies.
last year: https://radar.cloudflare.com/embed/Ipv6XY?dateRange=52w&chartState={"xy.hiddenSeries":[],"xy.previousVisible":true}&dateEnd=2024-04-28T17:15:00.000Z
last week: https://radar.cloudflare.com/embed/Ipv6XY?chartState={"xy.hiddenSeries":[],"xy.previousVisible":true}&dateRange=7d&dateEnd=2024-04-28T17:14:00.000Z
I’m pleasantly surprised at the positive early reviews coming in for the MG Cyberster (what a silly name). Although the car has a few weird quirks and affectations (the scissor doors are out of place, and those arrow taillights…ehh), the platform itself appears solid and amenable to future tuning.
The thought of going canyon-carving in a silent EV roadster is honestly very appealing.
#cars …
Frage an die Berliner und Spargelfreunde: Es scheint dieses Jahr schwierig wie selten, im weiteren Bereich der Innenstadt Verkaufsstände der regionalen Spargelbauern zu finden. Kann jemand aktuelle Standorte benennen? Vielen Dank für jeden Tipp!
Working on this TikTok Gist and this law is really quite quite peculiar and much wider than just TikTok.
Sign up at http://www.thegist.ie and I’ll email you my reading of it when I’m done.
@… こん! 🐰
Check out today's Metacurity for the critical infosec developments you might have missed over the weekend, including
--Coffee County shut down access to state voter registration system following cyberattack
--Okta warns of unprecedented spike in credential stuffing attacks,
---Spy.pet crumbles after Discord ban,
--Ukraine hacking group claims attack on Russian telecom provider,
--Belarus hacktivists claim attack on country's security agency,
--UK bans devices that come with weak passwords,
--Canada's London Drugs temporarily shutters 79 stores following cyber incident,
--much more
https://www.metacurity.com/p/coffee-county-shut-access-state-voter-registration-system-following-cyberattack
Our society, governments, businesses, workplaces, family, friends, still don't see mental injury as an injury at all.
#MondayThoughts #MentalIllness
Cross-Platform-Programmierung mit .NET MAUI
In fünf Webinaren vom 23. Mai bis 27. Juni 2024 lernen Developer die vielfältigen Möglichkeiten moderner App-Entwicklung mit .NET MAUI kennen.
https://www.
Ukraine finalizes trade agreement with UAE: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/ukraine-finalizes-trade.html
Ooh, @… just updated to @… version 7 and… *ta daa*, the spurious warnings in the code listings for proper curly quotes and other correct – but sadly underutilised – typographical elements in comments and strings are gone!
e.g.…
Erinnern wir uns an die Proteste gegen den AfD Landesparteitag am 20.04. (!!!) in Niedersachsen in Unterlüß:
Blue Yonder, a provider of supply chain planning software, plans to acquire rival One Network Enterprises for approximately $839M (Steve Banker/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/stevebanker/2024/03/29/blue-yonder-shake…
"doctor" is quite possibly one of the worst insults i can apply to anybody
(doctor like an MD, not a PhD)
AL East Notes: Kimbrel, Irvin, Kahnle, Whitlock
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors
Ist es fair, Entwickler danach zu beurteilen, wann und wie lange sie arbeiten? 🤔
Zum Artikel: https://heise.de/-9692451?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon
The enigmatic abundance of atomic hydrogen in #Saturn's upper atmosphere: https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.14191 -> Saturn’s Lyman-alpha Tutu: https://astrobites.org/2024/04/29/saturns-tutu/
#Microsoft will Anstrengungen bei IT-Sicherheit verdoppeln
https://www.heise.de/news/Microsoft-will-A
In a letter to Fox News, Hunter Biden's attorneys demand Fox to remove "hacked" sexually explicit images of Hunter from its platforms, citing revenge porn laws (CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/04/29/politics/hunter-biden-fox-letter/
Joint Proposal / Yomiuri, NTT Present Joint Proposal to Balance Rules, Utilization for Generative AI; Calling for Legislation for Fields of Election, Security
https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/general-news/20240409-179328/
Mitch McConnell refuses to say whether he supports a US national ban
Senate minority leader says he is ‘not advocating anything at this level’ and that issue is too divisive among lawmakers for consensus
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/…
PAFFACA!
Colossus!
https://www.thegist.ie/the-gist-banning-tiktok/
Back on the CO2 travel kick... equivalent of the day:
A 40km crossing on a BC Ferry from Nanaimo to Vancouver produces the same CO2 per passenger (5kg) as an 1800km high speed train journey from London, UK to Valencia, Spain.
We need to completely rethink travel in Canada but our political leaders are transportation cowards.
Source:
Train:
Chupak on Putin's arrest warrant and other PACE statements: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/chupak-on-putins.html
Mastodon becoming a US entity with a neoliberal board of directors and the goal of growth über alles is the issue here folks, not whether Eugen and company are compensated for their work. Of course they should be and well too. Or is that a privilege reserved only for the mediocre yes-people at the Googles and the Facebooks of the world?
Here’s a longer thread I wrote elsewhere. (1/7)
Seriously, how hard is it to say "bombing babies is wrong".
Like the whole country and half of the world has their panties in a twist about this.
It's wrong. The end.
Sechsarmiger Bestäubungsroboter soll Bienen ersetzen
Bienen und andere natürliche Bestäuber sind am Aussterben. Roboter könnten sie ersetzen, wie etwa der Bestäubungsroboter Stickbug.
https://www.
The Stash List Week 5: Top 10 Hitting Prospects to Stash in 2024
#MLB #FantasyBaseball #PitcherList
Opinion: Russia's nuclear giant is falling through the sanctions cracks: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/opinion-russias-nuclear.html
Few were present at the select board meeting in Littleton, N.H., last August when Carrie Gendreau, one of its members,
began to talk about a mural that had recently been painted on the side of a building downtown.
Until that moment, it had not attracted much attention. Its subject matter
— a blooming iris, dandelions, birch trees
— did not seem controversial.
But for Ms. Gendreau, 62, who was also a state senator representing northern New Hampshire,
the mu…
More press releases about early results from China's #EinsteinProbe (EP) astronomical satellite: https://ep.bao.ac.cn/ep/cms/article/view?id=166 and https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Einstein_Probe_opens_its_wide_eyes_to_the_X-ray_sky and https://www.mpe.mpg.de/8007188/news20240427
A profile of DeepMind's Demis Hassabis, who was just knighted, as some wonder if he can navigate Google's bureaucracy and turn AI research into great products (Alex Kantrowitz/Big Technology)
https://www.bigtechnology.com/p/can-demis-hassabis-save-google
Realised last night that JavaScript Database (JSDB) doesn’t run the constructor on persisted custom objects (https://codeberg.org/small-tech/jsdb#custom-data-types) when deserialising them because I didn’t know that you apparently have to define your constructor manual…
Seriously, how hard is it to say "bombing babies is wrong".
Like the whole country and half of the world has their panties in a twist about this.
It's wrong. The end.
Opinion: Trump is Putin's only hope now: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/29/opinion-trump-is.html
Marlins Outright Kyle Tyler
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors
The next steps for the #Euclid mission as just explained by Knud Jahnke in the online talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJK7746TRFQ - May 23 will bring many (mostly technical I reckon) papers but also a few more 'pretty pictures'. But no cosmology this year or next: the big sky survey has just begun and the science is hard to extract.
Sources: Microsoft and OpenAI are a planning a new "Stargate" US-based supercomputer that could cost $100B to power OpenAI products (The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/microsoft-and-openai-plot…
"Ich will nichts mehr von zwanzigstelligen Passwörtern, freiwilligen Cyber-Sicherheitssiegeln und BSI-Grundschutz hören, bis das BSI die skandalösen Sicherheitsvorfälle bei #Microsoft offen anspricht und auch endlich konkrete Maßnahmen ergreift, die geeignet sind, diese Gefahr für unsere Infrastruktur zu verstehen und zumindest einzugrenzen. DHS und CISA haben gezeigt, dass das geht."
Scaling up critical minerals supply in time to meet rising needs is essential to the success of #batteries
In one Scenario, demand for critical minerals for batteries expands rapidly by 2030,
with #manganese, #lithium, …
Rockies Expected To Promote Jordan Beck
#MLB #Baseball #MLBTradeRumors
China zeigt humanoiden "Open Source"-Roboter Tiangong
Der chinesische Staat hat mit Tiangong eine Plattform für humanoide Roboter weitgehend als Open Source zur Verfügung gestellt.
https://www.
In late 2020, Dr. Debby Day said her bosses at Cigna gave her a stark warning. Work faster, or the company might fire her.
That was a problem for Day because she felt her work was too important to be rushed. She was a medical director for the health insurer, a physician with sweeping power to approve or reject requests to pay for critical care like life-saving drugs or complex surgeries.
She had been working at Cigna for nearly 15 years, reviewing cases that nurses had flagged for…
Zelensky publishes declaration of $317,000 in family income in 2023: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/29/zelensky-publishes-declaration.html
Lieferdienste: Getir macht den Exit in die Türkei
Lieferdienst Getir stellt Mitte Mai in Deutschland den Betrieb ein und überlässt Flink das Feld – aber auch der Konkurrent ist noch nicht aus dem Schneider.
ht…
Russian attacks against Ukraine kill 8, injure 12 over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/russian-attacks-against.html
In Photos: Russian Attack on Residential Area of Kharkiv Killed One and Injured 19: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/28/in-photos-russian.html
Finnish Defense Minister: Ukraine can use Finnish-provided weapons to strike Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/finnish-defense-minister.html
KI-Update kompakt: Lost-in-the-Middle, Rabbit R1, Datenschutz, KI-Ampel
Das "KI-Update" liefert werktäglich eine Zusammenfassung der wichtigsten KI-Entwicklungen.
https://www.<…
Bundesverwaltungsamt veröffentlicht Registerlandkarte
Für eine bessere Übersicht veröffentlicht das Bundesverwaltungsamt eine Registerlandkarte. Das Statistische Bundesamt hat auch mitgeholfen.
https://www.…
Wahl-O-Mat zur Europawahl geht im Mai online
Gut einen Monat vor der Europawahl geht das beliebte Orientierungs-Tool zu den Parteiprogrammen online.
https://www.heise.de/news/Wahl-O-Mat-…
#Verpasstodon
Noch einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Intels Lösung für instabile CPUs: Haltet die Spezifikationen ein!
#Verpasstodon
Einige der zuletzt hier besonders häufig geteilten #News:
Mastodon: Laut Finanzamt nicht mehr gemeinnützig
Intel gründet Altera neu
2015 hat Intel Altera gekauft und den Markennamen eingestampft. Jetzt soll Altera als eigenständige Firma neu aufleben.
https://www.heise.de/news/Intel-gruendet-A