2024-05-15 19:36:42
🥊 The world of boxing has changed. But Canelo Álvarez endures
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/the-world-of-boxing-has-changed-but-canelo-alvarez-endures
🥊 The world of boxing has changed. But Canelo Álvarez endures
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/article/2024/may/06/the-world-of-boxing-has-changed-but-canelo-alvarez-endures
Why Everything Changed in Haiti: The Gangs United - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/14/world/americas/haiti-gangs-ariel-henry.html
Why Eric Kendricks changed his mind and picked Dallas https://www.dallascowboys.com/news/why-eric-kendricks-changed-his-mind-and-picked-dallas
2024 NFL free agency: What changed in big-money running back market? Comparing 2024 deals to recent years
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-…
What if we changed the rules so that if a US presidential candidate that supports arming Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people wins, 15,000 American kids are randomly chosen and killed. (Unlike Palestinian kids, they’d be killed as painlessly as possible, not screaming in anguish from having been blown apart by American bombs.)
What would you do? Still vote for Biden as is or move heaven and earth to have him change his policies and/or get the Democrats to pick another ca…
Saturn's Return ☠️🐴⏳
Dramatized urban fantasy | The people of Barthos are suffering. Not long ago, everyone had plenty to eat and plenty to trade. Then — with the disappearance of a very special prisoner — everything changed. A contemporary fable about loss, sacrifice, and ordinary magic, told by four criss-crossed s...
https://www.<…
COVID aid changed the way schools can help homeless kids. What happens now? - Chalkbeat
https://www.chalkbeat.org/2024/03/14/how-covid-aid-ushered-in-ability-to-give-homeless-students-more-direct-h…
A look at Neopets, a website launched in 1999 to let users care for virtual pets, including how the site survived multiple acquisitions and Flash's phasing out (Kari Paul/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/a…
An appeal to my many distant but helpful friends. I have a film scanner that I have not used for a year or so but certainly have used many times and has always worked fine, until today.
This is a new problem. Much has changed since I last used it. The scanner driver is x86 only, and only works on old OSes, so I am using a MacBook Pro x86 running MacOS 10.14.6.
I have no control over this.
...
@… Trello was great and it doesn’t look like that has changed!
Universal Music changed Pandora royalty payments from a 50% split via SoundExchange to often-smaller splits paid directly by UMG, hurting newer artists' revenue (Steve Knopper/Billboard)
https://www.billboard.com/pro/universal-music-pandora-royal…
Please share: If anyone has a spare few minutes to help out the EFF, want to jump in and help me finish up pasting in the short description for HTTP response codes in the Google Sheet below? We're using the MDN documentation (#defcon 🙂
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Xzth2JwUe8tG2N-BgizGhdQV6zZI8BnQ8zIT32yiHM0/edit#gid=0
Companies house have finally changed the address of the dodgy company that was using my home as their registered address; it took about a month after (correctly) submitted an RP07 form. Note the company is still shown as 'active' - it just has an address of companies house.
The N.Y. case concerns Trump’s only successful voter deception scheme
“This is the case that reflects the efforts Trump went through to influence the 2016 election
— and it worked. He won the election,”
wrote Karen Friedman Agnifilo,
who worked for decades in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
“And he only won by a slim margin of fewer than 80,000 votes in three swing states.”
Trump sought to buy off two women who said they had sexual encounters…
No matter what the state of Oklahoma says, they drove Nex to death and by essence murdered him.
The state changed the laws of the bathroom and the sentiment of the senator show the increasing stress for trans individuals. When are we going to make people pay for their actions?
…
Apple's relationship to pirated music has changed quite a bit in recent years.
Image source: https://kootenaymac.blogspot.com/2019/04/ripmixburn-imac-g3-dalmatian-poster.html
How 20 Years of Same-Sex Marriage Changed America (Molly Ball/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/how-20-years-of-same-sex-marriage-changed-america-670758bd
http://www.memeorandum.com/240513/p4#a240513p4
I wish that when I reverted a revert, #git was smart enough to attribute things to the original author.
That is, person A does a commit; `git blame foo.c` shows the lines as being changed by person A. Person B reverts that commit (temporarily), and then later on person B reverts the revert (thereby putting person A's changes back in). But now when you `git blame foo.c`, the line change…
🇩🇪 Kennt jemand von euch Forschungsarbeiten oder fundierte Artikel darüber, wie sich die "Dichte" eines typischen Büro-Arbeitstags in den letzten Jahrzehnten verändert hat?
🇬🇧 Do any of you know of any research or in-depth articles on how the "density" of a typical office working day has changed over the last few decades?
#Arbeit
A good tour of Israel-Iran developments by a respected observer:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68825752
The iPhone/Apple Watch app I've been using for tracking climbing (Redpoint) has stopped tracking ascends which made it wonderful. I've hear a couple of other users confirming the issue.
Anyone using the altimeter data from Apple Watch could confirm that something changed or is broken with that API in the most recent iOS/WatchOS versions?
Maxx Crosby bids Josh Jacobs farewell 'Nothing's changed but the jersey' https://raiderswire.usatoday.com/2024/03/11/maxx-crosby-bids-josh-jacobs-farewell-nothings-changed-but-the-jersey/
Via somebody: Shit's going down:
https://mastodon.social/@GottaLaff/112276013071402407
Here’s my initial impressions of the Boox Page.
The hardware is nice. It feels good in the hands and is about the size of two iPhones, side by side. The screen is a bit smaller than that.
The hardware buttons have a nice click to them, but could be better. The button functions can be changed per-app (scroll, page turn, and volume). It could do with dedicated brightness buttons.
"Prizes have been rescinded. Conferences called off. Plays taken off the boards. Government cultural officials have suggested tying funding to what artists and institutions say about the conflict, and media — both traditional and social — bubble with public denunciations of this writer, that artist, this D.J., that dancer. [...] And a climate of fear and recrimination has put Berlin’s status as an international cultural capital in greater hazard than at any time since 1989."
…
Threat of reoccupation looms over Vovchansk as Russia launches new offensive on Kharkiv region : https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/14/threat-of-reoccupation.html
I just read this short story by Robert Minto and found it deeply moving: http://www.beneath-ceaseless-skies.com/stories/the-moneylenders-angel/
I normally don't like telling people what stories are about, but I really dug its themes of sacrifi…
Q&A with Nicholas Kristof on how security for foreign correspondents has changed, the need for more reporting and less punditry, protecting sources, and more (Oliver Darcy/CNN)
https://www.cnn.com/2024/05/14/media/nicholas-kristof-press-trum…
Chief commodities analyst at SEB bank says oil’s price is “a totally artificial price controlled by Opec.” I’m old enough to remember when the narrative was that US shale production (fracking) had changed all that and made the US the world’s swing producer. But that was always going to be a short-term position. A gazillion unconventional, high-cost wells with high decline rates were never going to compete long term with giant conventional fields like Ghawar.
Today is the anniversary of the MOVE bombing. The only thing that’s changed is police are far more militarized, far more funded, and far less accountable, while their supporters fly a desecrated flag to explicitly endorse their violent attacks.
“I also don’t think we’ve mourned the loss of the more than seven million lives—that we know of. [The figure is] probably three times higher. This virus has touched every single person and family, and it’s changed the trajectory of people’s lives. People who were forced to remain home and in violent situations, children who were out of school, some of whom will never go back, especially young girls who were married off or have children now—this has changed futures. People are resilient, but …
Software development in the age of LLMs and XR
Jesus M. Gonzalez-Barahona
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.09789 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2404…
The N.Y. case concerns Trump’s only successful voter deception scheme
“This is the case that reflects the efforts Trump went through to influence the 2016 election
— and it worked. He won the election,”
wrote Karen Friedman Agnifilo,
who worked for decades in the Manhattan district attorney’s office.
“And he only won by a slim margin of fewer than 80,000 votes in three swing states.”
Trump sought to buy off two women who said they had sexual encounters…
IQAir sent this helpful email with a display showing the EPA's changes to #AQI classification. I had seen news about it, but this visual representation makes it obvious what the changes are. #AirQuality
A good tour of Israel-Iran developments by a respected observer:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-68825752
The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back
https://poliverso.org/display/0477a01e-303a1773-f3448fbaa4036f00
The Minimalistic Dillo Web Browser Is Back Over the decades web browsers have changed from the fairly lightweight and nimble HTML document vi…
Remembering ESPN's Chris Mortensen, who changed how the NFL is covered https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5480419/2024/05/13/chris-mortensen-espn-nfl/
#Jupyter Notebooks are great.
That said, one PITA is the extra cruft saved in the file. Someone sends an updated Notebook, "I only changed 2 lines, can you look?", but when I do a file comparison, there's 100s of changed lines. To make any sense of it, I'd have to upload both to a Jupyter server, open, clear all cell outputs, save, download to my PC, and then compare.
…
Please, please think about the language you use and that you let others use in front of you. If you don’t call out derogatory words about people who are somehow regarded as different, hate is normalised and you’re complicit.
I was having a drink on a warm spring evening – then a nail bomb exploded just feet away
Q&A with Ukraine's Cyberpolice Department chief Yevhenii Panchenko on his role after Russia's invasion, battling pro-Russian hacking groups, and more (Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/12/how-
This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.00734 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_mat…
On the Control of a Leading-Edge Vortex & its Liftoff on a Cranked, Swept Back Wing
H. Kalyankar, L. Taubert, I. Wygnanski
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08249
Did you know that the names Jacob and James are doublets, i.e. have the same etymological origin?
The former stems from the earlier Latin form of "Iacobus", while the latter from its Vulgar Latin alteration "Iacomus". Went a bit far from a single changed letter.
It's kind of interesting, given that many other languages have only a single form (e.g. "Jakub" in Polish).
#English
UK assures Ukraine of support after media reports of Trump-Cameron peace plan discussion: https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/14/uk-assures-ukraine.html
A co powiecie na testy, które padają w trudny do zrozumienia sposób, jeżeli nazwa hosta ma 12 znaków? Wygląda to tak, że prompt basha wchodzi w wyjście i psuje dopasowanie w jednym środowisku, a w innym środowisku, z krótszą nazwą hosta, wszystko działa.
Okazuje się, że przyczyną było wstawienie złej ścieżki do pliku nadpisującego bashrc, kiedy dodawano wsparcie zsh do #ArgComplete. Zgaduję…
I think this is the "final" version of the throughhole Arduino. Changed the resistors to 1/4W, moved everything around a bit to make more room for the ICSP port. Should be fairly easy to solder and might not catch fire. #electronics #arduino
Some time has elapsed since I first (and last) used the ALMA Helpdesk… #ALMA #AlmaHelpdesk #AlmaObservatory
Woa, just in time 😅
@… v0.18.0 just landed on pypi and conda-forge
For an overview of all new features and improvements, see
https://github.com/…
Today, 16 years ago, Debian published a security advisory announcing CVE-2008-0166, a severe bug in their OpenSSL package that effectively broke the random number generator and limited the key space to a few ten thousand keys. The vulnerability affected Debian Ubuntu between 2006 and 2008. In 2007, an email signature system called DKIM was introduced. Is it possible that people configured DKIM in 2007, never changed their key, and are still vulnerable to CVE-2008-0166?
Since my Dad gave me a pocket knife when I was about eight, I've always carried a pocket knife of one sort of another. About twenty years ago I was given a classic Swiss Army knife and mostly it lives in the bottom of my EDC satchel. Realised yesterday that since the laws changed in NSW, I could be arrested for having one in public.
What the BBC wasn't reporting this morning.
Flour massacre: How #Gaza food killings unfolded, and Israel’s story changed | Israel War on Gaza News | Al Jazeera
"Desperate to play catch-up to Facebook and Twitter, the company shut down one of its most prescient projects…To executives, #GoogleReader may have seemed like a humble feed aggregator built on boring technology. But for users, it was a way of organizing the internet, for making sense of the web, for collecting all the things you care about no matter its location or type, and helping you m…
Las Vegas Raiders sign veteran interior offensive lineman Cody Whitehair before 2024 NFL Draft https://www.yardbarker.com/nfl/articles/las_vegas_raiders_sign_veteran_interior_offensi…
O.J. Simpson dead at 76: Revisiting the famous white Bronco chase that changed media in America
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/o-j-sim
For News24's Friday Briefing today, I wrote on the connection between #Rwanda and #Gaza, in how one developed the idea of #genocide – and how the other is doing so again.
Phillip de Wet | 30 years ago, Rwanda changed genocide. Gaza is on track to change it again
https://www.news24.com/news24/opinions/fridaybriefing/phillip-de-wet-30-years-ago-rwanda-changed-genocide-gaza-is-on-track-to-change-it-again-20240404
Help Me to Understand this Commit! -- A Vision for Contextualized Code Reviews
Michael Unterkalmsteiner, Deepika Badampudi, Ricardo Britto, Nauman bin Ali
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.09528
Be careful not to post links to setwitter[.]com or netflitwitter[.]com on the birdsite. Users on the iOS client might see them as something entirely different, as the official app is now quietly replacing any (lower-case) sequence of "twitter" anywhere(!) in URLs to "x".
If only someone had registered for the "Mastering Regular Expressions" undergraduate course…
#Twitter
So, I upgraded to KDE Plasma 6 yesterday. My computer rebooted and greeted me with a black screen. Fun!
It had changed the default session to be Wayland. Everything was fine when I changed it back to X11.
Looks like Wayland and NVIDIA is still not a thing. :drgn_sad: (At least not on my hardware)
#linux #kde
Feeling stupid, because I’m sure there has to be a discernible reason for many #Perl IO::Compress::* modules getting a version bump, especially since the ones changed all seem #xzutils-related. However, all I can find changed between the 2.207 versions ( Feb 24) and the 2.211 (Yesterday) is the version number …
Whatever your thoughts on Aaron Peskin, it's unfortunate many SFans lack the political literacy to understand that the mayor, not city supervisors, controls departments like police.
He doesn't get a say in what police do in his district, for better or worse.
https://www.sfc…
the fact they slowly changed Eren Jäger's name to „Yeager” so Americans knew how to pronounce it is crazy
"does a distributed brain work like a CRDT?"
"do each of the arms operate like an octopus?"
"does it act strategically so that when notified by one limb of a vastly changed threat landscape it can anticipate it?"
"what happens if multiple things surprise it before the synapses can sync the cluster?"
more gelbrain dystopia stuff
"After using the feature for a while, I can say that this has completely changed the way I interact with the #fediverse for me, and has allowed me to be much more mindful with the time I spend on here. "
@… on
#SpringCleaning. Changed the curtains, etc. #TealLensman is much airier now.
Images files were pronounced G if until the French makers of the squeezable Lemon Juice product named Jif took it to court. But it was thrown out and so the Jif product name was changed to Cif; and so people using the Graphic Interchange Format realised they could now call the file Jif instead of Gif, so they do.
And they are in fact wrong.
#11tyconf
O.J. Simpson dead at 76: Revisiting the famous white Bronco chase that changed media in America
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/o-j-sim
Now, On the Internet, Will Everyone Know if You’re a Child?
https://fpf.org/blog/now-on-the-internet-will-everyone-know-if-youre-a-child/
@…
Match and Bumble have lost $40B in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder…
Flour massacre: How Gaza food killings unfolded, and Israel’s story changed
At least 112 Palestinians were killed [by the Israeli army] after waiting for much-needed aid in Gaza.
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2024/3/1/fl
🎞️ From the blitz to Ukraine: has sheltering underground changed? – in pictures
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2024/mar/26/from-the-blitz-to-ukraine-has-sheltering-underground-c…
Match and Bumble have lost $40B in market value since 2021, as they struggle to grow their $4.2B in 2023 subscription revenue and young users balk at paying (J. Edward Moreno/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/03/12/business/dating-apps-tinder…
2024 NFL offseason: Projecting performances of running backs who changed teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-offseason-projecting-performances-of-running-backs-who-changed-teams
Retrograde 🎸🔫🎭
Dramatized post-apocalyptic dramedy series | Total listening time: 3h 43m
On March 13th, 2019 the world was forever changed in an instant when creatures that would later be known as 'Critters’ descended upon our world. This is the story of juvenile individuals living their best life in the scarr...
https://www.
Feeling stupid, because I’m sure there has to be a discernible reason for many #Perl IO::Compress::* modules getting a version bump, especially since the ones changed all seem #xzutils-related. However, all I can find changed between the 2.207 versions ( Feb 24) and the 2.211 (Yesterday) is the version number …
The NYTimes site has changed its navigation setup yet again. I can't keep up. Now the hamburger is gone (good) but the things that were under it have moved, or were maybe always, somewhere I have trouble explaining.
A very minor case, I admit, but seriously, consider the cost to users of changing your UI all the time.
#nyt
Remembering ESPN’s Chris Mortensen, who changed how the NFL is covered https://theathletic.com/5480419/2024/05/13/chris-mortensen-espn-nfl/
Military medic: "The nature of the war has changed": https://benborges.xyz/2024/05/04/military-medic-the.html
Twelve horses died around the Kentucky Derby last year. Little has changed since
As Churchill Downs prepares to host the 150th Kentucky Derby on Saturday a darker anniversary looms.
One year ago, 12 horses died at Churchill Downsin the days and weeks surrounding America’s biggest race.
Twelve dead at one track in one month. Those horses were no different than the ones on the backside and the racing cards this time around.
For racing fans and runners’ connections Der…
The physical and psychological effects of these different versions of Covid
– the short and the long
– are oddly parallel to its political consequences.
The disease turns out to be its own metaphor.
We are all suffering from political long Covid now.
The early drama is over.
A series of lingering misfortunes has replaced it.
As with long Covid, different countries are suffering in different ways, trapped in their own private miseries.
The shoc…
2024 NFL offseason: Projecting performances of quarterbacks who changed teams https://www.nfl.com/news/2024-nfl-offseason-projecting-performances-of-quarterbacks-who-changed-teams
We express our profound and sincere gratitude to the remarkable 7000 individuals who wholeheartedly participated in the The world has changed! Stand up! Protect Europe! : https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/25/we-express-our.html
Documentary sequel "Food, Inc 2" covers a lot of ground,
from the conditions of workers to local farming initiatives,
and some have real impact, such as the campaign to ensure that mostly migrant labourers are paid a decent wage for picking fruit.
Kenner said he was “shocked” at one of the film’s most striking revelations:
Less than 15 cents in the dollar of food production goes to farmers.
The bulk of the profit is in turning healthy food into
This Week in Ukraine S2 E8 – How 10 years of Russian occupation changed Crimea: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/02/this-week-in.html
2024 NFL free agency: Three ways WR landscape has changed with Mike Evans, Tee Higgins now off the market
https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/2024-…
The Word has Changed! Stand up! Protect Europe!: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/29/the-word-has.html
Rare Tornado Spinning the ‘Wrong’ Direction Forms Over Oklahoma
A powerful anticyclonic tornado uprooted trees and damaged some buildings on the night of April 30,
and a second unusual twister changed direction, doubling back on its path
https://www.