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I get that some segments of society only care about costs to themselves, but getting an #EV is not just about saving money. Reduced emissions, reduced infrastructure costs, and the associated (and entirely not currently funded) environmental cleanup liability for #fossilfuels all should be factored in. I…

Handing Taxpayers The Climate Cleanup Bill
https://www.levernews.com/handing-taxpayers-the-climate-cleanup-bill/

Handing Taxpayers The Climate Cleanup Bill
New York Gov. Kathy Hochul and Democratic legislative leaders nix a landmark proposal that would have made Hochul’s fossil fuel donors pay for their pollution.

From Bill McKibben
You Flood It You Pay For It
"legislators are opening up another front—”climate superfund” laws that treat disasters like Vermont’s summer flooding as if they were a toxic dump whose cleanup can be charged to the corporation that caused them. That would have been hard even a few years ago, but “climate attribution” science is now robust: it’s increasingly easy to prove that absent global warming we wouldn’t have the endless downpours/droughts/fires"

You flood it, you pay for it.
States are considering 'climate superfund' laws to hold Big Oil accountable

How nice: a plan to collect 1 Mt in macroplastic from the ocean by 2050.
Too bad the USA increased the *yearly* production and export of its primary ingredient by *30 times* that amount in a couple years.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61704<…

Can we just give Boyan Salat a Nobel Prize already? A decade ago his Ocean Cleanup plans to tackle the 5 largest oceanic garbage patches - and the 1,000 rivers that feed most plastics into oceans - were just sketches. Now there are ops all over the world, extracting or intercepting *massive* amounts of plastics (the statistics and visuals in this video are stunning). It's some of the most effective environmental protection work being done anywhere.

gotta catch up on house cleanup debt.

every big, old C project seems to have unused structs litered around;
I've just nuked 66 lines in Mesa:
https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/commit/8b6b327d1b9bc6f6e2053d30911c9d7888e4848d

treewide: Cleanup unused structs (8b6b327d) · Commits · Mesa / mesa · GitLab
vk/wsi: Remove unused struct 'wsi_headless_format' 'wsi_headless_format' appears unused, and seems to have been since initial commit. radv: Remove unused struct 'blit_region' 'blit_region' appears unused, I think since initial commit. r600:...

gotta catch up on house cleanup debt.

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2024-03-19, ogłoszono dwie dziury bezpieczeństwa na liście mailingowej, poświęconej problemom bezpieczeństwa Pythona: "quoted zip-bomb" i "TemporaryDirectory symlink dereference during cleanup". Obie miały dotykać wszystkich aktualnych wydań CPythona.
Tego samego dnia, wydano nowe wersje Pythona 3.10, 3.9 i 3.8. Co ciekawe, nie było wydań dla 3.11 i 3.12.
2024-04-02, w końcu otagowano Pythona 3.11.9. Początkowo, podpis dla archiwum się nie sprawdzał. Dziś już …

Note to self: Wenn man an Mastodon bastelt sollte man danach auch das Media-Cleanup wieder einschalten…

From The Narwhal
Oil spilled by Fraser River sturgeon habitat. Why did it take almost 3 months to start cleaning up?
A landslide in early December caused a spill that First Nations leaders say endangers prime sturgeon habitat in the Fraser River. They’re left wondering why it’s taken so long to address
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Oil spilled by Fraser River sturgeon habitat. Why did it take almost 3 months to start cleaning up?
A landslide in early December caused a spill that First Nations leaders say endangers prime sturgeon habitat in the Fraser River. They’re left wondering why it’s taken so long to address

Today I found the unencrypted content of a macOS Keychain (Big Sur) "secure note" in a log extract intended to show TimeMachine-relevant entries.
This is highly displeasing.
I have not determined absolutely that this was not a side-effect of my massive cleanup/dedupe of secrets management and consolidation of my personal items into a Strongbox (kdbx) vault. However, AFAIK, this was only in a shared keychain that Keychain Access is not even capable of exporting, so... <…

Yet another example of the fossil fuel industry privatizing profits while socializing societal costs. https://geekdom.social/@FantasticalEconomics/111980753342352028

I often make directories during the day named things like, "temp", "test" or "deleteme". This can get annoying when I forget to cleanup and then find myself reissuing mkdir and trying to make "temp2", "test13", etc. … or I end up just smashing the keyboard to create directories named like "jhjkdsh". 😆
Anyway I have now fixed this for myself in the nerdiest way possible!
I create directories named with a timestamp that in…

This script creates a directory named with the current date, followed by the current Swatch .beat (down to "decibeat" level, which gives ≈ 9 seconds of time resolution)
This script creates a directory named with the current date, followed by the current Swatch .beat (down to "decibeat" level, which gives ≈ 9 seconds of time resolution) - README.md

DEV is now understanding why I am mandating cleanup of our libraries. One library is full (over 5k modules) because they don't remove ANY dead code. Compress doesn't work as they never delete. Time to do a backup and wipe it. Then rebuild it somewhat larger and import the backups. They get another reminder about the importance of housecleaning which they will ignore until the next time.

Sellafield have a video about some of their current cleanup, moving some containers out of an ancient temporary storage pond (40 years temporary...). The fun bit for me was the comment that someone had engineered how to get stuff into the pond but never designed how to get it out:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtS8z25juh

On 2024-03-19, two vulnerabilities were announced on #Python #security mailing list: "quoted zip-bomb" and "TemporaryDirectory symlink dereference during cleanup". Both were announced to affect all current #CPython releases.
The same day, security releases were made for Python 3.10, 3.9 and 3.8 branches. So far, so good. However, I found it surprising that there were no releases being made for 3.11 or 3.12.
On 2024-04-02, Python 3.11.9 was tagged. Initially, the signature on source tarball didn't verify. Today, it does verify, but the release still doesn't seem to have been announced. However, what I found the most surprising is the lack of fixes for the security issues announced before! Was the release borked?
So I've checked in more detail… and it turned out that both issues were already fixed in 3.11.8 (and 3.12.2), so the security announcement was wrong. Sigh.
That said, #PyPy is still affected.
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/XELNUX2L3IOHBTFU7RQHCY6OUVEWZ2FG/
https://mail.python.org/archives/list/security-announce@python.org/thread/Q5C6ATFC67K53XFV4KE45325S7NS62LD/
https://discuss.python.org/t/python-3-10-14-3-9-19-and-3-8-19-is-now-available/48993
https://bugs.gentoo.org/927299

From The Narwhal
British Columbia’s multimillion-dollar mining problem
The true cost of cleaning up mine pollution in B.C. is growing, an investigation by The Globe and Mail and The Narwhal has found. If disaster strikes, taxpayers could be stuck with covering the costs
#mining #bcpoli

British Columbia’s multimillion-dollar mining problem
The true cost of cleaning up mine pollution in B.C. is growing, an investigation by The Globe and Mail and The Narwhal has found. If disaster strikes, taxpayers could be stuck with covering the costs

Spatial-Spectral Complexity in Kerr Beam Self-Cleaning
Moshe Labaz, Dr. Pavel Sidorenko
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.13428 https://arxi…

Spatial-Spectral Complexity in Kerr Beam Self-Cleaning
We report on a comprehensive experimental investigation into the spatial-spectral complexity of the laser beam during Kerr-induced beam self-cleaning in graded-index multimode fibers. We demonstrate the self-cleaning of beams using both transform-limited and chirped femtosecond pulses. By utilizing the spectrally resolved imaging technique, we examine variations in beam homogeneity during the beam cleanup process and reveal correlations observed among spatial beam profiles at different waveleng…