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After over a decade, Resolute Forest Product’s multimillion-dollar lawsuit against Greenpeace Canada is over.

For more than ten years, this corporate giant has sought to stop Greenpeace Canada from speaking out about its logging practices. These efforts to silence us are now over. This is excellent news for Greenpeace Canada, civil society and the planet.

However there are still battles to be won

X/Twitter finds my activity suspicious. Of multiple accounts. Because I am using VPNs? Because I don't post? Because I am logging in every few months? I haven't even used my delete script on those accounts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jB1-z6LbX5w

Using #PSR-3 placeholders properly in #PHP (and other awesome alliterations).
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@…

Generally, I think delegating your login to another provider (e.g. “Log in with Facebook”) is dangerously awful short-term thinking, but for phone-specific applications like buying an eSIM, the combination of logging in with Apple and then using Apple Pay, is delightful to me as an end user.

Mosaic Forest Management Only Has Contempt
(Background: "Logging near cemetery a 'shock' for Port Alberni residents") Dear Editor, I am not shocked. Mosaic’s (formerly Island Timberlands and Timberwest) recent logging adjacent to the cemetery and Hole in the Wall shows in the worst way that it respects the dead as much as it respects streams, watersheds, public access and amenities, wildfire risk, and wildlife habitat.

A number of Apple users say they were logged out of their Apple ID across multiple devices on April 26 and forced to reset their password before logging back in (Chance Miller/9to5Mac)
https://9to5mac.com/2024/04/26/signed-out-of-apple-id-account-pr…

Apple users are being locked out of their Apple IDs with no explanation - 9to5Mac
There appears to be an increasingly widespread Apple ID outage of some sort impacting users tonight. A number of people...

This is straight up BS. "Public Safety risk" 🤮 🤮 😤
"Mosaic Forest Management says trees came down due to public safety risk"
They logged it because they can.! Likely also because they are readying to sell the land to limit their own liability because it is adjacent to a popular trail and nature spot on the river called "The Hole in the Wall"
#PortAlberni

Global heating, land clearing and the ‘extinction vortex’: the fight to save Australia’s koalas 🐨 😢
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2024/mar/21/global-heating-land-clearing…

From Ben Parfitt
🧵/10
Twenty years ago, an insect attack of biblical proportions in British Columbia’s forests became a hot-button topic.
Thanks to unusually warm winters (guess why), mountain pine beetles exploded in number in the province’s interior forests killing millions upon millions of lodgepole pine trees.
The provincial government responded by approving huge increases in logging so that economic value might be “salvaged” from the dead trees.

There's been a thread about dependencies lately and the challenge of convincing developers to look at the full dependency chain.
I once maintained a C binary that included a PostScript interpreter, a JPEG decoder, a JavaScript interpreter, and a number of other utterly irrelevant pieces causing a huge factor increase in the size of the binary.
The culprit: A single logging statement that invoked a general-purpose printer that could print web stuff. Switching to sprintf fixe…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01796 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache
Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as the prerequisite step for various log analysis tasks. Although a variety of log parsing approaches have been proposed, their performance on complicated log data remains compromised due to the use of human-crafted rules or learning-based models with limited training data. The recent emergence of powerful large language models (LLMs) demonstrates their vast pre-trained knowledge related to code and logging, making it promisin…

"Loggers have ‘grabbed’ around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC"
#Trees #Wood #Logging

Loggers have 'grabbed' around 1m hectares of Indigenous land in DRC - Carbon Brief
Large swathes of land in the global south are managed by local communities and Indigenous people, but their land rights are under threat

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.08838 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csLG_…

Predicting Traffic Congestion at Urban Intersections Using Data-Driven Modeling
Traffic congestion at intersections is a significant issue in urban areas, leading to increased commute times, safety hazards, and operational inefficiencies. This study aims to develop a predictive model for congestion at intersections in major U.S. cities, utilizing a dataset of trip-logging metrics from commercial vehicles across 4,800 intersections. The dataset encompasses 27 features, including intersection coordinates, street names, time of day, and traffic metrics (Kashyap et al., 2019).…

If all my money can be stolen by logging into a scam crypto app—why would I trust my money to cryptocurrency?
As much as people claim the government or “New World Order” will steal my money—I’ll trust the banks thank you very much.

Nationalize the logging industry.

Logging into Threads every once in a while and I don't understand how people prefer it. It feels like live TV where a bunch of stuff people think I might like is pumped into my home and I have no control over anything.

#ToolTip #Symfony bundle for logging activity logs to #ElasticSearch

Doubly-Robust Off-Policy Evaluation with Estimated Logging Policy
Kyungbok Lee, Myunghee Cho Paik
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.01830 https://

Doubly-Robust Off-Policy Evaluation with Estimated Logging Policy
We introduce a novel doubly-robust (DR) off-policy evaluation (OPE) estimator for Markov decision processes, DRUnknown, designed for situations where both the logging policy and the value function are unknown. The proposed estimator initially estimates the logging policy and then estimates the value function model by minimizing the asymptotic variance of the estimator while considering the estimating effect of the logging policy. When the logging policy model is correctly specified, DRUnknown a…

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

LOGGING ON

Google’s reCAPTCHA has pretty much stopped working for me in Firefox. It will just ask me to train its driver vision thing over and over. If I happen to get into the other “type” (the “elimination” kind), it works after a few rounds. The “click all squares that have part of a motorcycle” kind seems to never have an end.
I need to use this system to do all kinds of stuff online, including even logging in to Air Canada.
Forcing me to use a bad third party vendor like this is really…

Putting Language into Context Using Smartphone-Based Keyboard Logging
Florian Bemmann, Timo Koch, Maximilian Bergmann, Clemens Stachl, Daniel Buschek, Ramona Schoedel, Sven Mayer
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.05180

Putting Language into Context Using Smartphone-Based Keyboard Logging
While the study of language as typed on smartphones offers valuable insights, existing data collection methods often fall short in providing contextual information and ensuring user privacy. We present a privacy-respectful approach - context-enriched keyboard logging - that allows for the extraction of contextual information on the user's input motive, which is meaningful for linguistics, psychology, and behavioral sciences. In particular, with our approach, we enable distinguishing language co…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.01796 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csSE_…

LILAC: Log Parsing using LLMs with Adaptive Parsing Cache
Log parsing transforms log messages into structured formats, serving as the prerequisite step for various log analysis tasks. Although a variety of log parsing approaches have been proposed, their performance on complicated log data remains compromised due to the use of human-crafted rules or learning-based models with limited training data. The recent emergence of powerful large language models (LLMs) demonstrates their vast pre-trained knowledge related to code and logging, making it promisin…

Is it just me, or are there more users that aren't logging in regularly than there are registering?
Like we have an abandonment issue or an absolutely MASSIVE false activity reporting issue....😬
Doesn't feel so "alive" here these days.
#Fedi #Fediverse #Mastodon #SocialMedia

In B.C.'s forests, a debate over watershed science with lives and billions at stake
Sunshine Coast logging plan highlights divide over best way to assess flooding risk
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/bc-watersheds-disaste…

Vor einer Woche wurde eine #Sicherheitslücke bekannt, die das Event #Logging unter #Windows abstürzen lässt. Lässt sich remote auf allen Windows Clients und Servern der selb…

User asks for advice on whether to stop logging ICMP traffic in their OT environment due to cost, despite knowing it may prevent detection of certain attacks. They seek opinions/alternatives on handling large volumes of ICMP traffic. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1aswds8/

Nationalize the logging industry.

Neato. #tailscale

Helldivers 2 Is So Popular Players Are Squatting Servers https://www.404media.co/helldivers-2-is-so-popular-players-are-squatting-servers/

Finally sent out a follow up email after the great #DWebYVR coworking tech social on Jan 25th.
I'm getting in the habit of logging the emails on the website https://dwebyvr.org/wiki/DWeb_Coworkin…

"Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees"
#SolomonIslands #Trees
https://

Solomon Islands Tribes Sell Carbon Credits, Not Their Trees
In a South Pacific nation ravaged by logging, several tribes joined together to sell “high integrity” carbon credits on international markets. The project not only preserves their highly biodiverse rainforest, but it funnels life-changing income to Indigenous landowners.

In which I brush up and release (0.5.0) the “topfew” program I built back in 2021/22 and have been neglecting, but noticed that I was using it all the time so maybe others will too: https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/202x/2024/04/12/Topfew-release

Topfew Release 0.5

Why can’t I log #sex as an activity on #Strava. I could really do with logging those calories burned. It’s great cardio 🤩

Is it just me, or does anyone else find that when logging onto live chat, they are always “A little busier than normal"
What even *is* normal anymore?

For a second I thought we had another log4j attack

i started logging my tv shows on serializd.com. the ui is still a bit confusing but at least i can make nice little lists and write down what i think about the stuff i watched...
https://www.serializd.com/user/minomiro/profile

From STAND.earth
BBC just dropped a bombshell – exposing coal-behemoth-turned-'sustainable' energy company, Drax, for logging rare and irreplaceable old growth forests in British Columbia to burn for electricity.
Subsidies meant for real climate solutions are going to Drax, having received millions from the Canadian government and a shocking $7.6 billion USD in UK green subsidies to help it burn the world’s most precious forests.
🧵1/7

Last night I found a fix for a show stopping bug that was killing a Drupal upgrade project I've been working on and had me completely stumped: for some pages on the upgraded site, we were getting 502 "bad gateway'" errors. There was no obvious error & no debugging/logging info whatsoever. It was a total enigma. The fix I (luckily!) found was extraordinarily obscure & non-intuitive, but very simple. It's described here:

This literally offends me every time I am confronted with it 😡 Has #Twitter always been this way? Impossible to browse chronologically someone's public feed without logging in first?
What a dumb-ass "Find me on Closed Social" scam.

Starting to get a a bit of data from running these #waspos #pinetime logging apps I've written.
So I've been writing a log-viewing app of course.
My mood over the last most-of-a-week has been generally constantly good, with blips down mostly on work-day morning awakenings. The actual work doesn't make me sad, just having to get out of bed and do it. Even though I'm very lucky, that is only 3 days a week.
Step rates and heart-rates peak around the ten-minute exercise times as you'd expect and range about what you'd want I think other than the outliers that are probably just data glitches.
Higher in the late mornings, trending down towards bedtime.
Needs more data to track how it changes over time.
The screen show here shows the log-viewer and has all the logs selected: so it has bar-graphs diving up into 6 daily blocks, each of which is split and colored by activity and it's height corresponds to wakefulness.
Over that is drawn the heart-rate graph in red and the step-rate graph in blue.
The mood-graph is near the top coz I'm mostly happy. It'd probably clash more with the heart-rate and steps-count graphs for a miserable person, compounding their misery

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2305.11812 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_sta…

Off-policy evaluation beyond overlap: partial identification through smoothness
Off-policy evaluation (OPE) is the problem of estimating the value of a target policy using historical data collected under a different logging policy. OPE methods typically assume overlap between the target and logging policy, enabling solutions based on importance weighting and/or imputation. In this work, we approach OPE without assuming either overlap or a well-specified model by considering a strategy based on partial identification under non-parametric assumptions on the conditional mean …

Using #PSR-3 placeholders properly in #PHP (and other awesome alliterations).
https://peakd.com/hive-168588/@…

Saw a 'young’ #oldgrowth (80 yrs?) or old second growth Douglas Fir on the drive today. This logging truck appears to be holding the entire tree. The bottom of the tree is the dark log on the top left. Resolution isn’t high enough to see the rings.
I admit I have a hard time with all of it these days. Mostly because I know none of the management is anywhere near sustainable …

Efficient Fault Tolerance for Pipelined Query Engines via Write-ahead Lineage
Ziheng Wang, Alex Aiken
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.08062 https://

Efficient Fault Tolerance for Pipelined Query Engines via Write-ahead Lineage
Modern distributed pipelined query engines either do not support intra-query fault tolerance or employ high-overhead approaches such as persisting intermediate outputs or checkpointing state. In this work, we present write-ahead lineage, a novel fault recovery technique that combines Spark's lineage-based replay and write-ahead logging. Unlike Spark, where the lineage is determined before query execution, write-ahead lineage persistently logs lineage at runtime to support dynamic task dependenc…

Miami should municipalize the logging industry.

Ich habe für einen Freund eine minimale Webanwendung aufgesetzt. Basis dafür ist der Digital-O-Mat: die Mitarbeiter kriegen eine Liste von kurzen Aussagen angezeigt und können sich zwischen "stimme zu", "neutral" und "stimme nicht zu" entscheiden. Das alles passiert per JavaScript im Browser. Nichts geht zurück an den Server. Der Server liefert nur statische Inhalte aus, das Logging habe ich abgeschaltet. Cookies oder so gibt es nicht.
Ich kann es nicht f…

Saints re-sign S Tyrann Mathieu to 2-year deal: Reports https://theathletic.com/5324591/2024/03/07/saints-sign-tyrann-mathieu/

Saints re-sign S Tyrann Mathieu to 2-year deal: Reports
The New Orleans Saints are re-signing safety Tyrann Mathieu to a two-year, $13 million deal, according to multiple reports. He’s spent the past two seasons with New Orleans after signing a three-year deal with the franchise in 2022. Mathieu, 31, is coming of the best season of his Saints tenure logging four interceptions in 2023. The three-time first-team All-Pro is a New Orleans native who played five seasons with the Cardinals, one with the Texans and three seasons with the Kansas City Chie…

Remember when multi-factor authentication was supposed to protect personal data from third parties?
About that.
From: @…
https://flipboard.social/@TechDesk/112<…

LogSnare: A web application playground for testing, preventing, and logging IDOR vulnerabilities. https://github.com/sea-erkin/log-snare

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02862 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

FastLog: An End-to-End Method to Efficiently Generate and Insert Logging Statements
Logs play a crucial role in modern software systems, serving as a means for developers to record essential information for future software maintenance. As the performance of these log-based maintenance tasks heavily relies on the quality of logging statements, various works have been proposed to assist developers in writing appropriate logging statements. However, these works either only support developers in partial sub-tasks of this whole activity; or perform with a relatively high time cost …

Ever notice how some web sites put you into a sign up flow every time you try to log in?
I infer a company’s focus by how this works.
If they prioritize logging in, they’re focused on customers.
If they prioritize signing up, they’re focused on growth.
This also informs who won the internal arguments: people who care about users or people who care about sales.
I’ll take a company/service that’s focused on the existing relationship I already pay them to maintain, …

Ich habe für einen Freund eine minimale Webanwendung aufgesetzt. Basis dafür ist der Digital-O-Mat: die Mitarbeiter kriegen eine Liste von kurzen Aussagen angezeigt und können sich zwischen "stimme zu", "neutral" und "stimme nicht zu" entscheiden. Das alles passiert per JavaScript im Browser. Nichts geht zurück an den Server. Der Server liefert nur statische Inhalte aus, das Logging habe ich abgeschaltet. Cookies oder so gibt es nicht.
Ich kann es nicht f…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2211.07092 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Offline Estimation of Controlled Markov Chains: Minimaxity and Sample Complexity
In this work, we study a natural nonparametric estimator of the transition probability matrices of a finite controlled Markov chain. We consider an offline setting with a fixed dataset, collected using a so-called logging policy. We develop sample complexity bounds for the estimator and establish conditions for minimaxity. Our statistical bounds depend on the logging policy through its mixing properties. We show that achieving a particular statistical risk bound involves a subtle and interestin…

Any good #water logging apps for #LinuxMobile?
Currently I use #Waterminder on iOS, so ideally I’d be looking for something similar
(that would ideally integrate with some kind of health api/app like healthkit on ios)
#Linux #OpenSource

You should nationalize the logging industry.

You should nationalize the logging industry.

Nationalize the logging industry.