A months-long pull request for iD (#OpenStreetMap’s default editor) to allow it to display #WikimediaCommons photos similar to other street-level photo services like @… and Mapillary was recently unblocked:
This is a pretty unhinged interview conducted by #MorePerfectUnion. I am not an economist but I can see a lot of wrong stuff this interviewee is spouting. Sadly, too many people subscribe to his wrong ideas.
https://youtu.be/IGb2210QyJw
So this was *very* good. Self-contained prequel to Friday the 13th, i.e. Jason's origin story. Tense, gory and a bit melodramatic, but top shelf if #horror is your jam.
And they did a spectacular job with the production design and the costumes, bringing 1972 to life extremely well. Lots of era-appropriate cultural references.
Kind of a special, unique vibe.
RE: #Sierpiński triangle frequently appears in…
At 27 pages into Gil Duršn’s new book “The Nerd Reich” I came full stop at this sentence:
“As many political schools of thought do, these technolibertarians make a philosophy out of a personality defect.”
Simply and elegantly stated. The various techno-optimistic philosophies running around Silicon Valley and the venture capital community are toxic and inhumane. We are desperately in need of a new tech manifesto that puts human wellbeing, acceptance, compassion and love as first principals. Why do we write code if not for this? The current direction of technology leadership has taken a wrong turn onto a dark and destructive path. This needs to change.
This is a great book so far. Highly recommend it.
#GilDuran #TheNerdReich #Tech
Mathematical analyses of #Wordle is one of my favorite microgenres of #YouTube videos.
https://youtu.be/h-Rusd72W7U
This Stone Wall Seems to Have Finally Settled Debate About The Town That Became Paris https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/this-stone-wall-seems-to-have-finally-settled-debate-about-the-town-that-became-paris/
AI may eventually kill us all, but first it will make us miserable.
You have probably heard of the security weakness in the PHP programming language. If not, it is urgent that you become informed on this issue. It affects a massive number of websites and internal applications. Hackers can bypass security credentials and get full access to servers. Patches are available and should be applied as soon as possible.
Because we have entered a heavy activity period before the December holidays, many companies are in lock-down mode. No one wants to risk upgrades during the most busy season of the year. But this is an exception. A five-alarm fire, if you will. The patches are easier than the Year-2000 event, but much more critical to get done now.
Best wishes to my IT colleagues, and my sympathies.