Amundsen-Scott South Pole station via https://www.usap.gov/videoclipsandmaps/spWebCam.cfm

#SouthPole #antarctica #view #webcam

First Malware Built Specifically for Car Head Units Fuels Botnet https://www.securityweek.com/first-malware-built-specifically-for-car-head-units-fuels-botnet/

You know what's amazing?

Nobody needs to ask Tim Berners-Lee for permission to launch a website.

Picard management tip: When you've gotten enough sleep, an impossible task becomes an interesting challenge.

I didn’t even realize there was a lunar #eclipse this evening until I stepped outside and realized the clouds had vanished and there it was! 8x zoom, 10 sec exposure on iPhone just outside of Los Angeles. Phone cameras have gotten kind of amazing in recent years. #lunareclipse

#TIL that .dev is now a valid TLD

The number of internal totally unsecured experiments accidentally routeable from the public internet must have gone up tremendously when that went live 🤦‍♂️

"In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired MediaWiki’s most influential developer and disbanded the team whose entire job was to listen to volunteers. Most of the people they fired were union organizers. #Wikipedia’s editors are now threatening to strike in solidarity. The Foundation is sitting on $296 million in reserves and a freshly profitable AI revenue stream. This is a confrontation with global implications."

https://medium.com/regarding-wikipedia/wikipedia-is-doing-the-capitalist-thing-56a393232943

🧵 1/3

#union #unions #classism #poverty

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@darkuncle/117168934021641150

buuuut maybe turning a gentle corner is enough for now 😅 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD6Uynzlk2A

I sure hope Ottawa fines the American companies that deign to incorrectly label maps Canadians depend on.

As an aside: this is why data sovereignty is important.

🔥 SiliconGraphics Indigo2 on FPGA 🔥
Project CYAN - by clock 💎
https://www.instagram.com/reels/DcjjgUQPQlt/

IDK, it's hilarious when the cat or dog does the butt scoot thing.
#AI

I lost my Grandmother on this day in 2015. She and Grandpa gave up their retirement (and everything) to raise me. They rocked it as best they could. Rather than have a proper goodbye I was on a plane to Texas to do "critical" and "important" work that no one else could do. My team at the time was appreciative of the sacrifice, even then I regretted it. I accomplished and sacrificed a lot that year.

A few months later some idiot consultant turned VP blew up my department and stuck me in a crappy role with folks who knew nothing about me, and my accomplishments. And they didn't care. I received 50% of my annual bonus because I was "new to the role," they didn't know how to judge my entire year of performance, didn't bother to ask, and didn't listen.

TL;DR: It's probably/maybe good to go above and beyond at work. But totally not worth it to miss the important moments.

I'll regret this for the rest of my life and will share this anecdote each anniversary with anyone who bothers to read it.

#CorpLife

Increased filtering (by various automated or semi-automated means) by journals and other curation sites may help somewhat, but I (somewhat reluctantly) am coming to the conclusion that in the new era of proof abundance, the high-quality and well-curated portion of the literature will become an increasingly small fraction of a much larger ocean of lower-quality (though often technically correct) results; but they may, by the same token, become the most valuable data sources for both the further internal development of mathematics, and its applications to other disciplines. (4/4)

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/117169038028698262

thread is +1 insightful

Turns out, the ability to go off-the-cuff on conversations, and chat extemporaneously, is really valuable as you get into the latter years of your career.

Especially when people invite you to things without an agenda or much context, and then when you arrive are all "and let's welcome our main speaker and facilitator!"

😅 😅 😅

looks like we can't outrun the robots either 😬 https://www.reuters.com/sports/chinese-humanoid-robot-lightning-beats-human-100m-world-record-state-media-says-2026-08-22/

Amazon Spiritual Data Radiator continuously emits your organization's most deeply held architectural intentions outward across all Availability Zones, warming adjacent workloads through a proprietary heat-transfer protocol that AWS has determined is the preferred method over the six legacy intention-propagation approaches, which remain available but are no longer documented. Radiance units are measured in BTUs (Belief Throughput Units) per millisecond and billed at $0.0023 per BTU after the first 10,000, which sounds reasonable until you check your Cost Explorer and discover that a single Lambda invocation generates 4.2 million BTUs due to a default configuration setting in the IAM role you did not write. The Free Tier includes one spiritual data radiator per account, active for 12 months, in us-east-1 only, provided you have not previously emitted intentions in that region, which you have.

#aws #AmazonWebServices #CloudComputing #cloud #parody #humor

«A matter of points of view»

This Volkswagen Beach Bomb is one of the 1969 Hot Wheels cars. Notes: This very rare model has an orange and a yellow plastic surfboard sticking out the rear windows. This is a transition piece to the other version (with the wider, weighted base.) Only one is known to exist.. #HotWheels #Redlines #Spectraflame #year1969