Have often witnessed a dodgy guy dealing drugs from his front door near my kids' school. Want to shop him but have also seen him being kind to elderly neighbours and feeding local cats, so clearly he's not a total scumbag. Don't know what to do.
Israeli soldiers punished over vandalism of Jesus statue in Lebanon
Two soldiers will be removed from combat duty and receive 30 days of military detention, Israel's military says.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cew790ppn8jo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
“There's no such thing as creative and non-creative people, only people who use their creativity and people who don’t.” - Brené Brown
#WorldCreativityDay #WorldCreativityDay2026 #CanadianPhotographer
Got an email saying that w3w investment opens tomorrow:
"We’ve seen thousands of pre-registrations and our investment round may fill up fast, so log in early to avoid missing out."
Interested to see how this pans out. Popcorn, anyone?
20m agoFrame 30,382 of 207,800
#thefarside #farside #comic https://www.thefarside.com/2026/04/01/4
“Oh, wonderful! Look at this, Etta—another mouth to feed.”
I asked attendees of #btconf, which social they use. Multiple answers where possible. Of those who answered (387) it looks like this.
New, by me:
'A 24-year-old British national and senior member of the cybercrime group “Scattered Spider” has pleaded guilty to wire fraud conspiracy and aggravated identity theft. Tyler Robert Buchanan admitted his role in a series of text-message phishing attacks in the summer of 2022 that allowed the group to hack into at least a dozen major technology companies and steal tens of millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrency from investors.
Buchanan’s hacker handle “Tylerb” once graced a leaderboard in the English-language criminal hacking scene that tracked the most accomplished cyber thieves. Now in U.S. custody and awaiting sentencing, the Dundee, Scotland native is facing the possibility of more than 20 years in prison."
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/04/scattered-spider-member-tylerb-pleads-guilty/
31m agoRE: https://mas.to/@stevegis_ssg/116438107437415663
If you're managing people, it's always a good idea to give them a regular stream of feedback whether that's "this can improve" or "this is going great" -- probably a bit of both.
1) If you let people know what they're doing right, telling them when something hasn't gone great is usually less stressful in both directions.
2) The world is as uncertain as ever -- you can help people a tiny bit by introducing some clarity on how they're doing at work. In the absence of feedback, people may create their own narrative that isn't as positive as you might hope.
The ratio of people who say they don't need regular feedback to people who really don't benefit from it is like 50:1. Many people will try to appear low-maintenance when they really do need regular checkups.
(I was going to make a "check the oil" analogy, but that might've gotten a bit weird. It's a good idea to stay away from "dipstick" analogies in the workplace...)
'We're the best servants anyone could dream of!': AI superintelligence has no need to enslave humans because we're already bowing to it
Anyone who uses the adjective "cheeky" to describe his choice of mediocre food or drink is invariably a cunt.
The 1960s British far right has become the 2020s full on Nazis
The 1960s Conservatives have become the 2020s far right
The 1960s Labour Party has become the 2020s Conservatives
And the Green Party has become the Labour Party
And Labour was never able to solve the inherent tension between jobs and the environment. Jobs always had to come first. It's jobs before everything until there's nothing left.
I remember while working as a design apprentice at Pierre Cardin in the mid 80s in Paris sneaking down the secret side staircase by the private fitting rooms to watch Prince get fitted by M. Cardin through a one way mirror. I remember being struck by how petite he was up close & his high heel, women’s style boots.
Thinking back, there should not be a secret staircase with one way mirror tho. Omg.
Got to see him perform there too. Maybe the best concert ever.
#prince #music #fashion
39m agoOver 1,100 musicians call for Eurovision boycott over Israel's inclusion
#News #GCN #GayCommunityNews #LGBTIreland
https://gcn.ie/musicians-call-for-eurovision-boycott-over-israels-inclusion/
Thinking how much I hate wiring and wondering about optical fiber powered sensors. That is, send enough laser power down fiber that small photo electric cell harvests, which in turn powers small sensors, their values multiplexed back down the fiber.
Here's a paper from 2024 along those lines.
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/10555161
Not sure if I understand FBG's fully, are they a way to reinject signals and/or an optical modulating technique? Like could you use only optical components to sense temperature: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distributed_temperature_sensing
#electronics #fiberoptics
Role of US officials killed in crash in Mexico under scrutiny
The two died in a car crash after a Mexican-led operation to destroy a clandestine drug lab.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c86expy881qo?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=rss
So I read the article, and I'm not sure I agree.
The code is not what makes an open source project. Hell, most open source projects are just variants of closed source stuff anyway. Plus, you could fork a project pretty much anytime and make changes. What makes a project remarkable and worth using is the collective of folk contributing.
So you used an AI bot to "clean room" a project for a few bucks. Awesome. How much will fixing those CVEs cost?
It just seems weird to me that there's a panic about disrupting the business model of "let's work together to make something useful we'll give away for free". The AI threat is just a re-wrap of what AWS has been doing for years.
(Plus, gonna bet that the folk involved in those projects in spite of AI are going to be really high demand once the companies that used Malus to "get around" OSS licenses realize they paid for a dead end with tons of exploits.)
Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want
https://www.theverge.com/tldr/915176/nft-metaverse-ai-weirdos
What NFTs, AI and the metaverse tell us about “thought leadership”
