Microsoft is planning to build huge AI data centres in Leeds that will drain the River Aire and massively increase carbon emissions. Add your name to help stop the final sign-off: https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/prevent-construction-of-microsoft-hyperscale-datacentres-in-leeds?source=web_share_api&utm_medium=socialshare&utm_source=web_share_api&share=2d4b7a19-9586-44b5-a597-a5eb0c747478
The Jeep Rubicon Childkiller. Celebrate the climate emergency and mow down pedestrians with 5,000 pounds of pointless metal.
Does Europe still believe in human rights? In an op-ed in EUObserver, I warn that the undermining of the rights of LGBTI people serves as the tip of the spear in a broader backlash against human rights protection overall. #WorldPride
https://www.coe.int/en/web/commissioner/-/attacks-on-lgbti-people-are-the-warning-sign-of-a-wider-backlash-against-democracy
Re-Animator 4K : le film culte de Stuart Gordon fraichement restauré (en UHD et Blu-ray)
https://www.on-mag.fr/index.php/video-hd/blu-ray-dvd/28823-re-animator-4k
#hifi #audiophile #homecinema
When I download something and it's 500MB I don't think "wow this must be a really complex project" I think "wow they must be bundling Chrome five times."
Brennpunkt
Current logics in politics be like:
RE: https://oldfriends.live/@paul/117035161701017950
Congress is cheating the American people. When members of Congress enter a nursing home for things like Alzheimer's, (or can't perform their duties, go missing, like Mitch McConnell, etc) they should be removed so their district can have representation. We had a war with England over not having representation. #USPol
Almost inconceivable! Never in my life would I have imagined glaciers melting, giant chunks of Artic and North Pole glaciers calving at so many places, nor frozen tundra thawing out and dangerous release of methane gas. SciAm article from today.
“The Arctic is cooking. Across northern Russia—a region that is famously bitterly cold—temperatures this week have routinely surpassed 90 degrees Fahrenheit (32.2 degrees Celsius), adding to the mountain of broken heat records this summer has racked up so far.
In recent days, the Selagoncy meteorological station, near the border of the Arctic Circle, recorded 93.0 degrees F (33.9 degrees C); another station, Olenyok, logged 90.9 degrees F (32.7 degrees C), according to data collected by weather information service Ogimet and reported by climatologist Maximiliano Herrera. To put that in perspective, these temperatures are on par for Orlando, Fla., at this time of year.”
This area is warming up in general up to four times faster than the average place anywhere else in the world.
#GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #Glaciers #HeatWave #SciAm #ScientificAmerican
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/its-90-degrees-in-the-arctic-right-now/
I think I picked enough blackberries for breakfast but you can never be sure.
Hi all, it's time to take the plunge. I'm looking for one of a few different roles.
1) Penetration tester (or similar offensive security engagements)
I currently lead the application security program for a billion-dollar organization. My experience includes independent research that led to the discovery of dozens of vulnerabilities in more than 20 court and other government platforms. See: https://govtech.cc/
2) Senior software developer
I've been doing development in a lot of different languages, from C to JavaScript/TypeScript, frontend and backend, for 25 years. Before moving to cybersecurity in 2024, I worked on telephony platforms that used Asterisk, Kamailio, and other software. I also briefly led the FreePBX project.
I'm in the U.S., eastern timezone (Connecticut), looking for something remote; I've been remote full time since 2013.
Resume: https://govtech.cc/resume.pdf
Moving My Entire Apartment By Bike
Despite what Water Privatisation did in the UK, the believers in the magic of Privatisation still believe.
They really do have quite a lot in common with a Religious Cult.
This morning in #Amiko, the community #RailsFork:
1. 138 people now in the Matrix space at https://matrix.to/#/#amiko:matrix.org
2. We've had success in running some **major** #Rails apps on experimental forked versions of both `rails` and `railties`, and at running our equivalent of `rails new`.
3. We're building community governance using Sociocracy: https://sociocracy30.org/
4. Work progresses on website, brand, and determining a non-placeholder name
This *is* happening, and we need YOU!
@EUCommission I don't know a lot about international diplomacy, but congratulating Morocco for having mobilized fifty thousand noncombatants to invade an EU member state sounds *strange*.
The fatal Hendra virus was an infamous spillover from bats to horses to humans in Australia in the 1990s. Since then, ecologists, bat experts and virologists have learned a lot about these events, perhaps including mitigating strategies.
“The findings suggested that planting eucalyptus trees that feed bats in winter, when food elsewhere is scarce, could help prevent spillover by drawing bats from all over the country. When there are rare pulses of flowering in remnant winter habitat, the bats leave the cities and farms, and go back to native habitat. Every time this happened in the 25-year study period, there were no spillover events. A pulse of winter flowers rich enough to draw more than 100,000 flying foxes to an individual roost would substantially reduce the risk of spillover, the researchers concluded. And it is possible that a sufficiently large tract of eucalypts could protect the entire country from the virus.”
The post-quantum cryptography work being done is super important and widely ignored. https://eprint.iacr.org/2026/1508
Operators are not standing by.