yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

Today in 1873, shipwreck survivors are rescued off an ice floe near the coast of Newfoundland. The survivors had drifted on an ice floe for six months & 2,900 kms.
The ship survivors were kept alive by two Inuit named Ipirvik and Taqulittuq

Learn more 👇
https://canadaehx.com/2022/12/20/ipirvik-and-taqulittuq/

Do people seriously not understand how much gatekeeping there is in the statement "you need to understand the #culture of the #fediverse [before you should be here]"?

The Culture of the Fediverse™ is _by design and necessity_ something that can and should evolve. If it is going to succeed it _must_ evolve.

You can't say "everyone is welcome here" and then turn around and say "but only if you adjust to a set of cultural expectations that no one will explain to you or write down."

How to draw a histogram with a SQL query
https://tapoueh.org/blog/2014/02/postgresql-aggregates-and-histograms/

Genuinely the best thread I've seen on Hacker News in years: "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"

So many delightfully niche projects!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232

This is first on Mastodon! Please boost this thread. It’s an important one.

Good morning to readers. Kyiv remains in Ukrainian hands.

Some career news: I’m leaving NPR as part of the layoffs that dramatically reduced the company’s workforce.

I’ve decided to go back into Ukraine to keep reporting.

But this time, alone.

The reason many bosses don’t like employees working from home has little to do with productivity and more to do with the fact they hate working from home.

A lot of trappings of power from corner offices to large staff meetings are lost when they WFH.

https://www.businessinsider.com/work-from-home-return-to-office-sexism-women-bosses-employees-2023-4?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=insider-author-post

My one-liner pull request for Mastodon's online documentation is now open for more than three months. Anyone here on Mastodon that has capabilities to have a quick look at it and approve this change (or at least tell me, why it is not merged)? This would be A-W-E-S-O-M-E. 🙂

https://github.com/mastodon/documentation/pull/1143

#Mastodon #Documentation

Hello Fediverse!

@Flipboard is currently a walled garden.

It's a beautiful, highly curated walled garden filled with content from the worlds best publishers and creators curated by Flipboard's editorial team as well as our community of magazine makers.

But it's still a walled garden. Today that begins to change.

We've moved four of our most popular #curation desks into the Fediverse for you to enjoy.

@NewsDesk
@TechDesk
@CultureDesk
@ScienceDesk

Details below:

https://about.flipboard.com/inside-flipboard/flipboards-editorial-curation-comes-to-mastodon/

"Kids will teach you, if you let them. They'll teach you that getting born is the easy part. Anyone can do that in a day. But becoming a well-adjusted human being? That'll take the rest of your life." https://blog.codinghorror.com/how-to-talk-to-human-beings/

Whew! By the time it was my turn to speak to Bill C-11, I knew I had to cut some of my text, and speed up my delivery - because we had a hard stop at 5:15, for bells and a vote. So...this goes a little bit faster than usual. I made it 20 seconds to spare. I hope you can still make out my arguments and my explanation of why I cannot support C-11 - not without that clearer exclusion for user generated content. https://youtu.be/1uCr3iUvV3g #BillC11 #C11 #SenateofCanada #SenCa #cdnpoli #YouTube #TikTok

This is the most fascinating thing I’ve read this year.

It seems it’s common for people in hospices to have dreams that predict their death. And this is common knowledge in the industry but not widespread knowledge to most people.

thinking about trying to define a "safe zone" and a "danger zone" for floating point. maybe something like:

safe zone:
* all integer values (like 1.0, 234.0) behave 100% exactly the way you'd expect, UNLESS (!!!) they're more than 2^52. You can check for equality, it's fine.
* adding up ~100 numbers and rounding the result to 4 decimal places or so is going to work fine, as long as the numbers are roughly the same size

The woke mind virus claims another victim

Dolly 2.0 is a really big deal: https://www.databricks.com/blog/2023/04/12/dolly-first-open-commercially-viable-instruction-tuned-llm

"The first open source, instruction-following LLM, fine-tuned on a human-generated instruction dataset licensed for research and commercial use"

My notes so far on trying to run it: https://til.simonwillison.net/llms/dolly-2

If NPR getting ~1% of its revenue from federal grants qualifies it as "government-funded media" in the eyes of #Twitter, then many (most?) news organizations in Canada would also meet that bar.

CBC obviously chief among them, as a Crown corporation, but newspaper, magazine & digital publishers in Canada now also receive federal support in the form of wage subsidies, tax credits & direct grants.

I'm not sure #Musk understands the realities of modern #journalism, especially outside of the U.S.

This is pretty clever... using a platform like Reddit (and API traffic) for your C2 channel (and maybe exfiltration) is a pretty interesting way to avoid detection. Another example of how we as defenders have to "think evil..." https://www.kitploit.com/2023/04/redditc2-abusing-reddit-api-to-host-c2.html?m=1&utm_source=pocket_saves

Did you a pepper becomes a chile when it is picked & dried?

A green jalapeño or cuaresmeño becomes chipotle. A poblano turns to an ancho.

This infographic from El Jornalero provides a simplified look at some of the most common names of Mexican capsicum peppers & chiles. #food #science

"What we know is not nearly as sensitive as how we know it." -@NSA_CSDirector

For now #sad #mentalhealth #Emotions #feelings #ymhc