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One of the earliest photos of a tornado in Canada.
This tornado struck near Didsbury, Alberta on July 1, 1909.

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Alexandra Prokopenko w/ interesting observations here about Putin’s response to Prigozhin. What catches my eye most: she says the Kremlin ran its Putin-speech “trump card” so suddenly in order to restore order to state propaganda more than to calm the public.

https://carnegieendowment.org/politika/90100

The other nice insight is that Prigozhin was able to dominate the popular narrative about his own mutiny for so long because the state media essentially went silent and surrendered the space, unsure of what to do without the administration’s coverage instructions.

Let me start the Sunday sermon by saying I have no idea if this will work out for Musk. It's what I think is going on atm.
Also, the decision to only allow tweets to be read from within the app and the huge rate-limiting snafu that's happening are independent, though the first probably caused the second because of staff shortages. The second part can be - and probably soon will be - fixed enough to keep most users. The first part of the equation isn't going to change. Definitely not until different conditions are met.
But before getting into this week's drama, let me recap what Twitter is now.

Interesting article about how eBay solved #Java build performance issues with #Maven dependency resolution and contributed it to Maven so everyone benefits.

https://tech.ebayinc.com/engineering/open-source-contribution-new-maven-dependency-resolution-algorithm/

Happy #CanadaDay !
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Calgary Airport Postcard
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#aviation #airplanes #avgeek #planes #postcards #postcard #travel #planespotting #aviación #aviacion #avión #avion #Luftfahrt #Flugzeuge

I'm a man of my word https://www.youtube.com/shorts/0m3GpAVNBDI

I just learned by reading a thread on Lemmy.world about it defederating from another instance that it had itself been defederated from beehaw.org, an instance on which I followed multiple communities from my lemmy.world account.

As usual, as a user I received no notification of this and had no way of knowing it happened aside from closely following instance drama, and the only effect it had was to make things more inconvenient to me as a user and less likely to use Lemmy for anything.

SMDH.

Good example of using flame graphs to speed up java code (50x improvement)

https://opensearch.org/blog/opensource-perf/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://opensearch.org/blog/opensource-perf/

#java #programming

Unfortunately, too many believe that "open source is about corporations". This #Redhat
blogpost and the quote shows how disturbing things get when the communal aspect of open source gets privatized - adopting the methods of their closed source brethren.
https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hats-commitment-open-source-response-gitcentosorg-changes?sc_cid=701f2000000tyBjAAI

@w7voa

Note the media reporting is largely inaccurate and doesn’t really highlight all the nuances related to the scientific meaning of the word “possibly carcinogenic”. IARC runs a number of lists, with drastically different meanings:

Group 1 Carcinogenic to humans 126 agents
Group 2A Probably carcinogenic to humans 94 agents
Group 2B Possibly carcinogenic to humans 322 agents
Group 3 Not classifiable as to its carcinogenicity to humans 500 agents

Source: https://monographs.iarc.who.int/agents-classified-by-the-iarc/

#Aspartame has been placed on the 2B (“possibly”) list. If you open the list, the first agent on the same 2B list is “Aloe vera, whole leaf extract”, “Gasoline”, “Engine exhaust, gasoline” and dozens of substances that people have contact with on daily basis but perceive them as “customary safe”.

https://monographs.iarc.who.int/list-of-classifications

Note that until recently another agent on the 2B list was “Coffee, drinking”, which pretty well explains the logic behind the 2B “possibly” which is basically a research plan for any substances for which there’s a shadow of suspicion that they could be carcinogenic and because of that they require further research. The research takes place, sometimes for years, and ultimately substances are either downgraded to list 3 (coffee) or upgraded to 2A or 1.

#cancer #health

This is very cute - it holds to the theory that if you make something look wobbly and hand made it makes people feel that they can play rather than feeling sad at not making something super slick really fast https://flipanim.com/

LangChain4j: Supercharge your Java application with the power of AI
https://github.com/langchain4j/langchain4j
#Java #llm

A cryptobro DMed me to ask if I wanted to join his mailing list.

I spent slightly too long making this to send in reply.

Red Hat: those who use open source code and don't contribute back are "a real threat to open source companies everywhere"

I call them: users.

I fight for the users.

News flash: Saskatchewan is absurdly beautiful.

"typing speed"? I prefer the term: "terminal velocity"

Choosing a Mastodon instance is easy once you understand each instance’s values, customs, belief systems, and inter-instance alliances and feuds dating back 1,000 years.

I asked my friend what her take away was - she said “people really don’t like the scientific method.” By that, she meant many people become distrustful if you learn something new and change course accordingly. Essentially, the scientists should have figured out exactly what to do before saying anything and then myopically stuck with it.

It reminds me of a book I read about how people (at least in the US) view politicians: politicians who change their minds in the face of new information are seen as weak and indecisive, and their political rivals will generally capitalize on any such “flip flops”.

It’s odd to think that the very scientific method that drives our society and technology forward is the same thing that is driving us to realizing the society portrayed in Idiocracy.

Humans are weird.