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Fairphone 3 gets seven years of updates, besting every other Android OEM

Fairphone proves the usual excuses for ending Android support aren't valid.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/fairphone-3-gets-seven-years-of-updates-besting-every-other-android-oem/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Settle in for a Sunday Junk Science take-down!

In this opinion piece, Milloy’s opinion gets an F in accuracy, but it's an absolute master-class in denialist propaganda. He employs the classic tactic of discrediting experts with what seem to be reasonable, obvious statements. They’re superficial and easy to discredit, but the point is to hijack the narrative.

".. there really is One Weird Trick that solves a lot of problems: It’s called humility."

My new social media app is called Grouse. You can only post criticism of the 3,000 other new social media apps.

Posts are called “Gripes.” No likes or reposts—just one button to “Commiserate.” If a Gripe receives enough Commiseration it’s elevated by the algorithm into a “Complaint.”

Also there’s an academic version called “Faculty Meeting.”

"Did you know that #CRaC on embedded / @Raspberry_Pi is possible and dramatically improves startup time?" Check out @frankdelporte 's full set of instructions and findings on this subject on Foojay Today!

https://foojay.io/today/running-a-crac-java-application-on-raspberry-pi/

#foojaytip

Today in 1937, Yellow Grass, SK registered the hottest temperature ever recorded in Canada at 45 degrees Celsius.
It remained a record until June 29, 2021 when six B.C. communities recorded higher temperatures on that day.
The new record is 49.6 degrees, recorded in Lytton, B.C.

"Change is an inside job." -- Virginia Satir

#Satir #VirginiaSatir

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

📸Glenbow Archives CU187898

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