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Michael DeHaan (original author of Ansible) thinks the time is ripe for the world to see a Rust-based Ansible alternative—with potentially 90-95% compatibility with exsiting playbooks—that can scale to 50-100k systems through a new message bus option.

https://laserllama.substack.com/p/a-new-it-automation-project-moving

Calgary medical clinic charging nearly $5K per year for family 'membership' — and it's not the only one

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/calgary-medicial-clinic-memberships-alberta-canada-healthcare-1.6915978

#cdnpoli #ableg #canada #health #healthcare

BY THE WAY ITS BEEN OVER A CENT...
*coughs*
By the way, it has been over a century, folks.

In the 175 years since boredom was discovered it has become increasingly rare and precious. People once thought it was limitless but now many have to live with constant anxiety of having insufficient boredom. We all need to do more to preserve and restore this important resource.

It's 6:30am, I'm in Singapore Airport and Mastodon, do I have a story for YOU.

It all began... with an asteroid grain. Again.

whenever my boss says "think of the big picture" I'm immediately an astronaut floating silently in space tethered to my ship looking down on earth and nothing he says seems important or even relevant so this tactic has backfired on him more than once is what I'm saying

If you need to be delighted by something this morning, I present the tree goats of Morocco.

I was driving near Essaouira the first time I saw this and literally slammed on my brakes because I thought I was suddenly hallucinating. But then you learn how common it is and after a day or two it's, oh, yeah, more goats in trees.

Really good Washington Post piece on the breach of Microsoft 365’s email service.

- hackers accessed customer emails for a month
- Microsoft didn’t notice
- USG had to tell them
- The access to generate tokens very likely came from MS being hacked and not realising

https://archive.is/2023.07.12-230927/https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/2023/07/12/microsoft-hack-china/

I never thought I'd see the day where I agree with Oracle on some #opensource matter more than Red Hat, but, well... https://www.oracle.com/news/announcement/blog/keep-linux-open-and-free-2023-07-10/

Evernote, the memory app people forgot about, lays off entire US staff

Launched in 2004, the company once sought to be the world's brain dump.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/07/evernote-the-memory-app-people-forgot-about-lays-off-entire-us-staff/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

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.

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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.