yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

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.

I want to expand more on the comedy of errors that led to the eviction of Twitter from their Boulder office.

The story that leads up to this building even existing is hilarious, so here goes...

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/06/judge-ruled-twitter-must-be-evicted-from-colorado-office-over-unpaid-rent/

I released a major update to my LLM CLI tool today - version 0.4, which adds conversation mode and prompt templates so you can store and re-use interesting prompts: https://llm.datasette.io/en/stable/changelog.html

You know how there's a bunch of critical infrastructure powering the internet (and presumably a lot more than the internet) is badly maintained and underfunded (often by just a few people)?

We know about several examples in the open source world, but I'm sure we all also know about several examples in each of our personal lives, in each of our places of business.

Someone has compromised a bunch of Minecraft plugin developer accounts, and has injected info-stealing malware into a number of widely used plugins for the game. Apparently, this is widespread enough that some involved in the investigation are urging people to just stay off Minecraft for now. Also, it sounds like they need some help.

More info:

https://prismlauncher.org/news/cf-compromised-alert/

More structured breakdown:

https://hackmd.io/B46EYzKXSfWSF35DeCZz9A

h/t @MrNuclearMonster

Network and email security firm Barracuda today revealed that a recently patched zero-day vulnerability had been exploited for at least seven months to backdoor customers' Email Security Gateway (ESG) appliances with custom malware and steal data.

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/barracuda-zero-day-abused-since-2022-to-drop-new-malware-steal-data/

How fast the smoke from the Alberta wildfires swept into Calgary today in a chart and an image.

Read more: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wildfire-smoke-air-quality-statement-calgary-1.6844824

#calgary #yyc #Alberta #albertafires #ABfire #wildfires