yeroc @yeroc@qoto.org

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.

What do I really think about #Threads?

Both as a #marketer and a big fan of #Mastodon and the #Fediverse I see Threads as a way to preserve existing social hierarchies, decrease the quality of content on the platform, and convince users (yet again) that they should view social media as a place to consume "media”... instead of being "social”

Read the full piece on my #newsletter

https://www.admdnewsletter.com/p/threads-mastodon-and-the-loneliness

".. 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/