Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

Firefox release 124.0.2

Fixes some rather annoying bugs, especially for those running #Firefox on #Linux.

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/124.0.2/releasenotes/

Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) in the UK & Europe - DEFRA outbreak assessment for 01 Apr 2024.

🗓️ Report period: 16 Feb - 01 Apr 2024

▶️ No HPAI H5 confirmations in domestic poultry premises reported in UK

▶️ Seven HPAI H5 clade 2.3.3.4b events involving a “found-dead” wild bird in Great Britain

🔗: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/660ebfdc63b7f80011de18d4/HPAI_Europe__51_01_April_2024.pdf

#AvianFlu #BirdFlu #H5N1#epidemiology #science

Made some chocolate chip ammonites for this #FossilFriday!

“The Trudeau government authorized at least $28.5 million of new permits for military exports to Israel during the first two months of the state’s brutal war on Gaza, data supplied by Global Affairs Canada (GAC) shows.

The newly issued permits include four that authorize the sale of, among other items, goods under an export category that includes “bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles, other explosive devices and charges and related equipment and accessories, and specially designed components.”/1

This bundle by gender-/sex-marginalized game devs looks really cool

https://itch.io/b/2367/gender-constellation-bundle-2024-

Kurt Cobain died 30 years ago today. He was 27.

It's weird to think that there's a whole generation listening to Nirvana that weren't even alive then.

GPU fans just keep getting larger and larger.

I also made a quick trilobite who surprisingly survived the baking process!

US government excoriates Microsoft for 'avoidable errors' but keeps paying for its products - In what other sphere does a bad supplier not feel pain for its foulups? Analysis  You mig... - https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/04/05/microsoft_government_contracts/

OpenBSD 7.5 released https://lwn.net/Articles/968584/ #LWN

40 Years Ago: STS-41C, the Solar Max Repair Mission https://www.nasa.gov/history/40-years-ago-sts-41c-the-solar-max-repair-mission/ #NASA #NASAHistory

2/ Via the wonderful @stevebenen:
A truly amazing US job market: - 303,000 jobs created in March - 3.8% unemployment (below 4% for 26 consecutive months — a streak unseen since the '60s) - Biden-era growth doubles Trump-era growth (even excluding Covid) - wage growth outpacing inflation https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hot-streak-us-job-growth-continues-early-months-2024-rcna146541

Open source Minecraft mod platform Modrinth goes indie, returns funds to investors https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2024/04/open-source-minecraft-mod-platform-modrinth-goes-indie-returns-funds-to-investors/

#Minecraft #OpenSource