ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

20 Books that have had an impact on who you are. One book a day for 20 days. No explanations, no reviews, just book covers.

Day 5
Goodbye, things by Fumio Sasaki

This book helped me maintain my debt-free life. It basically short-circuited my desire to cheer myself up by buying things.

#bookstodon
#bookchallenge
#20books20days

Tim #Walz said that when he signed the school lunch bill he was at an elementary school, in a classroom, and he was explaining to the kids what it meant. He said "now all your friends can eat." And they mobbed him because they immediately knew exactly what it meant and why it mattered. That's the backstory of the ecstatic photos with the kids. You don't need much more than that to know why you should #VoteBlue. Bringing back the joy. #HarrisWalz2024

More than 80% of all carbon emissions have happened during my lifetime 😲 (ht @cstross & @infobeautiful)

Horror story, but apparently it's true.

I'm sitting in an AWS meetup, and a dude is telling a story about how 50 people physically showed up on a Tuesday at his wife's Fortune 500 company.

All 50 people said that they start their new job today. She works in HR, she has 0 new employees starting today.

Apparently scammers had completely mirrored the company's career website, conducted interviews with these candidates, sent them written offer letters, had them fill out I-9 forms to start their new jobs... An insane phishing attack where the scammers have gathered everything there is to know about these 50 people, including banking information "for credit checks," social security numbers, everything you hand over to a new employer to accept a job offer.

Obviously, devastating for these 50 people. Not only has their TOTAL identity been stolen, they're still unemployed.

I just found my old periodic table shoes after being missing for about ten years and the disappointed look on my husband's face implies he's the one who hid them.

@gwagner Meanwhile, the dinosaurs pose for photos with the comet.

Obvious bias here against the cybersecurity community ...

#cybersecurity #infosec

If revenge is a dish best served cold AND revenge is sweet — is revenge ice cream?

☁️Cloud canopy
📸: Ester Campos Motta
By #NatureAndAnimals
#NaturePhotography #Plant #Plants #Flower #Flowers #Animal #Animals #Wildlife #WildlifePhotography #Photographer

Draw an iceberg and see how it will float! We often draw icebergs vertically, with a little tip above the water, and a giant part under the water. This doesn’t work, it wouldn’t float, because of mass distribution. If you want to have fun, draw your best iceberg, and see how it would actually float!

https://joshdata.me/iceberger.html

By @josh

#OTD in 1887.

L. L. Zamenhof published Unua Libro, the first publication to describe Esperanto, a constructed international language.

First published in Russian on July 26 [O.S. July 14] 1887, the publication of Unua Libro marks the formal beginning of the Esperanto movement.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unua_Libro

Books in Esperanto at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/bookshelf/34

#books #literature

Okay, so this took me down a weird path where somebody asked why I don't just use the command line for a quick timer and I thought "sleep && beep && beep", so I tested and discovered a series of weird things:

- The unix `beep` tool does not work in Windows Services for Linux (WSL1)
- However, the act of `beep` *failing to work and printing an error message* causes Windows Terminal to play a beep
- Therefore, the unix `beep` tool works in Windows Services for Linux (WSL1)

to be a successful community led open source project maintainer you need to:
- write code (i guess)
- be good at 1-1 communication
- be good at mass communication
- be good at writing
- know your limits
- know when to stop and learn
- know how to delegate
- know how to establish and keep good interpersonal relationships
- know how to recruit people
- know how to teach people
- be *really* efficient at teaching people, since most will drop out
- track concerns faced by both novices and experts
…

A few animated gifs derived from the master thesis of Francesca Zanetti at the University of Bologna, who successfully defended her Thesis last week 🍾 🍾 🍾 🍾 🎓 🎓 🎓 🎓 🎓
She analysed brand new ENZO simulations to predict the integrated background of γ-ray and neutrinos from shocks, AGN and star formation , from z=0 to z=3.

Here is the evolution of hadronic γ-ray emissions in the simulated volume, for a few snapshot.

#astrodon #astronomy

Switzerland now requires all government software to be open source https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/ by @sjvn

Switzerland is one of the world's leading #opensource countries; now, if only the United States could follow its lead!

Today is World Emoji Day, so here's a reminder that we have 🚳 and 🚷 but not

Well, it looks like Matilda Jones, aged 7, is the new ruler of Britain, sorry I don't make the rules.

So Esquire put my 31-year old (!!) AMMONITE on it's 75 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time list: "Gripping and gutsy, rich in layers of feminist and queer thought, Ammonite gleefully throws a stick of dynamite into the sci-fi firmament."

https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g39358054/best-sci-fi-books/

I AM NOT COMPLAINING 🤩