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Is it weird that all the Web3.0 and crypto people seem to have based their entire worldview on a handful of Neil Stephenson/William Gibson novels and then TOTALLY MISSED THE POINT of what those novels were actually about?

Because I clearly remember in "Cryptonomicon" how the fact that cryptocurrency is basically worthless until/unless it's actually BACKED by anything (e.g. a several tons of lost Japanese gold as a Mcguffin) is a major driving plot point. I just as clearly remember that the whole premise of the Metaverse in "Snow Crash" was that a bunch of clueless tech bros tried to create a giant virtual reality playground and nobody wanted anything to do with it until Juanita figured out how to make avatars' faces -- and eyes especially -- accurately reflect the emotions of the people using them. And then WENT ON to explain that the Metaverse had become a vector for widespread corporate-sponsored mind control funded by a psychotic televangelist so obscenely wealthy that he owned an actual aircraft carrier as a yacht.

Just getting a lot of "Don't Create the Torment Nexus" vibes from the entire tech industry right now.

WOW if you think I’m just gonna keep paying for all these streaming services as they multiply, rack up prices, and far exceed a cable bill then you are correct, that is exactly what’s gonna happen

Do you know any #PostgreSQL people or #Citus people? Please help spread the word that the #CFP is *OPEN* for Citus Con: An Event for Postgres 2023, a virtual event happening in April.

📣 An event is only as good as its speakers! Which is why we need to boost this post high & low.

🐘 Looking for talk proposals on
- PostgreSQL
- Citus database extension
- Azure Database for PostgreSQL
- Azure Cosmos DB for PostgreSQL (aka Citus on Azure)

#CitusCon #CfS #Azure #Microsoft

https://www.citusdata.com/cituscon/2023/cfp/

New, by me. Two weeks ago, LastPass said it was hacked for a second time this year. In a notice, LastPass said an intruder gained access to customers' information, but LastPass has said little else about the breach since

I parsed LastPass' data breach notice to explain what LastPass is and isn't saying, and how it impacts users.

More: https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/14/parsing-lastpass-august-data-breach-notice/

On the Fediverse, you can post about Elon Musk's private jet.

#FediTips

I have written a Python script that takes my Mastodon feed and turns it into #teletext pages, and I consider this time well spent.

This is super cool! TRSE (Turbo Rascal Syntax Error) is a full IDE that lets you create games or demos in a Pascal-like language targeting 26 different platforms!

CPUs supported are 6502, 68000, z80, and x86.

#c64 #amiga #amstrad #spectrum #z80 #atari #atari2600 #bbcmicro #mega65 #gameboy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R84cfYjjvt8

Interesting review paper just out in Nature. "Heatwaves are anticipated to become more frequent, persistent and intense in nearly all inhabited regions, with trends amplified by soil drying in some areas, especially the mid-latitudes." https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-022-00371-z

Merry Holidays 🙄 I just got let go from my social media/marketing job. If you know of anybody hiring for that, devrel, or podcasting, audio, video, etc. Please reach out.

Also, feel free to jump on my calendar: https://calendly.com/mandymoore/30min?back=1&month=2022-12

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#Security truths

I'm so happy ❤️ that my talk proposal was accepted for @fosdem in the #PostgreSQL devroom!

This will be my 2nd time presenting at FOSDEM and I am grateful for the opportunity!

What's my talk about? The title is "How to Give Your Postgres Blog Posts an Outsize Impact"

#fosdem #opensource #postgres #microsoft

The most amazing part of the video is where the author is trying to figure out if the file was maliciously crafted so he recreates the image from scratch and accidentally kills his phone

TIL: There is a cursed color in the Kodak ProPhoto RGB color space which, when converted to sRGB using pre-August-2020-Security-Update Android's image conversion routines, causes an integer overflow and a crash due to a rounding error. Some dude accidentally created an image (https://www.flickr.com/photos/gaurav_agrawal/48746079687/) which contains the cursed color on a single pixel. In 2020 if you set this image as your desktop on a Google or Samsung device, the device would brick & lose all onboard data https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXKvwPjCGnY

I have a question for folks here. If you were going to listen to a 5-10 minute talk geared towards CxOs what would make it worth your while? Subjects? Takeaways? Thanks in advance.

@NicoleCRust How this is thought to happen is fascinating. Gut bacteria can actually secrete the neurotransmitters we find in the brain (serotonin, GABA, noradrenaline, acetylcholine) but that is NOT how this is thought to work because those chemicals aren't thought to cross the blood brain barrier.

Instead, it's proposed to happen via inflammatory molecules (cytokines) triggering a stress response from the brain (the release of cortisol via the HPA axis).

Any experts up for chiming in on this?

Excited for an #introduction 👋!

📝 We are Penn NeuroKnow, a #neuroscience blog run by PhD students in the University of Pennsylvania’s Neuroscience Graduate Group.

👩‍🔬 👨‍🔬 Our goal is to share our love of neuroscience with you all. Each post breaks down a different topic in neuroscience, ranging from general neuroscience knowledge to summaries of exciting new studies that are changing how we think about the brain.

🧠 Recent topics have included why we get the hiccups, how the octopus controls its arms, and how neuroscientists are starting to realize that what they thought was noise might not actually be so noisy.

⏰ We’ll be sharing links to our latest posts with short summaries every Tuesday when they go live. We’re looking forward to sharing our posts and engaging with the community here!

https://pennneuroknow.com/

#sciComm #scienceCommunication #writing #blog #neuro #PhDStudent

#Apple #iOS #AdvancedDataProtection is interesting. Here is a list of data stored using #EndtoEndEncryption in #iCloud.

Yesterday - "All you dirty leftist hippies are being hysterical, they're not going to outlaw birth control."

Today:
A notorious Trump judge just fired the first shot against birth control

https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2022/12/13/23505459/supreme-court-birth-control-contraception-constitution-matthew-kacsmaryk-deanda-becerra

#birthcontrol #contracption #abortion #womenshealth