ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Well, that settles what I'll be doing this week.

#Writers #WritersStrike #unions #SAG

Today is the 78th anniversary of the first detonation of a nuclear weapon on Earth, the Trinity Test in New Mexico in 1945, three weeks before the nuclear attacks on Japan.

There will be many images posted of the mushroom cloud today, but here is what mattered more, the fallout cloud. Dozens of homes and communities were blanketed with fallout, which which also contaminated fields as far away as Illinois and Indiana.

They have always known about radioactive fallout.

#Trinity #MED #NuclearWeapons #nuclear #NM #LANL @histodons @sts

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In just over two years, Microsoft's most successful operating system release ever will reach its end-of-support date. https://www.zdnet.com/article/is-windows-10-too-popular-for-its-own-good/#ftag=RSSbaffb68

All-In-One Security, a WordPress plugin installed on more than 1 million websites, has issued a security update after being caught 3 weeks ago logging plaintext passwords and storing them in a database accessible to website admins.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/wordpress-plugin-installed-on-1-million-sites-logged-plaintext-passwords/

Imagine waking up to this.

I did. This morning, in Borobudur #Indonesia

#travel #photo #travelphotography #travelphoto #sunrise #photography #nature #morning

The German word "wählen" can mean
- to pick, to choose
- to elect
- to dial
The German word "Null" can mean
- zero
- loser, jerk

So, someone saying "Ich habe die Null gewählt" either means
- "I've dialed zero."
Or
- "I voted for that idiot."

Enjoy our language!

#TheGermanWord

This one cuts deep:
The modern condition is mostly trying to do things on your own that people have historically achieved with a large support network and wondering why you're tired all the time.

Went back to the ice caves up the mountain from our field site! This one is much less extensive than it was last year, but it's still WOW.

Latest video from the Iceland eruption. Yeah buddy, that’s close enough.

https://youtu.be/_mOIv4W3Go4

#Iceland #volcano

Looks like there's a new WebKit zero-day under active exploitation targeting iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. Apple rolled out a Rapid Security Response patch today.

CVE: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT213823

I also wrote about these real-time rapid security updates last year, in case you want a backgrounder: https://techcrunch.com/2022/06/07/apple-introduces-real-time-security-updates-for-ios-and-macos/

Digital sundial

Some days you kick the server's ass.... some days the server kicks yours....

Today it's the former 🥳 🙌

The Intel 8086 processor (1978) started the x86 architecture still used today. This chip only had 40 pins, so the address pins needed to be reused for data or status. (The pins are connected to the pads around the edge.) It took some tricky circuitry to make this work. 🧵

Via @decolonialatlas "Each 8th of July, at 11:15 UTC, 99% of the world's population is experiencing daylight. This day should have a name, and it should be a holiday." Original source: https://www.timeanddate.com/news/astronomy/99-percent-sunlight

Everyone knows “#backend” is a disaster, even backend devs.

How about this guy today? Backing up from a BOG performance last week… everywhere again today and a tackling machine…

At the half:

🦁 10.8.68
🦅 2.2.14

#AFL #AFLLionsEagles #AllIn

https://curves.xargs.org is a neat explanation of elliptic-curve-based key agreement, using only high school algebra (and even if you don’t remember your high school algebra, you can still get 90% of it by looking at the animated graphs).

If you ever wanted a visual to explain how binary in works.