ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

“Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of them. A few trickle through the system with their wonder and enthusiasm for science intact.”

— Carl Sagan

#quote #CarlSagan

I was the victim of an extremely clever card fraud/social engineering hack.

Well, partly a victim since I managed to stop it.

I was called by my bank, as they wanted to “verify some suspect transactions on my account”.

Then things got weird…

🧵

So finally I say, look, I need to call my bank directly. This all seems a bit odd.

And then, naturally (in retrospect), the guy hangs up.

I call my bank. They verify that it wasn’t them.

New office shenaniganery is ensuing. I am wholly responsible for this lot. One last week and two today. #OfficeShenanigans #NotDucks

#Earthquake (#gempa) M7.0 strikes 202 km N of #Mataram (#Indonesia) 28 min ago. More info: http://m.emsc.eu/?id=1546459

Happy 32nd birthday Linux. Here’s your damn cake. Go ahead and compile it yourself!

Zalig!

Doctor Who theme reimagined as Belgian jazz - Bill Bailey

#DoctorWho #BillBailey

https://youtu.be/Zhv5GVexW2E?si=4nks6bRNakvt8uHs

Now this is interesting.

uhhh

'The Wallet Event': Crypto Startup Bankrupt After Losing Password to $38.9 Million Physical Crypto Wallet

https://www.404media.co/crypto-startup-prime-trust-files-for-bankruptcy-after-losing-password-to-38-9-million-crypto-wallet/

#404media

India is on the moon.

Space Director confirms: "Soft landing"

#space #chandrayaan3

At mission control live images from a camera on #Chandrayaan3 during descent are shown on a display!

Chandrayaan 3 landing on the moon is getting close, with powered descent in progress.
Approximately 15 minutes to go.🤞
Been a while since anyone has stuck a Lunar landing, and so far it's looking like an excellent day for science and India.

https://www.youtube.com/live/DLA_64yz8Ss
#Chandrayaan3 #Space #Science #ISRO

Conclusive proof that we have nothing to fear from AI.

#AI #ML #LLM #BingChat

This post is a great reminder that when writing technical documentation, your readers will just copy your examples verbatim a lot of the time.

You have to be thoughtful about things like sample code or example configurations because that’s actually going to be a lot of your customer’s production code and deployed configurations.

This applies outside of technical writing as well. People treat analogies and examples as just as canonical as the thing you’re teaching.

https://blog.thinkst.com/2023/08/default-behaviour-sticks-and-so-do-examples.html

The most surprising fact I learned from #Oppenheimer is that if you have a crying toddler you can just GIVE THEM to a fellow academic for several months at a time. Absolute game changer!

RIP Kris Nóva. I had her on the show and was blessed to spend time with her just a few months ago. She was a genius and made things better. https://youtu.be/nJSxRqJ2kgQ?si=3ei04Z3MmJan3XsC life is short. Focus on your friends and family and your health. Everything is fleeting.

Hackers Claim To Have Breached AuDA #itnews #infosec http://mwyr.es/3sjdMVn

If our brains were simple enough for us to understand them, we'd be so simple that we couldn't. -- Ian Stewart