ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au
Joined Nov 2022
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I have written a Python script that takes my Mastodon feed and turns it into #teletext pages, and I consider this time well spent.
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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
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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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Mastodon News Sources
General News - US and World
BBC News (World) Bot - @BBCWorld
BBC News Bot - @BBC
CNN Bot - @CNN
CNN Breaking News - @cnnbrk
DW (Deutsche Welle) News Bot - @dwnews_bot
NPR US News Bot - @NPR_USNews
NYTimes Bot - @NYTimes
Reuters Bot - @reuters
Rolling Stone - @RollingStone
The Guardian US Bot - @TheGuardian_us
Wall Street Journal Bot - @wsj
Washington Post Bot - @WashingtonPost
Tech News
Ars Technica - @arstechnica
MacRumors.com - @macrumors
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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"
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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
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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
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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.
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@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?
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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!
#sciComm #scienceCommunication #writing #blog #neuro #PhDStudent
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#Apple #iOS #AdvancedDataProtection is interesting. Here is a list of data stored using #EndtoEndEncryption in #iCloud.
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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
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Today is Microsoft's December 2022 Patch Tuesday, and with it comes fixes for two zero-day vulnerabilities, including an actively exploited bug, and a total of 49 flaws.
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Some of you will know that there are character codes which are magic, For example, 8 is backspace, 9 is tab, 13 is enter/return, 27 is escape.
And then there's 127, which is delete. Why?
Because if you're dealing with punched cards, you need to remove errors. And the only code which will work for cancelling out a column is all holes punched, since you can't un-punch a hole
And 127 in binary is `01111111`.
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At @laurendw's urging, I installed #DuckDuckGo on my Pixel. The amount of sleazy tracking going on from apps I thought of somewhat respectable is blood-curdling.
Particularly annoying is the tracking from apps that haven’t actually used since installing DDG.
I have heard that DDG anti-tracking can cause some things to break, but haven’t observed any problems myself.
You might want to consider installing @duckduckgo
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RT @CharlieJGardner
In the early 90s, 80% of Americans accepted climate change and thought more needed to be done
By 2010 only 48% 'believed' in it
The fossil fuel industry spent a lot of money to make that happen
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Mark this date: December 5th, 2022.
The date we achieved #fusion ignition.
This one's for the history books!
https://www.llnl.gov/news/national-ignition-facility-achieves-fusion-ignition
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If you are new here in #cybersecurity, (welcome new influx!) some great hashtags to follow or take a peek at might be: #ThreatIntel #GetFediHired #CyberMentoringMonday #MastodonTips - just a few places to start! There are also almost daily fun photo and post themes, so watch the hashtags on your server and federated!
Joined Nov 2022
