ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

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.

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'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

Introducing Bark! Low-latency multi-receiver live-sync lossless audio streaming for local networks. It's like Sonos, but open source, so nobody can brick your devices remotely. It's also written in Rust :)

https://github.com/haileys/bark

It sends 48khz uncompressed float32 data over UDP multicast. It can achieve playback sync to within hundreds of microseconds in ideal conditions, and usually to within a millisecond.

I've been working on it in my spare time over the past week, and I'm pretty happy with how it's shaped up. I have three receivers setup and it works remarkably well at keeping everything in sync as I walk around my house. For now it only really works on Linux, and supports Pipewire (and Pulse in theory), but there's no huge impediment to making it truly cross-platform.

It also features a fancy live stats subcommand, which can used on any computer in the same multicast domain to watch the status of the stream cluster:

Correlations between changes in #CosmicRay intensity ☢️ and #earthquakes are not apparent in location-specific analyses. They only appear when seismic activity is taken into account on a #global 🌏 scale. https://phys.org/news/2023-06-intriguing-earthquakes-cosmic.html

Pictures : https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Sun-Earth_Interaction.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Geomagnetic_field_and_magnet_analogy.png

Climate activists disrupting flights at Frankfurt airport.

Oh wait, I’m told it’s a flood.