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Strathspey farmers say it’s a rotten plan for Highland Council’s rotting bridges
https://www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/news/strathspey-farmers-say-it-s-a-rotten-plan-for-highland-counc-442926/
Don't worry, Highland Council’s plans to pour all it transport money into dualing the A9 will sort it out...
@encthenet the alternative is to develop libraries making it easy for application developers to do it right. i was very surprised to find that the libraries out there are largely either djbware or openssl, neither of which are remotely appropriate nor secure
@encthenet i would like to learn more about disk encryption. i'm currently working on a novel form of integrity for directory trees through checksum graphs for packaging/build processes/version control and it seems very difficult to me to do encryption at the same level whereas application-layer encryption would compose very well. i think these primitives all need to be done better
My talk
"WikiCite and Open Science in the context of grassroots creative computing" sits at https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22051158 .
#openscience #wikimedia #wikicite #grassroots
Three unexpected airplane transits during the solar eclipse of August 12, 2026, captured as the Sun changed from a full disk to a narrow crescent over Lausanne. ☀️✈️🌑
#solareclipse #eclipse #solarastronomy #astrophotography #astronomy #telescope #space #sun
Foreign staff in the NHS is taking place since decades - all those common wealth nurses that have been trained and worked on the isle (stagering) ad what about GP's - 50% or more are born in anothe country and they are part of the "baby boom" and retiring - UK has not sen the bottom of this...
Yup, it’s been cheaper for decades to import doctors and nurses than properly fund universities to train them. And, suddenly, a load of them no longer want to come here because who would want to go to Brexit island? And now there’s a shortage domestically.
We saw something similar with Polish plumbers 20 years earlier. A lot came over when we had a big skills shortage, but then other places in Europe looked more attractive and so a huge number left.
Rich countries often treat immigrants as a source of exploitable labour and forget that people who are willing to move countries to get to you because it looks like there are better prospects are also often able to leave your country if somewhere else has better prospects (or if you decided to be a ‘hostile environment’ for them).
Trump is elected by American farmers, then undercuts their meat price by 25 percent.
Javier Milei's bet on Trump is paying off.
@cararemixed back at the ZLB library:
archive.today (107.189.8.227) gives me `Direct IP access not allowed` when I try to visit from the IP.
annas-archive.pk (186.2.163.174) gives me a different error:
`503 Service Unavailable Server could not complete your request. Might be a good idea to check back later`
but now trying those both from Tor I get the same thing there so it seems they are blocking visiting directly via IP themselves. And they both load fine from Tor via URL
@liaizon this stuff gets so annoying. disappointing imo but at least we know
Am 22.08.92 begannen die tagelangen rassistischen Pogrome in Rostock-Lichtenhagen. Erschütternd gute Doku dazu die ihr gesehen haben solltet: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P21AfG6SPE und ein Hintergrundartikel vom Antifa Infoblatt: https://antifainfoblatt.de/artikel/das-pogrom-von-rostock-lichtenhagen
Idag sänds Ekots Lördagsintervju, valspecial om AI och demokratin, där jag medverkar. Jag reflekterar om samtalet, som rörde konkurrenskraft, existentiell risk, rättsstat och det offentliga samtalets spelregler.
Reflektion
https://carlheath.se/reflektion-efter-ekots-lordagsintervju-fyra-roster-om-ai-och-demokratin/
Program
https://www.sverigesradio.se/avsnitt/valspecial-ai-och-demokratin
jacobin.social is a fully customized #Bonfire #ActivityPub server we built with Jacobin.de. It reflects Jacobin’s visual identity and lets readers interact with articles and authors according to their membership tier and much more...
Jacobin explains the thinking behind the project here:
jacobin.de/social/
And here’s our case study, which may be useful for your research:
bonfirenetworks.org/case-stu...
happy to share more about it 😊
X files but book…
I’d read the whole series
@farah they exist! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_X-Files_literature We found a couple of the novels in a secondhand shop at one point and couldn't resist 😄
Die Charité sucht für eine diagnostische Studie noch gesunde Personen für die Kontrollgruppe.
Ihr erhaltet umfangreiche Diagnostik (unter anderem MRTs von Hirn und Herz, Diagnostik der Augen und des Stoffwechsels) und eine Aufwandsentschädigung. Gleichzeitig unterstützt ihr Forschung und damit das Einzige, was Kranken wie mir langfristig helfen kann.
Mehr Infos: https://cfc.charite.de/weitere_forschung/vadys_me_1/
Cosmic birefringence: the signal that could upend cosmology
The biggest observational anomaly in cosmology is the Hubble tension.
But second-biggest is much less well-known: the cosmic birefringence signal in the CMB.
(And yes, YOU can understand it!)
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/cosmic-birefringence-signal-cosmology/
Ayagami does screenshots now! Just drop your model in, pose it however you like, and copy/save as transparent PNG (current view or full model resolution)
Tomorrow I'll stream again and wrap up work on the 5.3 blending/color issues ^^
@encthenet if app devs are writing cryptographic code, then i do expect them to get the crypto stuff correct. i also find it incredibly difficult and that's why i've been working through this field for the past several months.
any file that's encrypted at the application level will also protect against the same attacks, so i'm not terribly sure what disk encryption gives you except making everything significantly more difficult to do right. anything in the kernel is going to be significantly more costly to upgrade and fix and that absolutely seems like the wrong place to do encryption
@encthenet the alternative is to develop libraries making it easy for application developers to do it right. i was very surprised to find that the libraries out there are largely either djbware or openssl, neither of which are remotely appropriate nor secure
Autism and lack of safety 🛟
Here are some things which, interestingly, are common in autistic people but can also be general indicators of anxiety or fear.
1. Difficulty distinguishing voices from background noise.
2. Digestion problems, sometimes culminating in IBS.
3. Strong attachment to routine and panic when it fails.
4. Persistent problems falling asleep or staying asleep.
There will be other things, I think 🤔 ... thoughts?
#AskingAutistics #Autism #Neurodivergent #ActuallyAutistic #AuDHD
"they found that Big Oil’s use of AI to produce more oil and gas could create 3.3 to 13.3 times more climate pollution than powering AI’s data centers."
https://heated.world/p/ais-climate-problem-is-worse-than
All AI services are actively destructive and should be treated as a clear and present danger to human life.
When I was a kid I read Ionescu's play Rhinoceros, where the inhabitants of a small French town turn one by one into a herd of wild, rampaging rhinoceroses. I was told the play was "absurdist", and read it as such. But living in the United States now, I see it's completely realistic.
They know exactly what they are doing.
@Caelumtangi he estat dos dies refredat i amb febre. I amb aquesta calor! 😒 ara ja estic millor…
@Kaiz
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