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#Furizon is going great!
It's nice and sunny with a few scattered clouds here and there, temperatures not exceeding 25°C, perfect for suiting.
Come to think of it, got into suit at around 10H in the morning and stayed until the opening of the dealer's den at 16H. Maybe a bit excessive, but it's fun.
📸 @/luka_89
🪡 @Areksim (Vino Studios)
With #Anthrocon2024's growth in attendees, we're looking for volunteers to help make this event possible. Whether you help out for a couple hours or the entire weekend, you'll have the whole con's thanks! 👯
Info and sign up: https://www.anthrocon.org/volunteer
📸 Bluehasia
Condolences.
Mike Karels of Berkeley Unix/BSDi died of a heart attack on his way home from BSDCon.
Karels was responsible for implementing TCP/IP on BSD, which was later ported to Linux. Since you're reading this, you are benefitting directly from his work.
RIP, Mike. We won't forget you.
https://freebsdfoundation.org/mike_karels/
We are deeply saddened about the passing of Mike Karels, a pivotal figure in the history of BSD UNIX, a respected member of the FreeBSD community, and the Deputy Release Engineer for the FreeBSD Project.FreeBSD Foundation
Another day, another reminder of that phenomenon where somebody copies a meme from Reddit and posts it on Tumbler. Then it gets screenshotted, cropped, and posted elsewhere. Then someone files-off the serial numbers again and posts the screenshot on Facebook.
Each iteration causes attribution decay, jpg compression artefacts, bit-rot, photocopier burn, fax jaggies, noise in the wires.
Five years pass, the original poster has deleted their account from Reddit, and digital palimpsest undergoes yet another mutation of someone pretending it's their joke: "I bought some dodgy pure copper speaker cables from a seller on Temu called Ea-nāṣir."
I haven't yet seen anyone talk about what Recall is going to mean for people crossing the U.S. border.
I'm sure CBP is salivating at the prospect (if they're not the ones who bankrolled its development)...
Staying over at my sister's again, and I noticed this "wall of dog" hanging up. It's all pics of her last-but-one dog, Keira — a sort of shrine to her. And I notice there's one fake dog in there! 😉
So wow, yes, Keira met Kelsey when she was a puppy. She then lived to nearly ten years old, then they got another German Shepherd who is now eight. So that picture (centre left) shows Kelsey something like 18 years ago…! Time flies…
One day before parliament was dissolved on 30th May, the UK government used an obscure emergency process to make possession of puberty blockers for new treatment of trans kids illegal, and punishable by up to two years in prison. [1] There was no parliamentary debate, no vote, and no public consultation.
The timing was deliberate. As parliament was dissolved a day later, we have no MPs, and therefore no way to challenge this decision as citizens.
The Good Law Project is challenging it in court, and crowdfunding £75,000 to do so. They have about £2,000 so far.
Donations here: https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/trans-pubertyblockers-cf/
[1] https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/uk-secretary-uses-emergency-powers
#LGBT #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #trans #nonbinary #TransRights #crowdfunding #activism #PubertyBlockers
On May 31st, letters went out from NHS England to parents of trans youth stating that they must immediately stop taking puberty blockers, and that possession will be considered a crime.Erin Reed (Erin In The Morning)
If only 30 years ago….
Ban fossil fuel ads to save climate, says UN chief
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cv22vl99vwro
The UN leader's call comes as new data highlights the worrying pace of global warming.Matt McGrath (BBC News)
Dupe and Reno
At FWA's Artists Alley for the awesome Dupe/Reno
Traditional. Watercolors
🌡️📈May 2024 was the warmest May on record, marking the 12th consecutive month in which the global average temperature reached a record value for the corresponding month.
The #C3S data were cited by the UN Secretary General, António Guterres.
In 1894, the 1st commercially viable #electric #vehicle — called the Electrobat — was on the road, quietly & cleaning shuttling people around.
The Electrobat was a 2,500 lb car propelled by a lead-acid battery — which were swappable in just 3 minutes(!) — achieving top speeds of 15 mph & covering distances of 25 miles on a single charge.
130 years later, we have people clamoring #evs can’t lead the way when in fact they always have.
Stop accepting being told we don’t have answers…
Eryol is cooking a delicious meal, I wonder what is it? 
#dragon #dragonart #dragonartist #illustration #fantasy #cooking #MastoArt #digitalart
HIghlight #2: Lucas Payton’s Infinite Potato was exactly as awesome as I wanted it to be when I read the proposal.
#emfcamp #EMF2024 #EmfHighlights
A company paid a ransomware group.. then had their info leaked by the same ransomware group anyway. Not isolated at all, eg UnitedHealthcare paid $20m and then got extorted again by the same person.
Stop paying ransomware groups. You are directly funding serious organised crime. https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/pandabuy-pays-ransom-to-hacker-only-to-get-extorted-again/
Study finds 268% higher failure rates for Agile software projects
In praise of knowing the requirements before you start cranking out code A study has found that projects adopting Agile practices are 268 percent more likely to fail than those that do not.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2024/06/05/agile_failure_rates/
