Guess what? I'm on book tour this summer. Come see me discussing the history of psyops and the future of peace with these astonishing conversation partners! Be sure to say hi!
@annaleen No offense to Alexis Madrigal or the Mechanics Institute (both of which I love), but tix for the Hillside Club in Berkeley CA with Ed Yong are here (minus the two I just got):
When @BeAware asks for help scaling out Mastodon because his SINGLE USER INSTANCE is falling over, and he reveals that he's paying for an 8 vCPU server with 16GB of memory, and all the comments are talking about tweaking postgres.
Oh crap, a 7.4 magnitude quake just hit #Taiwan. There's a bonkers photo of a 10 story building that partially collapsed. It's leaning hard and looks like it could topple over at any moment.
@ernie May 31, which was still early enough to sell the subsequent invites on eBay. Though this didn’t work out too great, cause one of the buyers was a former co-worker and felt obligated to just give it to them.
Given the goal is to minimize exposure of moving parts to abrasive moon dust, and one option is a maglev track, has anyone proposed wrapping the maglev sheet in a loop and making a magnetically levitated caterpillar track? ie. a tank track that uses electromagnetic levitation and induction instead of wheels?
I still think the most under-reported, most holy shit tech story of the last 5+ years is how good e-bikes have gotten and how much more affordable a decent e-bike has become.
E-cars and trucks are a nice change but mostly meh. E-bikes, tho? They are magic.
They deserve subsidies and way more press attention.
Definitely worth the masked BART hop to hear @pluralistic in convo with @robinsloan talking new books and sundry tangy tangents, but really what i want to know now is who makes these SHOES
Just got a notice in the mail that my Philips CPAP machine had a data breach thanks to its “cloud service” connected to the secret wireless modem in the CPAP that spies on users.
I have no idea why Philips has patient’s dates of birth, email addresses and phone numbers just so it could send CPAP breathing data to a healthcare provider.
A simple unique ID generated by the healthcare provider would be enough
Oh cool. Philips CCPA notice says I can put in a request via a contact form that doesn't exist or I can make a request via phone number but that phone number is just their online store phone number and the people on that end have no idea what a CCPA request is
"If you are starting to wonder whether we are going to create individual ActivityPub accounts for each and every object in the SFO Museum Aviation Collection the answer is quite simply: Yes, but we’ve started with aircraft tail numbers to [get a feel for things]. If you are starting to wonder whether there is anything we won’t create an ActivityPub account for (galleries, individual exhibitions, gates at the airport…) the answer is: Probably not." – https://millsfield.sfomuseum.org/blog/2024/03/12/activitypub/
And then say that you know my private and unlisted email address ryan@outpost.pub and for them to say Evan sent you which will get them hooked up (truth!)