I know Pi used to be the trendy answer, but I’ve been hearing about how their value/money isn’t what it used to be. What’s the latest advice?

tl;dr:

The three red flags are, for any given journal in a single year: a doubling of publication output; having more than 70% of published articles originating from a single country; and having at least 15% of articles flagged by the Problematic Paper Screener, a free online tool.

I’m not siding with them, just pointing out that their position isn’t logically inconsistent.

Keep fighting the good fight, my friend.

I host my own email on my own domain, and I’m not sure it’s worth the trouble.

DARPA is not ICE. They have different focuses geographically, politically, technically, and culturally.

This is a good read.

tl;dr: Undersea cables are a conjunction of political, geographic, and economic factors. International politics began a seismic shift when Trump was elected the second time, and that shift is continuing. In contrast to the sensationalist title, work is being done to address the problems, but it’s slow and fitful.

That sci-fi story has been done a few times. My favorite was The Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky.

It’s a Chinese company. I don’t know how explicit they’re being about that reasoning, though.

• Researchers used SLAC’s Linac Coherent Light Source to study the AspH enzyme – a potential therapeutic target for cancer treatment – and the isopenicillin N synthase (IPNS) enzyme, which is essential for creating all of the medicinally important penicillin antibiotics.
• By leveraging the power of ultrabright, ultrashort X-ray bursts, they found that these enzymes catalyze reactions in surprising ways.
• If scientists can better understand the structure and function of these enzymes, they could potentially use them as biomarkers and therapeutic targets for cancer, or for a method to develop new antibiotics.

Femtosecond X-ray pulses. Very cool.

Except there’s no guarantee they’ll be coming from one of their own IP addresses. There’s nothing to stop them from using a residential botnet.

To be clear, this is not restricted to content posted on Facebook. It’s any content posted on any website owned by the customer.

You authorize us […] to […] create test credentials to […] crawl the domains […] associated with your products or services.

Meta may use any content […] to […] train […] Meta Company Products.

Basically, in exchange for being allowed to continue posting content on Facebook, you’re giving them permission from now on to aggressively scrape your own sites for content to train their models.

To quote a famous Sith Lord: “I am altering the deal. Pray I do not alter it further.”

Thanks for the link. The case study is interesting.

I disagree for two reasons. First, there’s lots of ammo that’s non jacketed lead. Start with .22LR, which is probably the most common ammo.

Second, I didn’t think the jacketing helps that much in either hunting or indoor range contexts. In hunting, the bullet mushrooms or fragments or disintegrates, dispersing it’s kinetic energy through lots of tissue; that’s how it kills. Disintegration means there are lots of tiny lead bits scattered in the meat. And at the range, if the bullet hits a hard backstop, it again disintegrates into even finer pieces, making lead dust.

Is anybody aware of studies quantifying direct (shooter) and indirect (household member) lead exposure? The gold standard (so to speak) is bloodstream lead levels, but I think that’s hard to measure as it relates to specific events like going to the gun range.

From the article:

Key findings

• In both democratic and authoritarian contexts, technologies are being deployed in ways that erode, and in some cases effectively dismantle, human rights.
• Technology use risks facilitating or amplifying repressive practices and systems, and becoming an instrument of authoritarian governance.
• Surveillance technologies are being expanded and entrenched with the purpose of exerting control over entire populations and/or specific groups of people such as journalists and human rights defenders.
• The authoritarian use of technology is ultimately having a ‘chilling effect’.
• Some technologies are disproportionately intrusive by design and should not be used.
• Technologies’ use is often incompatible with the rule of law, lack redress and raise mass impunity risks.
• A lack of transparency facilitates the authoritarian use of technologies.