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abesamma

@abesamma@toolsforthought.social

Doctor, researcher, data wrangler, coder, and open source dev; knowledge tool enthusiast.

Current day job: working on healthcare software ⚕️.

Open source project: https://oneplaybook.app, a software toolkit for unifying knowledge sprawls into actionable knowledge.

Child of 3 continents 🌍

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abesamma, to random
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The sun is going crazy! More G5 events coming our way.

abesamma, to random
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The Ruang volcano 🌋 in Indonesia is putting on an proper light show. Eleven thousand people have been evacuated.

Ruang, a stratovolcano in Indonesia rumbling in the distant night, illuminated by lava, lava bombs and lightning flashes every second.

abesamma, to random
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Lucky Spain. Three eclipses in three years. 🫠

abesamma, to SpaceX
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They did it! did it! Go . The future has never felt so close.

abesamma,
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@mightyspaceman that's expected tbh and that's something they'll need to figure out as they iterate. This re-entry will be invaluable in their learning.

abesamma,
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@mightyspaceman Yeah, was wondering why they're spinning. Awesome stuff.

abesamma, to web
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Apple has caved in. Huzzah! Long live the web!

Apple backtracks on plans to get rid of web apps on iPhones in the EU https://www.engadget.com/apple-backtracks-on-plans-to-get-rid-of-web-apps-on-iphones-in-the-eu-195232177.html

abesamma, to science
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It is very sobering to read the latest on micro plastics research. They're just everywhere, even in places where they shouldn't be. Even in sedimentary layers that predate their creation. In placentas, in our organs, in the rock cycle, at the bottom of the ocean. Everywhere. How do we even begin to clean this up? It's a lovecraftian nightmare. Possible solutions exist, but the scale of the problem is daunting.

https://phys.org/news/2022-02-birch-trees-microplastics-soil.html

abesamma, to random
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For all those like me who sought a postgresql counterpart of sqlite, fear not. Pglite is here for you now.

https://github.com/electric-sql/pglite

#sql #database

carnage4life, to random
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Last year Vice filed for bankruptcy and was sold to its creditors for $350M after being valued at $5.7B in 2017.

Today the company announced hundreds of layoffs and it will no longer have a website but instead will publish content on social media.

Online journalism is in chaos.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2024/02/22/vice-media-shuts-down-layoffs/

abesamma,
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@Steerpike @carnage4life I think this may also be relevant to folks enjoying our glorious era of online news 🗞️ 😉

abesamma, to mastodon
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Discord through their inaction is actively aiding and abetting this spam attack against Mastodon servers. Screw them 🤬

Discord took no action against server that coordinated costly Mastodon spam attacks | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2024/02/21/discord-took-no-action-against-server-that-coordinated-costly-mastodon-spam-attacks/

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Apple has seen Web Apps as potential threat to the AppStore since 2011.

Apple execs in email titled "HTML5 Poses Threat to Flash and the AppStore" say "I think someday we will see a challenge from ... a web based solution"

👇Help us fight for the web, fill in the survey

https://open-web-advocacy.org/apple-attempts-killing-webapps/

abesamma,
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@SebastienK @owa no no no no. That's a false narrative. This is a hissy fit from a company that finds itself increasingly cornered not just by the law and pubic sentiment, but by technological progress of all things. Gdpr has been good for all and is very easy to comply with. Only vested interests can say otherwise.

abesamma,
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@SebastienK @owa is the EU building a walled garden or protecting its consumers with sensible laws that produce a competitive landscape as a side benefit? I'd say the latter is more likely. At least that's how most of us see it inside and outside the EU. Between Apple's very real walled garden vision and the EU's more open, sensible vision, I'd choose the latter any day.

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@SebastienK @owa see here's the thing: you have more choices than you realise under EU law. The EU laws do nothing to interfere with apple's obligations to its customers (Apple's argument that they do is to put it mildly mere corporate propaganda). Technically speaking, Apple's entire argument and thesis is simply because they're protecting their profits first. Not users, profits. They simply don't want to give an inch of profit. Users be damned.

abesamma,
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@SebastienK @owa I'd be happy to read up on any informed legal write up that suggests all this is to "access data and wallets".

abesamma,
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@SebastienK @owa sigh. To each their own then.

abesamma, to science
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Darwin's last publication in 1881 was all about earthworms. It sold faster than The Origin of Species for some reason (I guess people are more interested in the affairs of worms than anything else). His experiments for this work included shouting at worms and asking his son to play the bassoon at them. From barnacles to worms to biological evolution to continent wide geology, #CharlesDarwin loved it all. He died six months after this work.

https://youtube.com/shorts/Tdv1YN9SGHQ

#science #biology

abesamma, to IT
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In England and Wales, courts
will treat a computer as if it is working perfectly unless someone can show why that is not the case. This presumption poses a challenge to those who dispute evidence produced by a computer system. Frequently the challenge is insurmountable, particularly where a substantial institution operates the system. (UK courts do tend to favour big institutions overall because reasons).

Thus the stage was set for the Horizon computer scandal. 🤪

abesamma, to Geology
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Before Earth became the pale blue dot that we all know and love today, it was first a pale orange dot, then a pale white dot, possibly a pale purple dot before finally settling down to a nice pale blue hue. It's been a wild ride for life on this planet.

https://exoplanets.nasa.gov/resources/2245/planet-earth-through-the-ages/

abesamma, to space
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As much as we love our science and tech, the nature of human politics is such that we can ill afford to dwell on just our interests. The layoffs at NASA/JPL are why we should always pay attention to our daily politics, and be prepared to participate in it when the situation calls for it.

In the most direct sense, people are losing their jobs because Congress is fighting over the budget of the Mars Sample Return (MSR) project.

https://www.planetary.org/articles/jpl-msr-layoffs

abesamma, to voyager
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My utmost respect to the NASA/JPL engineers who have to debug Voyager 1's cryptic FDS issue with a 45 hour interval between sending the command and receiving a reply, using paper documentation, methodologies, and flight software and hardware that are all more than 40 years old and whose developers are mostly dead. Oh, and with no ground simulator. Incomprehensible.

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/02/humanitys-most-distant-space-probe-jeopardized-by-computer-glitch/

#voyager #debugging #space #nasa

abesamma, to tesla
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Today my wife and I took a Tesla out for a spin for the first time. It's... a lovely car. At least to us it did feel like we were in a spaceship and not just a car. I personally loved it. It's unlike anything I've ever been on or driven, and it's certainly motivated us to get one for ourselves. For the first time in a while I could get in a sedan car that didn't make me feel like I'm too big for it.

abesamma, to internet
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Seeing how reviled social media bosses are at the recent senate hearing gives me hope that users are ready to embrace more open, alternative platforms.

abesamma, to Geology
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Ground penetrating radar observations of the contact between the western delta and the crater floor of Jezero crater, Mars

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adi8339

AkaSci, (edited ) to random
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The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.

The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.

Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space.
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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@AkaSci ah the joy of debugging 🥲

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