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rmartinnielsen

@rmartinnielsen@mastodon.social

Deputy Permanent Representative of Canada to the #OPCW | Représentant permanent adjoint du #Canada auprès de l'#OIAC
These views my own, not my employer's. | Ce sont des opinions personnelles, pas de l'employeur.
I develop/maintain the https://c.im/@icymi_adn #icymiBot
Other interests: #QGIS #rstats #ClassicalMusic #Arduino #DataViz #EnvHist #SFF #OSINT

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rmartinnielsen, to random
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I won’t spoil the conclusion - if you’ve paid attention to alternative OSes for 20+ years it likely won’t be a complete surprise - but I was amused by this intro to a para, early on: “I will pass over OS/2 in silence.” Yes, that’s probably for the best.

From: @KarlSchroeder
https://mastodon.social/@KarlSchroeder/112492423019759757

lawfare, to random
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"It’s impossible to count how many of these single points of failure are in our computer systems....It seems impossible that the xz Utils operation was a unique instance."
Bruce Schneier explains the backdoor vulnerability that almost happened. https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/backdoor-in-xz-utils-that-almost-happened

rmartinnielsen,
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@lawfare I was just trying to choose my favourite pull-quote from this excellent and accessible piece, and had just about settled on:

“The fundamental problem is that tech companies dislike spending extra money even more than programmers dislike doing extra work.”

jon, to random
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Build and they will come 🎉

Riga-Vilnius train is doing better than the rail firms expected https://www.lok-report.de/news/europa/item/47509-lettland-litauen-der-zug-vilnius-riga-uebertrifft-weiterhin-die-erwartungen.html

rmartinnielsen,
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@jon And more towns would like to be part of the service (with stops): https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/2194573/more-lithuanian-towns-want-to-be-serviced-by-vilnius-riga-train

mattblaze, to random
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Violets are Red;
Roses are Blue.
The RGB values
Rotated by two.

rmartinnielsen,
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@mattblaze
Les violas rouges,
Les roses, bleues?
Leurs valeurs RGB,
Traduits par deux.

desafinado, to books
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Fun fact (at least in my observation): the word “Shire” appears nowhere in the text of “The Hobbit.”

@bookstodon

rmartinnielsen,
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@desafinado @bookstodon That is fun. And “Hobbiton” only appears once. The book is all about “there”, and then the “back again”.

jon, to random
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I couldn't have imagined that a 10000 word Analysis piece about Channel Tunnel through services would become one of my most read blog posts ever

But what else - perhaps in the same style - should I write? Send me your ideas! https://jonworth.eu/what-analysis-would-you-like-to-read-send-me-your-ideas-and-i-will-have-a-go/

rmartinnielsen,
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@jon Heading back to where I used to live - and where I never tried taking the train very far - I’d be curious about a look at the Baltics. @marisjonovs seems to have tried out the Riga-Vilnius link (which didn’t exist when I left in July) and the questions about how rail competes with buses and air travel in a small population are with inconveniently-oriented infrastructure will be important in years to come.

rmartinnielsen, to chemistry
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Is 2024 going to be the year you start working at the @opcw ?

There are several competitions running with application deadlines in January. I’ll make some job-specific posts later but for now have a glance at https://jobs.opcw.org/accueil.aspx?LCID=2057

FAQ: Do I have to know all about ?

A: Not for all jobs! The works for a world free of chemical weapons, but it’s a broad and diverse organisation - many don’t need or expertise.

rmartinnielsen, to Canada
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“Canada strongly condemns the electoral and political interference via cyber means by Russia targeting the United Kingdom. joins its partners and allies in calling out this activity by Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB). ’s malicious activity and its egregious disinformation campaigns are unacceptable and must stop.”

https://www.canada.ca/en/global-affairs/news/2023/12/statement-on-russias-malicious-cyber-activity-affecting-the-united-kingdom.html

rmartinnielsen, to random
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Wow, @djnavarro you rock.

I am staring at several pages of tables in PDF and trying to figure out how to get it into so I can do something slightly sensible with it and your blog post is a top hit and I say to myself "that name looks familiar" and (with some clunking) - it works with and the UI options you suggest.

Thank you!

Analysis can be tomorrow.

https://blog.djnavarro.net/posts/2023-06-16_tabulizer/

rmartinnielsen, to random
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The trilogy bundle has a couple more days to go.

I bought it: it has a few trilogies I’ve started but not finished, a few authors whose other works I’ve loved, and several books I’ve looked at by authors I’ve not read (except in a series).

I started reading @scalzi based on picking up one of his books in a bundle. Fiction bundles let me discover authors and works.

Thanks to @lavietidhar and @aliettedb for drawing me in!

https://storybundle.com/trilogies

mrundkvist, to random
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Reading about Nordenskiöld's July 1883 expedition onto the inland ice of . Sleds full of food and equipment pulled across extremely uneven ice by men, sweating from their exertions despite the cold. After 17 days they turn around because of hopeless ice. But Nordenskiöld asks two men to don skis and backpacks to go a little farther still. 1/2

rmartinnielsen,
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@mrundkvist My profile image used to resemble this toot.

http://janet.martin-nielsen.ca/eismitte/

rmartinnielsen, to space
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This looks fun - “Science Fiction Gets Real” at the #ESA #EuropeanSpaceAgency #OpenDay on 7-8 October at ESTEC: European Space Research and Technology Centre in #Noordwijk, the Netherlands. #space #scifi #STEM

https://www.esa.int/About_Us/ESTEC/Open_Day_2023

rmartinnielsen,
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@hayo I went looking - their main informal explorer of the fediverse appears to be @markmccaughrean

ElenLeFoll, to random

Final stages before submitting a manuscript and getting angry with the journal's citation style that's APA7-but-not-quite-in-a-number-of-small-petty-ways. Checked the stylesheet repository and found that a kind soul has already uploaded a stylesheet for that journal! 🙏 Unfortunately, it was created when the journal had their specially petty version of APA6 so I need to edit it. Okay, fine. And that's how I found that "the kind soul" happens to have exactly the same name as me! 😅 🙈

rmartinnielsen,
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@ElenLeFoll @academicchatter Oh. Now I know where to offer my slightly klugy Cornell University Press CSL treatment. Thank you!

rikefranke, to Ukraine
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I’ve been talking and writing about the role individuals are playing in the Ukrainian war efforts. Case in point this poster from the walkway to the which mentions Lithuanians raising money for to buy .

rmartinnielsen,
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@rikefranke The Lithuanian campaigns reflects some of the wit and creativity seen in other messaging here. Here is the "Let your money fight" imagery from the Blue/Yellow campaign: an all-blue army-figure in a crouch with a rolled-up 5 Euro note on their shoulder like a portable rocket launcher. (The Lithuanian text is closer to "Send your money to fight".)

rmartinnielsen, to random
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Here is a rough analysis of data for the past month of operation of my @icymi_adn
As data visualization it is more exploratory than explanatory.
My main conclusions:

rmartinnielsen,
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@philippsteinkrueger If it doesn’t check back to the original server it probably should because @botsin.space is friendly but atypical and doesn’t necessarily “see” the broader world very accurately.
The pre-filtering stage lets it follow some general interest accounts which have a lot of volume, occasionally have relevant content, but don’t use hashtags on a regular basis. (So it wouldn’t see the content otherwise but the keyword boost in scoring isn’t big enough to not filter.)

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