Alan Sill

@AlanSill@mast.hpc.social
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Physics/cloud/data centers/HPC. This one's for personal viewpoints/tech stuff I find cool. For official work look elsewhere, for example at the metadata links here. Open to questions and try to reply. One of the admins here on mast.hpc.social
NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Centerhttps://nsfcac.org/leadership.html
GitHubhttps://alansill.github.io
Texas Techhttps://www.depts.ttu.edu/hpcc/about/staff.php
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/alan-sill-ttu/
Alan Sill6h ago
David Ho8h ago

It’s on brand for Trump to fire a bunch of climate scientists and then hire three of the biggest climate deniers: Steve Koonin, John Christy, and Roy Spencer.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/08/climate/trump-climate-energy-department.html?unlocked_article_code=1.U08.pa7V.xKDiEghVFkiX&smid=url-share

Trump Hires Scientists Who Doubt the Consensus on Climate Change

The three scientists joined the administration after it dismissed hundreds of experts who were assessing how global warming is affecting the country.

The New York Times
Alan Sill7h ago
John Carlos Baez19h ago

If you've turned it off it will stay off...

... but it will be on.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/07/unless-users-take-action-android-will-let-gemini-access-third-party-apps/

Alan Sill13h ago
Gabriele Svelto1d ago
If you have an Intel Raptor Lake system and you're in the northern hemisphere, chances are that your machine is crashing more often because of the summer heat. I know because I can literally see which EU countries have been affected by heat waves by looking at the locales of Firefox crash reports coming from Raptor Lake systems.
Alan Sill18h ago
Show threadLed By Fools4d ago

@Daojoan Please edit your link to remove the tracker.

Here is why:

Alan Sill2d ago
Violet Blue2d ago

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https://www.patreon.com/posts/huge-free-covid-86871700

Huge, FREE covid safety resource list | Violet Blue

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Alan Sill2d ago
Bob Young2d ago

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

Alan Sill3d ago
Zack Labe3d ago

Latest update for changes in land ice mass as observed by GRACE(-FO) satellite in Antarctica (left) and Greenland (right).

This melting contributes to global sea level rise, with the largest declines in Greenland so far 🌊

Graphic can be downloaded at https://zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-figures/

Alan Sill4d ago
Downside: having to go in on a holiday due to a cooling system failure. Upside: this is precisely why we started this project on remote data center control, and now the students and postdocs know exactly why.
Alan Sill5d ago
David Ho5d ago

The GOP is trying to kill the Keeling Curve, the most iconic time series in the environmental sciences.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/01/climate/trump-cuts-mauna-loa-keeling

Trump admin tries to kill the most indisputable evidence of human-caused climate change by shuttering observatory

The Mauna Loa laboratory in Hawaii has measured atmospheric carbon dioxide, which — along with other planet-warming pollution — has led directly to climate change, driving sea level rise, supercharging weather and destroying food systems.

CNN
Alan Sill5d ago
David Ho5d ago

They’ve been doing this to climate scientists for decades.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/02/health/fda-covid-vaccines.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Tk8.qhth.UW0RJzD68ARf&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

Top F.D.A. Official Overrode Scientists on Covid Shots

Records show that a top U.S. regulator rejected the recommendations of agency experts and limited the use of Covid vaccines.

The New York Times