Neil

@AnserGIS
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Metal tweety bird @AnserGIS learning to toot a new tune . Will see what happens over on the telegraph wire. Maybe I'll move more here.

A key element of Recall is Microsoft say only you can access your Recall, it is per user.

ArsTechnica enabled Recall on Windows 11 box and tested the claim. By logging in as another user they could access the database and screenshots.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/06/windows-recall-demands-an-extraordinary-level-of-trust-that-microsoft-hasnt-earned/

Windows Recall demands an extraordinary level of trust that Microsoft hasn’t earned

Op-ed: The risks to Recall are way too high for security to be secondary.

Ars Technica

I'll add a recent update. It proved impossible to autorun plumber inside Studio container, from the host machine.

I ended up with two containers, one for production running. R headlessly, one for development with gui.

I find that it's a useful rule of thumb to assume that everyone's job is more complex and demanding than it looks from the outside, no matter what it is, unless you've literally done it yourself and even sometimes then.
C++ on the way out?!? I wrote my PhD software on Delphi.. perhaps it will get a new lease of life?? https://readwrite.com/the-nsa-list-of-memory-safe-programming-languages-has-been-updated/
The NSA list of memory-safe programming languages has been updated

The US government says it would be better for them if you ceased using C or C++ when programming tools. Here's the recommended list.

ReadWrite

EDIT: I fixed it.. I have added the solution to my Question in stack l.

I have a docker/R/plumber question out on stack. Please take a look if you know anything about these. I've been stuck on this issue for two days now:

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/76818300/plumber-on-r-studio-in-docker-not-listening-on-port-8004

Plumber (on R Studio in Docker) not listening on port 8004

I have an rstudio project with a plumber API running in docker on localhost. Rstudio is running in the browser on port 8787 and plumber is supposed to be listening on port 8004. Both ports are expo...

Stack Overflow
when John Lennon told me to imagine no possessions I just don't think he was envisioning a world where everything in my life is available only through a subscription-based model because the costs of personal property have been intentionally placed beyond my reach

Why are so many climate scientists so scared and so angry?

Maybe it's because they know better than most of us how bad our situation today truly is, and how horribly we've been betrayed by our so-called leaders.

Here's an excerpt from an excellent piece on this subject by Alan Urban...
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Even if the planet stopped getting warmer right now, we would still be in big trouble. The ice caps would keep melting and sea levels would keep rising.

Look at what’s happening at a mere 1.2°C of warming. We’re already seeing some of the worst heat waves in human history, not to mention record-breaking floods, droughts, wildfires, and water shortages.

But of course, warming isn’t going to stop at 1.2°C. Because of the heat we’ve already trapped in the atmosphere, and because we continue to emit huge amounts of greenhouse gases every year, the climate is warming exponentially.

All of these climate-related crises are stretching farms to the limit, yet this is just the beginning. As crop yields decline and the population grows, we will see food insecurity get worse and worse until we’re in a global famine.

And that right there is why climate scientists are scared. They understand that human civilization was born during the Holocene, when global temperatures were very stable and stayed within a range of about 1°C.

As we push the planet out of that range and raise the temperature about 50 times faster than would occur naturally, it will become harder and harder to produce enough food to feed everyone, and this will lead to social instability, political upheaval, the worst migration crisis ever, and wars over resources.

Disasters that weren’t supposed to happen until we reached 1.5°C are happening now, so we can only imagine what will happen when we hit 2° or 3°C.

This is why top scientists from around the world are warning us that we face a ghastly future filled with untold suffering. They’ve been telling us over and over, year after year, summit after summit, that we have to stop burning fossil fuels as quickly as possible. But as you can see [below], the world keeps ignoring them.
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FULL ARTICLE -- https://12ft.io/proxy?q=https%3A%2F%2Fmedium.com%2F%40CollapseSurvival%2Ffaster-than-expected-why-climate-scientists-are-so-scared-985db6579f2e

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #ClimateEmergency #CO2 #Emissions #Capitalism

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When you take a taxi in Tokyo, it's now pretty standard to have an air quality monitor inside.

The drivers all mask and there's plexiglass separating the driver and the passengers.

You may argue about the effectiveness of each of these measures, but it's clear that this is a society responding together and adapting to a new reality.

This is living with the virus: trying to mitigate it's harm. Instead of pretending it does not exist.

#CovidIsNotOver

People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.

Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.

Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.

Do you want to create your own #mastodon #bot in a few minutes?

I wrote a simple bash script that uses #curl (thanks @bagder!) to post text and images to a Mastodon account.

https://github.com/eliastorres/mastodon-shell

I tired to document the scripts as much as possible, forks, bug reports and pull requestes are welcome

I love how Mastodon and other #fediverse tools are very friendly to developers, that makes the Fediverse the network where innovation happens as @atomicpoet said a few days ago.

GitHub - eliastorres/mastodon-shell: Shell scripts to post to a Mastodon Account

Shell scripts to post to a Mastodon Account. Contribute to eliastorres/mastodon-shell development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub