An antifascist network engineer who dabbles in systems, software, and information security stuff.
Current hobbies: playing piano and screwing with radios (HAM and ISM).
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A Seattle cop had a wall-involved shooting
RE: https://flipboard.com/@usatoday/travel-d4d2dgcrz/-/a-HLTlfRlUTP2z9bvVi1iB1g%3Aa%3A3199709-%2F0
this would actually be the funniest (and saddest) rugpull in history
I was wondering why I was seeing so many "Co-authored-by: Copilot" commits recently. It turns out VS Code added a "feature" that inserts that into your commits automatically, even if you're not using Copilot.
It looks like people complained about this, which went nowhere until this hit the front page of HN. After this was the top HN story Saturday, an MS engineer submitted a PR to switch this feature to default off an hour ago (midnight Redmond time).
What will they think of next?
You know what would be really nice (but nobody is ever going to build)?
Oscilloscope that replaces the ungodly slow USB3/1000baseT PC interface port with NVLink.
Forget PCIe and Thunderbolt... 900 GB/s of bandwidth straight from the ADC to my GPU? Sign me up.
Vultures eat anthrax, botulism, rabies, & cholera for breakfast.
Their stomach acid is among the most corrosive in the animal kingdom, with a pH around 1, low enough to dissolve the bones, hide, & pathogens of dead animals that would kill almost anything else.
A vulture eating a diseased carcass isn't a vector for disease, it's the end of the line. The disease chain ends in the vulture's gut, & that's pretty hardcore.
When vulture populations crashed in India in the 1990s, rotting livestock carcasses sat where vultures used to clean them.
Feral dogs and rats took over the cleanup, both of which actually do spread rabies. Researchers later linked the vulture collapse to roughly 500,000 deaths in India over the following decade.
The same collapse is now underway in sub-Saharan Africa. 6 of 11 African vulture species are threatened with extinction, primarily from poisoned poaching baits.
The animals nobody finds cute are doing more public health work than most of the species we actively protect.
#Birds
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