Francesco Pira

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Human. Problem solver. I shape my own tools. Working as XR Tech Lead. Opinions (and typos) are mine. he/him
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What are the real environmental impacts of data centers? A new paper claims that their heat exhaust leads to land surface temperatures increasing by an average of 2°C (3.6°F) and as much as 9°C (16°F). Andy Masley, a physics teacher turned writer and science communicator, explains the flaws in the research — off-the-wall methodology and misleading framing — that will likely lead to gross misinterpretations and misrepresentations in the media. https://flip.it/7cWJ7H #Science #ClimateChange #DataCenters #SciComms

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The wildest thing you'll see today

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#GitHub incidents have been so frequent lately, I've added their updates to my personal Telegram notification chat. There's definitely something wrong going on their side.

Why Rust for the runtime?

- Portable (runs anywhere)
- Strongly typed
- Predictable under concurrency
- Safe to embed
- Fast enough to sit in the middle

Basically: "I want this to run everywhere and not explode"

#rustlang #systemsprogramming

CRITICAL! axios has been compromised on npm.

Poisoned releases include 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. They drop a remote access trojan. https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan

Wow! I love LLMs translation and attention to detail.
#Microsoft awkwardly translates its own "Windows" as any other word in platforms in #Azure Developer Docs. This is "Finestre" in the Italian version of the pages.
axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan

poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4.

https://www.stepsecurity.io/blog/axios-compromised-on-npm-malicious-versions-drop-remote-access-trojan
axios Compromised on npm - Malicious Versions Drop Remote Access Trojan - StepSecurity

Hijacked maintainer account used to publish poisoned axios releases including 1.14.1 and 0.30.4. The attacker injected a hidden dependency that drops a cross platform RAT. We are actively investigating and will update this post with a full technical analysis.

New OPNsense update released, update and stay safe

Howdy,

This updates ships a few third party updates, assorted core fixes and
improvements of which Kea DDNS and options support may be the most
sought-after.

The captive portal IPv6 changes are ready for wider testing on the
development version and ove...

https://forum.opnsense.org/index.php?topic=51402.0

OPNsense 26.1.5 released

OPNsense 26.1.5 released

OPNsense Forum

#GitHub bumps API version to 2026-03-10. Latest change was 4 years ago. Users have plenty of time to upgrade, 24 months from now. Omitting version, will continue to default to 2022-11-28 for the time period.

https://github.blog/changelog/2026-03-12-rest-api-version-2026-03-10-is-now-available/