truekonrads

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If you solder a ~10cm long "antenna" wire to a laptop's DRAM data bus, it makes it extra sensitive to electromagnetic interference.

So much so that clicking a piezo-electric arc lighter nearby can induce bit-flips.

I wrote an exploit to turn those bitflips into a shell:
via Jason Follet
"The custom of "telling the bees" is a charming and ancient #tradition where #beekeepers inform their bees about significant events in their lives, such as deaths, births, marriages, and other major occurrences. This practice is believed to have its roots in #Celtic mythology, where bees were seen as messengers between the human world and the spirit world. The presence of a #bee after a death was thought to signify the #soul leaving the body. The tradition became particularly prominent in the 18th and 19th centuries in Western Europe and the United States.
To tell the bees, the head of the household or the "goodwife" would approach the hives, gently knock to get the #bees' attention, and then softly murmur the news in a solemn tone. This ritual was believed to keep the bees informed and prevent them from leaving the hive or dying. The #custom underscores the deep connection and respect that people #historically had for bees, viewing them as integral members of the household and community.
Likelihood of getting promoted when you talk to the recruiter versus likelihood of getting promoted when you have the job

👉 EDIT: Tickets now available!

🌀 "An Introduction to the Demoscene and Creating Visual Effects with Code"

A 2-hour workshop (10am-noon) on Saturday 20th July, The Hub, Peckham, London.

I'll share the joyful art of the #demoscene. We'll make some pretty things together, and you'll leave with knowledge, tools, and inspiration.
Minimal coding experience required.

Details / Tickets:
https://www.peckhamdigital.org/events/2024/saturday/intro_to_demoscene/

Shares appreciated. Questions welcome!
#PeckhamDigital #creativeCoding #TIC80

An Introduction to the Demoscene and Creating Visual Effects with Code

Hellish workplace for knowledge workers:
- Constantly interrupt them
- Distracting tech (Slack, IM, Teams, smart phones)
- No work-home boundary
- Measure productivity by activity
- No prioritizing
- 1-hour mtgs default
- No time for deep work
https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/the-art-of-self-improvement/202406/cultures-of-disruption-are-destroying-modern-workplaces
Cultures of Disruption Are Destroying Modern Workplaces

Our current working cultures of disruption are making us ill and unproductive. We need to take urgent collective action to re-design our workplaces so that we can thrive.

Psychology Today

This article is meant to be an exposé of how rents keep rising 10-20% each year because landlords use the same price setting software.

However it explains that landlords get loans from banks who assume rents will go up that much to justify the loans.

Blaming the wrong culprit.

If every landlord uses an app that says raise rents over 10% each year and does so, it seems there’s a broader structural problem than recommendations from an app.

https://prospect.org/infrastructure/housing/2024-06-18-how-algorithm-turned-apartment-pools-green/

How an ‘Algorithm’ Turned Apartment Pools Green

RealPage, the rent-fixing software company currently under FBI investigation, also has apps for bogus fees, monetizing vacant apartments and inflating toxic property bubbles.

The American Prospect

I feel that a major flaw in zombie movies is basic calorie calculus:

Humans need 2000-3000 calories a day and are very bad at getting food from the environment directly (foraging) and need constant production and supply of food from farms. A zombie city will run out of good supply in about 7 days after which you’d have to wait further 28-35 days until they all eat each other and die of hunger. Perhaps a few 🧟 who have isolated and abundant food will live for longer but i am sure they can be eliminated quickly

Context: Exploratory Data Analysis/ML. What’s the best way of making sense of complex nested data structures (think security alert with context about assets, IPs). A pandas.head() feels like staring at a 100 column excel on a spreadsheet.
The workflow as promoted on “Data Analytics using R/Python/Java/xyz” articles seems horrendous.

The goal would be to have ML algorithms group some of the alerts.

I’ve found the Managing Complex Change model to be useful when taking on a new leadership role or in the aftermath of reorgs.

A team needs all 5 of these to execute successfully

1. Vision
2. Skills
3. Incentives
4. Resources
5. Action plan

Each of these is critical as shown below