Zubair

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Wondering this world until I find a true purpose....
London, UK
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ZubairDec 19, 2024
rillianDec 19, 2024

The Free Lossless Audio Codec (#flac) is now an IETF standard!

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9639.html

Thanks to everyone who worked to document and clarify this important format for sound and music archive and exchange on the internet, to Martijn van Beurden for maintenance of the reference implementation, and to Josh Coalson for originally publishing his work for everyone to use.

RFC 9639: Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC)

This document defines the Free Lossless Audio Codec (FLAC) format and its streamable subset. FLAC is designed to reduce the amount of computer storage space needed to store digital audio signals. It does this losslessly, i.e., it does so without losing information. FLAC is free in the sense that its specification is open and its reference implementation is open source. Compared to other lossless audio coding formats, FLAC is a format with low complexity and can be encoded and decoded with little computing resources. Decoding of FLAC has been implemented independently for many different platforms, and both encoding and decoding can be implemented without needing floating-point arithmetic.

ZubairDec 28, 2023
I accidentally blocked my desktop from accessing #HomeAssistant by entering the password incorrectly 3 times. Quickly, found the solution on the internet. If you fail 3 login attempts, the IP address goes on a blocklist. That's a safety feature I like.
ZubairOct 18, 2023
(moving) APODOct 18, 2023

Dust and the Western Veil Nebula

Image Credit & Copyright: Jiang Wu

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231018.html #APOD

APOD: 2023 October 18 – Dust and the Western Veil Nebula

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.

ZubairSep 22, 2023
Dan GillmorSep 22, 2023

One of the most evil people of our age, Rupert Murdoch, has trained his principal heir and successor -- his son Lachlan -- to be just as evil. So the Murdoch family's Fox "News" and other democracy-loathing media companies will continue poisoning the public sphere.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/21/business/media/rupert-murdoch-fox-retire.html

And Big Journalism will continue to pretend the Murdochs' media properties are legitimate.

Rupert Murdoch to Retire From Fox and News Corporation Boards

The move leaves his son Lachlan as the sole executive in charge of the global media empire.

The New York Times
ZubairJul 14, 2023
Taylor LorenzJul 14, 2023
Someone seems mad!! https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/07/13/twitter-creators-payments-right-wing/
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme

The first beneficiaries appear to be high-profile influencers like Andrew Tate, DC Draino, Ian Miles Cheong, Benny Johnson and Ashley St. Clair.

The Washington Post
ZubairApr 18, 2023
@Vivaldi Loving the workspace feature. I was worried about so many tabs being open/active in each workspace, but found out that you can hibernate. Could you add a feature that will allow auto-hibernate of selected workspaces?
ZubairMar 16, 2023
Chris TrottierMar 15, 2023

Microsoft Azure's @medium page just published this guide on how to deploy Mastodon on Azure.

https://medium.com/microsoftazure/simple-mastodon-node-deployment-on-azure-f79f40114d74

Now the fellow who wrote this doesn't directly work for Microsoft.

But clearly, Microsoft wants to use Mastodon to sell Azure. Otherwise they wouldn't publish this article on their official Azure Medium page.

I've been predicting this for months.

In fact, Microsoft has been telegraphing more and more involvement with the Fediverse.

See also: @dotnet

@fediversenews

Simple Mastodon Node Deployment on Azure - Microsoft Azure - Medium

Mastodon is a decentralized social media network that lets users create and join various communities of their choice. Mastodon also supports several types of content, such as audio, video, picture…

Microsoft Azure
ZubairMar 16, 2023
Sheril KirshenbaumMar 16, 2023
Once upon a time, ~40M years ago, there was a species of penguin that was 6'8" (2m) tall & 250 lbs (115kg) called Palaeeudyptes klekowskii, also known as the ‘mega penguin’ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn25990-extinct-mega-penguin-was-tallest-and-heaviest-ever/ #science #history #nature #SharedPlanet
Extinct mega penguin was tallest and heaviest ever

A fossil foot bone found in Antarctica suggests that one extinct species of penguin was a true giant, clocking in at 115 kilograms

New Scientist
ZubairJan 3, 2023
Sheril KirshenbaumJan 3, 2023

Satyendranath Bose was a brilliant theoretical physicist born this week in 1894 in West Bengal (now India).

In 1924, while on faculty at the University of Dacca, he wrote a short paper to Albert Einstein about indistinguishable particles related to quantum theory.

Einstein immediately recognized Bose’ genius, translated the work into German & made sure it was published. Bose ideas led to Bose-Einstein statistics which continue to be studied in quantum mechanics. #science #history #HistoryRemix

ZubairDec 24, 2022
Show threadTaylor LorenzDec 24, 2022
Just want to add that I know it’s easy to hate on journalists, but we are people from all walks of life. Personally, I love thinking about social products and features, that’s why I write about communication technology. I appreciate everyone’s feedback and I hope ppl understand that I’m not trying to “ruin” anything by sharing my personal opinions on features. It’s ok to disagree! I also have deep knowledge of online harassment and how it manifests 💓