Nick @internic@social.cleverlibre.org

The 2024 Mitsubishi Outlander’s big battery makes it a BEV alternative

Charge it every night and you may only ever run the engine on road trips.

https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/12/the-2024-mitsubishi-outlanders-big-battery-makes-it-a-bev-alternative/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

“Diane Duane on Tumblr”

"“Can you add AI to the hydraulics system?”"

We’re in the middle of a massive bubble and this is only a fraction of the ridiculousness it’ll reach before it pops, and all of you who are using generative models have a hand in inflating it https://www.tumblr.com/dduane/737900044438667264/half-rant-half-story-im-a-physicist-i-work-for

Conda is moving our social media presence from Twitter/X to Mastodon and LinkedIn at the start of 2024. It's past time to move into spaces that are welcoming and more in line with our community values. Going forward, you can find us at
🐘 @conda (https://fosstodon.org/@conda) on Mastodon
🔗 Conda Community (https://linkedin.com/company/condacommunity) on LinkedIn

Announcement: https://conda.org/blog/2023-12-27-social-move
We hope to see you on Mastodon and LinkedIn in 2024!

Since we're talking about compromised internet-connected cameras in homes, you may be interested in EFF's advice on how to keep your smart home private and secure, written by @legind https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/06/keeping-your-smart-home-secure-private

Mass General Brigham, the largest health system in MA, is reinstating masking requirements on Jan 2.

It joins Boston Medical Center, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Beth Israel Lahey Health & other MA hospitals.

Why was this not done weeks ago at the *start* of the COVID surge?

Sources:
archive.ph/Q6eBz
archive.ph/SduVQ

Today's story caps months worth of work with colleagues on a Washington Post series about critical changes in India's public governance through its domination of technology.
This piece delves into what happened before and after Apple warned journalists and politicians in India Oct. 30 that a country was attacking their phones.
What we found: The evidence suggests that India is using Pegasus again, and again going after its critics in civil society.
More surprising, and a clear sign of what the current Indian government expects from major tech companies: Ministers went on the attack against Apple, which sees India as a major market for growth.
This link is free for anyone who enters and confirms an email address.
Please read and share. Thank you.
https://wapo.st/3NEJYub

I just wanna thank @pluralistic and the reprise of his interview on the CBC for making me realize that the whole push to address "junk fees" is just yet another case of governments attacking the symptoms of a market structural failures rather than the cause: consolidation/lack of competition allowing companies to take advantage of their customers. It's a token gesture, a policy flailing because they refuse to do the long and hard work of fixing these markets. #economics

NY Times sues Open AI, Microsoft over copyright infringement

Shows evidence that GPT-based systems will reproduce Times articles if asked.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/ny-times-sues-open-ai-microsoft-over-copyright-infringement/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

Okay so "mastochist" got hacked that exposed keys to post to my account

The person who was kind enough not to mis use my account, thank you

"tl;dr a 3rd-party site called mastochist got hacked, so if youve ever used it you should revoke its access :) -rw672"

So please, remove access for "mastochist" if you have allowed this in the past

This can be done from account settings on the web UI (browser)

We are celebrating Christmas at partner's parents with the same raclette grill as 20 years ago - which is pretty impressive, but not quiet as much as the Voyager spacecrafts 😅 Voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 - still working, still teaching us new things about the most external parts of the solar system.

With many thanks to @schnedan for the idea :)

#astrodon #SciArt #wisskomm #scicomm #VicisArt #voyager #voyager2

In those days a decree went out from Emperor Augustus that all the world should return to their home towns to fix their parents’ mobile phone, email and computer problems.

It's all fun and games marrying a lab scientist until it's Christmas morning and she's saying "measure twice cut once" and "oh fun it's time for the trigonometry!" about your gingerbread house

For this year's gingerbread I made... the VLA!

#gingerbread #astronomy #radioastronomy #space

sandy paws

Also here: Cat, who considers himself one of the Christmas gifts, and also one of the two reasons all the baubles hang so high.

Joyeux Noël

#OTD in 2021 🚀

What a beautiful view we had from the Toucan site at Kourou that Christmas morning 🥰

What a perfect (& loud 😱) ride we got from #Ariane5 #VA256 towards the Sun-Earth L2 point 🌞🌎🌗🛰

And what a stunning observatory #JWST has proved to be in the two years since 🔭✨

Such a privilege to be involved for more than a quarter of a century & there's so much more to come 🖖🤘

#Astrodon #Astronomy #SpaceScience #ExploreTogether #NASA #ESA #CSA #SoundOn #SpaceRocks
#MerryChristmas

Merry Christmas to all who celebrate, from about 2,400 light-years away

#astrophotography

Reuters has taken down -- globally -- an important hacking-for-profit investigation that included details about an Indian hacking "entrepreneur" -- because he got a court in that country to say so.

This is a huge danger to free speech and serious journalism.

https://www.thedailybeast.com/who-is-killing-all-these-stories-about-rajat-khare-controversial-tech-mogul

Reuters deserved praise for its initial investigation. It deserves the opposite now.

(The New Yorker is apparently one of the few publications that hasn't bowed to the pressure.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-crime/a-confession-exposes-indias-secret-hacking-industry