szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

Blocking internet access via DNS

One of the world’s longest-running experiments has been going for 144 years!

In 1879, botanist William Beal wanted to study how long buried seeds would remain viable. He buried bottles w different seeds in a secret spot on Michigan State's campus.

Every 20 yrs, a small group scientists dig up the bottles & seeds continue to germinate 🌱 (My husband @DavidLowry is the one on the right).

The paper from their last dig is now out so this #science story is back in the news. https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2023/12/14/scientists-dig-up-beal-seed-experiment/71913719007/?gnt-cfr=1&fbclid=IwAR2EjdgGDCOGLvvQTW87YAIu-8GDGBQCPrCpE9im8dubGJrRfWl3XVmeWow

Working on a product for academic geologists, "Geology from Elsewhere". There are more than 200 geology and other earth sciences journals, challenging enough for scientists to keep up with. But some really important articles are published in general science journals (e.g., Nature ) or in journals that we don't associate with geology. As I already monitor oodles of journals across multiple fields, I can spot these outliers and bring them to your attention. Does this sound useful?

@revk oh noes... how will the under 16s recover his WhatsApp messages now... 🤭

Lubisz rano wcześnie wstawać? Możliwe, że to dlatego, że masz więcej genów Neandertalczyka niż inni ludzie. 🐒 🧔 😜

Więcej: https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/dec/14/neanderthal-dna-may-explain-why-some-of-us-are-morning-people

#Neandertalczyk #Neandertalczycy #TheGuardian

Exciting news from Decentlab! Introducing our new product, the DL-SDD for LoRaWAN!

It measures soil moisture, temperature, and salinity at 6 depths / 60 cm or, on request, up to 12 depths / 120 cm.
Perfect not only for agriculture but also ideal for environmental monitoring and beyond. 🌱

https://www.decentlab.com/soil-moisture-temperature-and-salinity-profile

#agriculture #smartag #lorawan #iot #montioring #soil #sensors #salinity #temperature #moisture

#Chrobok #Snowden #dezinformacja

cc: @avolha @rysiek

Btw - wskoczył mi właśnie podcast Mateusza Chroboka o Snowdenie i tam już na wstępie pojawia się informacja, że uciekł do Rosji. A że profil pana Chroboka na masto jest nieaktywny od roku i tam nie mogę sprostować, to przypomnę tutaj: nie uciekł - jeśli już, to został tam zesłany przez USA. Konkretniej to USA anulowało mu paszport, gdy miał się przesiadać w Moskwie na inny samolot tak, żeby utknął w Moskwie - co było z ich strony /1

@gsuberland @404mediaco @dalias It artificially disabled trains for the sake of extracting maintenance money.

So if it is not fraud, it is instead infrastructure sabotage and extortion (with a side of racketeering).

Sabotaging rail infrastructure for *any reason* in Poland is a crime.

I want to see a world where the GUI never took off as the dominant paradigm and instead text interfaces became better and better, focussing on accessibility, good documentation and explorability.

I feel like an entire branch of UI design that had high potential was cut off by leaving the terminal to the tech nerds. We may never know what would have been possible.

MPs Debate 2025 Switch-off Dangers of Analogue UK Phone Services https://www.ispreview.co.uk/index.php/2023/12/mps-debate-2025-switch-off-dangers-of-analogue-uk-phone-services.html

Advocates for #ActivityPub - IF YOU HAVE A #WORDPRESS SITE, have you installed the ActivityPub plugin? https://wordpress.org/plugins/activitypub/

At the State of the Word address this week, Matt Mullenweg was asked about support for the plugin, and he commented that less than 5,000 sites had installed it. So he wasn't sure how interested people are in it.

So... if you have a WP site, let's start installing that plugin and making more sites available via ActivityPub! 😀

#StateOfTheWord #SotW

@nev @barrygoldman1 @futurebird @Viss I wish more headlines ended with ", hackers find"

Manufacturer deliberately bricked trains repaired by competitors, hackers find

The train manufacturer accused the hackers of slander.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/manufacturer-deliberately-bricked-trains-repaired-by-competitors-hackers-find/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

📰 Ministra Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk: do nazwy ministerstwa przywracamy słowo praca, to ważny sygnał

"To symboliczny, ale bardzo ważny sygnał, który chciałabym już dziś wysłać do milionów pracujących Polek i Polaków: wasza praca jest doceniana i będzie doceniana. Wasze wysiłki na rzecz budowy państwa dobrobytu są cenne i zasługują na to, żeby być eksponowane. Pracy nie wolno się wstydzić, pracę należy doceniać. Chciałabym z tego miejsca powiedzieć, że będę dokładała wszelkich starań, żeby nie tylko w sensie symbolicznym, ale także faktycznym, praca w Polsce była doceniana i żeby każdy pracownik i każda pracownica czuli faktycznie to docenienie każdego dnia, kiedy do pracy się udają – skwitowała ministra rodziny, pracy i polityki społecznej Agnieszka Dziemianowicz-Bąk."

Całość:
https://www.gov.pl/web/rodzina/ministra-agnieszka-dziemianowicz-bak-do-nazwy-ministerstwa-przywracamy-slowo-praca-to-wazny-sygnal?utm_source=fediwersum&utm_medium=polsocial&utm_content=textlink

#polityka #praca #społeczeństwo #rząd

To give you an idea of the difference between normal ISPs and @aaisp

Other ISPs: "Technical fault. We'll have it fixed whenever."

@aaisp: "Oh, yeah. We discovered a failed $networkDevice at $location. We've planned engineering work to resolve this properly on $futureDate. In the meantime, affected customers have been moved to alternative infrastructure. We're also doing a root-cause analysis to prevent this kind of issue causing outages for customers in the future."

Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/12/23999070/spacex-starlink-fcc-rural-digital-opportunity-fund-fcc-rejected