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Professor @cmrherder does not hold back as he resigns from Patented Medicines Prices Review Board:

“The government has fundamentally undermined the Board's independence and credibility”

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RT @cmrherder
On Monday I resigned from the PMPRB, Canada's drug pricing regulator. Here's why:
https://twitter.com/cmrherder/status/1628762330396753921

https://twitter.com/kuzushi/status/1306013871136796672

This beloved bestseller has been revised and updated.

Just $5 to 11:59P ET Feb 24. FLASHVIM23 at checkout. By @nelstrom.

https://pragprog.com/titles/dnvim2/practical-vim-second-edition?view_page
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RT @kuzushi
@varcharr @carnal0wnage haha, took a bunch of time off when my kiddos were born. unrelated: vim is awesome, and practical vim is a fantastic book :-)
https://twitter.com/kuzushi/status/1306013871136796672

TIL that macOS ships with a default CLI command called "sips", for "scriptable image processing system" - and it can convert webp images to PNG, but it can also generate entirely new images from scratch using an almost entirely undocumented canvas-based JavaScript API! https://til.simonwillison.net/macos/sips

I don’t know understand the attraction of being able to talk to computers using breezy casual conversational language; I’ve been telling these little digital bastards what to do for decades using extremely precise formalised language and they still get it wrong

@seldo @anildash I really wish phones had a robust notion of deprecating contacts (or part of a contact’s info, like previous addresses) — don’t forget them entirely, but don’t offer them up as suggestions &c

Elon Musk ordered major changes to the Twitter ranking algorithm this weekend after ... President Biden's tweet about the Eagles got higher engagement than his did.

Inside the secret system that's showing you all his tweets first, from @zoeschiffer and me. https://www.platformer.news/p/yes-elon-musk-created-a-special-system

Here's a TIL describing how the new Mastodon bot works - should be handy for anyone else who wants to create their own bots too: https://til.simonwillison.net/mastodon/mastodon-bots-github-actions

A Google Fi user got hit by a sim swap attack that resulted in his Authy account getting hacked. Since the hacker had control of the user's phone number, the hacker was able to add a new device to the Authy account and from there take control of the user's Coinbase and Outlook accounts.

One way to prevent this from happening to you is to make sure you (1) enroll at least one other device in your Authy account and then (2) have your Authy account set to disable multi device (as shown in the image below).

Doing task 1 will ensure that you always have at least 2 devices enrolled (in case you lose 1 of them). Task 2 will ensure that someone who gains control of your phone number won't be able to enroll new devices.

Solid reporting by @lorenzofb, btw.

https://techcrunch.com/2023/02/01/google-fi-hack-victim-had-coinbase-2fa-app-hijacked-by-hackers/

Drone News of the Week - Work is being done to revolutionise the propeller. A toroidal design cuts noise output dramatically.

#tech #drones #science #engineering #GoodNews

https://www.designboom.com/technology/toroidal-propellers-quiet-efficient-alternatives-aerial-marine-sectors-01-27-2023/

Today in "just look at the data", someone thought Jaren Jackson Jr.'s steal and block numbers seemed suspicious, looked more closely, and found numbers that aren't even remotely plausible: https://www.reddit.com/r/nba/comments/10nbau4/memphis_grizzlies_scorekeeper_posting_fraudulent/

It's amazing how often, when you just look at data, you find really heinous stuff that immediately jumps out at you.

The flip side of this is that most teams & orgs at most large companies assign work in a way that makes it structurally hard to find obvious stuff like this.

If you have a Canon camera with remote APIs (CCAPI), I have a set of python scripts that integrates #octolapse with your camera wirelessly.
#octoprind #3dprinting

https://github.com/camerahacks/ccapi-octolapse

The open source ecosystem won't begin to understand the impact of the #GoogleLayoffs for a little while yet, but we really need to pay attention. They wrote a lot of checks, and did a lot of work behind the scenes, and some of the people instrumental in that work are now gone.

Google's membership and foundations renewals next year will be revealing.

A think that just clicked for me is that a lot of folks on here engaging in Discourse about search, federation rules, QTs etc are conflating abuse-resistant design with security by obscurity as if they are the same thing. Which they are not, and conflating the two makes conversations about them impossible.

Shout out to @0xabad1dea for this post and subthread which helped me articulate this https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/109750422799949462

#meta #fediverse #antiabuse #contentmoderation

Book of the Week: How to Invent Everything

This week’s selection is “How to Invent Everything: A Survival Guide for the Stranded Time Traveler” by Ryan North.

#3Dprinting #AdditiveManufacturing

https://www.fabbaloo.com/news/book-of-the-week-how-to-invent-everything

PagerDuty is laying off 7% of their workforce and the announcement includes a quote from MLK and it's just *chef's kiss* perfect and why the show Silicon Valley is no longer on because there is nothing to parody in comedy about the tech industry https://www.pagerduty.com/blog/improving-pagerdutys-operational-resilience-to-achieve-our-long-term-vision-and-goals/

I started working on a new #Java library to load and save #LottieFiles and #dotLottie, plus a #JavaFX player.

The very early steps are taken. A website on https://lottie4j.com thanks to #JBang, Mastodon account on @lottie4j, different Lottie JSON files can already be loaded and saved back to the same JSON, and a very first visual output showing there is some valid data being handled.

Sources: https://github.com/lottie4j

The JavaFX player component will be a very big challenge...

what are some examples of places you've used bitwise operations (and, or, xor) in practice? as specific as possible would be great.

so far I have

* or: setting bit flags, eg when opening a file (O_RDWR | O_NONBLOCK)
* and: using a bit mask to extract 4 bits from a tcp header
* xor: ???