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forgot to say, I have an American eSIM, which is why this is weird

I use an American MVNO which switches to a UK service provider when I roam in Canada and Asia.

And yes, I know about VPNs, but this is just extra annoying!

this is temporarily fixed by me finding literally any Canadian wifi network and joining, but it's also a problem when I travel to Asia as well

FYI I don't have access to DMs on here while traveling bc my carrier switches to a UK one while roaming (?), and accessing DMs on here requires uploading my ID to an age verification service ... so I get locked out of messaging on this app due to temporarily having a UK IP address.

Anyone in Toronto or Montreal want to meetup? I haven't been back to either in a long time!

If you aren’t familiar, Terence Tao is a Fields Medalist and arguably the most prominent and accomplished mathematician of his generation.

No one is safe, basically. The current administration will use any excuse to burn it all to the ground.

moonchild #digitalart

Really excellent post about the details of an SS7 bypass attack www.enea.com/insights/the...

We have lost one of the brightest minds on the planet.

Their work has saved millions of lives, improved the lives of others, enabled the work of many others.

Their passion fueled the kindling for everyone they met.

Dogspeed, and may you find the warm bed in the sun you deserve on the other side

Satyr's Song

I miss being in college and doing straightedge and compass constructions in Geogebra for hours 📐

this one is perfect for an office rug ✨

a white circular rug with tux, the linux mascot, on it. it looks very silly compared to the rest of the normal looking furniture

i've finally found the perfect living room rug

'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre Residents in rural Georgia say the data centre next door has disrupted their water supply.

from this article on data centers in Georgia, US: www.bbc.com/news/article...

"These are very hot processors," Mark Mills of the National Center for Energy Analytics testified before Congress back in April. "The surface of each chip is hotter than the surface of the sun. It takes a lot of water to cool them down."

the surface of the sun is 10,000 Fahrenheit ... am I missing something?

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It's on my to watch list, and I recently got the revised book version as well!

Irène Joliot-Curie - Wikipedia

her whole wikipedia page is worth a read: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ir%C3%A...

I randomly had this tab open and it's pretty impressive how fast they fixed this!

The Joliot-Curies had continued Pierre and Marie's policy of publishing all of their work for the benefit of the global scientific community, but afraid of the danger that might result should it be developed for military use, they stopped: on 30 October 1939, they placed all of their documentation on nuclear fission in the vaults of the French Academy of Sciences, where it remained until 1949.

Didn't know this fact about Irène Joliot-Curie, Marie Curie's daughter, who was also a nuclear physicist. She stopped publishing her research when she deemed it was too dangerous due to its potential for military abuse in 1939

The art is made of sand and consists of two outer rings of ridges which are perfectly symmetrical, about 50 ridges in each ring. The inside disk resembles tree roots. It's beautiful and strange.

can't stop thinking about this art pufferfish make on the ocean floor

Originally h/t @fugueish.bsky.social, thank you :)

Should one not ask of any public project or loan whether it: (1) promotes justice; (2) restores reciprocity; (3) confers divisible or indivisible benefits; (4) favours people over machines; (5) whether its strategy maximizes gain or minimizes disaster; (6) whether conservation is favoured over waste; and (7), whether the reversible is favoured over the irreversible? The last item is obviously important. Considering that most projects do not work out as planned, it would be helpful if they proceeded in a way that allowed revision and learning, that is, in small reversible steps.

This was a checklist she proposed for evaluating public projects, but this should really apply to most software too ...

Ursula's list Ursula Franklin is one of my all-time favorite thinkers about both the obvious and obscured parts of our technological world.

I was recently introduced to the work of Ursula Franklin, a Canadian physicist, metallurgist, and activist.

If you like reading about the intersection of technology, power, and justice, this is a great and insightful read by @kissane.bsky.social: www.wrecka.ge/ursulas-list/

I worked with @yappari.bsky.social on one of these commissions recently and it was a great experience. Highly recommend if you're looking for a cute gift for someone!

... especially if you want stuff like cryptography to keep existing :)

Semi-related: around when I was at the University of Waterloo, the average number of people graduating with a Pure Math degree was 2-4 per year.

While it was a difficult program, it's still incredibly important and valuable to keep trying to teach people highly specialized skills like that.

(Maybe this is a dumb and outdated question) Can it support LTE? I remember a long time ago (~7 years ago?) there were issues where it was not possible to use hackRFs to do LTE stuff, but maybe that changed at some point?

thank you so much!!