In English – Sivu 63

2022-04-28 @ 12.00.00 ∈ In English

Michaela Joffe on Tweet

so in 1989 there was a Dutch-Japanese cartoon called Alfred J Kwak that was a buck wild cartoon for many reasons, but it also had a trans masc character, Ollie the stork. Ollie also becomes the fantasy animal kingdom's first democratically elected president.

2022-04-19 @ 18.39.57 ∈ In English

The Dunning-Kruger Effect is Autocorrelation – Economics from the Top Down

The […] Dunning-Kruger effect has nothing to do with human psychology. It is a statistical artifact — a stunning example of autocorrelation.

2022-04-18 @ 18.22.16 ∈ In English

Doc🐕 on Twitter

There was a guy who recently earned a PhD in palindromes. His name is Dr. Awkward.

2022-04-18 @ 12.39.43 ∈ In English

Data center in Hokkaido uses server-cooling snow to raise eels | The Asahi Shimbun: Breaking News, Japan News and Analysis

The company’s goal is to use as an energy source the heavy snowfalls that cause problems for Bibai residents every winter.

2022-04-12 @ 11.17.50 ∈ In English

Harriet Atkinson on Twitter

On Thursday I got an email out of the blue from a stranger who had found me via my university profile. She said she owned something that might be of interest 1/11

2022-04-07 @ 21.24.06 ∈ In English

We WILL Fix Climate Change!

It’s an age of doom and hopelessness and giving up seems the only sensible thing to do. But that’s not true. You are not doomed. Humanity is not doomed.

2022-04-07 @ 11.51.33 ∈ In English

Researchers Identify ‘Master Problem’ Underlying All Cryptography | Quanta Magazine

The existence of true one-way functions, they proved, depends on one of the oldest and most central problems in another area of computer science called complexity theory, or computational complexity. This problem, known as Kolmogorov complexity, concerns how hard it is to tell the difference between random strings of numbers and strings that contain some information.

2022-04-06 @ 12.46.12 ∈ In English

Start Arbitrary Activity App Affecting Samsung Android Devices

The vulnerability allows any local app on the device (including third-party apps with zero permissions) to provide arbitrary Intent objects that will be used by a pre-installed app (com.android.server.telecom) executing as the system user to start an activity app component (even those that are not exported) of the attacker’s choosing, affecting Android versions 10, 11, and 12.

2022-04-06 @ 12.29.57 ∈ In English

Ferrero recalls UK Kinder Surprise chocolate egg over salmonella fear

Ferrero said the affected chocolate was manufactured in Belgium and the recall may be extended to other countries. […] Britain's Food Standards Agency (FSA) advised customers not to eat the affected products, which carry 'Best Before' dates between July 11 and Oct. 7.

2022-04-04 @ 17.16.14 ∈ In English

Horrible edge cases to consider when dealing with music

I'm a huge fan of navidrome, and thus spent some time reading its source code, and discussing with Deluan about its data model, making this list of weird edge-cases as we went.