Mária Telkes died #OTD in 1980. She was a Hungarian-American biophysicist, engineer, & inventor who worked on solar energy technologies.

During World War II, she developed a solar water distillation device, deployed at the end of the war, which saved the lives of downed airmen and torpedoed sailors. In the 1940s she and architect Eleanor Raymond created one of the first solar-heated houses, Dover Sun House, by storing energy each day.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A1r…

#science #technology #WomenInSTEM

"hi daniel，there is a bug，see the picture

HELP！！！"

From my #inbox

Here’s a great summary of that “Ghost Engineer” nonsense that the Stanford researcher claims.

Src: instagram.com/reel/DDBaH-iNiRf…

#ghostEngineer #softwareEngineering #bullshit

🙁

ct24.ceskatelevize.cz/clanek/d…

Looking up some stuff about Ghost's recent narrative concert film, Rite Here Rite Now, and it's so incredibly fucking wholesome seeing younger queers finding comfort in the very camp anti-Christian popular beat combo.

But I am also feeling old a.f. because no one is doing any fan analysis or headcanoning of the Wizard of Oz stuff through a Friends of Dorothy lens, as a complement to the narrative of false and hollow imperial power, and I'm now thinking that I'm maybe from the last generation that had that frame of reference. (Like, I'm not that old at 40-cough, but it was certainly part of the oral culture of queer history when I came of age, even though I didn't have much of a community.)

For anyone else who enjoys sundry Wizard of Oz theories, after adding some time codes, I'm also pretty sure that the soundtrack album doesn't map to any edit of the movie, but I'm still waiting for someone to actually do that, just to fulfil that old Dark Side of the Rainbow idea.

Glossary & Citations:

Friends of Dorothy
Old slang (pre-1970s) term for gay men in particular and queer people in general. The Wizard of Oz books and films are rich in queer symbolism and the term appeared in cant and code when being gay was still illegal and taboo. Oz references, particularly to the 1939 Judy Garland film, were at one point common tropes of LGBT+ culture.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_o…

The Dark Side of the Rainbow
The idea that you can use Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon as an alternative soundtrack to The Wizard of Oz. Not queer-coded.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dark…

#Ghost #WizardOfOz

On Thursday Dec 5 I will run a webinar and tell you all about Rock-solid #curl long-term support releases.

Sign up here:

us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Rock-Solid curl. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join wolfSSL for an exclusive live webinar on December 5th at 10 AM PT featuring Daniel Stenberg, founder and lead developer of curl, to explore the launch of Rock-Solid curl, a long-term support version designed for users who prioritize security, st…

^Zoom

Here's the latest #curl hackerone issue I mentioned the other day: hackerone.com/reports/2871792 another one of those "we found a function call so therefore your program must be vulnerable".

Disclosed for educational purposes. Don't do this.

curl disclosed on HackerOne: Buffer Overflow Vulnerability in...

## Summary: The vulnerability in the program arises from a classic buffer overflow, triggered by the unsafe use of the strcpy() function without bounds checking. The program copies data from a...

^HackerOne

Welcome to Monday.
Daughter abed, off school with a migraine. The new preventatives are not yet living up to their names.

I did crack open the cream yesterday, which is one of the key moments in my personal march toward the holidays. So first coffee of the day this morn was a deliciously hot, strong jolt of 'Get your butt to work soon' with a spiral of creamy goodness. A busy day at work, and then a stupidly early start for a 5:21AM train tomorrow, so not sure how i'll be feeling about that when I get there.

I am sat warm and comfortable with coffee 2 while I fill in the school absence form and ponder my morning's schedule and tickets.

Ve avemo aumentato a pensione de €1,8 AR MESE (!!!) pe sta ar passo co l'inflazzione

Un segnio de gli ottimi risurtati de sto governo 🚀

Nun spendeteli tuttassieme 😉

open.online/2024/12/02/pension…

L'aumento delle pensioni minime sarà di 1 euro e 80 centesimi al mese nel 2025

Il decreto dei ministeri dell'Economia e del Lavoro in Gazzetta ufficiale: incremento dello 0,8% per l'inflazione del 2024

^Open

Back in 2021, we launched a series of stories documenting the key ways that the ultrawealthy — #billionaires like #ElonMusk, Jeff Bezos, and Peter Thiel — avoid #taxes. Here are 10 of their strategies.

#Finance #Law #Tech #Journalism

propub.li/4fQL3uY

Ten Ways Billionaires Avoid Taxes on an Epic Scale

The top tax-avoidance techniques used by billionaires like Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel and Steve Ballmer.

^ProPublica

Hi, @jcsteh. I'd like to report an issue. I would do it in Bugzilla, but it appears that I can't comment on closed bugs. bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… was marked as a duplicate of bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.… which was marked as fixed 8 days ago. However, the issue from Bug 1927237 doesn't seem to be fixed in recent Nightlies.

Thanks for your time and all your hard work!!

TIL about #DecemberAdventure - what a lovely counterpoint to #AdventOfCode I tried the latter a couple of times, but found it stressful after a few days. This looks much more relaxing.

eli.li/december-adventure

Oatmeal - December Adventure

The Advent of Code is cool, but a lot, and not everyone’s jam. The December Adventure is low key. The goal is to write a little bit of code every

^eli.li

New page on my website: My workouts.

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I’m soliciting.

I figured that if I spend 5-6 hours a week doing something I care deeply about, I should probably mention it on my site.

I’m soliciting advice; see the “Current questions” section at the end!

#fitness #WeightLifting

My workouts

Documenting my low-equipment at-home workout regiment. How I work out, why I work out, my workout split, my list of exercises, and advice I'm soliciting.

^{Seirdy’s Home}

看 #特斯拉 #TESLA 季營收趨勢圖

相比於 #NVDA 的季營收趨勢，特斯拉季營收趨勢更顯得維持時間很短就產生另一條趨勢線。確實如此!!

除了季營收趨勢持續時間短，產生多條趨勢線外，季營收扣除銷貨成本和營業費用所產生的指標差距也非常大銷貨成本占超過70%，營業費用也占了超過10%。

換句話說，特斯拉的季營收指標趨勢僅供參考，不能成為投資人的信任的指標。因為當你看著季營收，以為特斯拉很賺錢，其實扣除成本後........

總歸比台廠的毛三到四還要好很多 🤣

#經濟 #財經 #美國 #財報 #數據分析 #資料分析 #AI數據分析 #AI #MathAI

看輝達 #NVIDIA 的季營收趨勢圖
清楚的三條趨勢線，很穩定。最新趨勢上升速度非常快，代表產能穩定擴張並且快速擴張。

這可以說是製造業的特性，穩定，如果訂單滿員，那麼就看產能擴張速度。所以這樣的季營收趨勢其實是產能擴張速度。

#經濟 #財經 #AI數據分析 #資料分析 #AI #MathAI #NVDA #英偉達

TIL the Brave browser is a literal crypto scam. They claim to compensate website owners and content creators with their BAT token, but if you don't or can't claim the rewards within 90 days they pocket the tokens themselves. Apparently it's extremely difficult to signup and claim your BAT tokens...
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1…

#cryptoscam #bravebrowser #bravebrowserisbad

Do they have to drink on checkmate? 🤣

#memes

I spent the last two days playing BG3 and learning Godot and I now have a working player for text adventures written in Ink. 🎉

Ink is a scripting (as in code) language for writing scripts (as in story) for narrative-driven games. It's built as middleware for game engines, but it can *mostly* be used on its own for text based interactive fiction: inklestudios.com/ink/

I say "mostly" because while there's a web-based engine for running ink games, the feature-set is understandably limited.

Another great episode of the #2Bobs #pocast - Questions, Not Answers.

Blair Enns and David C. Baker cover some interesting territory. Being able to ask good questions, listen to what is said (and not said), then incorporate that into more questions is powerful. Being curious about people and their problems is such a critical part of being able to help others. This is true as a consultant or as a friend.

2bobs.com/podcast/questions-no…

Questions, Not Answers

Blair interviews David on his recent article about the idea that expertise does involve supplying answers, eventually, but mainly expertise is about asking the right questions, first, and then offering a few answers after the truth surfaces.

^{David Baker (2Bobs)}

"Despite the fact that Threads users can’t follow or see mentions from people on other instances, Threads has already opted to block a slew of instances where gay & leather people congregate.... If Threads were a taxi service, it wouldn’t take you South of Market."

aphyr.com/posts/371-threads-wo…