CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history

CO2 in the atmosphere just exceeded 415ppm for the first time in human history

For the first time in human history — not recorded history, but since humans have existed on Earth — carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has topped 415 parts per million, reaching 415.26 parts per million, according to sensors at the Mauna Loa Observatory, a research outpost of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency. As the NOAA notes, “increases in greenhouse gases have tipped the Earth’s energy budget out of balance, trapping additional heat and raising Earth’s average temperature.” That’s why increase of atmospheric carbon dioxide are responsible for about two-thirds of the total energy imbalance causing Earth’s temperature to rise, according to the NOAA.

Source: techcrunch.com

Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell

Show HN: Janetsh – A new system shell

A new system shell that uses the Janet programming language for high level scripting while also supporting the things we love about sh. Internally janetsh is implemented as a low level C library for the janet programming language, a janet library and a small launcher that does some necessary setup/teardown. The janet main implementation is a set of janet functions and macros that perform shell job control, control user input and manage your command pipelines.

Source: github.com

Show HN: Cloudmarker – Cloud monitoring tool and framework

Show HN: Cloudmarker – Cloud monitoring tool and framework

It can be used as a ready-made tool that audits your Azure or GCP cloud environments as well as a framework that allows you to develop your own cloud monitoring software to audit your clouds. As a result of this plugin-based architecture, Cloudmarker can also be used as a framework to develop your own plugins that extend its capabilities by adding support for new types of clouds or data sources, storage or indexing engines, event generation, and alerting destinations. Now that the project is set up correctly, you can create a to configure Cloudmarker to scan/audit your cloud or you can perform more development on the Cloudmarker source code.

Source: github.com

Carl Malamud accused of ‘terrorism’ for putting legal materials online

Carl Malamud accused of ‘terrorism’ for putting legal materials online

Professor Street said she tells her law students to be sure to consult the annotations in Georgia’s official code. “The annotations clearly have authoritative weight in explicating and establishing the meaning and effect of Georgia’s laws,” Judge Stanley Marcus wrote for a unanimous three-judge panel of the court, the United States Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit, in Atlanta. “Georgia’s courts have cited to the annotations as authoritative sources on statutory meaning and legislative intent.”

Source: www.nytimes.com

China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

China is blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

Network measurement data collected through this test has shown that most Wikipedia language editions were previously accessible in China, except for the Chinese edition, which has reportedly been blocked since 19th May 2015. Source:Blocking of Wikipedia domains in China, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) data: China, analysis of OONI measurements, used to produce the above chart, is available here. Based on these tests, we were able to conclude that China Telecom does in fact block all language editions of Wikipedia by means of both DNS injection and SNI filtering.

Source: ooni.torproject.org

Hey Google, isn’t this black-hat SEO?

Hey Google, isn’t this black-hat SEO?

During our competitor analysis we found some agencies using black-hat SEO techniques(you know, things Google tells you not to do) to get ridiculous number of juicy backlinks and getting away with it. The second domain referring to this agency has seo in it’s name. I was curious so I did view-source and search for seo.com

There were 61 SEO agencies donating on this page.

Source: serendipz.marketing

The Cost of Fixing Things

The Cost of Fixing Things

In many ways, I got myself into this situation by so badly wanting my peers to be a team and being prepared to do things in service of that. When I left our group to move to the new team, one of the most meaningful things was the support and enthusiasm of my peers in seeing it as a positive move – even as I wasn’t sure – and as I left the channels, one of them veto-ing my departure from our backchannel and peer support call. On my new team, and with other groups of people who it’s in our remit to help.

Source: cate.blog

Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition

Sweden reopens Assange rape investigation, to seek extradition

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) – Sweden reopened an investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange on Monday and said it would seek his extradition from Britain. The Swedish prosecutor said it would request Assange be detained in his absence on probable cause for an allegation of rape and that it would issue a European arrest warrant – the process under which his extradition would be sought. “Since Julian Assange was arrested on 11 April 2019, there has been considerable political pressure on Sweden to reopen their investigation, but there has always been political pressure surrounding this case,” Kristinn Hrafnsson, WikiLeaks’ editor-in-chief, said in a statement.

Source: www.reuters.com

Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’

Some Cautionary Notes on the New ‘Knife Missile’

A variant of the Hellfire missile, the R9X carries no explosives. The fact that the missile has been employed so rarely also probably suggests that even under conditions where U.S. operators determined that there was some likelihood of civilian harm, regular Hellfires were used nonetheless. During the several years that the R9X has been available for drone strikes, dozens of civilians have been reported killed in regular Hellfire operations in Syria, Yemen, and Somalia.

Source: www.defenseone.com

China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

China is now blocking all language editions of Wikipedia

Network measurement data collected through this test has shown that most Wikipedia language editions were previously accessible in China, except for the Chinese edition, which has reportedly been blocked since 19th May 2015. Source:Blocking of Wikipedia domains in China, Open Observatory of Network Interference (OONI) data: China, analysis of OONI measurements, used to produce the above chart, is available here. Based on these tests, we were able to conclude that China Telecom does in fact block all language editions of Wikipedia by means of both DNS injection and SNI filtering.

Source: ooni.torproject.org