Peter Todd @pete@petertodd.org

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20210323-where-people-go-to-bars-to-drink-milk

http://scripts.farmradio.fm/radio-resource-packs/package-89/breeding-cows-in-a-zero-grazing-system-can-be-a-dual-environmental-solution/

So turns out that Rwanda has been discouraging traditional cattle grazing in favor of intensive factory farming because "climate change".

Basically, trading off a bit of methane emissions - which are _not_ a permanent problem - for increased long-term, permanent, emissions from all the industrial infrastructure required for intensive farming.

This smells more like corporate corruption than environmentalism...

https://archive.is/G9RTg

"AstraZeneca is manufacturing an epic failure around its COVID-19 vaccine"

This article makes it sound like we have a perfectly safe and effective vaccine, and all the issues are just bumbling incompetent management...

You expect the public to believe that? Because the alternative is a much simpler story: AstraZeneca management are competent. But the vaccine has safety problems, hasn't work as well as expected, and they're trying their best to spin that positively.

https://www.piratewires.com/p/mall-cops-and-messiahs

"A whole nation of writers over at Vox dot who gives a shit spent the last decade writing niche “everyone is evil” hot takes under the delusion that such things were popular. But they were never popular. They were just impossible to look away from."

"I am probably always going to click on the latest, unhinged “We Need to Talk About Spider-Man” hot take. But I will die before I pay [Vox] ten dollars a month."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oJb9RnAVDuE

Pretty sure I figured out how this works from the video - see if you can too!

"Just for a minute, I will suspend judgment and believe BBC is reporting the right thing. If TRUE then: social distancing affect more the viruses that are already endemic, allowing SARS-Cov-2 to thrive without competition."

Oops...

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-56483445

TIL the Amazon Rainforest is being deforested much slower than I thought.

https://dailycaller.com/2021/03/22/candace-owens-democrats-border-hispanics-victim-voters/

"victim voters" is such a great term.

TIL my microwave uses 100% of the 15A a North American plug can provide.

The voltage on that circuit doesn't sag appreciably from 120V under load, so it's using 200W more than the nameplate says it should, 1600W.

I'm a bit surprised that Black & Decker used such close margins; my kettle draws a more reasonable 13A.

It's no wonder they changed the building codes here to require 20A outlets in kitchens... 😂

"SF poop-testing startup, once compared to Theranos, charged in $60M fraud scheme"

I think you mean, startup once compared to Theranos, again compared to Theranos.

https://www.sfgate.com/crime/article/ubiome-richman-apte-sec-filing-charges-fraud-16042042.php

So why would elderly security guards end up doing this you might ask?

Simple: there's tons of security guards, retail clerks, etc. on various levels of disability because they can't stand/walk for full shifts. So sitting in a chair doing next to nothing is a great way for management to give them something useful to do while they (hopefully!) recover.

Hence the least healthy people end up with jobs that if we were following science would go you young teens. But this isn't about science...

The local malls are now required to "screen" people. So an elderly security guard sits in a chair by the door with an ill-fitting masks, and asks you if you have any covid symptoms or have been travelling. They have no way of verifying any of that.

Something tells me this is getting more elderly security guards infected than anything else...

Public health is a scam. I mean that quite literally: they know this nonsense is harmful. But theatre fools the voting public into paying their salary.

No such thing as a 100% vegan diet.

I used to have pet rats. Wonderfully smart and sociable animals. Also, a pest that farmers need to exterminate.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2Pyu-Cj0gg

So I'm thinking a good setup for DoS attack resistance would be to run the calendar servers themselves on reasonably fast machines to answer calendar db queries quickly (esp cache misses), and maybe use anycast'd on the front end w/ submitted digest aggregation to limit the geographical impact of a DoS attack.

The latter might not be relevant: a fast Rust calendar implementation can probably serve more bandwidth than I can afford on a single reasonably fast box. 😂 Modern hw is amazing.

There's two issues OTS calendars have re: DoS attack: each calendar server query is a database lookup (hence disk IO), and submitted digests take about a second or two to complete, so you have all the overhead of maintaining a connection until that finishes. The usage pattern makes CDN's not all that useful, as there's little opportunity for caching.

The good side, is the protocol is very low resource compared to most, and all the relevant calendar data easily fits into ram (<16GB right now).