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Safety Last! Behind-the-Scenes Photos: Rare Glimpses into the Making of a Silent Film Classic
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Happening now, it’s Day 3 of #PGConfNYC and #PostgreSQL contributor @petereisentraut of EDB is presenting about “Making the best use of modern SSL”.

The talk is rich with useful details but I like the high level guidance: 👀 think about what you’re doing, document it, automate it ✅
#databases #Postgres #OpenSource #SSL #Security

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Look how they yassified my boy.

This obviously digitally altered photo of Sen. JD Vance (R-OH), posted the morning after the vice presidential debate, is supposed to signify... masculinity? Strength? I don’t know, honestly.

It’d be a little more convincing if we hadn’t spent two hours looking at the man’s face — and listening to his lies — last night.

twitter.com/RepMikeCollins/status/1841462716348678274

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Vienna is in the news quite a bit these days, and for all the wrong political reasons. Then there were the floods, where Vienna can show the world a bit how it's done.

My latest, for the Guardian: theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#climate #Vienna #flood #Wien #Austria





“It’s hard to imagine the scale of the reefs that were lost,” says Dominic McAfee, a marine ecologist at Australia’s University of Adelaide.

Worse still, McAfee adds that “with the loss of those reefs, there was social amnesia that they ever existed. Very quickly, people forgot about them.”

#rewilding #australia #oceans #oysters #restoration

hakaimagazine.com/news/the-aus…






The fastest growing suburb with home values under $500,000 is Mooresville, NC, per CNBC.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options




That was fast. Vance gave the Harris campaign lots of ammunition and they are actually using it.

rawstory.com/jd-vance-debate-h…




Setting aside the theater criticism to address what JD Vance revealed about himself last night.

This self-proclaimed "pro-baby" politician will sell both the present and future of American children for a nickel.

salon.com/2024/10/02/jd-vances…

in reply to Amanda Marcotte

"Vance has said he thinks women are obliged to stay with men who beat them, condemning women who leave violent marriages for shifting 'spouses like they change their underwear.'

"Men who hit women are also more likely to hit children."

salon.com/2024/10/02/jd-vances…



Israeli forces carried out fresh airstrikes Wednesday in Beirut’s southern suburbs against what the military said were Hezbollah targets, while the militant group said it clashed with Israeli troops in several Lebanese towns near the border.

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“You really do realize that you’re achieving something,” McGrath said. “Hopefully, this is just the start of many more things to come.”

#salmon #rewilding #waterways #okanagan #britishcolumbia

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Intel Xeon 6980P SNC3 vs. HEX Clustering Mode Performance

With the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors that launched last week there are SNC3 and HEX clustering modes for these new processors. The default Sub-NUMA Clustering 3 (SNC3) mode for the three compute dies while the HEX mode is like SNC1 mode formerly for all three compute dies acting as one NUMA node. Using the flagship 128-core Intel Xeon 6980P processors, I ran some bench…
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Just in time for Halloween.

If you’re looking for something spooky to play, the excellent survival horror throwback Crow Country is being ported to the Switch and PS4 on October 16th. It’s shaping up to be a good month for horror game releases with the remakes of Until Dawn and Silent Hill 2 also on the way.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLlbh8iCvP0