activescott's Notes

Fascinating prompt engineering and injection (harmless).

Yet today it often seems like every project — big or small — gets mired in a slog of reviews, permits and delays. This saps our innovative spirit, reduces citizens’ trust that government can get things done and ultimately slows our progress as a nation.

I figured out there is a second hotsport wifi named "PROjb3e11" that has to have "auto-Join" selected or wireless Carplay will never work. This is a different SSID if you subscribe to AT&T hotspot built into the Mach-E. It took a senior Apple "Genius" to figure this out. Ford tech should be aware of this. You need both a wifi and Bluetooth connection in order for wireless Carplay to work and you will have to manually set the "Auto Join" even after re-pairing the Bluetooth connection.

A $9.5B return on an $8B investment in less than a year. Not bad! How does "main street" get in on investments like that?!

The company reported a $9.5 billion pre-tax gain from its investment in the AI startup Anthropic, which was included in Amazon’s non-operating income for the quarter...

To put the $9.5 billion paper gain in perspective, the Amazon Web Services cloud business — historically Amazon’s primary profit engine — generated $11.4 billion in quarterly operating profits...

Amazon has invested and committed a total of $8 billion in Anthropic, initially structured as convertible notes.

I should switch from debian to this maybe.

Looks like a clean beat. Why did the stock go down?

Love this. Like a well-defined retro process for events from tech to all parts of the business.

faq, releases, release-notes, info, ramblefeed, news, etc.

sweet docker images

The most official WordPress image.

The bitnami dudes suck. This looks like someone stepping up to fill the void!

Chainguard has released 40+ first-party Helm Charts, forked from Bitnami, that ensure compatibility while integrating with our catalog of 1,700+ secure, minimal, and continuously rebuilt container images. These charts provide stability, security, and compliance out of the box.

Looks amazing

A simple tool to automate version bumps, changelogs, and releases using Conventional Commits.

God bless the Python Software Foundation!

We were forced to withdraw our application and turn down the funding, thanks to new language that was added to the agreement requiring us to affirm that we "do not, and will not during the term of this financial assistance award, operate any programs that advance or promote DEI, or discriminatory equity ideology in violation of Federal anti-discrimination laws."

Our legal advisors confirmed that this would not just apply to security work covered by the grant - this would apply to all of the PSF's activities.

This was not an option for us. Here's the mission of the PSF:

The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.

If we accepted and spent the money despite this term, there was a very real risk that the money could be clawed back later. That represents an existential risk for the foundation since we would have already spent the money!

I was one of the board members who voted to reject this funding - a unanimous but tough decision. I’m proud to serve on a board that can make difficult decisions like this.

Like the post-9/11 panic, we are sure to see overzealous enforcement, false arrests, mistaken identities, unlawful confinement, misuse of the military, and the creation of a secret force. All are happening right now —up to and including arrests without charges, as I’ve reported — despite astonishingly little coverage by the major media.

Just about the only thing missing from this remastered war on terrorism is a drone assassination campaign; though the strikes on Venezuelan boats are close enough.

MacrosMap is one of the largest repositories of macronutrient data for restaurant meals in the United States. Designed for athletes, bodybuilders, and everyday health-conscious eaters, MacrosMap helps you make informed choices when dining out.

In this memo, I’ve argued that we should measure success by our impact on human welfare more than our impact on the global temperature, and that our success relies on putting energy, health, and agriculture at the center of our strategies...

1. Drive the Green Premium to zero.
2. Be rigorous about measuring impact.

Vaccines are the undisputed champion of lives saved per dollar spent. Since 2000, Gavi has spent $22 billion to immunize children in poor countries, preventing 19 million deaths. That means Gavi can save a life for a little more than $1,000. Other estimates find that vaccines cost less than $5,000 per life saved. And vaccines become even more important in a warming world because children who aren’t dying of measles or whooping cough will be more likely to survive when a heat wave hits or a drought threatens the local food supply.