Malaria Shows No Sign of Stopping
The World Health Organization’s latest annual malaria report paints a grim picture that’s about to get grimmer, as the United States – which has supplied 37% of global malaria funding since 2010 – pulls back its international health commitments under President Donald Trump. Malaria cases have been climbing since 2015, when progress against the mosquito-borne disease stalled due to insecticide resistanc … ⌘ Read more
Life in a Shrinking Japan
Japan’s demographic transformation is no longer a distant forecast but an accelerating reality, and the National Institute of Population and Social Security Research now estimates the country’s population will fall to roughly 100 million by 2050 – more than 20 million fewer people than today.
The share of residents aged 65 and over stood at 29.4% as of September and is expected to reach 37.1% by midcentury. The dependenc … ⌘ Read more
Man charged over stabbing of Melbourne school principal
A 37-year-old man will face court today over the stabbing of a school principal at Keysborough, in Melbourne’s south-east. The man is a staff member at the school. ⌘ Read more
Teacher pleads guilty to having sex with 15-year-old boy
High school teacher Karly Rae, 37, pleads guilty to sexually assaulting a teenage boy in the Hunter Valley region. ⌘ Read more
Ballarat mine operators charged over fatal rockfall
The operators of Ballarat Gold Mine have been charged over a rockfall that killed 37-year-old miner Kurt Hourigan and seriously injured a 21-year-old workmate in March 2024. ⌘ Read more
Stars continue winning form ahead of WBBL Melbourne derby
The Melbourne Stars will carry solid momentum into Saturday’s big WBBL local derby, easily beating top side Hobart by 37 runs. ⌘ Read more
New Research Finds America’s Top Social Media Sites: YouTube (84%) Facebook (71%), Instagram (50%)
Pew Research surveyed 5,022 Americans this year (between February 5 and June 18), asking them
“do you ever use” YouTube, Facebook, and nine of the other top social media platforms. The results?
YouTube 84%
Facebook 71%
Instagram 50%
TikTok 37%
WhatsApp 32%
Reddit 26%
Snapchat 2 … ⌘ Read more
Google Launches Gemini 3, Its ‘Most Intelligent’ AI Model Yet
Google released Gemini 3 on Tuesday, launching its latest AI model with a breakthrough score of 1501 Elo on the LMArena Leaderboard alongside state-of-the-art performance across multiple benchmarks including 91.9% on GPQA Diamond for PhD-level reasoning and 37.5% on Humanity’s Last Exam without tool usage. The model is available starting today in the Gemi … ⌘ Read more
Apple Sees Record October in China With Strong iPhone 17 Demand
Apple had a bumper month for iPhone sales in China in October, with sales jumping 37% compared to a year earlier on strong demand for iPhone 17 models, according to data from research firm Counterpoint.
One in every four sm … ⌘ Read more
72% of Game Developers Say Steam Is Effectively a PC Gaming Monopoly
A new survey of over 300 US and UK gaming executives found that 72% view Steam as a monopoly. “Furthermore, 88% said that at least three-quarters of their revenue came from Steam, while 37% reported that the platform accounted for 90% of their total revenue,” adds Techspot. From the report: Atomik Research conducted the recent survey on b … ⌘ Read more
Emperor Palpatine
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DNA repair mechanisms help explain why naked mole-rats live a long life
Naked mole-rats are one of nature’s most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ten times longer than relatives of a similar size. But what is the secret to their extreme longevity? How are they able to delay the decay and decline that befalls other rodents? The answer, at least in part, is due to a switch in a common protein that boosts DNA repair, according to new research published i … ⌘ Read more
DNA repair mechanisms help explain why naked mole-rats live a long life
Naked mole-rats are one of nature’s most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ten times longer than relatives of a similar size. But what is the secret to their extreme longevity? How are they able to delay the decay and decline that befalls other rodents? The answer, at least in part, is due to a switch in a common protein that boosts DNA repair, according to new research published i … ⌘ Read more
Every third school in Vilnius lies in a high air pollution zone, Lithuanian study reveals
A study carried out by researchers at the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) revealed that 37% of primary and secondary schools in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, are exposed to harmful air pollutants due to their proximity to major high-traffic roads. ⌘ Read more
Running - 4 miles: 3.99 miles, 00:09:26 average pace, 00:37:41 duration
Pinellas County - 5 miles: 5.00 miles, 00:08:56 average pace, 00:44:37 duration
no issues with the legs. the sun brought my HR up a bit i think but it was a good session nonetheless.
#running
Dead Internet Theory Confirmed: 51% of Traffic Now Non-Human
Even worse: 37% of all Internet traffic is from “malicious bots” according to the 2025 “Bad Bot Report”. ⌘ Read more
vtnerd submits CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work
Lee Clagett (vtnerd1) has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue working full-time on Monero core components development for 3 months (Q1/Q2 2025):
Work primarily on the monerod, wallet, and monero-lws. [..] There is intentionally more work than time allows - to ensure there is always something to work on in the proposal.
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Total funding proposed: 134.37 XMR (USD 65/hr).
ETA: 3 … ⌘ Read more”`
reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:
- (810) bingbot
- (641) Googlebot
- (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
- (545) DotBot
- (290) GPTBot
- (106) SemrushBot
- (84) AhrefsBot
- (62) MJ12bot
- (60) BLEXBot
- (55) wpbot
- (37) Amazonbot
- (28) YandexBot
- (22) ClaudeBot
- (19) AwarioBot
- (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
- (9) https://serpstatbot.com
- (6) t3versionsBot
- (6) archive.org_bot
- (6) Applebot
- (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
- (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
- (4) Googlebot-Mobile
- (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
- (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
- (3) YandexNews
- (3) ImagesiftBot
- (2) Qwantify-prod
- (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
- (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
- (1) YaK
- (1) WBSearchBot
- (1) DataForSeoBot
i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.
[WTS] [~0.37 XMR] Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon x1 gen2
Laptops are in good condition, battery can last several hours still, biggest defect is the Touch Bar (which includes the F1-F12 and media keys) is turning hazy and is not cosmetically pleasant. Touch Bar and thus keys all still work. Each laptop has a valid Windows 10 keys but I can also install Ubuntu or Debian upon request.
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/6zDp/
AffluentLynx (XMRBazaar) ⌘ Read more
Recovery run: 3.11 miles, 00:10:37 average pace, 00:32:58 duration
easy miles
#running #treadmill
Monero Observer Blitz #37 - December 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:
Pinellas County Running: 8.10 miles, 00:09:35 average pace, 01:17:37 duration
needed to get out and get away from everything for a bit. turned into eight miles but was just what i needed.
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Easy run: 4.07 miles, 00:09:19 average pace, 00:37:56 duration
kept it easy. no watching pace or anything and played it by feel.
#running
Docker Desktop 4.37: AI Catalog and Command-Line Efficiency
Docker Desktop 4.37 streamlines AI-driven development with the new AI Catalog integration, command-line management capabilities, upgraded components, and enhanced stability to empower modern developers. ⌘ Read more
Pinellas County - Long Run: 10.02 miles, 00:10:21 average pace, 01:43:37 duration
kept it slow for a low heart rate run. ti took forever to feel comfortable which may have been the excess of pizza and beer yesterday. and honestly, not very good sleep either. forced myself to stop at ten miles mainly because i was over my weekly mileage goal.
#running
Threshold: 7.00 miles, 00:09:14 average pace, 01:04:37 duration
did not know what this would be like when i set out. turned out to be a bit of a threshold workout, but did not hurt much. generally a nice day out and a good run even if the legs were heavy.
#running
[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund received a new grant application: ‘Monerotopia Buildathon 2024’
Deverick is asking for 4,000 USD to host a hackathon/buildathon to improve Monero integration in the BTCPay self-hosted merchant payment system, especially with BTCPay 2.0 coming up. Community feedback on this idea is appreciated :D
Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/37
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Pinellas County Running: 4.06 miles, 00:09:11 average pace, 00:37:21 duration
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(#o) @prologic this was your first twtxt. Cool! :-P
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@movq@www.uninformativ.de I figured it will be something like this, yet, you were able to reply just fine, and I wasn’t. Looking at your twtxt.txt I see this line:
2024-09-16T17:37:14+00:00 (#o6dsrga) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>
@<quark https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt> This is what I get. 🤔
Which is using the right hash. Mine, on the other hand, when I replied to the original, old style message (Message-Id: <o6dsrga>), looks like this:
2024-09-16T16:42:27+00:00 (#o) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> this was your first twtxt. Cool! :-P
What did you do to make yours work? I simply went to the oldest @prologic@twtxt.net’s entry on my Maildir, and replied to it (jenny set the reply-to hash to #o, even though the Message-Id is o6dsrga). Since jenny can’t fetch archived twtxts, how could I go to re-fetch everything? And, most importantly, would re-fetching fix the Message-Id:?
Pinellas County - Base: 4.15 miles, 00:08:59 average pace, 00:37:18 duration
Good workout keeping it aerobic for the most part.
#running
Pinellas County - Recovery: 5.03 miles, 00:10:37 average pace, 00:53:25 duration
felt like recovery in pace and breathing, but my heart rate hated me. the legs were definitely tired from the workout yesterday, too. it was good to get away from regression testing.
#running
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There are also a bunch of log messages scrolling by. I’ve never seen this much activity in the log:
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Jul 25 01:37:39 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:39 (162.211.155.2) "GET /twt/112135496802692324 HTTP/1.1" 400 12 826.65µs
Jul 25 01:37:40 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:40 (51.222.253.14) "GET /conv/muttriq HTTP/1.1" 200 36881 20.448309ms
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Jul 25 01:37:40 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:40 (27.75.213.253) "GET /external?nick=lovetocode999&uri=http%3A%2F%2Falfarah.jo%2FHome%2FChangeCulture%3FlangCode%3Den>
Jul 25 01:37:40 buc.ci yarnd[829]: time="2024-07-25T01:37:40Z" level=error msg="http://bynet.com.br/log_envio.asp?cod=335&email=%21%2AEMAIL%2A%21&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.almanacar.c>
Jul 25 01:37:40 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:40 (162.211.155.2) "GET /twt/111674756400660911 HTTP/1.1" 400 12 545.106µs
Jul 25 01:37:40 buc.ci yarnd[829]: time="2024-07-25T01:37:40Z" level=warning msg="feed FetchFeedRequest: @<lovetocode999 http://alfarah.jo/Home/ChangeCulture?langCode=en&returnUrl>
Jul 25 01:37:41 buc.ci yarnd[829]: [yarnd] 2024/07/25 01:37:41 (162.211.155.2) "GET /twt/112507964696096567 HTTP/1.1" 400 12 838.946µs
Something really weird is going on?
Base: 7.00 miles, 00:09:48 average pace, 01:08:37 duration
really easy. i was “suppose” to go for 90 minutes but my son kept coming in and really i need to keep my mileage down this week anyways.
#running #treadmill
Base: 4.20 miles, 00:09:55 average pace, 00:41:37 duration
felt really good. had to cut it early again due to work. cannot wait for this craziness to stop.
#running #treadmill
** Astronomical occurrences **
In the span of two posts here I’ve witnessed two astronomical events! First the total solar eclipse, and then more recently the aurora borealis. Both were amazing, especially the aurora. I’d never seen either before and both were pretty incredible to behold.
I left my old job at the start of the month, and, after a few days off, I’ve started a new one! I’m really excited for this one, though around day two the anxiety and im … ⌘ Read more
Base: 4.00 miles, 00:09:37 average pace, 00:38:27 duration
chill treadmill run. trying not to deplete myself today since we have a release tonight with a 5 to 24 hour window. fuuuun.
#running #treadmill
Jesenskovci a kysáčsky cirkevný zbor
Pred 259 rokmi 14. apríla 1765 v Hornom Jesene sa narodil v poradí druhý kysáčsky evanjelický farár František Jesenský. V Kysáči pôsobil v rokoch 1793 – 1805, do svojej smrti. Šesť rokov predtým, 24. apríla 1799, teda v dnešný deň, na Juraja, pred 225 rokmi sa mu v Kysáči narodil syn Juraj, ktorý sa neskôr stal štvrtým kysáčskym farárom. Juraj Jesenský, - syn Františka, bol kysáčskym farárom 37 rokov, tiež do svojej smrti. Školil sa v Mesebere … ⌘ Read more
Pinellas County - Base: 6.35 miles, 00:09:37 average pace, 01:01:02 duration
not base. not sure if it was heat, humidity, pace, or all the yard work i had been doing but my HR was really high. fun, but it did not feel relaxed.
#running
Fairfax County Running: 4.25 miles, 00:08:49 average pace, 00:37:25 duration
cool weather with a drizzle made for a nice little run. did not want to cross too many major roads so did a few loops. the rolling hills were a nice touch too.
#running
** 📸 Photo **
It’s been very damp. It was, however, recently sunny for a bit. Here is the proof of the sun’s continued existence. ⌘ Read more
Recovery: 3.00 miles, 00:10:52 average pace, 00:32:37 duration
Pyramids: 5.39 miles, 00:10:53 average pace, 00:58:37 duration
called it early due to spicy food and opted for treadmill. was trying to get to zone 5 and was sure the pace would get me there at the peak, but barely reached threshold with conditions. curious if i was outside how different it would have been. new training block. 10:55, 9:41, 6:59
#running #treadmill
Recovery: 3.37 miles, 00:09:42 average pace, 00:32:42 duration
Pinellas County - 75’: 8.37 miles, 00:09:04 average pace, 01:15:57 duration
felt great
#running
user/bmallred/data/2023-08-28-05-37-35.fit: 4.74 miles, 00:09:44 average pace, 00:46:05 duration
user/bmallred/data/2023-08-21-05-59-03.fit: 5.23 miles, 00:09:06 average pace, 00:47:37 duration