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At the end of 2021, the Marshall fire swept through a highly populated part of Boulder County, destroying over 1,000 homes over the course of a few hours in an area where nobody had really thought #wildfires were a big risk.

Since then, the county has been putting out regular newsletters on the recovery process. A recent one (https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/368ffb5) includes the news that FEMA put together, for the first time, a "mitigation assessment team" to study how neighborhoods can be made more resistant to wildfire disasters. Everything from subdivision planning to how to make one's house less likely to burn. A lot of good information there.

This isn't fun stuff to think about but, as recent events have made clear yet again, we don't have a lot of choice in this matter. There's going to be more fires, and they are going to happen in surprising places. I hope this information finds its way into thought processes and building codes quickly.

I always knew I didn't like junipers...
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Today, it seems, is my lucky day ... I got data breach notifications from two separate companies, each of which holds some subset of my healthcare data. The good news is that they are generously offering me a year of credit monitoring, I'm sure that will fix everything right up.

How is it that these people can still write "we take your data security seriously" with a straight face?
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I'm sorry but it's a beautiful morning and the approximately 12,423 emails sitting in my linux-kernel folder are just going to have to wait.
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"Web environment integrity" — because Chrome isn't dominant enough yet?

https://github.com/RupertBenWiser/Web-Environment-Integrity/blob/main/explainer.md
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Jonathan Corbet

A recent exchange on the lists reminds me of a rule of thumb I've had occasion to apply more than once: never attribute to malice that which can be explained by the person involved being a non-native speaker of $LANGUAGE_IN_USE.
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There is a certain sort of cognitive dissonance that comes with waiting in a long line of idling cars for an emissions test. It makes me appreciate, yet again, that the other car is an #EV (a Bolt, mind you, not one of those elonthings). Our determination to never acquire another internal-combustion vehicle, already strong, has been reinforced.
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Reply to
@mansr Really? That describes an awful lot of the rooms I have suffered in, and it didn't seem to affect the duration of the meeting at all — unless it made the whole experience longer while the search for a nicer room was carried out.
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A celebration of Independence Day that makes me truly proud of my Wyoming roots... https://cowboystatedaily.com/2023/07/03/pure-patriotism-unleashed-reporter-plays-star-spangled-banner-on-chainsaw/
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@brauner This is something I raised at the maintainers summit a couple of years ago ... the addition of kfuncs is almost entirely invisible and, thus, not widely reviewed.

6.5 has seen the addition of five kfuncs (so far): bpf_cpumask_any_and_distribute, bpf_cpumask_any_distribute, bpf_cpumask_first_and, bpf_sock_destroy, and bpf_task_under_cgroup
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@brauner There was a whole discussion on this back in January: https://lwn.net/Articles/921088/
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Concerts at Red Rocks can often be surprising, but this isn't the sort of surprise attendees are generally after... https://www.denverpost.com/2023/06/21/red-rocks-convert-fans-hail-injured/
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Daniel Ellsberg died today. Goodbye to a courageous defender of much that is good.

Here's a couple of pictures I took of him at a protest at the Nevada nuclear test site sometime in the mid 1980's.
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It has been some time since I played with OsmAnd; I'm surprised by how good it has gotten in the meantime. The user interface is still a bit annoying at times, but functionally it mostly outdoes the proprietary competition at this point.
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Things are going so great in ElonLand that Twitter managed to get evicted from its Boulder office...
https://www.dailycamera.com/2023/06/14/boulder-twitter-eviction-unpaid-rent/
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Local Boulder news, perhaps, but for those of us who watched over 1,000 homes burn down, in just a few hours, from our front steps, a determination of the cause (or causes, as it turns out) is a pretty big deal.

Nobody, it seems, is being charged for having started this disaster, a decision that seems correct based on the evidence as described. I can only imagine that the lawsuits are going to keep an army of lawyers employed for a long time, though.

https://content.govdelivery.com/accounts/COBOULDER/bulletins/35f05e9
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Reply to
@geert Amusingly, I'm currently in *your* country/region...but WireGuard hid that blocking so I didn't even know it existed. Apologies for that. An alternative that seems to lack this blocking is https://www.runnersworld.com/news/a44118928/cows-attack-runner-on-boulder-trail/
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This crime problem really is getting out of hand...it's not even safe to go jogging anymore... https://kdvr.com/news/local/jogger-attacked-by-cows-in-boulder-county/
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So I am distinctly grumpy with the Internet for having, for some unknown and inexplicable reason, failed to tell me about NO_COLOR for the last five years or so. Maybe I can finally stop cursing the people who think that yellow text on a white background is somehow legible...

https://no-color.org/
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@larsmb Well said: "I'm quite happy to not be welcoming to those who feel offended by rainbow colors."

https://lwn.net/ml/opensuse-factory/zhrxgrswkc44svmgmiiqtgoslnq3gc3evv33kfjdfugssoku36@i2p3owz3gbo2/
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@itsjustdj There are a lot of better alternatives to Authenticator, there's no reason to keep this sort of security-relevant data in somebody's cloud garden. https://lwn.net/Articles/925870/
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