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Doctor, researcher, data wrangler, coder, and open source dev; knowledge tool enthusiast.

Current day job: oxidizing healthcare

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Upon rewatching Steven Spielberg's 2005 War of the Worlds, I feel like the world has misjudged this film, probably because the familial setting hits too close to home. There are many broken families out there in the world. The only way to make nihilistic science fiction classic "worse" is to […]
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toolsforthought.social
November 20, 2025 at 10:16 AM
Careless use of `.unwrap()` is something that should have been caught early by Cloudflare's reviewers. Oh well, now they know. 🙃 #rust #rustlang #cloudflare
November 20, 2025 at 7:38 AM
It has become very fashionable amongst rightwing groups to hate on Avatar, and nothing seems to have changed since 2009. The rhetoric keeps getting louder and louder as Avatar: Fire and Ash's premier date approaches, almost like a self gaslighting mantra. It is quite a sight to behold. Anything […]
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November 19, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Recent events in France have motivated me to read more about Vichy France and its legacy, in particular its most prominent leader at the time, Phillipe Pétain. All I can say is the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and Petain's road was a very short one indeed. He know what he was […]
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toolsforthought.social
November 16, 2025 at 4:33 AM
If you hate the idea of Grokipedia, donate to Wikipedia some spare change every month. It'll go a long way. #wikipedia
November 14, 2025 at 3:38 PM
The Escapade Mars mission is using a more fuel efficient orbit that requires them to stay in the Earth Luna system for a year before performing a slingshot transfer to a Hohmann transfer orbit to Mars called the Oberth manoeuvre.
November 14, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Cactoide - A federated mobile-first event RSVP platform #fediverse #fediti
ps //cactoide.org/
November 11, 2025 at 11:56 PM
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I love how delightfully diabolical evolution can be.

A new article in Annual Review of Entomology is about the plant pathogens that are vectored between plants by herbivorous insects. These plant pathogens invade plant tissues and make plants sick. To get between plants they hitch a ride inside […]
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mastodon.nz
November 8, 2025 at 11:03 PM
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hi all, I got a legal question.

The GPL is a copyleft license, which may be very important in the coming years to fight the grab an run. We have to protect ourselves from malicious coders.

The AGPL adds clauses that do this for server code, where the code generated website content and the code […]
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November 9, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Nice to quotes have arrived at Mastodon!
November 8, 2025 at 7:26 AM
More and more core software is being rewritten to #rust, which is great 👍🏾 💯

Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust https://blog.cloudflare.com/20-percent-internet-upgrade/
Cloudflare just got faster and more secure, powered by Rust
We’ve replaced the original core system in Cloudflare with a new modular Rust-based proxy, replacing NGINX.
blog.cloudflare.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in #rustlang Google Open Source Blog https://opensource.googleblog.com/2025/11/announcing-magika-10-now-faster-smarter.html?m=1
Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust
## Announcing Magika 1.0: now faster, smarter, and rebuilt in Rust _Elie Bursztein , Julien Cretin, and Yanick Fratantonio, Applied Cybersecurity Research_ Early last year, we open sourced Magika, Google's AI-powered file type detection system. Magika has seen great adoption by open source communities since that alpha release, with over one million monthly downloads. Today, we are happy to announce the release of Magika 1.0, a first stable version that introduces new features and a host of major improvements since last announcement. Here are the highlights: * Expanded file type support for more than 200 types (up from ~100). * A brand-new, high-performance engine rewritten from the ground up in Rust. * A native Rust command-line client for maximum speed and security. * Improved accuracy for challenging text-based formats like code and configuration files. * A revamped Magika Python and TypeScript module for even easier integrations. #### Smarter Detection: Doubling Down on File Types Magika 1.0 now identifies more than 200 content types, doubling the number of file-types supported from the initial release. This isn't just about a bigger number; it unlocks far more granular and useful identification, especially for specialized, modern file types. Some of the notable new file types detected include: * **Data Science & ML:** We've added support for formats such as Jupyter Notebooks (ipynb), Numpy arrays (npy, npz), PyTorch models (pytorch), ONNX (onnx) files, Apache Parquet (parquet), and HDF5 (h5). * **Modern Programming & Web:** The model now recognizes dozens of languages and frameworks. Key additions include Swift (swift), Kotlin (kotlin), TypeScript (typescript), Dart (dart), Solidity (solidity), Web Assembly (wasm), and Zig (zig). * **DevOps & Configuration:** We've expanded detection for critical infrastructure and build files, such as Dockerfiles (dockerfile), TOML (toml), HashiCorp HCL (hcl), Bazel (bazel) build files, and YARA (yara) rules. * **Databases & Graphics:** We also added support for common formats like SQLite (sqlite) databases, AutoCAD (dwg, dxf) drawings, Adobe Photoshop (psd) files, and modern web fonts (woff, woff2). * **Enhanced Granularity:** Magika is now smarter at differentiating similar formats that might have been grouped together. For example, it can now distinguish: * JSONL (jsonl) vs. generic JSON (json) * TSV (tsv) vs. CSV (csv) * Apple binary plists (applebplist) from regular XML plists (appleplist) * C++ (cpp) vs. C (c) * JavaScript (javascript) vs. TypeScript(typescript) Expanding Magika's detection capabilities introduced two significant technical hurdles: data volume and data scarcity. First, the scale of the data required for training was a key consideration. Our training dataset grew to over 3TB when uncompressed, which required an efficient processing pipeline. To handle this, we leveraged our recently released SedPack dataset library. This tool allows us to stream and decompress this large dataset directly to memory during training, bypassing potential I/O bottlenecks and making the process feasible. Second, while common file types are plentiful, many of the new, specialized, or legacy formats presented a data scarcity challenge. It is often not feasible to find thousands of real-world samples for every file type. To overcome this, we turned to generative AI. We leveraged Gemini to create a high-quality, synthetic training set by translating existing code and other structured files from one format to another. This technique, combined with advanced data augmentation, allowed us to build a robust training set, ensuring Magika performs reliably even on file types for which public samples are not readily available. The complete list of all 200+ supported file types is available in our revamped documentation. ### Under the Hood: A High-Performance Rust Engine We completely rewrote Magika's core in Rust to provide native, fast, and memory-safe content identification. This engine is at the heart of the new Magika native command line tool that can safely scan hundreds of files per second. _Output of the new Magika Rust based command line tool_ Magika is able to identify hundreds of files per second on a single core and easily scale to thousands per second on modern multi-core CPUs thanks to the use of the high-performance ONNX Runtime for model inference and Tokio for asynchronous parallel processing, For example, as visible in the chart below, on a MacBook Pro (M4), Magika processes nearly 1,000 files per second. ### Getting Started Ready to try it out? Getting started with the native command-line client is as simple as typing a single command line: * **On Linux and MacOS:** `curl -LsSf https://securityresearch.google/magika/install.sh | sh` * **On Windows (PowerShell)** : `powershell -ExecutionPolicy ByPass -c "irm https://securityresearch.google/magika/install.ps1 | iex"` Alternatively, the new Rust command-line client is also included in the `magika` python package, which you can install with: `pipx install magika`. For developers looking to integrate Magika as a library into their own applications in Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, Rust, or other languages, head over to our comprehensive developer documentation to get started. ### What's next We're incredibly excited to see what you will build using Magika's enhanced file detection capabilities. We invite you to join the community: * **Try Magika** : Install it and run it on your files, or try it out in our web demo. * **Integrate Magika into your software:** Visit our documentation to get started. * **Give us a star** on GitHub to show your support. * **Report issues or suggest new file types** you'd like to see by opening a feature request. * **Contribute new features and bindings** by opening a pull request. Thank you to everyone who has contributed, provided feedback, and used Magika over the past year. We can't wait to see what the future holds. #### **Acknowledgements** Magika's continued success was made possible by the help and support of many people, including: Ange Albertini, Loua Farah, Francois Galilee, Giancarlo Metitieri, Alex Petit-Bianco, Kurt Thomas, Luca Invernizzi, Lenin Simicich, and Amanda Walker.
opensource.googleblog.com
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
I've learned so much from this one article. HCI in the AI is fascinating. #ai

Why do some of us love AI, while others hate it? The answer is in how our brains perceive risk and trust […]
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November 6, 2025 at 3:47 AM
It seems being an ICE officers REQUIRES one to be racist through and through. #usa

ICE agent erupts after black officer stops him for DUI https://youtube.com/watch?v=nU-jiN1U26o
November 6, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Apple's app store appears to have been rebuilt with Svelte, but they forgot to disable source maps in production. #frontend #javascript #webdev

https://www.reddit.com/r/webdev/s/R8OCFjo4aE
November 4, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Wow. What a view! Forward view of hurricane Melissa's eye. #hurricanemelissa
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October 29, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Hurricane hunter views from inside hurricane Melissa's eye. #hurricane #melissa
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October 28, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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If you are in a privacy supporting country, LinkedIn won a court case so they still gonna scrape your data to train copilot unless you opt out right meow. Settings/Data Privacy

#privacy #linkedin
October 28, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Grokipedia endangers humanity in ways we cannot even begin to understand. It is the mainstreaming of MAGA beliefs in the noosphere. We'll be cleaning up this shit for a very long time 🧹 #grokipedia
October 28, 2025 at 6:25 AM
There are way too many mass outage incidents involving DNS fuck ups for this to not warrant a rethink of how we handle DNS configuration. #aws #dns #useast1 #outage #cloud
October 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Can someone explain to me this Labubu craze and why we shouldn't see it as nothing but a rehashing of the tulip craze?

Man charged in Melbourne after police seize dozens of Labubu dolls - ABC News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-10-22/man-arrested-alleged-stolen-labubu-dolls-in-melbourne/105920204
Man arrested in Melbourne after police seize dozens of Labubu dolls
Police seize Labubu dolls found during a search at a property in Melbourne's west. The dolls, worth an estimated $9,000, were allegedly stolen from a CBD shopping centre.
www.abc.net.au
October 22, 2025 at 4:38 AM
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Happy US-EAST-1 Goes South Day, to all those who entrust their businesses to Big Tech.
October 20, 2025 at 9:01 AM