I remember when the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

@kevinbonham.com (I hope that bluesky picks up the handle) @Kbonham . Yes I used BinaryBuilder and there's a jll package in Yggdrasil https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/tree/master/S/slow5lib

I made a small wrapper library for reading slow5/blow5 files in #julialang based on the C slow5lib. If anyone working with #Nanopore sequencing is interested, you can find it here: https://codeberg.org/mzdravkov/Slow5.jl

Today I took advantage of an almost sunny day in Oslo (a rare occurrence in these lands) and had a nice walk in Lillomarka by lake Maridal.

Geology museums are neat because they're just an institutionalized version of "come check out this neat rock I found."

TIL: In KDE's Dolphin file manager, you can just click on the path entry box and enter "fish://username@hostname" and have access to a host's file system over SSH. How cool is that.

"If our kidnapping business line is not popular, then why do we have so many monthly active users" - Boko Haram spokeperson says after getting an inspiration from tech companies' AI strategy.

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

Holy fucking shit! The EU commission is showing teeth! ❤️ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085

I love Canada for a lot of reasons but petty, passive aggressive moves like this make me proud. #canada #uspol

W00T In #DuckDB 1.2.1 you can just do: ```bash $ duckdb -ui ``` to get this !

Fabulous, more of this, please: https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/

European security as a LOTR meme: Ukraine: I'll fight Mordor. Baltic countries: You have my sword. Nordic countries: And my bow. Netherlands and Poland: And my axe. France, Germany, US, etc as the great elven kings: Here's some bread, clothes and nice trinkets for your journey. Good luck!

I've written a small Python library for parallel fitting of multiple Gaussian Mixture Models instances. It supports both CPU and GPU and it's significantly faster than scikit-learn. Here's the code repo if you're interested: https://codeberg.org/mzdravkov/gmm_gpu #gmm #statistics #ml #bioinformatics

ChatGPT both sides the vim vs. emacs debate, when we all know vim is clearly superior.

The countries of the West seem to be in race to completely hollow out all their talk about international rules-based order. Poland announced that they'll disregard the ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu and now Switzerland signals that they're ready to host Putin for a meeting with Trump. Both […]

So I've deactivated my facebook profile a few times in the last couple of months and every time, after I while, I'm told that it has been reactivated again. Apparently, you have to select "This will be temporary, I'll be back" and then you're asked how soon your profile should be reactivated […]

I'm considering using some form of license that forbids AI training on the source code for any open source projects that I release. I'm not sure I'm opposed to the idea generally (it's okay if the models are truly open source, for non-commercial purposes, etc). But I guess it's always easier to […]

I finally spent the time today to do something I've postponed for maybe couple of years now and moved from Spotify to Tidal. In case anyone has been putting such a transition off because they're afraid of the tedious process of migrating all their playlists, this tool worked very well for me […]

Frankly, it's embarrassing to look how all the big shots from Silicon Valley are tripping over themselves to lick Trump's ass. To have more money than the GDP of most countries in the world (including midsized developed countries) and yet to be unable to keep even a shred of basic dignity is […]

Ah, the magic of proper database indexing and query composition! A select query with a join on an SQLite table with 260M rows that used to take 28+ minutes got down to less than 2. Even though I had a proper covering index, the SQLite query planner was getting confused and did not use it. A […]

A great short article by Tim Snyder https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike