Debian Linux was officially founded by Ian Murdock on August 16, 1993. That's 32 years of stable, free, and opensource computing. From a single kernel, it has grown to parent some of the most popular OSes in the world. Happy 32nd birthday to the beloved mother of all distros! 🥰 🍰

You know you're an old school Linux user when... you still try to use `ifconfig` and get a "command not found" error, followed by a moment of silent grief 🤬

I'm at the CSPB 2025 conference in Halifax, NS, Canada. I'm presenting the BAR poster (P1-98). Please visit if you have any questions.

Congrats to Sean Robertson, Asher Pasha, Nick Provart, & Olivia Wilkins on their article "Growth-limiting drought increases sensitivity of Asian rice (Oryza sativa) leaves to heat shock through physiological & spatially distinct transcriptomic responses"! Read: doi.org/10.1111/tpj.... #PlantScience

Today, the humidex in Toronto was ~40°C (104°F), bright and sunny, not a cloud in the sky. That didn't stop us from marching ~3.6 km on the streets of Toronto. I attended the Toronto Animal Rights March 2025 (and yes, the full march).

BAR ThaleMine has been upgraded to version v5.1.0-20250704. So, we have InterMine software v5.1.0 and data as of 4th July 2025. Cc: @bar-plantbio.bsky.social #arabidopsis #plantbio #intermine

Happy Canada Day 🇨🇦

I am honoured to have received a "Dissemination of Arabidopsis Knowledge" award by NAASC at #icar2025, along with 3 others! Thanks to @asherpasha.bsky.social for tending the BAR and to the many students who have helped in this dissemination over the years, and to you for citing us!

If you use Asus routers, check out: #Asus

🌿 Big congrats to C-SPIRIT researchers Maria Camalle, Hannah Reish, Anthony Schilmiller & Aleksandra Skirycz (MSU) + team for their new paper on cyclo(His-Pro) in Arabidopsis! 🧪 Turns out this stress-linked molecule isn't just in animals — it helps plants, too. 🌡️❄️🧂 📖 qrco.de/bg10cW #PlantScience

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I recently attended the IT@UofT conference in Toronto. It was awesome. Huge thanks to organizers, sponsors and speakers. #UofT #Toronto #IT

Happy Star Wars Day! May the Fourth be with you!

Second up in our Institutional Feature Series: University of Toronto! We have three C-SPIRIT members affiliated with @uoft.bsky.social who work to advance our Aims 2 and 3. 🔗 Learn more about our Aims: c-spirit.org/research/ #PlantScience #PlantStress #PlantResilience #InstitutionalFeature

Looks like OpenBSD 7.7 is released. OpenBSD is awesome. Check it out: #OpenBSD

Python's new t-strings: Template strings, also known as t-strings, have been officially accepted as a feature in Python 3.14, which will ship in late 2025. 🎉 I’m excited; t-strings open the door to safer more flexible string processing in Python. davepeck.org/2025/04/11/p...

Hertz says customers’ personal data and driver’s licenses stolen in data breach

Fortinet FortiSwitch has an "extremely critical" vulnerability (CVE-2024-48887) with a CVSS score of 9.3. An unauthenticated user could exploit it to change the password for an administrative account, gaining administrative privileges on the device. Fortinet has issued an advisory.

Good news: Earthling Ed's vegan restaurant is back. I had a 3D-printed vegan steak burger when I was there. It was awesome. Check out the new menu: #Vegan #London

From May 5, 2025, Outlook will require high-volume email senders (over 5,000 emails daily) to implement SPF, DKIM, and DMARC. Initially, non-compliant emails will go to the junk folder and may eventually be rejected if issues persist.

PSA to the devs out there, BYOD and Zero Trust are not the same and are neither is dependent on the other.

Story of my life 😭

Melanie Woodin, an internationally recognized neuroscientist who studies the mechanisms underlying learning and memory in the brain, has been named #UofT’s 17th president. ➡️ uoft.me/uoftpres

With 23andMe filing for bankruptcy -- reach out to your family members who might have ordered these kits to get them to request deletion of their data. And if you signed-up yourself, you should absolutely do the same!

A lot of people in the Souls community have had their discord account hacked today due to the "Can you test this game me and my friends are working on?" social engineering attack. Some large content creators included. Please don't fall for it, too.

In the past, Clearview AI collected photos from social media for their facial recognition tool and sold access to law enforcement. And now this: #Privacy

What are common things that people do on the internet that can actually be harmful for your security?

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GitHub Action tj-actions/changed-files is compromised, and can steal your GitHub repository secrets. It has more than 23,000 users! Details: arstechnica.com/information-...

Pollen data are live in the BAR eFP-Seq Browser. Thanks to Becker Lab for working with us. #PlantBio #Pollen doi.org/10.1111/tpj....

Looks like Amazon is rolling out Alexa+. If you use Alexa devices, everything you say to them will be sent to Amazon. Amazon has a history of abusing Alexa recordings. Details here: #Privacy arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

Happy Pi Day.

#HBDUofT! Tomorrow, we celebrate 198 years since #UofT's founding in 1827. 🎉 Test your U of T knowledge with a special birthday quiz: uoft.me/hbd198

If you use Firefox web browser (older than version 128 or ESR 115), root certificate is expiring on March 14th. So, add-ons, DRM playback, etc could break. Please update your Firefox. #Firefox blog.mozilla.org/addons/2025/...

I found this song "Vegan For Them" on the internet. This is a Toronto (Canada 🇨🇦) vegan community production. Hope you like it: #Toronto #Vegan www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZuZ...

Check out the review of AMD's flagship Ryzen 9 9950X3D CPU by STH. Looks like an awesome CPU. #AMD #Ryzen www.servethehome.com/amd-ryzen-99...

Today is #patchday! #OPNsense 25.1.3 already released. ;)

Hi all, I am Asher. I am a plant biologist at the Bio-Analytic Resource at U of T, Canada. You may know me from the dead bird app (asherpasha) and Instagram (vegan_asher).