USA is playing the World Cup here in the SF Bay today, but it's such a non event here that many folks didn't even know it was happening. I only know because we were finishing up on a Zoom call at 4:58 & a colleague *in another state* mentioned it.
Stefan Lasiewski
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Daddy, bicyclist, Kubernetes/Container/Linux system engineer @NERSC & @BerkeleyLab, geek, maker & breaker of things in Berkeley, CA.
Citizen, the crime and emergency app, has a problem with alerts that are way too broad and unnecessary. Yesterday's alert: something about a world cup game.
The TSA has a very specific rule about bringing cast iron skillets onto an airplane. Checked baggage only, please! www.tsa.gov/travel/secur...
Kathy Yelick will be the new Director of LBL, following Michael Witherell's retirement in June. This is good news. www.universityofcalifornia.edu/press-room/k...
Katherine Yelick named director of Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
The University of California Board of Regents today (May 5) approved UC President James B. Milliken’s recommendation of the appointment of Katherine “Kathy” Yelick as the ninth director of Lawrence Be...
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Small airplane circling over Berkeley, after circling the Richmond Marina. www.flightradar24.com/N95TK/3f74e2d8
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Talking about electricity usage is like this: Them: "So what is a kilowatt-hour exactly?" Me: "Well imagine that you had a 100-watt bulb and you used it for 10 hours. That's 100 watts x 10 hours. One kilowatt-hour." Them: "Sure, but what's a kilowatt-hour?"
Nextdoor: Easy to join, impossible to unsubscribe from all their emails. Today's new email is from a new Ask Local feature.
I'm just trying to print on both sides to save paper
Super loud lightning in Berkeley! Lights flickered. Centered in SF. A rare event for us.
Artemis II Earth re-entry starts in just a couple hours! 8:07 p.m EDT. (5:07 p.m. PDT) www.nasa.gov/blogs/missio... Want to track it? * Nasa live streams: youtube.com/nasa * An official tracking website: www.nasa.gov/missions/art... * A hobbyist site (struggles under load): artemis.cdnspace.ca
Artemis II Flight Day 9: Crew Prepares to Come Home - NASA
On their last full day in space, the Artemis II crew began the morning with “Lonesome Drifter” by Charley Crockett as they approached Earth at 147,337 miles.
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Berkeley: the Ohlone Greenway bike & pedestrian trail, between N Berkeley Bart station all the way to the Gilman/Westbrae commercial district, is finally getting some major improvements including new crossings at every major crossing After 20+ years of talk IT'S FINALLY HAPPENING!!! IT'S HAPPENING!
Did the Ubuntu security team take 7+ months to respond to @qualysofficial.bsky.social's private communication about #Crackarmor vulnerabilities ,as suggested at blog.qualys.com/vulnerabilit... ? Friday security disclosures are bad in N. America, worse in Friday *night* in EU & later timezones.
The value of cryptocurrency is backed by the full faith and credit of the cryptocurrency community.
Thanks Berkeley neighbor for adding back a safety barrier to this bike hazard on Virginia & McGee. I noticed last night someone removed my cone &I was going to replace it this week. City of Berkeley still hasn't put in a permanent fix.
"New Combo Washer/Heat Pump Dryer Uses Less Than 1 kWh of Electricity Per Load" cleantechnica.com/2026/02/06/o...
Our New Combo Washer/Heat Pump Dryer Uses Less Than 1 kWh of Electricity Per Load - CleanTechnica
Last year we bought a combination washer and heat pump dryer and have been pretty impressed. Not only does the machine offer significant convenience where you put a load of clothes in and literally tw...
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Emergency alert from the City of Berkeley. City found some explosive photography chemicals in a residence near Colusa & Tacoma, right near Thousand Oaks school just a block from Solano Ave "But photography was supposed to be a fun hobby" they said www.berkeleyscanner.com/2026/01/26/c...
Berkeley hazmat: Shelter-in-place order on Colusa Avenue
Residents with a block of Colusa and Tacoma avenues "should prepare to be out of the area or inside your home for at least the entire day."
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The Berkeley Scanner@berkeleyscanner.com · 6mo agoBREAKING: Here's everything we know about the shelter-in-place advisory issued for North Berkeley on Monday morning. We'll continue to monitor the situation.
BREAKING: Here's everything we know about the shelter-in-place advisory issued for North Berkeley on Monday morning. We'll continue to monitor the situation.
Berkeley hazmat: Shelter-in-place order on Colusa Avenue
Residents with a block of Colusa and Tacoma avenues "should prepare to be out of the area or inside your home for at least the entire day."
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Brief power outage in Berkeley near the North Berkeley Bart station. Only lasted a few seconds. PGE.com/outage doesn't show anything so it must have been brief for everyone
PG&E Outage Center
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This Google definition for "Pedantic" doesn't explain what Pedantic means. This is irritating. Today I realized is an Easter-egg-- It's written this way *because* it will irritate the pedants. Well played Google. Well played.
In the latest round of enshittification: * Apps use Android notification screen for mandatory advertisements w/ no opt-out option (Except disable all) * Atlassian inserts Formula 1 advertisement into their enterprise Confluence software. No way for admins to disable infosec.exchange/@SecureOwl/1...
Mike Sheward (@SecureOwl@infosec.exchange)
i was informed yesterday that Atlassian has inserted an F1 racing game into Confluence. I was asked if I (as an admin) could disable it because folks were finding it's pop ups annoying. Here is what ...
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Just had a thought: Are we going to be dealing with AI gaslighting for the rest of our darned lives? Are we going to dealing with those 👍 & 👎 buttons forever? I mean I've been correcting people on the Internet for half my life already... xkcd.com/386/
Duty Calls
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My friends, some Gen-zers were listening to some classic 1980s punk and referred to it as "Screemo"
Google's Gemini 3 is apparently causing a fair amount of load on the Google infrastructure. Folks are complaining about errors like "We are at capacity, we'll be back soon" since at least yesterday. For me just now, Gemini on Google Docs is very slow.
An acronym for scientific data storage: WORN: Write One, Read Never.
FYI: most of the #kubecon #cloudnativecon NA videos are up on youtube, should hopefully be all there by end of next week! www.youtube.com/@cncf/videos
CNCF [Cloud Native Computing Foundation]
To provide educational and informative content on cloud native computing, which uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, ...
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