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Sunday March 16, 2025 · 11:41 AM PDT

2025/03/16 · 11:41

Sorry, I slept in past the time to publish this. I leave you to meditate on it.

FOSSASIA Summit Streaming Online

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Saturday March 15, 2025 · 4:00 AM PDT

2025/03/15 · 04:00

Last day! FOSSASIA Summit 2025 in Bangkok – In-Person or Online!

Hong Phuc | FOSSASIA info@fossasia.org via amazonses.com

The FOSSASIA Summit is an annual event that has been at the forefront of open technologies for over 15 years, bringing together a global community of developers, innovators, enterprises, and educators. Since its founding in 2009, the summit has evolved into a crucial platform for collaboration and knowledge exchange in the free and open source software (FOSS) ecosystem.

The 2025 edition, set to take place in Bangkok, will be a 3-day hybrid event offering both in-person and online experiences. Building on the success of the 2024 summit in Hanoi, which drew over 5,000 participants, the event offers an opportunity to explore cutting-edge developments in open technologies. It will also serve as a critical forum for enterprises seeking flexible, sustainable open source solutions while playing a key role in integrating open source into education, preparing the next generation of the tech workforce.

Hello, Open Source Enthusiast!

The FOSSASIA Summit 2025 is just two days away, and we can’t wait to welcome you to an incredible gathering of developers, innovators, and open-source communities from around the world. Join us for an inspiring event with 200+ sessions at True Digital Park in Bangkok!

Still Need a Ticket? Secure yours now at summit.fossasia.org.

Can’t Travel to Bangkok? No problem! We’re streaming the entire event live, so you can participate from anywhere. Get your virtual access ticket at the link above.

What’s in Store at FOSSASIA Summit 2025?

Hands-on workshops and expert-led discussions on Open Source AI, Cloud, DevOps, Security, Databases, and Open Source Hardware.

FOSSASIA Track: Discover the latest projects from the FOSSASIA community and learn how you can contribute and get involved.

PGDay: Engage with PostgreSQL experts and contributors in a dedicated track focused on database scaling, performance optimization, and real-world applications in enterprise and cloud environments.

FOSS Exhibitions & Networking Opportunities: Meet developer communities, connect with leading tech companies driving open source, and explore the latest innovations and collaborations.

A Huge Thank You to Our Sponsors & Partners

We extend our deepest appreciation to the Digital Economy Promotion Agency (DEPA), Big Data Institute (BDI), National Broadcasting and Telecommunication Commission (NBTC), and True Digital Park for their invaluable support.

We’re also grateful to our amazing sponsors, including AWS, Arm, Google, Fujitsu, Mercari, TiDB, and Peter Membrey, as well as our incredible media and community partners.

Get ready for an exciting FOSSASIA Summit 2025 – whether in person or online!

See you soon!

Hong Phuc and the FOSSASIA Team
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Friday March 14, 2025 · 4:00 AM PDT

2025/03/14 · 04:00

High-tech market analysts used to say that anything you can actually buy is obsolete. In the Global Warming fight every plan is necessarily obsolete before it is published, whether from newer technologies or failures of imagination. At one time, the engineers at Stanford in The Solutions Project were way, way, out ahead of governments worldwide, but now their wildest imaginings/best calculations look pitiful as technology advances by leaps and bounds. Rooftop solar, offshore wind, and geothermal energy are booming far beyond our previous notions. Concentrating solar and nuclear energy are dying. Fossil carbon is peaking and going into terminal decline. Denial and obstruction have not died, but every year more of their talking points become irrelevant and they have to think of new bogosities to try to sell to government, business, and the public. Outside of the MAGA bubble all of them have in reality noticed that

Renewables = $$Real Money$$^TM

But the main point remains totally true. However you slice the technology pie, renewables are growing in the exponential part of the market development curve, so that we have no excuse for failing to reach 100% renewables before 2050.

Lattice crust money pie with slice lifted up

The pie keeps getting SO MUCH bigger!

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Thursday March 13, 2025 · 4:00 AM PDT

2025/03/13 · 04:00

The blinding incompetence of this maladministration is matched only by its devotion to greed, hate, and delusion, the three poisons in Buddhist teaching. Similarly for the MAGAtroids and the Chrilstian Nationalists. Karma is their fate. Privilege is their watchword. Or you could call them out on the Seven Deadly Sins—pride, greed, wrath, envy, lust, gluttony, and sloth. Or the Ten Commandments, or the Ten Precepts of Buddhism, or any other such list of fatal errors. Sunzi/Sun Tzu had another list of errors in war. These loonburgers are out to make them all.

OUR watchword is Pushback. It’s working. More than a hundred legal cases. Town halls in supposedly blood red districts where even MAGA devotees aren’t having it. Protests everywhere. Actual candidates in every state FOR THE FIRST TIME, and nearly every district for nearly every office.

H/T ventriloquist Jeff Dunham and his puppet Peanut for today’s theme.

Some of The Best of "Arguing With Myself!” | JEFF DUNHAM

YouTube Video

You’re arguing with yourself! And losing!

Peanut to Dunham as they fuss with each other

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Wednesday March 12, 2025 · 9:00 AM PDT

2025/03/12 · 09:00

Artificial Intelligence is getting in everywhere, so it’s no surprise that it is being applied to diabetes care in a variety of ways. Nor is it a surprise that some in our society want you to be afraid, be very afraid, that AI is destroying all that they hold dear, and that that applies to letting everyone with diverse forms of diabetes equitably getting appropriate care, inclusively in all strata of US and global society. They can’t help themselves, poor things. At long last, they just have no decency. That’s how they were brought up, with great and intense effort to break them of empathy and only value privilege. Well, they are a shrinking, if shrieking minority, and are doing everything they well can to keep that going, thank you very much.

We have only a tip-of-the-tongue taste of these trends today, but I’m sure you can see where all of this is going.

Artificial intelligence for #diabetes care: current and future prospects www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
#ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #T1D #T2D
#MedSky #EndoSky

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— The Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology (@thelancetendo.bsky.social) March 9, 2025 at 6:02 AM

Artificial intelligence for diabetes care: current and future prospects

Artificial intelligence (AI) use in diabetes care is increasingly being explored to personalise care for people with diabetes and adapt treatments for complex presentations. However, the rapid advancement of AI also introduces challenges such as potential biases, ethical considerations, and implementation challenges in ensuring that its deployment is equitable. Ensuring inclusive and ethical developments of AI technology can empower both health-care providers and people with diabetes in managing the condition. In this Review, we explore and summarise the current and future prospects of AI across the diabetes care continuum, from enhancing screening and diagnosis to optimising treatment and predicting and managing complications.

Oh, noez, it’s demanding one of those “woke” AIs to do DEI, perish forbid! Because of differences in diabetes by ethnicity and diet and gender, and disastrous lack of treatment for some.

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Tuesday March 11, 2025 · 4:13 AM PDT

2025/03/11 · 04:13

Share of young people 16-25 who agreed with these statements

A majority of young people worldwide believe that humanity is doomed. You and I, Dear Readers, know that this turns out not to be the case, but it is easy to see why the uninformed and deliberately misinformed would think so. On the other hand, the future certainly is frightening. If you aren’t fearful, you aren’t paying attention.

In Not the end of the world : how we can be the first generation to build a sustainable planet Hannah Ritchie takes a comprehensive view of our environmental problems and then lays out an action plan for each of eight components.

Sustainability: A tale of two halves

Air Pollution: Breathing clean air

Climate Change: Turning down the thermostat

Deforestation: Seeing the wood for the trees

Food: How not to eat the planet

Biodiversity Loss: Protecting the world’s wildlife

Ocean Plastics: Drowning in waste

Overfishing: Pillaging the oceans

It is going to take us a while to review all of this, while still keeping up with global news about all of it. To begin with we need to see the sources and nature of our errors, which brings us to Hans Rosling, and to Our World in Data.

Hans Rosling stands in front of a chart showing demographic changes.

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Monday March 10, 2025 · 4:00 AM PDT

2025/03/10 · 04:00

lede

The great seventeenth-century Japanese Rinzai Zen master Hakuin was once approached by a samurai warrior who asked Hakuin to explain heaven and hell to him. Hakuin looked up at the samurai and asked disdainfully,

How could a stupid, oafish ignoramus like you possibly understand such things?

The samurai started to draw his sword and Hakuin chided,

So, you have a sword. It's probably as dull as your head!

In a rage, the proud warrior pulled out his sword, intending to cut off Hakuin's head.
Hakuin stated calmly,

This is the gateway to hell.

The startled samurai stopped and, with appreciation for Hakuin's cool demeanor, sheathed his sword.

This is the gateway to heaven.

said Hakuin softly.

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Saturday March 08, 2025 · 4:00 AM PST

2025/03/08 · 04:00

Since this is a Chinese company, cue moral panic worldwide. It’s Open Source. If it were an actual threat, someone would find the offending code and excise it.

www.tomshardware.com/pc-component... #AI #artificialintelligence

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— Artificial Intelligence News (@knowentry.bsky.social) March 2, 2025 at 1:30 AM

Australia
Canada
South Korea
Taiwan
Italy
Netherlands
US

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Friday March 07, 2025 · 4:12 AM PST

2025/03/07 · 04:12

Elon Musk, left, receives a chainsaw from Argentina's President Javier Milei, right, as they arrive speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC, at the Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center, Thursday, Feb. 20, 2025, in Oxon Hill, Md. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana) — Nope, no way, nohow, lies the guy who actually won an election

Can you believe six impossible things before your morning hamberder? As part of destroying the Federal government and the global order whole and entire, the ultra-MAGA maladministration is targeting everything to do with Global Warming, including NOAA, EVs, thousands of Federal charging stations, and much, much more. Ronnie Reagan only took down the solar hot water panels that Jimmy Carter had gotten put on the White House roof, and claimed

Government cannot solve your problems. Government is the problem.

DOGE in disarray.

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— Indivisible (@indivisible.org) March 6, 2025 at 1:23 PM

Then he immediately followed that up by saying that the departments have to make the insane cuts themselves, and fire as many people as possible or Elon will come to make the cuts and do the firings for them, all under the pretense of balancing the budget when it comes time for trillions in tax breaks to corporations and the Broligarchy.

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Thursday March 06, 2025 · 4:00 AM PST

2025/03/06 · 04:00

Lotus flower and leaves emerging from dirty water

Strategy: Pick out what you can do to resist, especially what others can’t do. Look for the Resistance, for those who mean to do the greatest good for everyone, and avoid every kind of Doom & Gloom. I follow a lot of news in order to report on it, so you don’t have to. So don’t take in more than you can handle. DVR the news if you need to follow it, and zap anything not helpful.

We have lots of such sources, including our regular list below. Many more turn up here and there, and particularly more often on Bluesky. Meanwhile those who have declared us to be the enemy in the Broligarchy and among the MAGAdroids and the Christian Nationalists are engaged in a massive corporate and social suicide pact.

Soooo.... They're insulting the veterans they've fired, at the same time as they gut healthcare and benefits and cause recession and inflation at the same time.
Is it a government, or a suicide pact?

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— Neil (@modparlphotos.bsky.social) March 4, 2025 at 1:02 PM

MAGA is a suicide pact. It’s driven by hatred from the belief that we all look down on them.
No amount of victories will ever give them what they so desperately crave, our respect.
— A Man Has No Name 🇺🇦 (@manhasnoname.bsky.social) February 23, 2025 at 2:58 PM

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Wednesday March 05, 2025 · 9:00 AM PST

2025/03/05 · 09:00

More than 25 years ago I took part in a clinical study of a non-invasive glucose monitor that never became a product. Now the technology is maturing enough to be approved in some countries, and to be submitted for FDA approval in the US. After that, and the usual process of cost reductions, we can expect it to replace CGMs as CGMs have, for many, replaced needle sticks.

Cnoga Digital Care: CoG - Hybrid Glucometer

Meet The World’s First Hybrid, Non-Invasive Glucometer

CE Approved. FDA Pending

Evaluation of a New Noninvasive Glucose Monitoring Device by Means of Standardized Meal Experiments

Frequent blood glucose readings are the most cumbersome aspect of diabetes treatment for many patients. The noninvasive [Cnoga] TensorTip Combo Glucometer (CoG) component employs dedicated mathematical algorithms to analyze the collected signal and to predict tissue glucose at the fingertip. This study presents the performance of the CoG (the invasive and the noninvasive components) during a standardized meal experiment.

Results:

For the noninvasive (NI) CoG technology, 100% of the data pairs were found in CEG zones A (96.6%) and B (3.4%); 100% were seen in zone A for the invasive component and Contour Next.

Conclusions:

After appropriate individual calibration of the NI technology, both the NI and the invasive CoG components reliably tracked tissue and blood glucose values, respectively. This may enable patients with diabetes to monitor their glucose levels frequently, reliably, and most of all pain-free.

Advertised prices for the Cnoga meter run $400-$950. Medicare of course does not currently cover it, and I don’t see any insurance that does, either. Wait for it, it is definitely coming.

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Wednesday March 05, 2025 · 4:29 AM PST

2025/03/05 · 04:29

Meteor Blades posted this comment on Tuesday, and I responded by calling for a brainstorming session among Good News members to see if we can generate regular Front Page posts to take him up on it. (I am putting aside my regular GNR Potluck content today.)

Meteor Blades

Mar 04, 2025 at 07:17:50 AM

Too bad so little of the outpouring of resistance you point to here is covered by the Daily Kos front page. Even one such front-page story a day would help raise progressive morale and spur even more resistance among people who don’t read diaries.

Mokurai→Meteor Blades

Mar 04, 2025 at 09:09:28 PM

I have been thinking about this. I will propose tomorrow that the group brainstorm how to go about that. Certainly Abbreviated Pundit Roundup qualifies. I have been saving some time out of my schedule just for myself, but I could contribute to such a series at least some of the time.

Think about what to call it to draw in the eyeballs, and how to lead off the coverage you are looking for. There is certainly no shortage of material to report, and there are plenty of sources covering parts of it systematically, including court cases and failed town halls.

EO Watch

Muskmelon Watch

The iDJiT Chronicles

A Swiftly Tilting Playing Field

World’s Biggest Sucker & Loser

I will mine tomorrow’s Trending List and Front Page for more.

We can also select a list of groups to publish to.

Not The End of the Republic, I would say, but certainly Political Language and Messaging. Just for starters. You tell me.

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