Good Evening – August 9, 2021

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Good evening! The heat and humidity have arrived. 😰

Mostly clear and 76 degrees in Delmar. There is a south-southeast breeze at 7 mph. 🍃. The dew point is 67 degrees. The muggy weather ends Saturday around 5 pm. 😓

I sat out back for a while under the stars ✨ but I’m tired 😴 and in bed 🛏. I have a bit of a headache and are just exhausted. Long day at work although it went by quickly. I like all those snoopy memes on Facebook. That an Cowsmopolitan and the show cows. I don’t know how I got into dairy judging 🐮 except by the internet and the pandemic. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Most of the other things on Facebook are pure crap. 💩

Not a bad day but busy and long. 💤 I got home and collapsed on my bed, maybe from the heat before going for my evening walk 🚶🏻. Maybe it was from eye strain 👀, my contacts were bothering me a bit. I just feel a little sick this evening. 🤕 Hopefully not COVID, it’s very bad locally although I’ve been vaccinated for months.

Continuing to explore PANDAS 🐼 and all the great and amazing things you can do with it. While most of the things I could do with a spreadsheet or gis software, doing it programmatically is faster and much more repeatable and able to process on many different data sets and queries without repeating the whole process. I question how I could have been so ignorant of the technology ⚙ but truth be told the world moves on and I don’t always hear about great new things out there. 🔢

Leaks Reveal Spyware Meant To Track Criminals Targeted Activists Instead

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Leaks Reveal Spyware Meant To Track Criminals Targeted Activists Instead

7/29/21 by NPR

Web player: https://podcastaddict.com/episode/126402377
Episode: https://play.podtrac.com/npr-381444908/edge1.pod.npr.org/anon.npr-mp3/npr/fa/2021/07/20210729_fa_fapodthurs.mp3

‘Washington Post’ reporter Craig Timberg explains how military-grade spyware licensed to governments and police departments has infiltrated the iPhones of journalists, activists and others. “It takes a story like this to help people understand how deeply enmeshed these tiny little computers have gotten into our lives,” Timberg says. “I still carry my iPhone everywhere I go … And the reality of that is that every time I do that, I’m exposing not just myself, but everyone I deal with to the possibility of spying by governments all over the world.”

Dixie Fire – August 8, 2021

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The Dixie Fire has already destroyed nearly all of the historic Gold Rush town of Greenville and authorities warn it could take weeks to contain.

There are currently 11 major wildfires burning in the state.

Rescue workers are bracing for higher temperatures of 38C (100F) in the coming days.

The Dixie Fire started on 13 July and has since ravaged more than 489,000 acres (198,000 hectares). Just 21% of the blaze is contained, according to officials.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58141340

It has burned 480,000 acres, which is more then all of Albany County which is 523 square miles or 334,720 acres.