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Climate and Weather at 3 Degrees More

The Earth is heating up and there is more than enough science to prove this, as a result the climate is changing. We were advised by the science to avoid a 1.5 degree rise in temperatures, which we have FAILED to do. Now this is what may happen if we fail the next step.

Book by Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf @rahmstorf@fediscience.org

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Astrobiology course

Just reposting this.

Following on from the Looking for Life on Mars talk. The OU Space Science club have put links to a course on Astrobiology, course presented by The Amity University.

Session overviews (from the OU forum post)

  • Session 1 was literally just an introduction/overview.

  • Sessions 2 & 3 concentrated on the Earth's formation, using locations on Earth as analogue sites, geology, plate tectonics, and pre-biotic conditions that led to biotic life

  • Session 4 was Dr Macey's lecture covering the building blocks and origin of life; the rise of multicellularity; and extremophiles & analogue environments.

  • Session 5 looked at moons and planets in our own solar system for suitable conditions/indicators of life.

  • Session 6 looked at missions focussed on astrobiology, and instrumentation used on various types of spacecraft in the quest for life.

  • Session 7 looked at the legalities on ensuring we don't contaminate other worlds, or don't return anything from extra-terrestrial sources that may contaminate the Earth.

  • Session 8 was esoteric in that it covered a proposed constitution for other worlds, so that colonists might be accorded the same protections as on Earth e.g. human-rights, freedom of expression/movement, and also in terms of creativity such as art.

  • Session 9 talked about opportunities for internships & future study globally.

#AstroBiology

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Linux User group meetings

The Devon and Cornwall GNU/Linux Users' Group still run regular meeting, These currently take place with a virtual meeting on the 3rd Saturday of the month and a social meet up in Plymouth on the 4th Saturday. More details below:-

  • 3rd Saturday (from 12) – Jitsi. Meet
  • 4th Saturday, Plymouth social. 1200 onwards at the Moments Café

69A New George Street, Plymouth, GB PL1 1RJ

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Cosmic Concepts: Infrared Light

I found this on the Fediverse, posted by the Space Telescope Science institute, a 3 minute (ish) introduction to Infra Red (IR) Light. Presented by Dr Frank Summers.

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#Science,#Scsci,#Astronmy,#Light,#Concepts,#InfraRed

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Safeguarding 2024

I have now completed safeguarding training for 2024, this was undertaken through E-learning at work

Safeguarding 2024

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EU military collaboration

This seems like an excellent idea

```` European News @eunews@mastodon.social

The European Union has a mix of 17 kinds of tanks, 20 types of planes, and 27 different military offices. The U.S., on the other hand, has just one military headquarters and fewer kinds of tanks and planes. If European countries shared their military resources and worked together more, they might be stronger within NATO and less reliant on the U.S. So, the big question is: Should the EU team up for its own defense and foreign policies, maybe even start a European army? ```

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Cyber Security resources

Another really useful resource that was posted to Mastodon. I am sharing again here on my blog for reach.

26 cybersecurity YouTube channels:

  1. Infosec Institute — Cybersecurity awareness.

https://www.youtube.com/@InfosecEdu

  1. Black Hat — Technical cybersecurity conferences.

https://www.youtube.com/@BlackHatOfficialYT

  1. Bugcrowd — Bug bounty methodology and interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/@Bugcrowd

  1. InfoSec Live — Everything from tutorials to interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/@infoseclive

  1. David Bombal — Everything cybersecurity related.

https://www.youtube.com/@davidbombal

  1. Nahamsec — Educational hacking and bug bounty videos.

https://www.youtube.com/@NahamSec

  1. Computerphile — Covers basic concepts and techniques.

https://www.youtube.com/@Computerphile

  1. InsiderPHD — How to get started with bug bounty hunting.

https://www.youtube.com/@InsiderPhD

  1. Security Weekly — Interviews with cybersecurity figures.

https://www.youtube.com/@SecurityWeekly

  1. John Hammond — Malware analysis, programming, and careers.

https://www.youtube.com/@_JohnHammond

  1. Peter Yaworski — Web-application hacking tips and interviews.

https://www.youtube.com/@yaworsk1

  1. IppSec — Labs and capture-the-flag tutorials, HackTheBox etc.

https://www.youtube.com/@ippsec

  1. 13Cubed — Videos on tools, forensics, and incident response.

https://www.youtube.com/@13Cubed

  1. HackerSploit — Penetration testing, web-application hacking.

https://www.youtube.com/@HackerSploit

  1. STÖK — Videos on tools, vulnerability analysis, and methodology.

https://www.youtube.com/@STOKfredrik

  1. Security Now — Cybercrime news, hacking and web-application security.

https://www.youtube.com/@securitynow

  1. LiveOverflow — Involves hacking, write-up videos, and capture-the-flags.

https://www.youtube.com/@LiveOverflow

  1. The Cyber Mentor — Ethical hacking, web-application hacking, and tools.

https://www.youtube.com/@TCMSecurityAcademy

  1. Joe Collins — Everything Linux related, including tutorials and guides.

https://www.youtube.com/@EzeeLinux

  1. Null Byte — Cybersecurity for ethical hackers, and computer scientists.

https://www.youtube.com/@NullByteWHT

  1. The PC Security Channel — Windows security, malware news, and tutorials.

https://www.youtube.com/@pcsecuritychannel

  1. Simply Cyber — Helps people with cybersecurity career development.

https://www.youtube.com/@SimplyCyber

  1. Network Chuck — Everything related to network and cybersecurity.

https://www.youtube.com/@NetworkChuck

  1. BlackPerl — Malware analysis, forensics and incident response.

https://www.youtube.com/@BlackPerl

  1. Professor Messer — Guides covering certifications.

https://www.youtube.com/@professormesser

  1. Hak5 — General cybersecurity coverage.

https://www.youtube.com/@hak5

Links

Social

May be worth following infosec-jobs.com @infosec_jobs@mastodon.social on Mastodon too.

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#CyberSecurity,#InfopSec,#Videos,#Youtube,#Mastodon,#Fediverse,#BASH,#bash

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RISC-V 2024 Update: RISE, AI Accelerators & More

Update from Explaining computers on RISC-V CPU architecture

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#CPU,#RISCV,#Open,#Architecture

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Microbes found to destroy certain 'forever chemicals'

The subject of 'so called' forever chemicals hit the headlines from time to time, new research indicates that microbes can perhaps play a part in how to deal with these, other than trying to not produce them in the first place of course.

You can read the article on Science Daily. A direct link can be found here

There is also a related article on dealing with Forever chemicals here

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#Science,#Chemicals,#ForeverChemicals,#Biology,#BioTechnology,#Microbes,#BioChemistry

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Tinkerers Meeting 4

The next meeting of the Tor bay Tinkerers group will be on 24th August 2024. Please see their website for more details and a write-up of the May Meeting.

We meet at:-

Paignton Library, Room 12 11am to 13:00

Possible topics

Carry on looking at the mousebot and dragster projects. Also take a look at my LED metronome and see how this can be adapted to provide timing for playing music.

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#Torbay,#Tinkerers

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