Human folly for 02023-02-01

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• COMP (yager.io):

  computational #photography #DSP on new iPhone #cameras screwing up photo quality badly in some cases; explanation of things like dynamic range, diffraction, etc., with lots of comparison photos

• Details electronics (cs.rochester.edu):

  for the 1000-year #archival hardware challenge, making a time capsule that could have working electronics in 1000 years, they sort of gave up. No battery, yes solar panel, blinking LED to call attention to non-electronic text.

• Independent component analysis (en.wikipedia.org):

  ICA #algorithms separate an additive mixture into independent non-Gaussian signals; nsh suggests you could use this to separate a font into additive components.

• Ca cities to lose all zoning powers (darrellowens.substack.com):

  #USA #politics #California #housing #zoning apocalypse: the "Housing Accountability Act" (HAA), passed in 01990, enables the Housing and Community Development (HCD) (??) to suspend cities' zoning laws if they don't meet the Regional Housing Needs Allocation (RHNA), which for the most part they don't, so tomorrow (Feb. 2) many cities get their laws thus suspended, called the "builder’s remedy". This has just happened in Santa Monica: “Santa Monica met 50% of their dramatically increased 2023 - 2031 housing requirements, including a 50% increase in the amount of low income housing approved over the previous 8 years — without a cent of public subsidy — in just one week. This also consists of several high-rise buildings taller than anything allowed in Santa Monica’s zoning code or city housing.” In the #SFBA only SF, Emeryville, Redwood City, Alameda City, and maybe Oakland will retain their zoning laws.

• (levf.org):

  The Longevity Escape Velocity (#LEV) foundation is funding, among other things, helium #persufflation #cryonics #vitrification research. “LEV Foundation is a project of the Ichor Research Institute.”

• Generating Platonic solids (danielsieger.com):

  code to generate Platonic solids with their explicit coordinates. #geometry

• 17 numpysane a more reasonable numpy (notes.secretsauce.net):

  notes on how #Numpy #broadcasting (#APL style) ought to work, but doesn't.

• Cryopreservation (en.wikipedia.org):

  Noble-gas #persufflation for #cryonics #vitrification dates back at least to 02013: Geddes L (Sep 11, 2013). “Heart of glass could be key to banking organs”. New Scientist.

• 2023 01 09 gomodulemirror (sourcehut.org):

  #SourceHut had a problem with #Golang: the "Go Module Mirror" was cloning their repos in some cases 2000 times a day, and they were going to block it

• Item (news.ycombinator.com):

  commentary on the #SourceHut #Golang problem

• Static files (docs.djangoproject.com):

  ugh, serving up static files with #Django for a simple web app is a huge pain in the ass for no reason

• Serving static files uWSGI (lincolnloop.com):

  two approaches to serve static files with #uWSGI, including one that doesn't fall back to #Django or whatever

• Staticfiles (uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io):

  official #uWSGI docs on how to serve static files

• Zkanki (github.com):

  #Ambimorph's approach to using #Anki for #Zettelkasten with #Emacs #org-mode (later abandoned to just use Anki directly)

• Getting 404 for all static files during WSGI setup with Django (stackoverflow.com):

  how to run #uWSGI with #Django and have it serve static files (including config files, command lines, etc.) You can set check-static= or static-map= in uwsgi.ini to point to your static files, which you put in one place (settings.STATIC_ROOT) with manage.py collectstatic.

• WSGI (docs.djangoproject.com):

  how to run #Django under #uWSGI or other WSGI servers

• (gunicorn.org):

  "Gunicorn", Green Unicorn is a web server for deploying #Django and other WSGI Python web apps. It looks like it might actually be simpler than #uWSGI. “... for a typical Django project, invoking Gunicorn would look like: $ gunicorn myproject.wsgi”

• (facebook.com):

  poorly hand-drawn sketch converted into #aiart by #Midjourney by Tomas G. Montalvo, together with some thoughts on the tired question of what art is

• Gunicorn where do Unix sockets come from (stackoverflow.com):

  You can also bind #Gunicorn to Unix-domain sockets (#uds) for secure reverse proxying. Gunicorn does try to remove the socket before exiting, but of course if it gets killed or crashes this will fail. In manual testing, though, I don’t see the behavior reported in this answer where you need to manually remove the socket file to get it to restart.

• Proxy domain sockets (til.simonwillison.net):

  how to get #nginx to proxy Unix-domain sockets (#uds): location / { proxy_pass http://datasette; proxy_set_header Host $host; } upstream datasette { server unix:/tmp/datasette.sock; }

• (github.com):

  apparently running #Gunicorn from #systemd with socket activation, there's some special way Gunicorn gets the socket from systemd, so it doesn't need a --bind or -b option?

• Deploy (docs.gunicorn.org):

  running #Gunicorn exposed to the internet is not recommended because it sucks at #slowloris DoS attack handling; instead they recommend using #nginx, and provide a recommended configuration, including Unix-domain sockets (#uds).

• AMD becomes TSMC third largest customer (tomshardware.com):

  #TSMC top customers are Apple, MediaTek, AMD, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Nvidia, Sony, Marvell, STMicroelectronics, Analog Devices, and Intel

• No more export licenses US plans to fully cut off Huawei from chip suppliers (arstechnica.com):

  #Huawei to be fully cut off from #USA chipmakers by #China #sanctions #politics